The Fable of the Turtle and the Flower

Section: New Voices | Programe tematice
Title: La fábula de la tortuga y la flor
Director: Carolina Campo Lupo
Duration: 1h 19m
Country: Uruguay, Spain
Language: spaniolă
Year: 2025

In films, terminal illnesses are often treated with dramatization. In this film, however, we see unflinchingly and without sentimentality how a mother with terminal cancer prepares her children’s lives for the time when she will no longer be there.