Gabriela returns to her family home in Chile, left behind after exile. Between her grandparents’ tenderness and her mother’s emotional distance, she begins to question how love can endure when shaped by fear, absence, and silence.
Feature
Documentary
In distribution
Gabriela Pena & Picho García - 2026
Where the Silence is Heard
- Written, directed and edited by Gabriela Pena
- Co-directed and edited by Picho García
- Produced by Gabriela Pena & Picho García
- Co-produced by Gabriela Sandoval – Efthymia Zymvragaki
- A Production by Grieta Cine, Gris Medio, Cine Matriz
- Co-editing: Melisa Miranda, Tin Dirdamal
- Original Music: Santiago Jara
- Sound Design: Claudio Vargas, Florencia Trujillo
- Color: Luna Sáez
- Graphic Design: Montse Pena
- 23º CPH:DOX | Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival | Competencia Next:Wave Award
- 41º FICG | Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara | Official Competition Iberoamerican Documentary Feature
- 49º Mill Valley Film Festival | Mill Valley, San Francisco, US | Official Selection
- 33º Astra Film Festival | Sibiu, Romania | New Voices Competition
- 25º Edoc Encuentros de Otro Cine | Quito, Ecuador | Official Selection
Awards
- 41º FICG | Best Film FEISAL Award
- 25º Edoc Encuentros de Otro Cine | Young Jury Award
Support
- Sundance Institute | Documentary Film Program | Documentary Fund Grant
- Chicken&Egg Films | (Egg)celebrator Lab
- ICAA | Ministerio de Cultura de España | Ayudas a la Producción
- ICEC | Institut Català d’Empreses Culturals | Subveción a la coproducción minoritaria
- MINCAP | Ministerio de las Culturas las Artes y el Patrimonio del Gobierno de Chile | Fondo Audiovisual
«A return to the womb, figuratively speaking, to explore a relationship with the mother, marked by exile and silence.»
The Hollywood Reporter
«The act of restoration becomes inseparable from the act of filming […] the fragile walls mirror the excavation of memory itself.»
Modern Times Review
«Flurries of cinematic poetry […] evoke a sense of ghosts still haunting the house.»
«The impulse to let light into a space consumed by the darkness of trauma.»
«El ímpetu por dejar entrar la luz a un espacio consumido por la oscuridad del trauma.»
La Estatuilla
