71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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El cielito / Little Sky

María Victoria Menis
Argentina-France
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Lonely and rootless, 20-year-old Felix arrives at a humble Argentine village where he starts working on a small farm owned by a couple with a year-old boy called Chango. With the hot plains as its background and almost in silence, a stressing and unspoken situation of family violence slowly takes over, growing and reaching momentum, drying everything out. But passion is born with the same strength. The helplessness of a marginal character like Felix finds in Chango an outlet, an obsession, a main goal for his life. In present-day Argentina, which has ?orphaned? its humblest inhabitants, leaving them in a situation of extreme destitution, this film, based on a real life story, makes us reflect on maternal and paternal roles and family love, highlighting the links of solidarity which remain unbroken.
Director
María Victoria Menis (Argentina)
Screenplay
María Victoria Menis, Alejandro Fernández Murray
Photography
Marcelo Iaccarino
Edition
Alejandro Brodersohn
Music
Diego Rolón, Jaime Dávalos
Cast
Leonardo Ramírez, Darío Levy, Mónica Lairana, Rodrigo Silva
Running Time
93 m.
Country
Argentina-France
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