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The Voice We Have Left ...

“The Voice We Have Left...” is a short documentary that observes the recording of the audio series The Last Palestinian in a studio in Santiago, Chile. Chilean actors lend their voices; their own reflections intertwine with real sound recordings captured in Gaza.
A microphone, a text, a breath. In this minimal gesture, what is distant becomes present. The image steps aside. Black screens give way to fragments of the finished audio series, allowing sound to carry the narrative. Darkness opens a space, and the mind draws what is missing.
Between studio voices and recordings from Gaza, an uneasy question takes shape: what does it mean to speak a pain you have not lived, and how does suffering sound when it cannot be seen? The film unfolds through the tension between borrowed voices and real sound, sustained by a listening that does not explain it, approaches.

  • Marcelo Lagreze
    Director
    Utopia Of The Outraged, (PAUSE), Before The Sands Returns To The sea, Where Time Breathes.
  • Marcelo Lagreze
    Producer
    Utopia Of The Outraged, (PAUSE), Before The Sands Returns To The sea, Where Time Breathes.
  • Felix Hadad
    Producer
  • Marcelo Lagreze
    Writer
    Utopia Of The Outraged, (PAUSE), Before The Sands Returns To The sea, Where Time Breathes.
  • Claudio Rivera
    Director Of Photography
  • Felix Hadad
    Executive Producer
  • Marcelo Lagreze
    Editor
    Utopia Of The Outraged, (PAUSE), Before The Sands Returns To The sea, Where Time Breathes.
  • Anna Mozhaeva
    Illustrations
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Documentary Short, Essay Film, Memory & Listening, Human Rights
  • Runtime:
    23 minutes 40 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 4, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Chile
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina, Chile
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • www.marcelolagreze.com
    Sales Agent
    Country: Chile
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Marcelo Lagreze

Marcelo Lagreze is a director, editor, and photographer based in Santiago, Chile. He studied Film and Television at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. His practice is distinguished by conceiving editing as part of the shooting process itself, working with minimal devices and logistics, where an economy of means does not limit artistic ambition but rather concentrates it.

Over the past decade, he has turned the mobile phone into both a primary tool and a cinematic language, developing a recognizable voice within mobile filmmaking. His work has been selected and awarded at international festivals. Among his short films are “Utopia of the Outraged” (2020), “(PAUSE)” (2021), and “Before the Sands Return to the Sea” (2024), which deepens this poetic line centered on movement, memory, and perception.
His short film “Where Time Breathes” (2025), shot in the Galápagos Islands, explores a sensorial relationship between human presence and environment, where the marine pulse and the breath of the landscape propose an attentive pause.
Within this trajectory, “The Voice We Have Left…” (2026) marks a shift toward a more direct documentary approach, focused on people and what is at stake, while maintaining the formal rigor that defines his work.

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Director Statement

“The Voice We Have Left...” was born from a personal urgency: not to forget. Not because of a lack of information, but because of something quieter, the danger of letting it become familiar. I live in Chile, where the Palestinian community has preserved its identity through time, sustained like a flame that is cared for, transformed, and passed on. And yet Gaza often reaches us reduced to news. I did not want to remain there. Gaza is not only news; it is culture, memory, pain, and future.
This short film is, for me, an act of memory and resistance. As a narrative gesture, I withdraw the image so that imagination may complete what is absent, allowing sound to lead and emotion to surface without mediation. I do not seek to represent anyone, only to open a space for listening.
Forgetting does not arrive suddenly; it comes through habit. Listening, too, is a form of resistance. And while voices still wish to speak, I choose to believe there will always be someone willing to listen.