Alba
Alba
Production details
Country: Ecuador
Year: 2015
Duration: 98 min
Direction: Ana Cristina Barragán
Zita Folkets Bio
Birger Jarlsgatan 37
111 45 Stockholm
(T) Östermalmstorg
Zita Folkets Bio is the oldest autonomous cinema in Stockholm. The cinema’s task is to show quality films for both adults and children that do not usually appear on the bigger cinemas.
About the film
Alba, eleven years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals and has learned to cope with her mother’s illness. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba’s mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn’t seen since she was three years old. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to her mother in the hospital, his father’s tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba’s journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.