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One-Way Cycle (2025)

One-Way Cycle poster
Genre
animation
Country
Portugal, Spain
Runtime
10 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This animated documentary tells the story of a woman named Adela who traveled from Spain to Cuba in 1929, as narrated by her daughter Maria through a first-person account.

intimatenostalgicpersonalreflectivefirst-personhistoricalquietcontemplative

What happens

One-Way Cycle es un cortometraje de animación documental dirigido por Alicia Núñez Puerto que narra en primera persona, a través de la voz de María, el viaje de su madre, Adela, desde Asturias (España) a La Habana (Cuba) en 1929. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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