Oca

  • Comedy
  • Drama
9/10/2025
107

Storyline

Rafaela, a young nun from a struggling congregation, sets out to find the Archbishop in a nearby town. As she travels, unsettling dreams and surreal encounters unfold like a game of chance, challenging her faith and desires. With each twist, she must decide whether to advance toward her goal or retreat to the safety of her old life. Will the journey lead her to her destiny or pull her astray?

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      • Brent_Marchant

        Life, as we all know, is full of twists and turns, some that advance us and others that set us back, with others still that facilitate both more or less simultaneously. Making sense of that can be maddening, too, especially for those looking for patterns in the chaos. Issues like this can be particularly meaningful (or mind boggling) for those with a spiritual bent, who try to understand these developments in terms of Gods plan. In fact, on an everyday secular level, those matters have even become enshrined in a popular board game in Spanish-speaking countries called Oca. And the principles behind this pastime, in turn, provide the basis for the debut feature from writer-director Karla Badillo, an introspective look at understanding how lif...

        October 23, 2025