Title: Màquina
Runtime: [01:30:00]
Country of Origin: USA
Language: [English, Spanish]
Director:: Joaquim Adrià Pujol
Producer: Vesta Tučkutė
“When a father consumed by alcoholism agrees to join his son on a journey through psychedelic-assisted addiction treatment in Colorado, their road trip across the American West in an aging Winnebago becomes an unflinching exploration of codependency, memory, and hope.”
Màquina is a feature-length experimental documentary that intimately traces the evolving relationship between a father and son bound together — and nearly broken — by addiction. Captured with visceral honesty and lyrical restraint, the film journeys across landscapes both physical and emotional, offering an unvarnished look at the possibilities and limitations of healing through alternative treatment modalities.
Told from a perspective rooted in harm reduction, the film challenges prevailing narratives about addiction and recovery, rejecting stigma in favor of complexity, tenderness, and open vulnerability. Màquina invites viewers not only to witness a personal reckoning, but to question how families survive — and sometimes transcend — the intergenerational echoes of trauma and love.
Set for 2025-2026 Festival Circuit
