Azucena, a woman in her thirties, approaches Julio, a teenage boy living in a group home, for reasons he doesn’t understand. As they spend time together, an uneasy closeness grows, changing the shape of a bond neither expected to find.
Bio Bristol, Sat 26 Sep 18.00
Chile, summer 1990. As the dictatorship draws to a close, fifteen-year-old Celeste spends her summer vacation with her family at a beach on the edge of the Atacama Desert, when an event shatters her adolescence. Months later, lured back by the promise of a solar eclipse, Celeste returns to the same place, but nothing is the same. In a country undergoing profound change, she must find her own path.
Bio Bristol, Sat 26 Sep 20.00
In 2009, a man and two accomplices tried to evict members of the Indigenous community of Chuschagasta in northern Argentina. Claiming ownership of the land and armed with guns, they kill the community’s leader, Javier Chocobar. The murder is caught on video. It takes nine years of protests before court proceedings are finally opened in 2018. During all this time, the killers remain free.
Bio Bristol, Sun 27 Sep 16.30
Lila, a young Korean-Argentinean girl, navigates the contradictions of her identity and tries to find her place in the world. Her father, Antonio, arrives in Latin America 18 years earlier, and decides to bet everything on the promise of a young immigrant’s dream. A family epic that seeks to return to the past in order to reinvent the present.
Bio Bristol, Sun 27 Sep 19.30
