A way of Saying (Un modo de decir)

An intimate documentary short film that serves as a tribute by director Issa García‑Ascot Ogarrio to her father, the Spanish‑Mexican intellectual Jomí García Ascot.

Jomí García Ascot (Tunis, 1927 – Mexico City, 1986) was a Spanish poet, essayist, filmmaker, art critic, and publicist who lived in Mexico in exile from 1939 following the Spanish Civil War. The son of a Republican diplomat, he spent his childhood in Portugal, France, Belgium, and Morocco before settling in Mexico, where he studied Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), founded the University Film Club, and became part of the influential Nuevo Cine group. He directed film magazines such as Cine Verdad and Tele‑Revista, and contributed to major literary and cultural publications. His most emblematic film, On the Empty Balcony (1961), considered a foundational work of both Spanish‑exile cinema and Mexican experimental film, received international awards at Locarno and Sestri Levante. A close friend of Gabriel García Márquez—who dedicated One Hundred Years of Solitude to García Ascot and his wife, María Luisa Elío—he was a central figure in the cultural life of the Republican exile in Mexico and received the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1984 for his body of work.