AWAY FROM MEANING
AWAY FROM MEANING
A film by Olivia Luengas
(Lejos del sentido, Mexico, 2018, 88 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Subjects: Disabilities, Women’s Studies, Human Rights, Psychology & Psychiatry, Family Relations, Mexico
Available digitally with DSL (Digital Site License) and on DVD
“A visceral, absorbing look at life through the lens of borderline personality disorder.”
When Liliana was three years old, she suffered from viral encephalitis. As a consequence, she began to experience borderline personality disorder years later. Along with her family, she devotes herself to managing and coping with emotional instability that has led to frequent hospitalizations following various suicide attempts. Now facing the threat of another relapse without the option of hospitalization due to closures, she and her parents must face a new treatment scheme from home.
Awarded the Best Documentary Prize at the Havana Film Festival New York, this deeply personal family love story directed by Liliana’s sister, Olivia, is a poignant meditation about normality and stigma attached to mental illnesses and a portrait of Liliana’s inner world, where her emotions take form.
AWARDS
- Best Documentary, Havana Film Festival
- Audience Award, Docs Puebla
FESTIVALS
- Official Selection, Guadalajara International Film Festival
- Official Selection, Morelia International Film Festival
- Official Selection, Havana Film Festival
- Official Selection, Lima Film Festival
- Official Selection, International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City
- Official Selection, International Film Festival with Gender Perspective
- Official Selection, AFI Latin American Film Festival
- Official Selection, American Documentary Film Festival
- Official Selection, DOCS Puebla
PRICING
$375 — DVD
$450 — Digital Site License (DSL)
$500 — DVD + Digital Site License (DSL)
About the director:
Olivia Luengas is a director and cinematographer and has worked on projects such as Maripepa and The Naptime. Her first film, Away from Meaning, was funded by the Tribeca Latin America Fund and the Grodman Foundation UDG-USA. She currently heads Phonocular, a documentary production studio.
