Sorrow

Diego Revollo / Bolivia / 2023 / European Premiere / 72 min.

synopsis

Diego Revollo first had to go deaf to learn to listen. According to conventional medicine, the director's deafness was incurable until he met Ortiz Ramos, a Bolivian healer from the Kallawaya shamanic nation. According to their teachings, which are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, urbanisation has severed man's connection with place, resulting in a rift between body and soul. Civilisation is sick and can only be cured by reconnecting with nature. The intoxicating details of the structures, the contemplatively ethnographic cinematography and the atmospheric soundtrack therapeutically return to matter, shapes, touch and the senses and restore the connection to our animal origins.

“Perhaps for humans, healing is more akin to the ability to understand than to regenerate. To understand is to discover the deep meaning of something, to embrace it from all sides.”

biography

Diego Revollo (1986) was born in Brazil but lives in Bolivia, where he works as a filmmaker, visual artist and university teacher. He studied film directing and media studies and in 2017 debuted with his autobiographical essay Sol Piedra Agua, which competed for the Goya Awards. He works on themes of cultural heritage, visual memory and identity. Sorrow is his second feature film.

more about film

director:	Diego Revollo
cast:	Aurelio Ortiz, Faustina Ramos, Amaya Revollo, Fernando Revollo, Juan Ortiz, Melisa Ortiz, Apolinar Ramos
producer:	Miguel Nina, Mariajose Zuazo Aranibar
script:	Diego Revollo
photography:	Mauricio Ovando
editing:	André Blondel
music:	Jorge Zamora
sound:	Omar Corrales
sound design:	J.J. Alfredo
co-producer:	Harold Cespedes
executive producer:	Fernando Revollo