Jana stands on the edge of an abyss: she barely has any memories of her father, the renowned singer-songwriter Ovidi Montllor. Twenty-eight years after his death, she embarks on a cinematographic journey to recast her private memory from the fragility of her recollections, the moments she shared with him and some small objects she still keeps.

A dark and painful secret from the Spanish Civil War era is revealed in Lucía’s family circle. Determined to piece the story back together, she films her grandparents, but they refuse to give her the answers she thinks she needs. “O Silencio Herdado” portrays the search to recover a silenced family memory.

Estela is the result of a socially-committed research project, in which director and scriptwriter Liliana Díaz Castillo recreates a drama about a Latin American migrant mother’s struggle against illegality and precariousness after her arrival in Europe.

What territory does your body belong to? How do you build a feeling of home in a place that’s not your own? Four screenwriters from La Selva explore their relationships with Barcelona from vantage points of uprootedness, corporeality and the dissonant contradiction between staying away and coming home.