Forgotten Roads (La Nave del Olvido)
Director: Nicol Ruiz Benavides
2020 | Chile | 71m | Spanish
Claudina is a repressed woman from the countryside. Following the death of her husband, she meets Elsa, who opens Claudina’s eyes to the possibility of real love. Under the judgmental watch of a little conservative town in the south of Chile (that happens to be in the thralls of frequent UFO sightings!), Claudina begins a journey toward queer self-acceptance, in which she learns that true happiness may require leaving everything she knows behind her.
Starring: Rosa Ramírez, Romana Satt, Gabriela Arancibia, Claudia Devia, Raúl López Leyton, Cristóbal Ruiz
SCREENING ONLINE FROM APRIL 16-20
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Director’s Statement
In “Forgotten Roads,” I wanted to talk about personal freedom. The difficult decision to know yourself, to explore, and to learn how to leave the fear, the insecurity, and the social standards that not allow us to be what we want to be. I wanted to present this journey with a woman of 70 years old, who lives in a little town and has to be brave to leave all the social roles that she had during her life, like to be woman, mother, senior and widow.
I wanted to show the self-knowledge and the necessity to rediscover our own truth. I tried to revive the individual possibility to choose, clarifying that the age is not an impediment and that freedom is a meeting with ourselves in loneliness.
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