72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Films in Progress 16. San Sebastian
Films in Progress 16. San Sebastian
Sebastián Hiriart
Mexico 
118 min.
Jacinto Medina, a youngster of 21, is bored with his life as a shepherd in the North of Mexico. He finds a keyring on the ground and, taking it as a signal and guided by his dreams, sets out on a journey covering thousands of kilometres.
Paz Fábrega
Costa Rica-France 
79 min.
On New Year's holidays, Mariana (21) and Rodrigo (30) drive to the Pacific coast. There, late at night and in the middle of nowhere, they find Karina (7) who ran away from home. The couple decides to stay the night and deal with the situation in the morning. But by dawn, the girl's gone.
Niles Jamil Atallah
Chile 
120 min.
Lucía is a young woman who works as a seamstress in a factory and lives with her father in an old house in Santiago, Chile. The film takes place in December 2006 during the weeks that take place from the ex-dictator Pinochet's funeral to Christmas. Through the simple observation of Lucía's daily life, the spectator is allowed access into a hidden and neglected world of a generation of Chileans striving to recover from the military dictatorship.
Daniel Hendler
Uruguay 
83 min.
After being fired from his job, Norberto tries his luck as a real estate agent, but puts off telling his wife. His new boss advises him to take an assertiveness course to overcome his shyness, and Norberto starts taking classes in an acting workshop for beginners. While he works toward the quarterly performance, although Norberto fails to get his wife and clients to believe anything he says, he does find out that he?s very good at lying to himself.
Natalia Smirnoff
Argentina-France 
86 min.
María del Carmen is a housewife 50 years old from the suburbs. She discovers she has a gift: she can do puzzles very well. Then she meets Roberto. He is a 60 years old multimillionaire that wants to be part of the Worldwide Puzzle championship in Germany. They are a great unbeatable couple. This fact comes with a barrage of desires and questions, how can her life go on in this situation? Exactly the same, impossible.
Federico Veiroj
Uruguay 
67 min.
Jorge (45) lives with his parents and has been working at a Film Archive for 25 years. He is a film programmer, he makes technical support, and he conducts the film news show at a radio station in Montevideo. Without any other job experience than working at the Film Archive, Jorge loses his position. A Useful Life explores the way Jorge changes his way of living in order to adapt to the new world that appears to him. After all, maybe 'movies' will help him survive.
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