Elena Douke follows Spain’s Guadalete River from the mountains to the sea on a poetic journey where reality and fantasy intertwine. Combining live action with hand-drawn animation, she transforms this small river into a series of surreal portals that reveal hidden landscapes, creatures, and stories. Collages and playful disruptions reimagine geography and memory, inviting us to see beyond the visible.

Elena Duque is a Spanish-Venezuelan filmmaker, writer, and curator whose work moves between animation and collage to explore identity, belonging, and material memory through analog textures. Her films have screened at major festivals including Rotterdam, Berlinale, Mar del Plata, Punto de Vista, and Documenta Madrid, and at venues such as Kino Arsenal (Berlin) and CCCB (Barcelona). A programmer at (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, she is also a published author and teaches film and animation in Madrid.