Lucio Castro
Grad Film Adjunct Faculty Lucio Castro's second feature film After This Death premiered at the 2025 Berlinale at the Berlinale Special Gala.
Synopsis: Hiking alone in the mountains, Isabel meets the enigmatic musician Elliott in a secluded cave, sparking an unexpected connection. When they reunite at one of his concerts, a passionate affair ignites, though Elliott soon becomes distant and disappears without warning. Forced to fall back into her routine married life while reconciling her feelings of love and loss, Isabel is suddenly rocked by mysterious and increasingly unsettling threats from Elliott’s obsessive fans. As she works to uncover the truth behind Elliott’s disappearance, Isabel must now confront her fractured marriage and fight to reclaim her identity, her voice and her future.
"Beneath the layers of existential mystery that give “After This Death” its eerie pull is an earnest, granular ode to art and how it’s constructed, whether for purely personal release or communication with another party, known or unknown, of this earth or somewhere beyond." (Variety)
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