El Regalo was born from conversations with my wife, from a dream, from the emptiness her absence left in my life, and from the comfort faith brought into that pain.

I did not write this film to teach anyone how to overcome grief. I wrote it to give shape to the silence that remained, and to explore the love that continues when physical presence is no longer there.

The film moves between romantic drama and magical realism because that is how grief can feel when we try to understand it through love: real and mysterious at the same time.