Jiráfica Fábrica de Cuentos

At a moment of great lucidity, or delirium maybe, Pancho has a sort of epiphany and affirms that he is being part of a movie.

A musical illustration of nomadism, change, and human adaptation.

A well-known filmmaker follows a famous mountain climber to Nepal, documenting the journey. Conversations about their lives lead to philosophical reflections, as the mountain challenges their motives. As days go by, the higher altitude and the depletion of oxygen will raise their debate to interior and transcendental territories, putting at stake their trajectories and their egos when facing the mountain and its millenary depth.

The lifelong relationship between Sebastián Cordero, a Latin American filmmaker, and his nanny Rosa, a woman who dedicated her entire life to someone else’s family. While Rosa has very little archive of her own life, she becomes the narrator of the director’s family history and its unexpected twists. This is, and isn’t, her story.

An enigmatic presence haunts the depths of the Amazon rainforest, where an indigenous Achuar teenager has disappeared. During the search for the young man, his family decides to consult with a Shaman, who, immersed in trance, reveals that the young man was taken by the devil, but that he has intervened by showing him the way back to his home. While waiting for his return, secrets of the rainforest and Amazonian visions of life after death are touched, vanishing the documentary filmmaker’s concepts of reality.

A timeless poetic anthropocosmic roadtrip film in which the film maker, with a cell phone camera and a candle pack to light the way, travels to the lands where his ancestors lived.