{ "id": "epg1vpr5de", "slug": "nos-vemos-papa", "title": "Nos Vemos, Papá", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.drama-biographical", "label": "Drama and biographical films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.drama-biographical" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.drama-biographical.drama-films-2010-to-2014", "label": "Drama films 2010 to 2014", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.drama-biographical.drama-films-2010-to-2014" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.drama-biographical.drama-films-2010-to-2014.psychological-and-social-drama-films", "label": "Psychological and social drama films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.drama-biographical.drama-films-2010-to-2014.psychological-and-social-drama-films" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Latin America and the Caribbean · 2001 to 2020: Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "path": [ { "id": "geo.latam", "label": "Latin America and the Caribbean", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.latam" }, { "id": "geo.latam.t2001", "label": "Latin America and the Caribbean · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.latam.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.latam.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.latam.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.latam.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Nos Vemos, Papá (See You, Dad) is Lucía Carreras's 2011 Mexican drama debut, starring Cecilia Suárez as Pilar, who lives with her dead father's ghost; premiered at Morelia and Karlovy Vary, released in Mexico in 2013.", "snippet": "Nos Vemos, Papá (See You, Dad) is Lucía Carreras's 2011 Mexican drama debut, starring Cecilia Suárez as Pilar, who lives with her dead father's ghost; premiered at Morelia and Karlovy Vary, released in Mexico in 2013.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.drama-biographical.drama-films-2010-to-2014.psychological-and-social-drama-films", "markdown": "# Nos Vemos, Papá\n\n**Nos Vemos, Papá** (Spanish for \"See You, Dad\") is a 2011 Mexican psychological drama feature film written and directed by Lucía Carreras in her feature directorial debut. It stars [Cecilia Suárez](https://www.edgepedia.org/cecilia-suarez) as Pilar, a woman who, after finding her father dead when she returns from work, refuses to accept his death and withdraws into a fantasy world in which she continues to live with him, rejecting her family's attempts to bring her back to normal life[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585). The film premiered in competition at the ninth Morelia International Film Festival in October 2011, had its international premiere at the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2012, and opened commercially in Mexico on January 18, 2013[2](https://www.cultura.gob.mx/noticias/cine-y-artes-audiovisuales/16422-nos-vemos-papa-una-historia-de-amor-marcada-por-el-complejo-de-electra.html) • [3](https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/lanzan-en-dvd-el-filme-nos-vemos-papa) • [4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764523/).\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Production | Mexican feature film, 2011; 89 min per the national film registry, 88 min per Karlovy Vary and Morelia listings[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585) • [5](https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/25/6825-nos-vemos-papa) • [6](https://moreliafilmfest.com/peliculas/nos-vemos-papa) |\n| Director and writer | Lucía Carreras, who also wrote the screenplay; her feature directorial debut[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585) |\n| Lead cast | Cecilia Suárez (Pilar), with Arturo Barba, Gabriela de la Garza, Moisés Arizmendi, Verónica Langer, and Marcelo D'Andrea[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585) |\n| Premieres | Morelia IFF competition, October 2011; international premiere in official competition at the 47th Karlovy Vary IFF, July 2012[2](https://www.cultura.gob.mx/noticias/cine-y-artes-audiovisuales/16422-nos-vemos-papa-una-historia-de-amor-marcada-por-el-complejo-de-electra.html) • [3](https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/lanzan-en-dvd-el-filme-nos-vemos-papa) |\n| Mexican release | January 18, 2013, opening with 35 copies