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“El prado y la luna is a tribute to my uncle, Antonio Gómez, who became chief designer at Valentino fleeing from a father who did not accept his homosexuality. He never got the credit he deserved. He died of AIDS in 1991, when he was beginning to emerge on his own. Rummaging through his things I found an unfinished film script that I feel was about himself. This documentary is a catharsis in the search for who my uncle was. I filmed with my family as leading actors, the film that he could not finish while he was alive.”

With these words, the filmmaker and painter from Gran Canaria, Cayetana H. Cuyás, describes the masterful portrait she offers us, from her lesbian perspective, of her much-missed uncle and, by extension, of her artistic and intellectual family. Also playing with the homosexuality of her own brother—who brilliantly portrays Uncle Antonio—she tenderly recreates, with a great sense of humor and the help of her other siblings and her own mother, this film that Antonio never got to shoot, inevitably reminding us of this generation of artists who disappeared at the height of their creative powers.