SILVER

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Following her suicide attempt and subsequent hospitalization, Olivia (Marietere Vélez, who also wrote the nuanced script) is determined to move out of her mom's house and achieve independence. But as she's preparing to spend Christmas Eve with her family, her OCD makes an unwelcome return. Desperate for medication and with no insurance from her job as a teacher, she finds David (Gabriel Leyva), a pharmacist's son who sells pills under the table. When a big storm traps them in his apartment together, the two open up to one another and reveal deep truths. A tender and powerful portrait of mental health issues, the film won the Global Audience Award at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival. DIR Juliana Maité; SCR Marietere Vélez; PROD Vilma Liella. Puerto Rico, 2022, color, 83 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

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