
Could it be possible to disappear in the desert?
LIVING THERE IS NOT HELL, IT IS THE FIRE OF THE DESERT.
THE PLENITUDE OF LIFE THAT STAYED THERE LIKE A TREE
Directed by JAVIERA VÉLIZ FAJARDO
Produced by POCILGA - APIÀRIO / CHILE - BRAZIL
Creative documentary
FullHD / Colour / 59 minutes / 2018
SYNOPSIS
The wind, birds, sweat, hands, a wheelbarrow, drought and burial. Could it be possible to disappear in the desert? Totoral is a town that disappears between its hills. a town that was born and raised by the land, by their animals and by survival. The desert is constantly mutating, the trees get drier and the men get older. These men, together with their animals, erase their footprints and their passage through time.
CAST
Ramón Vega
Guillermo Morales
Sara Morales
Manuel Alfaro
Raúl López
CREW
Director, DOP, Editor: Javiera Véliz
Production, sound recording, Editor: Bárbara Pestan
Music: Francisco San Román
Post-production Producers: Fernanda Salgado, Erick Ricco
Sound designer: Cristián Freund
Poster designer: Nicolás Venturelli
EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS: Tënk Prize, Cinema du Réel 2019 / Honorable mention regional film, FECILS. 2019
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE: Cinema du Réel, Paris, France, 2019
NATIONAL PREMIERE: FICValdivia, 2018
SUPPORTED BY
Ministry of Cultures Production Regional Fund, 2016
Co-production Fund Chile – Brasil, ANCINE, 2017
Pitching FECICA Prize, Chile 2016
SANFIC 11, Industry – Santiago Lab, Chile 2015
ATLANTIDOCS, Uruguay, 2015
Conecta 2016, DocMontevideo workshop, Chiledoc, Chile, 2016
FIDBA, Impact production workshop, Argentina, 2016
ARCA Residence, Chile 2017
Impact + Action Workshop, Chiledoc, Chile, 2017