nationwide[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764523/) • [3](https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/lanzan-en-dvd-el-filme-nos-vemos-papa) |\n| Funding | EFICINE Production, the fiscal incentive of Article 226 of Mexico's Federal Income Tax Law[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585) |\n| Award | Special jury prize for performance at the Cine las Américas International Film Festival, USA, 2013[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot and themes\n\nPilar lives alone with her father and leaves his breakfast ready every morning before going to work. One afternoon she returns to find the table untouched, and in his bedroom she discovers that he has died[7](https://cinema22.canal22.org.mx/sinopsis.php?barra=Mexicano&id=918). From that moment her reality and her memories begin to mix: daily life continues, but she lives with her father's ghost, refusing to say goodbye and rejecting her family's desperate efforts to return her to normalcy[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585).\n\nHer brother José tries to persuade her to sell the house so she can move on, but Pilar will not yield, and her delusion grows more passionate and takes on more force[7](https://cinema22.canal22.org.mx/sinopsis.php?barra=Mexicano&id=918). The [Karlovy Vary](https://www.edgepedia.org/karlovy-vary) festival synopsis describes the story as an intimate drama about the extreme emotions connected to the loss of someone on whom our lives depend, built as a tightening noose in which each event exacerbates the one that follows[5](https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/25/6825-nos-vemos-papa).\n\n**The Electra complex.** Carreras framed the film as, at bottom, a love story that outlasts death, and she acknowledged that it addresses the [Electra complex](https://www.edgepedia.org/electra-complex), the psychoanalytic term for a daughter's attachment to her father, from a contemporary and female perspective[2](https://www.cultura.gob.mx/noticias/cine-y-artes-audiovisuales/16422-nos-vemos-papa-una-historia-de-amor-marcada-por-el-complejo-de-electra.html) • [8](https://www.jornada.com.mx/2011/10/18/espectaculos/a09n2esp). She said the theme had been little treated in Mexican and Latin American cinema, and that she wanted to explore irrationality, or what some would call madness, as an alternative way of living with the pain of death[8](https://www.jornada.com.mx/2011/10/18/espectaculos/a09n2esp). She also directed her actors toward restrained performances, without tears, shouting, or exaggeration, so the subject would be handled with balance[2](https://www.cultura.gob.mx/noticias/cine-y-artes-audiovisuales/16422-nos-vemos-papa-una-historia-de-amor-marcada-por-el-complejo-de-electra.html). The film additionally explores solitude and the woman who has dedicated her life to caring for another person[8](https://www.jornada.com.mx/2011/10/18/espectaculos/a09n2esp).\n\n## Production\n\nCarreras, a Mexican screenwriter and filmmaker, worked on the project for about six years before it reached the screen[9](https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/Nos-vemos-papa-un-retrato-del-amor-y-la-locura-20111018-0290.html). Before directing it she was already known as co-writer of *Año bisiesto* (*Leap Year*, Michael Rowe, 2010), which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature at Cannes, the first Mexican film to win that prize[5](https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/25/6825-nos-vemos-papa). The screenplay received support from the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) in the categories of stimulus to creation and project development[3](https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/lanzan-en-dvd-el-filme-nos-vemos-papa).\n\nThe film was produced by Machete Producciones with Balero Films, Detalle Films, and Novilunio Producciones, and financed through the EFICINE Production fiscal incentive[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585). It was the second Machete production after *Año bisiesto*[10](https://revistatoma.