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Adrián Silvestre Uses Filmmaking as a Form of Reacquaintance in Personal Documentary ‘May Your Will Be Done’
'May Your Will Be Done' has its world premiere in the Newcomers Competition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
When conversations with his father began to gravitate around the topic of euthanasia, he realized he had the most appropriate story before him, and, in his words, “no one better than me could tell it.” But such a personal journey, stretched between unreconciled pasts and futures cut short, is not easily translated into a film. Hybridity is what helped him mediate his dual role in the process as it is a concept that makes one think “beyond established structures.” Between each documentary project and the next, Silvestre has so far made a fiction feature, the latest of which, “My Emptiness and I” was part of IFFR’s Big Screen Competition last year. Toward his own family, the director says he “tried to make them feel relaxed, express their ideas freely, enjoy what they were doing, and focus just on the present rather than on the ins and outs of the complex production process.”
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