The Permanent Picture

• Laura Ferrés
• 94 min
• Spain, France
• 2023
• Fiction

Praised debut from the Locarno Film Festival, which, with sensual sound design and clever editing, allows its audience to piece together the story of the chance encounter between two women.

A fifteen-year-old gives birth to her first child but, after delivery, leaves her family and home, disappearing into the Andalusian night. Fifty years later, farther north, near Barcelona, the reclusive Carmen works on finding people for a political advertising film. The idea is for them to share their experiences of moving to a new city. On the street, she encounters Antonia, an older woman who both intrigues and makes her slightly uncomfortable. Despite the awkward first meeting, the women continue to see each other, and some kind of friendship develops. The significance of photography is a crucial puzzle piece in Laura Ferrés humanistic and subtly imaginatively portrayed story of alienation, the passage of time, and change, inspired by songs from women who, in post-war Spain, moved northward.

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• Drama