Completed - SPANISH - Drama, Second film, Comedy - 85 minutes
Body-obsessed teenager Lucas and his mystically-inclined older sister, Gilda, unexpectedly become stranded when they travel to a nearly deserted coastal town to try to fulfill their dead mother’s last wishes in whatever way they can.
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Mateo BENDESKY Writer(s) : Mateo BENDESKY Cast : Tomás WICZ, Laila MALTZ, Alejandro RUSSEK, Ofelia FERNÁNDEZ, Edgardo CASTRO, Sergio BORIS, Javier ABRIL ROTGER Producer(s) : Agustina COSTA (Volpe Films), Diego DUBCOVSKY (Varsovia), Mateo BENDESKY
Lucas (17) and Gilda (20) travel to a small Argentine beach town to fulfill the last wishes of their recently deceased mother: scatter her remains in the ocean. Unfortunately, the only “remains” they have is her prosthetic hand, but as Gilda says when they throw it into the surf, "it’s the same as long as we get it off our backs”. Ready to return home, the two siblings find themselves stranded by a nationwide bus strike. Lucas, obsessed with bodybuilding and contact fighting, finds the nearly deserted town fertile ground for exploring his sexuality and the limits of his body. Gilda, still affected by her recent stay at a rehab center and obsessed with her “bad energy”, tries countless therapies and divination methods in order to find some meaning in the world. Trapped in their own limbo, the two confront the empty space left by their mother’s suicide as they bid farewell to their adolescence and face the ambiguity of life, death and fitness.
Country(ies) : ARGENTINA
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Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019 PanoramaVentana Sur 2019Cinema Jove 2019 (Special Mention of the Jury)FICIC 2019Frameline 2019Era New Horizons - Poland 2019Frame Out 2019SANFIC 2019Panoramica 2019Queer Lisboa 2019