Les Enfants sans terre
Landless children
- 2026
- France, Chile
- 97'
- Spanish, French, Mapudungun, Swedish
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- Sat 21
- March
- 21h00
- Saint André des Arts 3
- + débat/Q&A
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- Thu 26
- March
- 19h15
- Arlequin 1
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© René Ballesteros, LES FILMS D'ICI -
© René Ballesteros _ LES FILMS D'ICI -
© René Ballesteros _ LES FILMS D'ICI
In France, Juan dreams of the death of an unknown old woman. Later, he learns that his biological mother died that night. In Sweden, Daniel discovers that he was declared dead at birth. They set off in search of their forgotten homeland in southern Chile.
René Ballesteros was born in Chile, 1975. He is a psychologist (Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco), film director and screenwriter. After working in prisons for minors and with street children in Araucania, he studied filmmaking at the Université Paris VIII and Le Fresnoy (France). In 2010, his first feature documentary, La Quemadura, won the Joris Ivens Award at Cinéma du Réel, Best Documentary at Documenta Madrid and Best Chilean Director at SANFIC 2010, among others. In 2011 he was selected for the Résidence de la Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival. As a screenwriter, he co-wrote Los versos del olvido, by Alireza Khatami, which won the Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival 2017. Los sueños del castillo, his second documentary, premiered at the Valdivia International Film Festival 2018 and won the Best Chilean Film Award and was in competition at Cinéma du réel in 2019.
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- Sat 21
- March
- 21h00
- Saint André des Arts 3
- + débat/Q&A
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- Thu 26
- March
- 19h15
- Arlequin 1
- Subtitles : original version with French and English subtitles
- Production company : Les Films d'Ici, La Madre, La Ballesta Films
- Photography : David Belmar, Joakim Chardonnens, René Ballesteros
- Sound : Andre Millan, René Ballesteros
- Editing : Romina del Rosario
