The generational portrait of my family is a testimony of representation that has always interested me. From my first films, La casa de mi abuela to La gàbia. I have always wanted to work with family memories. This one in particular could be a family archive short film, a portrait of the end of my father's life. The short film arose from a vital need. My intention was to stage a Sunday in his everyday life. Sunday is a classic day: rice, family and canaries. (...) It took me three years to edit it. With distance and the passing of time, I managed to edit the short film. It is very difficult to deal with such emotionally powerful material. I decided to distribute the short film because people already knew part of the story, as I had filmed my parents fifteen years earlier in My Grandmother's House. They are used to it. They have appeared in three or four fiction films that I have shot. I like to work with fiction in documentaries; I am a filmmaker, so I wanted to go beyond a portrait of my parents, and I wanted to accompany it with the story of the canaries to capture my father's special character and way of seeing the world. I'm very interested in picking up the camera and going out to film on my own. Depending on the approach, you'll need one type of equipment or another. To get closer to my parents, I wanted a very intimate space.

*Reflections by Adán Aliaga taken from conversations with the Moving Cinema Young Programmers group.