Completed - SPANISH, CREOLE - Drama, Social issues - 80 minutes
Year of production : 2019 Director(s) : Juan CÁCERES Cast : Steevens BENJAMIN, Alfredo CASTRO, Blanca LEWIN, Gastón SALGADO, Junior VALCIN, Erto PANTOJA, Daniela ANTIVILO
Steevens is a young Haitian immigrant living a challenging, but somewhat stable life in Santiago de Chile: he has a construction job, a home, friends, and fun.This precariously balanced life is disrupted when Junior, a childhood friend from Haiti, arrives in Chile seeking assistance from Steevens to establish himself. Junior has entered Chile without papers and doesn’t speak any Spanish. Steevens does everything he can to support his friend and even manages to get him a job with his employer. When an incident at their workplace erupts racial tensions and stokes a large anti-immigration sentiment in the city, Steveens loses his working documents. Now without a job, Steveens has to vacate his home and is left to wander the city, looking for a chance to restart his life beyond the margins of society.
Country(ies) : CHILE, FRANCE
MALAGA FILM FESTIVAL 2019 (BEST IBERO AMERICAN FILM, BEST ACTOR, AUDIENCE AWARD)Havana Film Festival 2019 (COLATERAL AWARDS CASA DE LAS AMÉRICAS, ROQUE DALTON AWARD)FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE CHILOÉ 2019 (BEST CHILEAN FEATURE FILM)Toulouse (ARCALT) 2019 (SPECIAL MENTION FOR BEST ACTOR)FICCI Cartagena 2019Miami IFF 2019Guadalajara International Film Festival 2019Vancouver Latin American Film Festival 2019