AWAY FROM MEANING / LEJOS DEL SENTIDO
A film by Olivia Luengas
(Mexico, 2018, 88 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Premieres online here Sunday, March 29, 7pm EDT.
*(To activate English subtitles click on ‘CC’ in the Vimeo screen and select ‘English’)
Followed by a Q&A (in English) with the filmmakers in Cinema Tropical’s Instagram account at 9pm EDT.
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.
“A visceral, absorbing look at life through the lens of borderline personality disorder.”
“A very good documentary film about a difficult personal situation that does not spill a drop of self-pity.”
