MÀQUINA
A documentary by Joaquim Adrià Pujol
United States · 2025 · 90 minutes
English, Spanish, and Catalan · English subtitles
New York Premiere — 2026 Brooklyn Film Festival
Logline
An aging father and his adult son set out across the American West in a failing Winnebago, bound for psychedelic-assisted addiction treatment in Colorado. As the road—and the vehicle—begin to break down, their journey exposes the love, resentment, codependency, and inherited trauma holding their family together.
Synopsis
In Màquina, writer-director-cinematographer Joaquim Adrià Pujol turns the camera toward his own family. His father, Xavi Pujol Berlanga, and brother, Marcel Enric Pujol, cross the American West in an aging Winnebago on their way to Colorado, where they plan to pursue ibogaine-assisted addiction treatment.
The vehicle’s repeated breakdowns echo the instability of a family shaped by alcoholism, codependency, and generational trauma. Shot with a single camera and no crew, the film stays close to the awkward silences, arguments, humor, and tenderness that resist a clean recovery narrative. Rather than present psychedelic-assisted treatment as a cure, Màquina examines what it takes to attempt change—and what loving someone through addiction can cost.