Epitaph will premiere at the Beijing International Short Film Festival, Nov 8-16, 2025, as part of the International Competition.
Epitaph screens twice in Beijing as part of the International Competition 9 program – Sat Nov 8 at 5:10 pm and Mon Nov 10 at 4 pm, at the Lumiere Pavilions Cinema (Parkview Green).
When personal histories become embedded within broader temporal and geographic dimensions, images and their localities may be understood as media that render the past visible—a testimony to existence itself. In Epitaph, Cecilia Araneda returns to her long-estranged homeland, eco-processing 16mm film with leaves and fruit gathered around her ancestral home. The flickering, scratched celluloid of its decaying house becomes a medium of invocation, a spectral device that conjures memory. Together with archival and found materials, it weaves a lament for her family’s past and the vanishing landscapes of home. / Beijing International Short Film Festival Read more…