In the City of Sylvia (En la ciudad de Sylvia)

A young man arrives in Strasbourg and spends his days sitting at an outdoor café, sketching the figures of the women around him, patiently waiting for Sylvia, the woman that he fell in love with four years earlier, to appear. He finally thinks he sees her and gives chase, but it turns out to be someone else. He resumes his quest for his lost love and the innocence he longs to regain. Sylvia’s presence lingers, but it is impossible to return to the past. The latest film by José Luis Guerín is an homage to cinema, painting, love and women, and imparts a nostalgia for days when it was possible to search for love, wander streets aimlessly and immerse oneself in a foreign place: the freedom to do as one pleases.