Through this video letter, the director talks to her aunt, who was a victim of femicide years ago, about how it has been for her to grow up with fear in a dangerous country for women, trying to cope with the grief of femicide. 

Miriam is a film-letter from Karla Condado to her aunt, who was murdered by her partner years ago. Beginning with a social media message her aunt once sent, the film retraces the pain, fear, and gradual healing through which Condado has worked to absorb the event over fourteen years. It is an intimate and courageous journey that confronts the trauma of femicide, breaks the silence through the medium of cinema, and moves toward healing and communication.
Though it takes the form of a personal confession, the film’s focus is femicide as a social tragedy. Through voice-over, the act of writing, projection, and other performative documentary strategies, Condado arranges fragile memories one by one while exposing fear, helplessness, and emotional scars. Amid memories that continue to fade, the filmmaker at last breaks her silence through this poetic, painterly ritual of purification.

This short documentary seeks to accompany other families who have lost a woman due to femicide violence, inviting them to recognize their own grief, to remember with tenderness those who are no longer here and to find, in the shared memory, a gesture of resistance and love.

• ProducerKarla CONDADO, León BOLTVINIK
• Screenplay Karla CONADO
• Cinematography Karla CONDADO, León BOLTVINIK
• Edit Karla CONDADO, León BOLTVINIK
• Sound Gerardo BERUMEN
• Music KURO KASETTO, KOTANNA

Karla CONDADO | kcondador@gmail.com