This Is Not My Kingdom

10 10
2021
10min

Spanish

English

Country: Venezuela

Original Title: Este no es mi Reino

A filmmaker trades his native country for the back kitchen of a New York restaurant. This insightful documentary captures his new life in secret footage and personal audio, revealing a quiet, poetic reflection on exile.

Spanish
English
Country: Venezuela
Original Title: Este no es mi Reino

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Caracas DOC/ Manuel Trujillo Durán International Short Film Festival/

This Is Not My Kingdom - A filmmaker traces exile in everyday motion

This introspective documentary, where the personal becomes political, sees a filmmaker leave his homeland, Venezuela, a country mired in a deep crisis, and work in the shadows of a New York restaurant.

Through covertly captured moments, messages from his family, and conversations with fellow immigrants, he pieces together a story of exile, longing, and adaptation. What emerges is not just a work about migration but the silent resilience hidden in everyday labor and the fragile beauty of fractured belonging.