Two sisters obsessed with revealing the mysteries that surround their father. Rumors. Things said. Stories people tell, and others that echo in a small city where everyone knows each other. Encounters and disagreements.Cristián Jimenez ( Optical Illusions, Bonsái) knits a family’s tragicomic dynamics that speaks of a lack of communication and challenged truths. And it sets the confused Sofía (Ingrid Insensee) into chaos. She is recently separated, and must deal with her parents’ marital crisis while being invaded by stories that lead her to search for an organizing truth, a unique and omniscient voice over. The Chilean filmmaker –one of the most renowned of his generation– once again reflects on the different ways to tell a story, and he does so from Valdivia, the real protagonist of his films. In tune with what seems like a unique brand within the neighbor country’s cinema, he also puts everyday life through a process of estrangement filled with nostalgia, absurdity, and little epiphanies. ANR
Section: PanoramaD: Cristián Jiménez
G: Cristián Jiménez, Daniel Castro
F: Inti Briones
E: Soledad Salfate
S: Jean-Guy Véran, Cristián Freund, Manuel Robles
M: Adam Waito, Caroline Chaspoul, Eduardo Henríquez
P: Bruno Bettati, Augusto Matte, Nadia Turincev, Julie Gayet, Nicolas Comeau, Cristián Jiménez
CP: Jirafa, Rouge International, Les Films 1976
Ingrid Isensee, María Siebald, Paulina García, Niels Schneider, Cristián Campos
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He was born in Valdivia, Chile, in 1975. Before becoming a filmmaker he wrote short stories and studied sociology in Santiago, Heidelberg and London. He directed the short films The Treasure of the Snails (2004) and XX (2006), as well as the feature-length films Optical Illusions (2009) and Bonsai (Bafici ’12).
05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
