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IDFA 2024

Light Memories

Eco de Luz
Misha Vallejo Prut
Ecuador, Germany
2024
80 min
World Premiere
International Competition
Festival history

In the family of photographer-turned-filmmaker Misha Vallejo no one ever talks about his grandfather. He only hears about him for the first time as an adult, thanks to an abandoned photo collection. Who was this shadow? And what legacy looms over the family? In his debut film Light Memories, Vallejo shows how the effects of neglect can persist across generations.

The slides that belonged to Vallejo’s grandfather mainly raise questions. Even his grandmother doesn’t recognize most of the people on them. To her children their father has always been a stranger. As the filmmaker talks to family members and digs through their silent past, the similarities with his own life start to become apparent. Although his parents would rather not discuss it.

Light Memories shows a fractured family on the one hand, with absent father figures. On the other hand, the caring that goes on among the family members gives hope. Vallejo’s visual language—featuring slide projections and an impressive volcano—creates a graceful bridge between old and new times.

Credits
Director
Co-production
    Isabela Parra Puente for Caleidoscopio Cine,
    Dario Aguirre Guevara for Tiempo Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG
Cinematography
Animation
    Bernarda Cornejo Pinto
    Bernarda Cornejo Pinto
Sound
    Emile Plonsky Egas
    Emile Plonsky Egas
Sound Design
    Emile Plonsky Egas
    Emile Plonsky Egas
Music
    Christian Mejía García
    Christian Mejía García

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