Like Magic

Like Magic

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Release Date

9/14/2026

Runtime

75 mins

Overview

Blending archival footage, personal testimony and a decades-long search for answers, Melissa Saavedra Gil transforms a childhood tragedy into a powerful exploration of memory, truth, and healing. An intimate and deeply resonant debut that illuminates both a personal story and a generation shaped by violence.

Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

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Revenue

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A filmmaker pieces together her childhood trauma through archival materials and interviews, creating a meditative investigation into how memory works and how we heal from inherited pain. The personal search gradually reveals something larger about an entire generation marked by violence.

Mood

MelancholicContemplativeHopeful

Themes

GriefMemoryIdentity

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-likeHandheld

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Child endangerment

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