The Tree of the Broken Shadow
In production || Feature length animation documentary
The Tree of the Broken Shadow
Directed by Nicolas Baksht Somonte
Produced by Daniel Corkidi and Pablo Baksht
Editing by Ambra Reijnen, Aymara Larson Rivero, Nicolas Baksht Somonte
Archival producer: Eduardo Rubén Álvarez
Animation direction by Julia Granillo and Mica B. Meade
Animation by Gabriela F. Orozco, Théo Lenoble, Julia Granillo, Mica B. Meade, Paulina Ziolkowska, Diego Torres
Music by Nicolás García Lieberman
A Mexican-Dutch coproduction between Lo Coloco Films and Promono Multisensory Productions
Synopsis
“Three interconnected stories that remained silent for over half a century: the femicide of my grandmother Carmen in Mexico at the age of 21, the execution of my great-grandfather Gabriel for being a double spy during the Spanish Civil War, and the disappearance of my great-great-grandparents in Stalinist Belarus.”
After nearly a century of silence, genealogy speaks for the first time. Through a voiceover composed of interviews with over twenty family members across three continents, overlapping and often contradictory testimonies emerge. With each conversation, radically different versions of the past unfold—so different, in fact, that they cast doubt on whether a single truth ever existed.