
La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer
2012-05-13 · 52 min · Not rated
A meeting between the daughter and the grandmother of the director, Iván Mora Manzano, at a time when the memories of one, the girl’s, were taking shape, and the other’s the grandmother’s, were vanishing. This starting point is used as a pretext to talk about other topics such as the importance of family memories and the search for memory.
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- Directors
- Iván Mora Manzano
- Production companies
- La República Invisible
- Countries
- Ecuador
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 60,000
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