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Jofris is the last speaker of his Indigenous language. After fleeing his community years ago, his grandmother appears in dreams and asks him to return. He must obey her wishes, even though it goes against his will.
Jofris (45) is the last speaker of the Añuu ethnicity in Venezuela. He fled his community more than ten years ago to live in Maracaibo, a city with sweltering heat that was once a symbol of modernity in the oil-rich country, now plunged into a humanitarian and economic crisis. Driven by recurrent and turbulent dreams of his grandmother, Jofris decides to return to his Indigenous community. There, his grandmother's spirit stops appearing to him, so he seeks through dreams and in remote places around the lagoon to communicate with her spirit to discover the purpose of his return.

Credits

Director
Jeissy Trompiz Albornoz
Screenwriter
Jeissy Trompiz Albornoz
Producer
Gregorio Rodríguez
Co-Producer
Lucie Rego, Pauline Tran Van Lieu, Jaisia Figueroa
Editor
Mateo Facenda
Production Company
Casa Latina Films

About the Director

Jeissy Trompiz Albornoz
Jeissy Trompiz is an Afro-Indigenous filmmaker from Venezuela and a graduate of EICTV (Cuba). His films blend fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema. A participant in Berlinale Talents, DocLisboa, and Eurodoc Caribe, his previous films have screened at festivals including Ji.hlava, Huesca, and Havana. ‘La Imagen del Tiempo’ won an award at FIDMarseille, while ‘I Suoni del Tempo’ received th
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