When Iris, one of a pair of twins, decides to leave the family’s precious and isolated island to go to the city in search of her father, life will never be the same in Ana Cristina Barragán’s evocative portrait of a reclusive family and their elemental relationship to the natural world.
Iris and Ariel are seventeen, twins who live on an unnamed isolated island with their mother and older sister Lia. The family lives in a world very different from modern society–surrounded by nature, without visitors, with little technology, and no other people. But when a surprise visitor shows up, Iris decides to hitch a ride on the friendly stranger’s boat to the mainland, in order to escape the increasingly oppressive isolation of the island, and, potentially, to find her father. Director Ana Cristina Barragán evokes life near the ocean–similar to where she grew up–and the emotional and physical collisions between cultures and ages.
Director Biography
Ana Cristina Barragán was born and raised in Ecuador and studied filmmaking at University San Francisco de Quito. She is the director of the feature Alba (206), which won the Special Jury Award at Horizontes Latinos at San Sebastián International Film Festival. Octopus Skin (La piel pulpo) (2023) is her most recent film.