LOST CHAPTERS
a film by Lorena Alvarado
FEATURE PRESENTATION
MAY 29, 2025 • 9:00 PM
@ THE BUS STOP THEATRE
(2203 GOTTINGEN STREET, HALIFAX)
2024 / VENEZUELA, USA / 67 mins
In Spanish with English subtitles
Bathed in sunlight and the warm glow of nostalgia, Lost Chapters captures moments of a family’s life in Caracas. After years of living overseas, Ena has returned to her childhood home to search for a sense of grounding. She spends her days rifling through books alongside her father who is on a mission to archive rare Venezuelan titles, in order to protect Venezuela’s cultural heritage from the grasp of dictatorship. The two spend time with Ena’s lovely grandmother, who too is on her own journey of identity as she loses her memory. When Ena happens upon a forgotten Venezuelan author, her unmooredness is catalyzed into an obsessive quest of her own, which unveils an intuitive interconnectedness between these writings, her grandmother’s memories, and her search for self-identity.
The debut feature of filmmaker Lorena Alvarado, Lost Chapters is a remarkable meditation on the quiet hours of life, on what we pass on to our future selves and generations, and on what lingers even when forgotten on the surface. —Kelly Li
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Lorena Alvarado
Lorena Alvarado is a Venezuelan director and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She is an alumnus of Fabrica Research Center in Italy, where she made her short film Beatrice, which premiered at DOC NYC, screened at 15+ festivals around the world, and had its public television broadcast on PBS’s POV.
Lorena has directed and edited short documentaries for Art21, The United Nations, The New Yorker, Benetton, Planned Parenthood, among others. She is currently working on her first feature film about a bookseller in Venezuela. Lost Chapters is her first feature.