Synopsis
Dario follows the footsteps of his famous ancestor to uncover a hidden chapter of his family history. His journey takes him from Ecuador to Dresden, Germany. A film about pride, forgetting, and the narratives that shape who we believe ourselves to be.
- A Film by Darío Aguirre
- Documentary | 98 min
- Status: Finished
- Festivals 2025
- Cinemas Germany: January 22, 2026
- Funding: BKM (Treatment Development and Production Fund), MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (Project Development and Production Fund), Goethe Institut, Bogotá, Humboldt Association Quito, CCEA Guayaquil.
- Markets: IDFA Docs for Sale 2024, Dok Forum München 2021, CONNECTA Chile, BAM Colombia.
- Participant at Labs: Campus Latino 2020-2021, FIRST CUT LAB 2022
- FESTIVALS:
• 67th Nordic Film days Lübeck | GER 2025 (Premiere Germany)
• 24th International Documentary FF EDOC | EC 2025 (Premiere Ecuador)
• 44th Bergamo Film Meeting | ITA 2026 (International Premiere)
• 42th Dokfest Kassel | GER
• 21th MOVE IT! Human Rights FF Dresden | GER
• 39th Latin American Film Days Munich | GER 2025
• 21th EUROCINE Festival | EC 2025
• 9 th Cámara Lúcida Festival | EC 2025
• 19th Atlantidoc | URY 2025
• 38th Latin American Film Days Nürnberg | GER 2026
• 33th CINELATINO | Tübingen, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Reutlingen | GER 2026
• 15th CINE LATINO | Eichstätt | GER 2026
• 19th Kino Latino | Köln | GER 2026
• 11th Ecuador Ethnographic Film Festival (ECU) 2026 - AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
Nomination for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Award (42nd Kassel Documentary Film Festival 2025). - FUNDED BY:
