El pez que fuma

El pez que fuma is scheduled for release on July 27, 2026. The film unfolds across two eras: 1976, when a 19-year-old actress becomes the center of national controversy after appearing in The Smoking Fish — credited as the first Venezuelan film to feature a nude scene — and the present, when she returns to the same material as the lead of its remake. The media storm surrounding her debut effectively made her a symbol of scandal, and decades have passed under that shadow. The remake's production brings a new set of complications. The actress becomes involved in a simultaneous affair with the married director and a romantic entanglement with the younger male lead, creating a love triangle that mirrors the one her character enacts on screen. The film treats that convergence of lived experience and performance as its central subject, tracing how a single work of cinema can alter a life twice.