Country: Chile
Year: 2017
Duration: 84'
After the eruption of the volcano which looms over it, the Chilean city of Chaitén, in the province of Palena, is reduced to a ghost town. Cristóbal wanders through the rubble and abandoned houses; he has returned to his hometown for a photographic project which will help him find his roots once again. After a few days of solitude, Cristóbal encounters two women, the tobacconist Ana and her elderly mother María, and slowly enters their lives, finding the affection and the family he never had.
Biography
film director
Benjamin Brunet
Benjamín Brunet (Chile, 1988) is a director, screenwriter, film editor and sound mixer. In 2009, he directed his first fiction short, Ritmo de la creación, a reflection on the relationship between images and music. It was followed in 2017 by the fiction project
La madre, el hijo y la abuela and the short documentary Agua negra, which was shot in Chilean Patagonia and deals with the region’s problem of environmental pollution. He created and runs the production company La Casa Tortuga.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ritmo de la creación (2009), La madre, el hijo y la abuela (2017), Agua negra (cm, doc., 2017).
Declaration
film director
“This movie is dedicated to my dead father and to all those who have grieved or lived the loss of someone beloved.This work is the search of capturing time and keeping alive those intimate family moments of the daily life, to fool time and death.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Benjamín Brunet
fotografia/cinematography
Gonzalo Aburto
montaggio/film editing
Roland Rodriguez
scenografia/production design
Cynthia Ferrada
costumi/costume design
Alejandro Cárdenas
musica/music
Pedro Chávez
suono/sound
Beatriz Chenevey, Osvaldo Weber
interpreti e personaggi/cast and character
Gonzalo Aburto (Cristóbal), Ana Gallegos (Ana), María Muñoz (María)
produttore/producer
Markus Wilder
produzione/production
La Casa Tortuga, Infractor Producciones
coproduttore/coproducer
Geneviève Lemal
coproduzione/coproduction
Scope Pictures
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contatti/contacts
Infractor
Alejandro Ugarte
ugarte@infractor.cl
Benjamín Brunet
fotografia/cinematography
Gonzalo Aburto
montaggio/film editing
Roland Rodriguez
scenografia/production design
Cynthia Ferrada
costumi/costume design
Alejandro Cárdenas
musica/music
Pedro Chávez
suono/sound
Beatriz Chenevey, Osvaldo Weber
interpreti e personaggi/cast and character
Gonzalo Aburto (Cristóbal), Ana Gallegos (Ana), María Muñoz (María)
produttore/producer
Markus Wilder
produzione/production
La Casa Tortuga, Infractor Producciones
coproduttore/coproducer
Geneviève Lemal
coproduzione/coproduction
Scope Pictures
**
contatti/contacts
Infractor
Alejandro Ugarte
ugarte@infractor.cl
