Mis hermanos sueñan despiertos

Partager :

• Claudia Huaiquimilla
• 2021
• Chili
• 1h25
• Films in Progress 38 / Lima 2020

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.