Home (2026)

A short film by Juli Suárez

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Project in development

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Synopsis

​A man silently goes through a decisive morning inside his home while a camera in a single shot travels through the space like an imperfect witness, revealing how the daily routine slowly transforms into farewell.

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Director's Note​

Home was born from the desire to observe how an everyday space can silently transform into an emotional territory. I was interested in exploring the home not as a safe haven, but as a space that preserves traces, absences, and invisible tensions, where the intimate and the social coexist without needing to be verbalized.

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From the outset, I conceived the film as a single, continuous shot. This decision is not a technical one, but rather a desire to accompany the character's real time without fragmenting it. The camera does not seek to impose an omniscient gaze, but to become an imperfect witness that observes, doubts, and, at times, arrives too late. This constant movement transforms the domestic space into an emotional journey where each object and each gesture acquires its own narrative weight.

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Black and white emerges as a tool to strip the image of immediate realistic references and transform the home into a mental space. The absence of color allows the focus to be on the texture of time, on shadows, and on the relationship between bodies and emptiness, reinforcing the sense of suspension that permeates the film.

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I was interested in working from a place of restraint and routine, avoiding emotional explicitness. The protagonist doesn't openly express his conflict; instead, he tries to maintain normalcy through minimal and precise actions. This choice aims to allow the viewer to experience the tension from within, progressively discovering the fragility of the balance that sustains the character.

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Sound plays an essential role as a counterpoint between interior and exterior. While the camera remains within the domestic space, the outside world manifests itself through voices and noises that never visually materialize, becoming a constant but intangible presence.

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More than narrating a specific event, Home proposes a sensory experience about the relationship between space, memory, and loss, inviting the viewer to inhabit a suspended time where daily routine reveals its most vulnerable dimension.