SYNOPSIS

The search for “The Irupé Flower”, a lost film by Guillermo Fernández-Zúñiga, Spanish pioneer in scientific filmmaking in the early 20th century, triggers a journey into family histories and national archives. As we witness the slow growth of the yrupẽ different layers of images and silences emerge.


CREW

director: Candela Sotos
producer: Catarina Boieiro
editing: Juan Carrano, Caterina Monzani
sound recording: Candela Sotos, Mercedes Dansey, Raul Díaz
sound correction: Cora Delgado
sound mixing: Sergio Borrás
sound desing: Dídio Pestana
colour correction: Mauricio Freyre
production Chaco: Bruno del Giúdice, Nadia Aquino, Celeste Massín
music: Mercedes Dansey, Tomás Fernández-Bonilla
poster design: Florencia Porreca

with: Yrupẽ, Alicia Fernández-Zúñiga, Ramón Morales and Guillermo Fernández- Zúñiga Archive

shooting format: HD

PRODUCTION
with the support of: 

Grants for creation and mobility from Madrid City Council
Community of Madrid 
Ministry of Culture Spain
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken ( Buenos Aires)
Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid 
Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays, Buenos Aires
Asociación Española d Cine Científico ASECIC

was part of:

>CRA Matadero, Madrid / URRA Residency, Buenos Aires
>MARCO residency,Fundación Tres Pinos
>Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival’s Research Residency in collaboration with the Huarte Centre (with Catarina Boieiro






FESTIVAL HISTORY

2025

Visions du Réel Nyon
Burning lights competition
World premiere

European Media Art Festival
EMAF Osnabrück (Witnessing Witnessing)
German premiere

Transmutacion Festival de Cine Contemporáneo
México
Mexican premiere

Cinespaña Festival de cinéma espagnol et portugais, Toulouse.
French premiere


Upcoming

Seminci International Film Festival, Valladolid, Spain
Spanish premiere

L’alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival, Catalunya.

Kasseler DokFest
Kassel, Germany

Prizes

Prix José-María Berzosa. Best documentary, Cinespaña, Toulouse