When Lionel agrees to travel with his estranged father to visit his sister in France, what begins as a simple road trip turns into a thunderous reckoning. Along unfamiliar roads and through unspoken memories, Lionel is forced to create distance within his own family and search for the possibility that some bonds can still be rebuilt.
Carlos Saiz is a filmmaker from Murcia based between Madrid and Barcelona, whose work explores family, territory, and the tensions within everyday realities. After studying directing at EFTI, his short film La hoguera (2020) screened at international festivals such as San Sebastián and Clermont-Ferrand, while Muerte Murciélago (2021) was selected for ZINEBI, Slamdance, and Málaga, and was also shortlisted for the Goya Awards.
In 2025, he premiered his first feature film, Lionel, in the Official Selection of the Seminci, alongside the short film Los Lucíos. He is currently developing Playing Tinieblas and new audiovisual projects in collaboration with artists from other disciplines and musicians.
