Grief can manifest in a myriad of ways, and there is not necessarily any perfect or 'sensible' way to process the loss of family, even if they're of an age where it's not a surprise. And it's natural to have mixed feelings about how you might resemble a parent or grandparent, either physically or in personality. And perhaps these two seemingly different ideas, grief and resemblance, can have strange outcomes when mixed. Spanish filmmaker Lucía Aleñar Iglesias crafts a quiet and intimate portrait of grief held very closely to the chest. Expanded from her short film, Forastera is a different kind of ghost story, one perhaps more about benevolence and longing that vengeance. It is more concerned with how we make it through those first troubling days...
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