The year is 1755. A young woman is sent to a cloistered monastery where several novices are suffering from a strange blood disease. An unconventional Franciscan friar investigates these disturbing events, but his methods clash with the prevailing scientific thought of the Age of Enlightenment.
Director, screenwriter, and editor, he co-founded the production company El Ojo Mecánico in 2003 alongside Elena Muñoz. As veterans of the festival’s now-defunct video sections, they spent five years leading the "Zero Budget" workshops at ALCINE, and their first feature film, Amigo (2019), opened the festival that same year. Upiro is their first commercial feature film.