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/nos-vemos-papa-de-lucia-carreras-al-karlovy-vary-de-praga/). Production involved two months of preproduction, five weeks of shooting, and eleven months of postproduction[11](https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/Nos-vemos-papa-llega-a-la-cartelera-de-Guadalajara-20130814-0023.html). It was shot in Mexico City on a Sony F35 camera in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio and delivered on 35 mm[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585) • [12](https://terminalmx.com/proyectos/nos_vemos_papa).\n\nThe crew included cinematographer Germán Lammers, editor Óscar Figueroa Jara, sound designer Rodrigo Flores Esquinca, art director Lucía Barba, and composer Christian Basso[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585). The music is built around a tango composed for the film; Carreras had imagined the story with the music of [Astor Piazzolla](https://www.edgepedia.org/astor-piazzolla) but turned to Basso, writing the lyrics with the Córdoba tango composer Humberto Pastor Brondo[13](https://www.filmemagazine.mx/post/nos-vemos-papa). A detail noted by one critic is that the dead father is Argentine, a leftover from an originally planned Argentine-Mexican co-production that fell through, leaving the character's nationality unchanged[14](https://www.noroeste.com.mx/entretenimiento/cultura/vertigo-FKNO832043).\n\n## Release and reception\n\nAfter its Morelia premiere in competition in 2011, where it was nominated for best Mexican feature[15](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ec/film644749.html), the film toured festivals including Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, Huelva in Spain, Kerala in India, Haifa in Israel, Ourense, Films by the Sea in the Netherlands, and Puebla[12](https://terminalmx.com/proyectos/nos_vemos_papa) • [11](https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/Nos-vemos-papa-llega-a-la-cartelera-de-Guadalajara-20130814-0023.html). It opened commercially in Mexico on January 18, 2013 with 35 copies and, according to Carreras, remained in theaters across practically the whole country, which she described as unusual for independent Mexican films[3](https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/lanzan-en-dvd-el-filme-nos-vemos-papa). Its audience was estimated at more than 200,000 spectators by the time of the DVD release[3](https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/lanzan-en-dvd-el-filme-nos-vemos-papa).\n\n**Home video and television.** In October 2013 Machete Producciones released the film on DVD, distributing 2,000 copies in department stores and bookshops at a price of 100 to 130 pesos, and negotiated television distribution in the United States and several Latin American countries; the film already had television contracts across Latin America[3](https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/lanzan-en-dvd-el-filme-nos-vemos-papa) • [13](https://www.filmemagazine.mx/post/nos-vemos-papa).\n\nCritical response was divided. At Morelia 2011 the film won nothing in competition, and at least two respected critics disliked it intensely, while the critic Ernesto Diezmartínez Guzmán ranked it among the best Mexican films he saw that year and praised Suárez's performance as one whose madness can be unsettling, pitiable, amusing, and finally joyful[14](https://www.noroeste.com.mx/entretenimiento/cultura/vertigo-FKNO832043). Screen's Mark Adams, reviewing the Karlovy Vary screening, called it a gentle, delicately thoughtful study of a young woman's state of mind, driven by a moving lead performance from Suárez, while judging it possibly too low-key to break out to international audiences[16](https://www.screendaily.com/goodbye-dad/5044232.article). The Karlovy Vary program called it a powerful debut from a director who took inspiration from innovative trends in Mexican cinema but found her own style[5](https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/25/6825-nos-vemos-papa). The film received a special jury prize for performance at the Cine las Américas International Film Festival in the United States in 2013[1](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585).\n\n## Place in Carreras's career\n\n*Nos vemos, papá* established Carreras as a director after her success as a screenwriter. She went on to co-write *La jaula de oro* (Diego Quemada-Díez, 2013), which won the Ariel Award for Best Original Screenplay, and to direct *La casa más grande del mundo* (2015, with Ana V. Bojórquez) and *Tamara y la Catarina* (2016)[17](https://www.senalcolombia.tv/cine/analisis-de-la-pelicula-nos-vemos-papa). Reviewers have noted that her debut stands apart from much recent Mexican film in focusing on ideas and imagination rather than physicality, an intimacy that carries the roots of magical realism even though the director herself rejects that label for the film[5](https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/25/6825-nos-vemos-papa) • [13](https://www.filmemagazine.mx/post/nos-vemos-papa).