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What's it like to drift between loneliness, solitude, and enlightenment?
“Soledad” is less a short film and more a soft encounter, with ourselves. Drifting between loneliness and solitude, it doesn’t aim to shatter or stun. Instead, it hums like a distant echo, gently revealing how disconnectedness can be both a wound and a home. The film’s subdued aesthetic, symbolic pacing, and ghostlike narration might not break the heart, but they stir a deeper, quieter recognition.
In a hyper-connected world, “Soledad” is a mirror held up to the unseen: a whispered invitation to recognize the invisible and sit beside it. Perhaps its most haunting quality is that it doesn’t ask to be solved, but to be witnessed.
As viewers, we are reminded that not everyone lives inside the same emotional architecture. And to see another’s solitude not as failure, but as presence, that might be the most radical act of empathy this film dares us to make.
- Year2025
- Runtime2 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountrySpain
- PremiereUS Festival Premiere
- GenreDrama, supernatural fiction
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- AwardsBest International Short 07/2025
- DirectorIsabel Martinez
- ScreenwriterIsabel Martinez
- ProducerIsabel Martinez
- CastIsabel Martinez
- CinematographerMarti Pujoias
- MusicLachm
What's it like to drift between loneliness, solitude, and enlightenment?
“Soledad” is less a short film and more a soft encounter, with ourselves. Drifting between loneliness and solitude, it doesn’t aim to shatter or stun. Instead, it hums like a distant echo, gently revealing how disconnectedness can be both a wound and a home. The film’s subdued aesthetic, symbolic pacing, and ghostlike narration might not break the heart, but they stir a deeper, quieter recognition.
In a hyper-connected world, “Soledad” is a mirror held up to the unseen: a whispered invitation to recognize the invisible and sit beside it. Perhaps its most haunting quality is that it doesn’t ask to be solved, but to be witnessed.
As viewers, we are reminded that not everyone lives inside the same emotional architecture. And to see another’s solitude not as failure, but as presence, that might be the most radical act of empathy this film dares us to make.
- Year2025
- Runtime2 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountrySpain
- PremiereUS Festival Premiere
- GenreDrama, supernatural fiction
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- AwardsBest International Short 07/2025
- DirectorIsabel Martinez
- ScreenwriterIsabel Martinez
- ProducerIsabel Martinez
- CastIsabel Martinez
- CinematographerMarti Pujoias
- MusicLachm