Films in Progress 38 / Lima 2020

De todas las cosas que se pueden saber y de algunas otras (en)

Director: 

Sofía Alejandra Velázquez Núñez

Country: 

  • Pérou

Year: 

2021

Length: 

1h23

A group of filmmakers arrives to Santiago de Chuco, a town in the Peruvian highlands where the poet César Vallejo was born. With a casting as an excuse, the filmmakers take over the theater and the inhabitants of the place arrive, gradually unveiling lives embraced by the aura of the poet, who died in Paris seventy years ago. All of them, inhabitants and filmmakers, mix between verses, stories and poetry. Fantasy emerges and characters such as blind Santiago -who rings the bells always warning something-; or the young musician Elder -whose desires emerge like from a cornucopia- trace a liminal path between fiction and reality.

Documentary

Fortaleza Hotel (en)

Director: 

Armando Praça

Country: 

  • Brésil

Year: 

2021

Length: 

1h27

Pilar, a young chambermaid at Hotel Fortaleza, will be leaving for Dublin after New Year’s in search of a new life. Her path crosses that of Shin, a south-Korean hotel guest who has come to Brazil to take her deceased husband’s body back to Seoul. Both their plans begin to go haywire and, despite everything that separates the two women, they wind up drawing closer and establishing an intense relationship of mutual solidarity as they endeavor to find solutions to their problems in each other.

Inmersión (en)

Director: 

Nicolás Postiglione

Country: 

  • Chili
  • Mexique

Year: 

2021

Length: 

1h26

Ricardo is on a yacht with his two daughters, Claudia and Teresita. As they cross the lake, a group of three men ask them for help from a half-sinking boat. Fearful, he ignores them.
When Teresita finds out, she complains along with his sister until they convince Ricardo to go back.
But when they return, there are only two of them left. One of the brothers has swum out to get help. Forced and with the whole group on board, Ricardo helps look for the missing boy all over the lake, more and more distrustful. While the day and the patience of the  group is ending, a war breaks out between Ricardo and his daughter Teresita, in a tense journey that will not end well.

La Calma (en)

Director: 

Mariano Cócolo

Country: 

  • Argentine

Year: 

2021

Length: 

1h15

Nancy, a country law student, is forced to return to her hometown to care for her father who has suffered a stroke.

Under pressure from the would-be landowners, Nancy will have to decide on the future of the land and her own.

Mis hermanos sueñan despiertos (en)

Director: 

Claudia Huaiquimilla

Country: 

  • Chili

Year: 

2021

Length: 

1h25

Ángel (17) and his brother Franco (14) have been locked up in a juvenile prison for a year, awaiting the conviction of their case. Despite the hostility of the place, they form bonds with other young people and spend the days longing for what they will do when they finally go free.

The arrival of Jaime (17), a young rebel, changes everything when he proposes to escape through a riot. The idea is gaining adherents, and although Franco wants to join the plan, his brother Ángel knows that it’s not the safest. However, several family and judicial disappointments, along with fights, raidings and friends' suicides, will finally make Angel see this as his only possible way out, and the only way to save his brother from the growing wave of violence in the compound.

Unfortunately, what no young man suspects is that this escape attempt will eventually bring fatal results. Inspired by real events that occurred in southern Chile, 2007.

Siete Perros (en)

Director: 

Rodrigo Guerrero

Country: 

  • Argentine

Year: 

2021

Length: 

1h33

Ernesto lives with his seven dogs in an apartment building in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. His lonely daily routine revolves around his pets’ needs, his  health problems and his money problems. His neighbors arrange a mediation hearing and urge him to take his pets out of the apartment. Ernesto does not want to live without his dogs, and he cannot afford to move elsewhere.
Thanks to the empathy of people who are also lonely, but every day share common spaces that connect them, Ernesto finds a way to solve the conflict.