Hippolyte Lykavieris

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.

Victoria Clay Mendoza follows Benjamin Pech in his final year as principal dancer of the Paris Opera Ballet. Between them, a friendship emerges in which they mirror each other: she faces the need to return to Mexico to care of her mother diagnosed with Alzheimer's, while he confronts a hip injury that brings an end to his stage career. A visual essay on the loving acceptance of what comes to an end.