| Director: | Ana Cristina Barragan |
|---|---|
| Production: | Boton Films (Joseph Houlberg Silva), BHD Films (Alejandro de Icaza, Gabriela Maldonado) Ciné-Sud Promotion (Thierry Lenouvel), Guspira Films (Montse Pujol Solà, Bernat Manzano Vall) |
| Running Time: | 95’ |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Ecuador, Mexico, France, Spain |
| Year: | 2025 |
| Main Cast: | Simone Bucio, Francis Eddú Llumiquinga |
| Screenplay: | Ana Cristina Barragán |
| Cinematographer: | Adrian Durazo |
| Editor: | Gerard Borràs, Omar Guzmán, Ana Cristina Barragán |
| Production Designer: | Alisarine Ducolomb |
| Costume Designer: | Lila Penagos |
| Music: | Claudia Baulies |
| Sound: | Gisela Maestre Plaza, Jean-Guy Veran, Juan José Luzuriaga |
| Visual Effects: | Swift Creative Studio |
Cinema
Hiedra
Orizzonti
Synopsis
Azucena, a 30-year-old woman, spies on the teenagers of a group home. In their games and sense of brotherhood, she searches for fragments of her own past, driven by a traumatic event that marked her adolescence and left her suspended in time. Her interest centres especially on Julio, a 17-year-old boy.
Although their social worlds are far apart, their wounds, shared laughter and the discovery of one another guide their Oedipal journey towards the rocks of a volcano. There, far from everything, these two characters, marked by absence, are transformed into something else.
Director's statement
I’m drawn to the power of ambiguity — what moves beneath the surface of the story. The jolt in the arm when it’s the elbow that gets hit, the face that warms with anxiety, the childhood wound betrayed by small gestures. I want to push the boundaries of the intimacies we’ve come to accept as normal. In Hiedra, I seek a desire that is disordered, unresolved. I explore, without fear, tenderness towards the Other: a baby, a grandfather, a mother, a child, a sister. I seek a silent atmosphere, a singular scent that lingers.
I’m interested in telling stories from the body, in its clumsiness. I work with non-professional actors who carry a hypnotic way of being in the world before the camera.
Azucena carries the brutal wound of abuse. She is a creature without territory, a girl frozen in time who acts from an instinctive, selfish place. Julio belongs to a pack that survived abandonment. The absence of the maternal is present in his anger, in his paternal role with other children. They come from very different social worlds, and that tension is exposed. The journey to the volcanic landscape allows a drift away from the parameters of normality — ones they never belonged to in the first place.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
Botón Films - Joseph Houlberg Silva
Tumbaco, Urb. La Viña 420
170172 Quito, Ecuador
Tel: +593 2378766 / +593 984620149
E-mail: botonfilms@gmail.com
Web: http://botonfilms.com
Social Media: @lahiedrapelicula - Instagram
PRODUCTION 2:
BHD Films - Alejandro de Icaza, Gabriela Maldonado
Tiburcio Montiel #68
CP 11850 CDMX, Mexico
Tel: +52 5554078769
E-mail: bhdestudios@gmail.com
Web: http://www.bhdmx.com
PRODUCTION 3:
Ciné-Sud Promotion - Thierry Lenouvel
2, Chemin du Safre
13800 Istres, France
Tel: +33 678000592
E-mail: thierry@cinesudpromotion.com
Web: http://www.cinesudpromotion.com/
Social Media: @Cine Sud Promotion - Facebook - Instagram
PRODUCTION 4:
Guspira Films - Montse Pujol Solà, Bernat Manzano Vall
Carrer de Zamora 103-105 1r 3a
08018 Barcelona, Spain
Tel: +34 695165396
E-mail: montse@guspirafilms.com
Social Media: @_guspirafilms - Instagram
INTERNATIONAL SALES:
Bendita Film Sales - Luis Renart
C/Bethencourt Alfonso, 23 8º
38002 Santa Cruz de Tenerife- Spain
Tel: +34 922 926 541
E-mail: info@btafilms.com
Web: https://btafilms.com
Social media: @btafilmsales
PRESS OFFICE:
Marijana Harder Tel: +49 (0)177 79 42 871 E-mail: mail@marijanaharder.com
Web: www.marijanaharder.com
