72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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El mensaje / The Message

Iván Fund
Argentina      90 m.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2023
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At the height of the economic crisis, a 9-year-old girl with the gift of communicating with animals and her opportunity-grabbing guardians survive by offering services as a pet medium. The travelling family must address their own inability to communicate while driving through the Argentinian countryside in a small motorhome on their way to visit the girl's mother in a mental institution. An emotional road movie along dusty roads showing us that innocence is a treasure. A supernatural business, where the transcendental earns money and opportunism rubs shoulders with the truth. Gift or racket, one thing is certain: the service is real, and nobody is alone.

Director
Iván Fund (Argentina)
Screenplay
Iván Fund, Martín Felipe Castagnet
Production
RITA CINE (Argentina)
Laura Mara Tablón
INSOMNIA FILMS (Argentina)
Gustavo Schiaffino
Iván Fund
Laura Mara Tablón
Photography
Gustavo Schiaffino
Edition
Iván Fund
Music
Mauro Mourelos
Sound
Omar Mustafá, Leandro de Loredo
Cast
Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Anika Bootz
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Running Time
90 m.
Original language of the film
Spanish
Country
Argentina
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