Lila Avilés

  • Lila Avilés – Tótem AKA Totem (2023)

    2021-2030DramaLila AvilésMexico
    Tótem (2023)
    Tótem (2023)

    Quote:
    Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the family’s foundations. Sol will embrace the essence of letting go as a release for existence.Read More »

  • Lila Avilés – Tótem AKA Totem (2023)

    Lila Avilés2021-2030DramaMexico
    Tótem (2023)
    Tótem (2023)

    Quote:
    In her second film after The Chambermaid in 2018, Lila Avilés leaves behind the cramped hotel rooms of her debut but continues to work on the connection between relationships and interior spaces. This time, the setting is a large house where, over the course of a long day, family and friends meet for a dual ritual: it is the birthday of young father and painter Tona, but as it will likely be his last, it is also a farewell ceremony. There is duality in the film’s soul, too, with the frenzy of preparations and the spontaneity of the celebration concealing the profoundly archaic and spiritual dimension of the title. Tona’s weakened body is initially invisible, protected in a room where he tries to summon up the strength required for the humanist ceremony in which he will be showered with all the love and affection needed to face his final journey.Read More »

  • Lila Avilés – La camarista AKA The Chambermaid (2018)

    2011-2020DramaLila AvilésMexico

    Eve, a young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel, confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.Read More »

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