Venecia Feliz
Lilí
Overview
When an electrical job goes wrong, a cynical electrician must accept help from a spirit to bury the evidence of a fatal accident.
Cast
Reviews
4 min readThe Ghost in the Wires
I keep thinking about the moment when the spirit first appears. Not because it’s grand or terrifying—it isn’t—but because of what it isn’t. There’s no thunderclap, no eerie score swelling in the background, no sudden chill in the air.
Just a woman standing there, as if she’s been waiting all along. That quietness is what lingers. In A Farewell for Lilí, the supernatural doesn’t announce itself; it slips in through the cracks of a life already unraveling.
Lorena Durán’s short film is a strange, slender thing, barely twelve minutes long, but it carries the weight of a much larger story. The premise is simple: a cynical electrician, whose name we never learn, accidentally kills someone on the job. In a panic, he tries to bury the evidence—only to find that the spirit of the deceased, a woman named Lilí, is there to help him.
Not to haunt him, not to judge him, but to assist. It’s an oddly tender arrangement, this pact between the living and the dead, and it’s what makes the film feel less like a ghost story and more like a meditation on guilt and the unexpected ways we’re forced to confront it.
The electrician is played by Venecia Feliz, and though we don’t know much about him, his body tells us everything. He moves like a man who’s spent years trying to disappear—shoulders hunched, eyes darting, hands always busy with something, anything, to avoid stillness. There’s a moment early on where he’s crouched over the body, his breath coming too fast, his fingers trembling as he tries to pry a wedding ring from the dead man’s hand.
Audience Opinions
Limited evidence
"A somber little ghost story about a fatal accident and what it takes to let go."
A Farewell for Lili follows a cynical electrician after an electrical job goes wrong, leaving him to accept help from a spirit to bury the evidence of a fatal accident. Led by Isabel Spencer, it plays as a compact short built around guilt, uneasy cooperation, and a final goodbye, running about 12 minutes.
What viewers praise
- Distinct supernatural hook A cynical electrician forced to rely on a spirit after a job goes wrong creates a tense, emotional setup.
- Lean short-story pace The brief format keeps the focus tight on the accident, the cover-up, and the farewell.
Common complaints
- Very brief scope At about 12 minutes, the story feels like one charged moment rather than a fully expanded drama.
Recommended for
Viewers who like short supernatural dramas about guilt and closure
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsNetflix parked a 12-minute Dominican ghost story next to feature-length dramas.
A Farewell for Lilí appeared on the service on 5 December 2024. latestnetflix.com's view is that More than two years had passed since Lorena Duran's short played Rotterdam.Twelve minutes. Spanish. TV-G. An electrician and a dead customer. Scroll once and the credits are over,.
The job is uglier than the rating. Duran's Yesula shuts off power for people who have fallen behind. Nobody wants her at the door. Then Lili, an older woman in a remote house, dies when the work goes wrong. TMDB's log line does not flinch. A cynical electrician must accept help from a spirit to bury the evidence of a fatal accident. Netflix's own blurb is gentler. Haunted by guilt and visions, she tries to give the woman a proper burial. Same 12 minutes either way,.
IFFR put the turn in one sentence. Our protagonist cuts the power on customers in arrears, until a new signal is transmitted. The festival listed a Dominican Republic and United States co-production, 12 minutes, DCP, Spanish, international premiere in the 2023 Short and Mid-length section. Gregorio Rodriguez, Guillermo Zouain, and Wendy Muniz produced. Sofia Marcos shot it. Juan Pablo Daranas Molina and Caitlin Carr cut it. Wellington Mejia did the sound. Duran wrote the script herself,.
Yesula is a stage veteran. Lili is the customer who does not leave.
Isabel Spencer plays the electrician. She is a Puerto Plata-born actress and theater director who spent nine years with the Dominican National Theater Company and later started the women's collective Maleducadas. English-language databases still clock her first from Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias's Cocote. Venecia Feliz plays Lili. IMDb files the short under Casa Latina Films, 2.35:1, color, 12 minutes,.
Duran is Dominican-American, NYU Tisch, a cinematographer who took the ARRI Volker Bahnemann Award for Outstanding Cinematography in 2019. Before the United States she worked production jobs in the Dominican Republic and shot short documentaries. The Academy picked her for its inaugural Film Accelerator. She also went through the LALIFF Netflix Inclusion Fellowship and Film Independent's Project Involve. IFFR's bio lists three shorts. Frontierwoman, The Fisherwoman, then this one, which the festival also called A Farewell to Kindness. Netflix kept A Farewell for Lili,.
Rotterdam first. Then the row of thumbnails.
The IFFR trailer runs 38 seconds of power going out and a new signal coming in. Listings put a 23 October 2022 United States date on the title. Then the English internet went quiet. In December 2024 the short landed on Netflix in the United States, Canada, Spain, and a long list of other catalogs, still 12 minutes, still Spanish original, still Spencer and Feliz in the two billed parts. Flixboss logged the U.S. Add as 5 December 2024,,,.
There is no salary leak and no viral clip of Spencer fighting a meter. The story worth printing is the shape. A fellowship-backed Dominican short about a utility worker, a fatal accident, and a spirit that will not let the job stay buried, sitting in the same drama row as films five times its length. Blink and it is gone.
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