Animala

In the lowest of the literary underworld, forgotten, our teenage diaries live badly. Crías builds an archive with these invisible writings, imagines ways to dialogue with him and collects his destruction. A feminist film-zine that alchemizes personal shames through communal discourses, while reconciling with the process of writing and rewriting life, diary work and creative work. We live by counting on each other.

While trying to explain to her seven-year-old son what it was like to grow up in Chile under the civil-military dictatorship, a mother is confronted with her own memories and the need to revisit her past. After almost twenty years living in Spain, she decides to find women who, like her, were born and spent their early years under the Chilean dictatorship. Andrea, Claudia, Alejandra, Daniela, Victoria and Sol gather in a house to share their experiences and explore how that early experience — often fragmented or beyond conscious memory — has left marks that remain present in their lives. In this encounter, the personal and the political intertwine, giving rise to a collective reflection on memory, identity, and the ways in which the past transforms and endures from one generation to another.