The things you don't know about me, mum

by Daniela Lucato
  • 2022 Daniela Lucato
  • 2022 Daniela Lucato
  • 2022 Daniela Lucato

    Synopsis

    Luz is a survivor of the Pinochet regime. Forty years after she left Chile, in a sort of a diary page, Luz imagines to tell her mother the things that she didn't want to know.

    The real story of Luz: the conflictual relationship of a mother and her daughter with the chilean dictatorship as background. Luz is from the side of Allende, she believes in freedom, in democracy and in a respectful world where everyone has the same value. Her mother is catholic, supports Pinochet and the coup d’etat. Forty years later Luz’s mother is affected from dementia. Nevertheless Luz wants to break the painful silence between her and her mother and she imagines to tell her the truth about her in Santiago, the facts where she was tragically involved that were consciously ignored by her mother. A monologue in the form of a diary, a sort of written page that allows the protagonist to redeem herself from the pain of silence and to reconcile her (virtually) with her mother.

    Festivals

    2022
    Honourable Mention at Festival international de Cine de America, Mexico
    Accordi Disaccordi Film Festival
    Concorto XXII Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Frontiera
    Encuentro de Imagen MMXXII: Conflicto y Discordia c/o Centro de Estudios Críticos en Cultura Contemporánea
    Special award in the Future Generation Short Film -11th Tuzla Film Festival
    The violence project
    Miami New Media Film Festival
    RETURN INTERNATIONAL Film & Art Festival Weimar
    13th Festival EDUKINO National Museum Warsaw
    2023
    Amnesty International Au Cinema pour les Droits Humains
    Dhaka IFF