OCTOPUS SKIN

LA PIEL PULPO

By Ana Crstina BARRAGAN

CALEIDOSCOPIO CINE - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2016

Ágata returns to the abandoned house of her childhood to deal with the grief of her younger sister Lía. The house is located in an empty beach full of mollusks. Ágata , Lía , and their brother Ariel, spent most of their infancy in this beach, always naked, playing secretly behind a couple of abse

Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2022
Horizontes Latinos
    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ECUADOR
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Director(s)
    • Ana Crstina BARRAGAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Ana Cristina BARRAGAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Isabella PARRA (Caleidoscopio cine)
    • Synopsis
    • Ágata (26) returns to the abandoned house of her childhood to deal with the grief of her younger sister Lía. The house is located in an empty beach full of octopus and birds. Ágata , Lía , and their brother Ariel, spent most of their infancy in this beach, always naked, playing secretly behind a couple of absent parents. Their fraternal relation exceeded the limits of normal intimacy.

      Alone in the beach Ágata (26) drives every experience to the limit trying to heal. One night she decides to look for her brother Ariel at a home sick,and take him to the beach house. They look like twins, but they haven´t seen each other for years, Ariel has a body paralysis and Agata can barely take care of herself.

      Ágata sexual awakening, her tough relation with Ariel, the visit of the old nana and the the knowledge of the octopus man, drive her path trough grief and her awareness of love, loos and nature.