Edén
Juan López López

“Can a man or woman leave their mother’s womb for a second time?” Edén opens with this blunt question and unfolds as a dark, sensory parable of rebirth. Two characters, trapped in shadow, grope through a world where the digital and the natural fold into one another; perception is tested, speech is curtailed, and touch and sound become the means of navigation. The film treats light and silence as forces of renewal – an auditory and visual quest in which “existing is more important than living,” and where the desire to embrace a future that breaks with the past propels the action toward a tentative emergence.

Read as a work of restoration, Edén is at once intimate and collective: a call to “leave behind what no longer serves and to embrace a future full of possibilities,” asking audiences to consider personal and social transformation as twin tasks. The film functions as a quiet epiphany, less a tidy solution than a provocation to start again, to remake the conditions of life where light, silence and renewed relation to the natural world guide a fragile new beginning.