Moonrise Pictures

A road movie toward self-love

The third gem comes not from a promising new voice, but from a seasoned filmmaker exploring new territory. All We Cannot See marks the return to fiction filmmaking for Venezuelan director Alberto Arvelo. Here, he leads a Spanish/American co-production based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Cuban novelist Wendy Guerra, in her first foray into cinema. Once one of the most recognizable names in Venezuelan film, Arvelo now works in the diaspora, himself symbolically exiled. (His filmography includes A House with a View of the Sea and collaborations with Edgar Ramírez before his Hollywood breakthrough.)

All We Cannot See is a romance and a road movie about two lonely women who momentarily find peace with their grief, allowing themselves to give and receive companionship just when they feel least ready—and when the world around them seems to be collapsing.

Film Forward

By Guillermo Lopez Meza