The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future

• Francisca Alegria
• 98 min
• Chile, France, United States, Germany
• 2022
• Fiction

A dead woman comes back to life in a poisoned river, and fish and cows sing, in a seminal Chilean, magical-realism debut about environmental tragedy and family secrets.

When the long-dead Magdalena appears to her now-aged husband, he collapses. The couple’s daughter Cecilia and her two children are forced to come home to the family farm to reunite with her brother and father. But it’s not only dead fish that float up to the river’s surface in this hypnotic and surreal critique of man’s assault against Mother Earth – but old family traumas as well. Francisca Alegri debuts with a film that embodies both contemporary cool and traditional folklorism, and which lets mother and daughter meet in a recreated past where it becomes clear that our choices give us the opportunity to both heal and change the future.

- Camilla Larsson

• Miljö
• Drama
• Natur
• Familj
• Försoning
• Magi
• Debut