Fomos Ficando Sós
Spanish premiere.
Introduction and Q&A with Adrián Canoura (filmmaker) and Ines Calero (film programmer)
The immensity of solitude. The silence of distance. The music of the sea. Galician filmmaker and video artist Adrián Canoura creates a family and maritime journey sailing alongside his father in a sensory boat capable of cutting through the waves of memory.
Fomos Ficando Sós weighs anchor from its very title, with the maritime and Galician reference “we were left alone — the sea, the boat, and us”. The sailor Raúl and his son Adrián formed a bond through distance, few words, and ships pulling away from port. The film is a lyrical letter from the filmmaker to his father, composed of dreamlike sounds and melodies, with old archives and current journeys. Canoura, as if he were a DJ, mixes and fuses materials and memories, orchestrating a fascinating session of sways and surprises, of tones and reveries, from the calm rocking of the waves to the stridency of memory. A composition that delves into the ocean and the firmament, resonating with Peter Hutton, Vikingland, and the poem by Manuel Antonio that opens the film, only to head towards a destination as moving as it is unique.
Miquel Martí Freixas
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