Adrián Silvestre Uses Filmmaking as a Form of Reacquaintance in Personal Documentary ‘May Your Will Be Done’
variety.comSavina Petkova A few years ago, Spanish director Adrián Silvestre was approached to make a film about euthanasia and the right to die with dignity.
What he didn’t expect was where the more traditional research process would give way to a personal discovery: his own father, Ricardo, became a documentary subject.
After 23 years of no contact at all, their meeting became the kernel of “May Your Will Be Done.” The film has its world premiere in the Newcomers Competition of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, where Silvestre previously won the Special Jury Prize for his feature “Sediments” in 2021. “May Your Will Be Done” is produced by the Barcelona-based Nanouk Films, the creative documentary champion behind Locarno winner “Dead Slow Ahead.” Speaking to Variety ahead of the premiere, the director said he found himself in a position that was both surprising and challenging at the same time.
When conversations with his father began to gravitate around the topic of euthanasia, he realized he had the most appropriate story before him, and, in his words, “no one better than me could tell it.” But such a personal journey, stretched between unreconciled pasts and futures cut short, is not easily translated into a film.
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