CM 2022

Lost Songs From Distant Realms

Canciones perdidas de reinos distantes

Goals at CineMart Our goal is to meet with international funds, sales agents, distributors, and co-producers.Synopsis The film is the combination of five mining stories that revolve around the life and relationships between Rolando, a drill worker in the Posokoni mine, and his teenage daughter Nina.It tells the story of Rolando "Charque" Patzi, a miner who makes a pact with the devil in order to fulfill his dream of being famous and successful in music. Also, the story of Nina, his teenage daughter, on how she escapes with Maria, they fall in love, and finally they are strongly punished by the community because of Nina's father. The story of the ghost, invoked by Rolando. Elder, an Inca miner who has frozen to death with his family and has been trapped forever in the caves, after having betrayed his community and having forgotten how to talk to the mountains and Mother Earth. The story of Leonarda, Nina's mother, a woman who tries to become a miner and mysteriously disappears in the galleries; finally, the story of the reconciliation between Rolando and Nina that frees all her ancestors, ghosts tied to the depths of the mine.Director's Biography Born in La Paz and trained at FUC Buenos Aires, Kiro Russo has directed three short films &ndash; Enterprisse (2010), Juku (2012), Nueva vida (2015) &ndash; and two feature films, Viejo cavalera (2016) and El Gran Movimiento (2021).His debut feature Viejo cavalera was selected for more than 80 festivals and won 23 awards including the Special Mention of the Jury at 2016 Locarno, the Grand Prize in 2016 Cartagena Film Festival, the Special Mention at San Sebasti&aacute;n International Film Festival, the Jury Prize in Valdivia Film Festival, the Fipresci Prize at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, and the Grand Prize at Indie Lisboa. El Gran Movimiento premiered at 2021 Venice, winning the Special Jury award in the Orizzonti program. Since its launch in Venice, it has been invited to 20 festivals among which San Sebastian, New York Film Festival and IFFR and has won already 10 awards.

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Five mining stories and ten songs: of the devil, the capital and a reconciliation around a miner father, his teenage daughter and a ghost.