‘Where the Silence Is Heard’ Co-Directors Confront Inherited Trauma in a Chilean Family
By Georg Szalai
Published on March 15, 2026.
The debut feature feature film, "Where the Silence Is Heard," by directors Gabriela Pena and Picho García, is set to premiere in the 23rd edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival on March 17. The film follows a granddaughter who returns to a house in Chile where she traces three generations of memory to understand how love, fear, and silence are inherited. The filmmakers, who are real-life partners, directed and edited the doc and produced it together with Gabriella Sandoval and Efthymia Zymvragaki. The idea for the film developed over time with Pena discovering a notebook written by her grandfather at 18 or 19 years old and living with her grandparents in Barcelona. She recalls her journey to Chile to discover that love can endure when it is shaped by fear and absence.
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