Event

Summer of Flying Fish

Pulsos Latinos

Apr 20 - Apr 23

(Marcela Said, Chile/France, 2013, DCP, 87 min)

El verano de los peces voladores

Sunday, Apr 20 at 09:00PM
Wednesday, Apr 23 at 07:00PM

Marcela Said's first foray into scripted narrative filmmaking after a series of award-winning documentaries focusing on Pinochet's regime sees her mining discreet (but no less politically sensitive) material: indigenous versus inherited legacies in Chile.

The Mapuche Conflict is refracted through this film drama that pits a well-off white landowner against his hired, native help. A patriarch attempts to vacation with his family in a lakeside home, immune to a history of territorial claims and the escalation of tension from ancestral neighbors who are surviving off the same land.

This impressionistic and lush drama derives subtle but considerable tension from a teenage daughter's point of view, a character who becomes increasingly sympathetic to realities beyond her bourgeois horizon.

Part of our series Pulsos Latinos: Films from the frontier of Latin American cinema. Read more about new Latino cinema on our screens >