Greenpoint's Alex Fischman Cárdenas Talks "Ovejas y Lobos" on LBB Film Club

Ovejas y Lobos (Sheep and Wolves) director Alex Fischman Cárdenas explores Peru’s armed conflict through a mother’s desperate search for her son, and his own reckoning with love and silence, writes LBB’s Tará McKerr.

Director Alex Fischman Cárdenas’s latest short film, ‘Ovejas y Lobos’ (Sheep and Wolves), follows a mother embarking on a search after her son vanishes without a trace. The film unfolds in Quechua at the height of Peru’s armed conflict.

When I speak with Alex, the thing that comes up most regularly is empathy. It’s the mindset he entered the project with, one maintained in every frame, and something international audiences felt acutely following the premiere.

But empathy would also become a means of personal reckoning. “As I edited the film, I realised it wasn’t only about the conflict or exile,” he says. “It was about a child who felt unseen – and through Rosa’s story, I found a way to forgive.” That self-recognition, he adds, reshaped the film’s ending into something closer to healing than tragedy.

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