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THE FABLE OF THE TORTOISE AND THE FLOWER

LA FÁBULA DE LA TORTUGA Y LA FLOR

By Carolina CAMPO LUPO

Documentary - Completed 2024

Two inseparable friends face the certainty of death sheltered by the love that unites them and the beauty of the life that surrounds them.

atlantidoc 2022

WIP Jury Award

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- URUGUAY, SPAIN
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Carolina CAMPO LUPO
- Writer(s)
- Carolina CAMPO LUPO
- Cast
- Eliana SOUZA, Emilia VILLAGRÁN, Salvador VILLAGRÁN, Emilio BRUM, Lucio BRUM
- Producer(s)
- Valentina BARACCO (MONARCA FILMS), Carolina CAMPO LUPO (PÁJARO DORADO), Alejandra LIN (La Insumisa)
- Synopsis
- Eliana (37) and Carolina (37), two friends since adolescence, decide to make a film when they discover that Eliana has cancer with no cure. The camera goes from hand to hand as an instrument that unites adults and children, a companion and confidant that records the beauty of the world that unites them and that cracks in the face of the inescapable rules of Nature. Eliana's illness progresses, but her spirit remains strong, while Carolina faces the conflict of her own place in the film and in her friend's story. Their children accompany them, reclaim them and life goes on, despite the imminent outcome. Oscillating between the transcendental and the ordinary, the film proposes an emotional journey through pain, love, laughter and positions us before the great conflicts of human beings. After 27 years of friendship, it is the certainty of death that makes them inseparable.