Country: Venezuela, Italy, Canada, Luxemburg
Year: 2026
Duration: 106'
Caro travels to Venezuela to sell her late father's cacao plantation, only to find the family mansion occupied by its former staff, who are determined to remain at all costs. As Caro takes justice into her own hands to claim the inheritance she believes is hers, she sets off a struggle that unearths the violence buried in the land and its memory.
Biography
film director
Jorge Thielen Armand
(Venezuela) is a writer, director, and producer. He studied communication and cinema in Montreal and is a founding partner of the Venezuelan-Canadian production company LA FAENA. His films have been presented in both art venues and film festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Sundance, IFF Rotterdam, Busan IFF, among others. His first film, La Soledad (2016), was presented at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, and his second feature La Fortaleza (2020) was presented in Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Death Has No Master is his third feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Flor de la Mar (cm, 2015), La Soledad (2016), La Fortaleza (2020), Pasta Negra (cm, 2025), La muerte no tiene dueño (2026).
Declaration
film director
“This is a film about returning home to realize you are a foreigner in your own land, and thus a permanent foreigner everywhere. What came to me is a story where we follow a foreigner whose history is wrapped up in a mansion in the middle of the jungle. She goes to this place of bad memories intending to get rid of it, by selling it, but she instead becomes possessed by its ghosts, her ghosts, its entrapping beauty, and the intrinsic violence embedded in the land and its history. As I see it, she never really meant to sell this place. The whole thing is an excuse to be immersed in something that can’t be explained, only felt.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Jorge Thielen Armand. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Luis Armando Arteaga. EDITING: Felipe Guerrero. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Matías Tikas. MUSIC: Vittorio Giampietro. SOUND: Sylvain Bellemare. CAST: Asia Argento, Dogreika Tovar, Yermain Sequera, Jorge Thielen Hedderich, Arturo Rodríguez, Jericó Montilla, José “Chindito” Aponte, Rafael Gil, Juan Francisco Borges, Teresa Bracho, Ana Helena Anglade Armand, Gumercindo Aponte, Luis Puche, Abilio Torres, Armando Monteverde. PRODUCTION: Stefano Centini, Jorge Thielen Armand, Arantza Maldonado for La Faena, Volos Films Italia, Faits Divers Media. COPRODUCTION: Tres, Deal Productions. CONTACT: Lucky Number (Fanny Lehmann) - festivals@luckynumber.fr