\n\n## References\n\n1. [Nos vemos, papá / See You, Dad, Sistema de Información Cultural, Secretaría de Cultura](https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/ficha.php?table=produccion_cine&table_id=4585)\n2. [Nos vemos, papá, una historia de amor marcada por el complejo de Electra, Secretaría de Cultura (18 October 2011)](https://www.cultura.gob.mx/noticias/cine-y-artes-audiovisuales/16422-nos-vemos-papa-una-historia-de-amor-marcada-por-el-complejo-de-electra.html)\n3. [Lanzan en DVD el filme Nos vemos, papá, Secretaría de Cultura (14 October 2013)](https://www.gob.mx/cultura/prensa/lanzan-en-dvd-el-filme-nos-vemos-papa)\n4. [Nos vemos, papá (2011), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764523/)\n5. [Nos Vemos Papa, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival archive](https://www.kviff.com/en/programme/film/25/6825-nos-vemos-papa)\n6. [Nos vemos, papá | Morelia Film Festival](https://moreliafilmfest.com/peliculas/nos-vemos-papa)\n7. [Nos vemos, papá, Cinema 22, Canal 22](https://cinema22.canal22.org.mx/sinopsis.php?barra=Mexicano&id=918)\n8. [\"Nos vemos papá explora una forma de lidiar con el dolor que causa la muerte\", La Jornada (18 October 2011)](https://www.jornada.com.mx/2011/10/18/espectaculos/a09n2esp)\n9. [Nos vemos papá, un retrato del amor y la locura, El Informador (18 October 2011)](https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/Nos-vemos-papa-un-retrato-del-amor-y-la-locura-20111018-0290.html)\n10. [«Nos vemos papá», de Lucía Carreras, al Karlovy-Vary de Praga, Revista Toma (6 June 2012)](https://revistatoma.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/nos-vemos-papa-de-lucia-carreras-al-karlovy-vary-de-praga/)\n11. [\"Nos vemos, papá\" llega a la cartelera de Guadalajara, El Informador (14 August 2013)](https://www.informador.mx/Entretenimiento/Nos-vemos-papa-llega-a-la-cartelera-de-Guadalajara-20130814-0023.html)\n12. [Nos Vemos, Papá (2011), Terminal servicios de postproducción](https://terminalmx.com/proyectos/nos_vemos_papa)\n13. [Nos vemos, papá, Nahevy Estrada, FILME Magazine (16 January 2013)](https://www.filmemagazine.mx/post/nos-vemos-papa)\n14. [\"Vértigo\": Nos vemos, papá, vale la pena, Ernesto Diezmartínez Guzmán, Noroeste](https://www.noroeste.com.mx/entretenimiento/cultura/vertigo-FKNO832043)\n15. [Nos vemos, papá (2011), FilmAffinity](https://www.filmaffinity.com/ec/film644749.html)\n16. [Goodbye, Dad review, Mark Adams, Screen Daily (9 July 2012)](https://www.screendaily.com/goodbye-dad/5044232.article)\n17. [\"Nos vemos, papá\": un retrato de la nostalgia, Paola Arcila Perdomo, Señal Colombia (25 February 2018)](https://www.senalcolombia.tv/cine/analisis-de-la-pelicula-nos-vemos-papa)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Drama and biographical films (individual works) › Drama films 2010 to 2014 › Psychological and social drama films*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/nos-vemos-papa", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/nos-vemos-papa.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. For other uses, organizations over USD 100M in revenue or 100M monthly users license separately.", "spdx": "LicenseRef-Edgepedia-Community-1.0" }, "credit": "\"Nos Vemos, Papá\", Edgepedia (EdgeChat), https://www.edgepedia.org/nos-vemos-papa. Edgepedia Community License 1.0.", "credit_md": "\"[Nos Vemos, Papá](https://www.edgepedia.org/nos-vemos-papa)\", Edgepedia (EdgeChat), [https://www.edgepedia.org/nos-vemos-papa](https://www.edgepedia.org/nos-vemos-papa). [Edgepedia Community License 1.0](https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license).", "credit_html": "\"Nos Vemos, Papá\", Edgepedia (EdgeChat), https://www.edgepedia.org/nos-vemos-papa. Edgepedia Community License 1.0.", "speakable": "Nos Vemos, Papá is Lucía Carreras's 2011 Mexican drama debut, starring Cecilia Suárez as Pilar, who lives with her dead father's ghost; premiered at Morelia and Karlovy Vary, released in Mexico in 2013." }