I Want To Kill My Grandfather
Synopsis
The attack left her father with cracked ribs, a broken nose, and loose teeth. Its architect was his own father. Like much of Lilyana’s family history, nobody spoke of it again. So she begins planning his murder.
In darkly comic fictional reenactments, Lilyana trains for revenge with the help of a retired detective. Some methods are efficient, others grotesque, all adapted to an ageing man. Against these fantasies, family home videos reveal a more unsettling contradiction: birthday parties, tenderness, and a grandfather who once appeared devoted to his son and granddaughter. How could a parent put their own child’s life at risk?
Before Lilyana reaches him, her grandfather dies peacefully in bed, taking every explanation with him. Determined to complete the film, she casts an actor named Perfecto to play him and kills him on screen, again and again. But the performance exposes the question she cannot escape: what does revenge actually resolve?
Lilyana confronts the possibility that the violence she wants to destroy may already live inside her.
Details
- Year
- 2027
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 71 min
- Director
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Lilyana Torres, Carlos Morales 1st Feature
- Producer
- Gabriel Stavenhagen, Lizzie Gillett, Lilyana Torres
- Executive Producer
- Jack Pearkes, Ian Bonhote, Avelino Rodriguez, Santiago Candelas
- Editor
- Santiago Cendejas, Jonathan Pellicer
- Director of Photography
- Mauricio Castillo
- Sound
- Daniela López Guerrero
- Consultant Producer
- Will Cohen
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Misfits Entertainment
Shania Pinto22 Soho Square, W1D 4NS
The Lift Films
Lilyana TorresSinaloa 215, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700, Mexico City
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