The Memory of Water - Film Screening and Discussion

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

present

The Memory of Water - Film Screening

A moment of inattention is all it took to change the lives of Javier and Amanda forever: lives that are now divided between "before" and "after", between how everything was and should have been. All because of an accident that neither of them could have prevented. It will take a long time to reach closure on the death of their four-year-old son. Amanda can't bear the daily ache of seeing her home - and Javier. Everything reminds her of her child, and so she decides to leave her husband and plunge into her work as an interpreter, while Javier, who continues to work as an architect, can't accept the separation and seems unable to face the loss of his son.

2015 Chilean Drama Film written and directed by  Matias Bize. It was screened in the Venice Days section at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. It won the Colón de Oro for best director at the 2015 Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva (Spain).

Synopsis:https://cineuropa.org/en/film/298425/ 

This film screening and discussion is part of PLACA Cinelatte Series. 

Sponsoring Departments: Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA); Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

For more information, contact Havva Karakas-Keles, hkarakas@syr.edu