DOPAMINA

DOPAMINE

By Natalia IMERY ALMARIO

CONTRAVIA FILMS - as PROD

Experimental - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Torino FF 2019
festival del nuevo cine latinoamericano 2019
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2019
festival internacional de cine de cali 2019
Miradas Doc 2019
Festival de Cine de Lima (online) 2020
Competencia Documental
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Experimental, Family, Documentary
    • Countries
    • COLOMBIA, URUGUAY, ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Natalia IMERY ALMARIO
    • Writer(s)
    • Natalia IMERY ALMARIO
    • Producer(s)
    • Oscar RUIZ NAVIA (CONTRAVIA FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • 12 years ago, Ricardo, Natalia's father, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease; With this condition, Dopamine is stopped, a neurohormone responsible for the movement on the body and the feeling of happiness. During those years they had a very strong family crisis, Natalia also told her parents that she liked women. She could not understand why if they were left-wing militants in their youth and fighting for equality and freedom, they couldn’t accept that choice. Today, a decade later, they meet to talk about family ideas, homosexuality, ideological struggles and what the advance of Ricardo's disease has meant.