Saudade (2014)

Miguel is a 17 yearold boy that sees the future as a distant horizon immersed in his bubble of friends and a sketchbook full of sentimental poems Saudade is the portrait of a threshold the end of high school which we experience through Miguel Set amidst the backdrop of the Ecuadorian economic crisis of 1999 Saudade tackles notions of economic dislocation friendship family and young love while juxtaposing the crumbling of Miguels life against the crumbling of his country