Tótem: International Cinema Series at Eckerd College
When: Fri., April 5, 7-9 p.m. 2024
Written and directed by Lila Avilés (Spanish with English subtitles, 95 minutes, 2023)
This second feature from Mexican writer and director Lila Avilés (The Chambermaid) follows a day in the life of seven-year-old Sol (Naíma Sentíes) as her family prepares a special birthday party for her father who is dying of cancer. Intercutting between the mundane and the existential, Tótem explores grief as a wasting of both the sick and the well and the unexpected joy in acknowledging connection in the face of impending loss.
Part of the Eckerd College International Cinema Series.