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The fable of the turtle and the flower

Directed by:

Carolina Campo Lupo

Produced by:

Valentina Baracco Pena / Carolina Campo Lupo

Production Company

Monarca Films / Pájaro Dorado / Insumisa Films

Contact:

  • Year

    2025

  • Format

    Completed without release

  • Length

    79 min

  • Country

    Uruguay

Synopsis

When Eliana -my best friend since childhood- tells me that she has terminal cancer, we start filming our last encounters. What begins as an attempt to abolish the rules of nature becomes an emotional journey that confronts us with our own fragility.

  • Carolina

    Campo Lupo

    Director / Producer

    Director and producer, Carolina is professor at ORT University and founder of the production houses Lobo Hombre and Pájaro Dorado. Has received FONCA- AECID and FEFCA grants and has been Berlinale Talents 2019. She is developing her third feature documentary and writing her first fiction.

  • Valentina

    Baracco Pena

    Producer

    Producer and director. Studied documentary at EICTV, Talents BsAs Berlinale Talents 2020. Founder of Monarca Films from where she has produced nine films, series and shorts. Director of the film “Ese soplo”. Teacher, she has been curator and jury in national and international festivals.

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