Álvaro Pulpeiro

Pulpeiro's cinema is one of displacement and estrangement. A melancholic view of the global tide dragging us in and out, both alienating and liberating the characters from whatever place they considered to be home. Born in 1990 in the village of Foz, Galicia (Spain), he spends most of his childhood moving around isolated industrial cities in Canada, Brazil, or Australia. After graduating from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, he settled in South America in 2015. There, he wrote and directed a series of projects of which two feature-length documentaries stand out.…