Babai
The Babai is the night-time bogeyman for children: traumas determine who you are, according to this claustrophobic portrait of two Russian brothers.
65'
Russia
IFFR 2020
Severe military conflict was waged between 1932 and 1935 on Bolivia and Paraguay's border, occasioned by suspicions there might be oil. This historic drama about the Chaco war does not depict that bloody struggle, but that of a small Bolivian regiment wandering across the inhospitable, dry Chaco plain in 1934.
The group of Bolivian, Aymara and Quichua indigenous soldiers is led by gruff German commander Hans Kundt. This European refuses to accept how fruitless his mission has become. Despite dwindling rations, dissidents and fights among his men, he is determined to continue. Isolation, despair and hunger grow with every day, every hellish march and hastily erected camp. The miserable war transforms into a battle with your own demons, all with scarcely a gunshot being heard in this sensuous film.
IFFR 2020
- 77'
- Bolivia
- 2020
- Director
- Diego Mondaca
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Bolivia, Argentina
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 77'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Aymara, Quechua, Spanish
- Producers
- Álvaro Manzano, Camilia Molina, Barbara Francisco, Georgina Baisch
- Production Companies
- ColorMonster, Pasto, Murillo Cine
- Sales
- ColorMonster
- Screenplay
- Diego Mondaca
- Cinematography
- Federico Lastra
- Editor
- Delfina Castagnino, Valeria Racioppi, César Díaz
- Sound Design
- Nahuel Palenque
- Cast
- Fabián Arenillas, Raymundo Ramos, Omar Calisaya
- Director
- Diego Mondaca
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Bolivia, Argentina
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 77'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Aymara, Quechua, Spanish
- Producers
- Álvaro Manzano, Camilia Molina, Barbara Francisco, Georgina Baisch
- Production Companies
- ColorMonster, Pasto, Murillo Cine
- Sales
- ColorMonster
- Screenplay
- Diego Mondaca
- Cinematography
- Federico Lastra
- Editor
- Delfina Castagnino, Valeria Racioppi, César Díaz
- Sound Design
- Nahuel Palenque
- Cast
- Fabián Arenillas, Raymundo Ramos, Omar Calisaya
Programme IFFR 2020
Bright Future Competition
A selection of fifteen feature-length debut films, presented at IFFR in world or international premiere.
Read more about this programmeChaco
1934. Bolivia is at war with Paraguay. Led by a mercenary German general, native soldiers push ever deeper into the hostile Chaco region.
77'
Bolivia
IFFR 2020
Los fantasmas
By day, Koki is a nice tourist guide in Guatemala City, but at night he lures men to a hotel – where they are relieved of their property.
75'
Guatemala
IFFR 2020