72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Nayra Ilic
Chile - Italy 
100 min.
Celeste is only 15 years old when her life changes unexpectedly. Not only is the young girl faced with painful mourning, but she also has to cope with a family in crisis. The desert that once embraced her has now become a foreign place. In a world of adults, Celeste works through her changes while the country rocks between the dictatorship and the return to democracy.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2021
Iván Fund
Argentina 
90 min.
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.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2023
Paula Morel Kristof
Argentina 
67 min.
Olga is a 60-year-old nurse who lives in El Mollar, a beautiful valley in Argentina’s Tucumán province. For years she has lived alone with her son Rubén, a young boy full of dreams who is on the verge of leaving to study abroad. While Olga helps her son to find the money to go, she meets Stefano, a French tourist younger than herself. Her fast-approaching loneliness and recent love affair awaken contradictions in Olga while raising questions about her own neglected desire.
Simón Vélez
Colombia - Portugal 
70 min.
Machado is a Colombian immigrant who has been living in France for years, where he works as a grape-picker. He barely earns enough to cover Europe's high cost of living. An acquaintance introduces him to Madame Chiara, gemstone collector who hires him to go to Colombia and steal an emerald. Despite Machado's insistence of the danger involved in his returning to Colombia, Chiara convinces him to go by offering him a sum of money he can't refuse. In Colombia he will have to cope with the bustling life of central Medellín and nature in the mountains. While travelling through Colombia he is involved in a crime committed by a pilot and will try to double-cross Chiara by looking for someone else to buy the emerald.
Kim Torres
Costa Rica - Mexico - France 
95 min.
Laura, an introverted thirteen-year-old girl, arrives in a small, secluded town enveloped by eerie palm plantations and an imposing forest. As she starts her new life there with a reconfigured family, Laura glimpses a hidden world where a chilling legend about a forest-dwelling beast that preys on women circulates. At first, she dismisses it as a childish fantasy, but when she meets the radiant Daniela, their friendship quietly ―but surely― takes her on a journey that unravels the true nature of the beast.
Proyecta 2022
Daniel Hendler
Uruguay - Argentina 
93 min.
Santiago, an Argentinian police constable, crosses the border to Uruguay on the run from the other police officers on his trail. Putting his uniform to good use, he inspects regional food stalls, testing milk products and cold cuts to survive, while trying to go unnoticed among the locals. With neither money nor a place to stay, but with kindness and wit, he starts to carve out a new life for himself, receiving help from the local characters who cross his path, and even meeting the person he believes could be the love of his life.
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2023
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