With "Say Goodbye", Mexican editor Paloma López Carrillo directs her first feature-length documentary. The subject matter is very personal, as she has decided to tell the story of some of her United States exhiled family members after their father suddenly disappeared. Moving in with them for a month in Utah, she films their lives, haunted by the father ’s loss. Daniel Zúñiga operates the camera, deciding to take the perspective of the missing man. "Say Goodbye" is in Competition in the feature-length documentary category at the Manaki Brothers Festival 2025. (FR)
At the foot of a snow-capped mountain range in Utah, a Mexican family lives in uncertainty over the disappearance of a loved one. Through carefully framed shots, Say Goodbye reveals the loneliness and silence that cloud the daily lives of Rosa, Sol and Javier, when emptiness and loss become a permanent presence. A painfully powerful and timely film.
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