Venezuela, Canada, Ecuador | 2025 | 83 minutes | Spanish with English subtitles
Directed and written by Rosana Matecki
Produced by Rosana Matecki, Mariana Andrade, Patricio Andrade
Venezuela is the story of a shipwreck. A country on the run. More than eight million Venezuelans have left the country across its borders, a quarter of the population, leaving behind their dead houses.Casas Muertas is an essay about Venezuelans exiled inside their own country,trapped and submerged at the whim of the barbarians who govern it. Isabel, Jesús, Darwin and Juan Pablo's parents survive by resisting, desperate andcornered between flight, hunger for justice, and resilience.
Rosana Matecki / Director, Writer & Producer
Rosana has devoted 32 years of her professional career to writing, directing and producing independent documentary films. Her impressive body of award-winning work embodies experimentation with documentary form and free spirit. As a documentary filmmaker she has created work in Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba and Canada.
Rosana recently shot Saturday Night, a short film documentary produced by NFB (Canada). She is producing and directing her fourth feature-length documentary titled Casas Muertas supported by Ibermedia Program, ICCA (Ecuador), Conseil des Arts Canada, Conseils des Arts de Quebec and IDFA Bertha Fund Classic.
In 2002, she created in Canada her own production company Kiiskakuna Producciones. Since then, she has produced a dozen of documentaries in different formats: feature lengths for theatrical, TV series and short films. Most of her films had participated in renowned international film festivals and documentary markets.