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Blokes

Runtime:
15 min.
Year of Production:
2010
Country:
Chile
Director:
Cast:
Alfonso David
Pedro Campos
Pablo Macaya
Paula Zúñiga
Trinidad Gonzáles
Clara Escobar
María de los Ángeles García
Production Company:
Fabula
Berlinale Section:
Generation
Berlinale Category:
Short Film

Santiago, Chile, in 1986. Luchito is 13 years old and feels deeply attracted to Manuel, a 16-year-old neighbour. Luchito masturbates whilst watching the window of an adjacent building where Manuel is enjoying a sexual encounter with a neighbourhood girl. The window becomes an erotic stage that arouses Luchito’s curiosity – but this has catastrophic consequences for Manuel.

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BIOGRAFIE Marialy Rivas

Born in Chile, award-winning director and writer Marialy Rivas spent her childhood and pre-teen years under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Tackling questions of wealth disparities and social mobility, Rivas went to one of the most southern islands of her home country for her short documentary Melody (Mountainfilm 2015), a film about a passion for music and its ability to offer a way out of poverty. Her other films include Young & Wild, which won Best Screenplay at Sundance 2012; There is Hope, a short film made with funding in part from the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation; and Blokes.

FILMOGRAFIE Marialy Rivas (selection)

2011 Joven & Alocada  2010/2011 Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2011  2010 Blokes 

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