El viento y todos los tiempos
Ecuador, 2025.
Directed by: Carla Valencia Dávila.
Carla Valencia Dávila is an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose debut documentary "Abuelos" (2010) premiered at IDFA and won the Best Documentary award at Biarritz. She co-directed "La huella de las palabras" (2024) and recently premiered "The Wind and All the Times" (2024) at IDFA. Her work often explores memory and family history through a poetic lens.
Running time: 83 min.
Synopsis
The Wind and All Times unfolds as a road movie through memory. The director revisits a journey she took years earlier, during which she filmed fragments of the route and kept a personal diary. That journey—made by bicycle across Uruguay, a country she had never visited before—now takes on new meaning when seen from the present. The film progresses like a cartography assembled from materials of different textures and origins. Digital images intertwine with Super 8 and 16mm footage in a first-person cinematic essay. Space gradually transforms into time, opening fissures through which other eras emerge: journeys, migrations, and exiles shaped by the social and political contexts that marked her family history. An intimate narrative that reflects on inheritance, geography, and the people we carry within us. A film that reminds us that cinema allows us to travel through time.
The Wind and All Times unfolds as a road movie through memory. The director revisits a journey she took years earlier, during which she filmed fragments of the route and kept a personal diary...