Fishbowl
A thought-provoking meditation on the impact of the political on the personal and on how women’s bodies become the battleground for men’s struggles.
Part of Worldwide Wednesdays film series
The Fishbowl
Noelia, a 40-year-old Puerto Rican visual artist, discovers her cancer has metastasized after spending several years in remission. Despite the insistence of her partner, Jorge, she refuses to continue her treatment and decides to return to Vieques, the small Caribbean island east of Puerto Rico where she grew up and where her mother, Flora, lives. Once there, she keeps her cancer a secret in order to live freely and throws herself into the work she had dedicated herself to years before – denouncing pollution left by the U.S. Army after years of military exercises on the island.
However, as Noelia’s health worsens and she joins her neighbors to secretly enter closed testing areas to document undetonated bombs and toxic remains, her struggle to survive and the struggle of Vieques to recover from decades of bomb testing become inextricably intertwined. When an approaching hurricane threatens the island and Noelia rekindles an old romance, she faces the decision to leave and seek treatment or stay with her community.
“Sánchez crafts a story that is quietly powerful, approaching a catharsis that lyrically unearths how mourning is not without hope.” - No Film School
“Its images seem to shiver with an unsettling sense of urgency.” – Cineuropa
“Exposes the continuing wounds of colonization while showing Puerto Rican autonomy, grief, and grace." – Latino Rebels
However, as Noelia’s health worsens and she joins her neighbors to secretly enter closed testing areas to document undetonated bombs and toxic remains, her struggle to survive and the struggle of Vieques to recover from decades of bomb testing become inextricably intertwined. When an approaching hurricane threatens the island and Noelia rekindles an old romance, she faces the decision to leave and seek treatment or stay with her community.
“Sánchez crafts a story that is quietly powerful, approaching a catharsis that lyrically unearths how mourning is not without hope.” - No Film School
“Its images seem to shiver with an unsettling sense of urgency.” – Cineuropa
“Exposes the continuing wounds of colonization while showing Puerto Rican autonomy, grief, and grace." – Latino Rebels
Genre
Drama,
Women and Film,
Worldwide Wednesdays,
Activism,
Grief
Runtime
92
Language
Spanish
Director
Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
Writer(s)
Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
Cast
Isel Rodriguez (Noelia),
Modesto Lacén (Juni),
Magali Carrasquillo (Flora),
Maximiliano Rivas (Jorge),
Georgina Borri (Cuca),
Anamin Santiago (María),
Idenisse Salaman (Nina),
Carola García (Doctor)
Opening at
Town Center 5 on Mar 26th
Monica Film Center on Mar 26th
Claremont 5 on Mar 26th
Newhall on Mar 26th
Glendale on Mar 26th
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