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La Última Estación (The Last Station)

Loving until exhaustion. Finding the way back.

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"La Última Estación" (The Last Station) is a 20-minute Spanish-language narrative short film with English subtitles that honors the 53 million family caregivers in the United States—particularly Hispanic women, for whom caregiving is deeply embedded in cultural expectations—by portraying caregiver burnout without guilt and the difficult journey of reclaiming identity after caregiving ends. Current cinema tends to romanticize caregiving and center narratives on the patient's journey, leaving caregivers invisible and their exhaustion framed as moral failure—a gap even more pronounced in Spanish-language cinema, where high-quality content addressing the caregiver's perspective is virtually nonexistent. Through the story of Jessica, a widow whose late husband leaves her voice recordings and his first wife's diary as a final act of love to help her heal, the film shifts perspective entirely to the caregiver's experience, validating that loving until exhaustion—and finding the way back to yourself—is not betrayal but survival. The project intends to create authentic representation in Spanish-language cinema that addresses a universal human experience, provide educational resources for healthcare providers and caregiver organizations, and spark community conversations that reduce isolation and increase support for invisible caregivers.