The Life of Fish

Running time: 84 mins

They say you can?t go home again, but can a lost love be regained? How is that supposed to work?

Returning to Chile after 10 years in Berlin, Andrés attends a friend's birthday party, encountering people he left behind, among them his great love, Beatriz. Like a modern Dante wandering through some world outside time, Andrés discovers not only what is and what was, but also the realization of what could have been.

This is an achingly beautiful, gentle film with sublime emotional depth and a tremendous amount of wisdom. These are not characters; they are people you know, people you have been, people you are. Though filled with conversation, it is the silences when words fail or are useless that reveal the most, that are the most affecting, as past and present meet in an eternal Rick?s Café of the heart, and the heart comes to know what it has and what it has lost.

- Charlie Cockey

Film sponsored by the Castellano Family Foundation and the Applied Materials Foundation.