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LILIANA Y LOS LOBOS

LILIANA AND THE WOLVES

Female director - Development 2027

From the childhood memories of Liliana (92) during the Second World War, the director proposes a journey that reflects on the past and present of war conflicts. Establishing a dialogue between continents and generations.

- Year of production
- 2027
- Genres
- Female director, Historical, Documentary
- Countries
- URUGUAY
- Languages
- SPANISH, ITALIAN
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Synopsis
- Liliana Lupo (92) is spending her last days in a modest nursing home in Montevideo. She is the only surviving sister of an Italian family who travelled to Uruguay to escape the devastation of the World War II.
  
  Her memories, fading day by day, bring this great war to the present and the wounds it left on the family 80 years later. The marks on her and her siblings passed from generation to generation, and today they are carried by the grandchildren.
  
  Together, Liliana and Carolina (grandniece of the protagonist), go through the memories and revisit the past, in the light of the present. The war not only wounded them economically and emotionally, but also pushed them to change continents, trying to find a better land. But is it possible to bury the past and move on?
  
  Liliana's brother, Carolina's grandfather, was forced to fight with the fascists at the age of 17. He disagreed with Mussolini's principles and became a deserter. Then in Uruguay, he could never leave behind the pain of seeing other young men like him die, lying on the ground under the rain.
  
  But the relationship with war is complex. Liliana's father was a proud soldier in the same army that forced his son to fight a war he did not believe in. In the bosom of the family, contempt and veneration for the same conflict coexisted, and this also permeated their life in Uruguay, where a new violent conflict confronted son and father: the civil-military dictatorship.
  
  The world is always immersed in wars, and we keep forgetting that wounds linger, and their damage not only destroys those who live through them. Liliana's memoirs not only shed light on the past and the historical moment, but they also help Carolina to understand the sadness that has accompanied her throughout her life.
  
  In this exploration, aunt and grandniece embark together, searching for traces on both continents and trying to establish a dialogue that allows us to reinvent ourselves in the light of the past. In Savona, the Lupo family has continued to grow and those who lived that same past have also disappeared, but, perhaps, there are still some traces of them, and Carolina will cross the ocean to find them.
  
  Navigating through archival material, footage of the present in Italy and Uruguay, family documents and photographs, the story forms a puzzle that attempts to link memory and contemporary life. It is in this attempt that the two women try to come to terms with the pain caused not only by the war, but also by migratory movements.