Almost Paradise Pablo Narezo Guzmán, 2016

Everything starts with a backpack full of 8 mm films that gets lost on a trip from Germany to Mexico. The films in the backpack document the everyday life and travels of a mexican middle class family over 3 generations. Casi Paraíso is a film in which 8mm footage, collected photographs, magnetic tape recordings and filmed moments are combined to reflect on violence in Mexico nowadays. When the filmmaker s daughter is born and becomes the fifth generation of this film, he starts an inquiry into the past while he follows the events back home.