Eugenia Cangiano

Paulina returns home with her late husband's ashes. Hours pass and she goes about her day with her usual routine but dazed by mixed emotions. While doing her routine, she remembers bitter moments with him and realizes that, finally, she can free herself. Paulina decides to break with the stigmas of the past and turns her life around.

The Transfiguration of Light is a documentary that intertwines memory, poetry, and visual experimentation to reconstruct the legacy of the Santa Fe Film Institute, founded by Fernando Birri. Through interviews, archival footage, animations, and his poetry, the short film seeks to reflect on resistance, Santa Fe's film culture, and the collective act.

During the hot summer on the coast, two sisters face the absence of their mother, which plunges them into a silence that seems to separate them more and more. Both struggle to find each other again, clinging to memories, games and small acts of hope under the constant song of the cicadas, which marks the passage of time and reminds them that, despite everything, life goes on.