Pollution is killing scores of fish in a remote river in Chile. From these poisoned waters emerges Magdalena, a woman who died decades earlier. Her presence calls up old family wounds while also bringing her family back together, and may just portend a rupture in the symbiosis between humans and animals.
When Magdalena crawls from the river and to her family farm, her widowed husband, used to her absence, falls into madness. Their daughter, Cecilia, and granddaughter return, and soon the reunion becomes an event so momentous that even the fish, insects and cows begin to sing. Francisca Alegría’s luminous feature debut is a magically realistic story of family and environmental devastation, shot through with profound hope. “The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future is mysterious and elegiac, a tale of warning about a collapsing ecosystem and about deep family wounds.” –Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
Director Biography
Born in Chile, Francisca Alegría has an MFA in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University. Her short films include “Sobre la mesa” (2010), “Agua en la boca” (2015), “And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye” (2017), and “The Humming of the Beast” (2021). The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (2022) is her debut feature.
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