VENEZUELA 90 MIN
RUSSIAN PREMIERE
ABOUT
Marcelina and Mercedes live in different villages at Venezuelan Andes. They share a tragic story: their daughters committed a suicide pact, like many did the last years in these surroundings. Through their memories of loss and grief, the film takes us into a world of tangible pain where silence became a significant feature of this idyllic but violent natural setting.
DIRECTOR
ELIEZER ARIAS
Venezuelan Filmmaker and Anthropologist with a PhD at the University of Bath, and Head of the Department of Development Anthropology at the Venezuelan Institute of Social Research (IVIC). He has used documentary filmmaking as an alternative way of understanding different social realities, and disseminating it to audiences beyond the academic world, especially to those who participate in his films.
His Opera prima Our History is on the Land (2008), about the Venezuelan Indigenous Peoples struggle participated in 15 international festivals and was awarded with two prizes and a jury s special mention.
With the Silence of the flies, Eliezer Arias was selected to participate in the VII Cinematographic Development Project Course Carolina Foundation & Casa de America (Madrid, 2009), under the tutorial of Lucrecia Martel and Felipe Vega, the II Analysis and Clinic Laboratory of Cinematographic Project from Iberoamerica: BoliviaLab (La Paz, 2010), the II IBERDOC in Tepoztlan (Mexico) under tutorial of Director Javier Corcuera, the III DOCULAB, 2011 (during the 26° Guadalajara International Film Festival 2011), and finally, IDFA Academy Summer School (Amsterdam, 2012).
OTHER FESTIVALS
SECTION
Main Competition 2015
Фестиваль/Festival: 2015
География/Geography: South America
Программа/Program: Main competition