{"id":35857,"date":"2025-07-31T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35857\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:29:08","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-say-goodbye-to-a-creature-that-doesnt-know-youre-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35857\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to say goodbye to a creature that doesn\u2019t know you\u2019re leaving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After falling in love with and marrying a US citizen, the Costa Rican filmmaker Mar\u00eda Luisa Santos found herself caught in a long, uncertain wait for a visa to move abroad. Time seemed to stretch as bureaucracy took hold of her daily life. In immigration limbo, she found herself bonding with her brother\u2019s dog, a German Shepherd named Turbo. Santos\u2019s autobiographical short documentary A Film Is a Goodbye That Never Ends lingers on the quiet gestures that characterise her relationship with Turbo \u2013 walks, snuggles and relentless companionship \u2013 while reflecting on the question: how do you say goodbye to a companion who will never understand what goodbye means? Pairing intimate, beautifully captured glimpses into her life with her tender narration, Santos crafts a meditative work on waiting, parting and the limits of language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After falling in love with and marrying a US citizen, the Costa Rican filmmaker Mar\u00eda Luisa Santos found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-35857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}