The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (La vaca que cantó una canción hacia el futuro) [In-Person Only]
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
About
(Francisca Alegría, Chile, France, US & Germany, 2022, 93 min, in Spanish with English subtitles)
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival
A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría’s poignant debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena (Mia Maestro, Frida, The Motorcycle Diaries) bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. This shocking return sends her widowed husband into turmoil and prompts their daughter Cecilia to return home to the family’s dairy farm with her own children. Magdalena’s presence reverberates among her family, instigating fits of laughter and despair in equal measure with all but Cecilia’s eldest child, who finds much-needed comfort in their grandmother’s love and unconditional understanding during a time of transition.
A lyrical rumination on family, nature, renewal, and resurrection, The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future is an ambitious proposal for acceptance and healing, suggesting that the dead return when they are most needed.
Synopsis courtesy of Kino Lorber. All still photos by Inti Briones.
“Hauntingly moving and hopeful… a folkloric tale that uses magical realism as a way to connect the intimate story of a family suffering from generational trauma with a timely environmentalist fable.” – IndieWire
“A beautifully eerie and resonant tale about motherhood and the natural world… solidly grounded, teeming with thought-provoking ideas, wonderfully atmospheric, and often visually striking.” – Screen Daily
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