Thursday to Sunday
Chile
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2012
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Color
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96 min
This directory compiles the glossaries from all editions of Cines del Sur: eleven already held and the twelfth currently underway. It serves as a living memory of the festival, its films, guests, sections, and spaces for reflection on the cinemas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world. Here you can trace the evolution of its programming, rediscover filmmakers, and follow the thematic threads that have defined Cines del Sur's identity as a meeting point for cultures, perspectives, and ways of understanding cinema from the Global South.
It all begins on a Thursday when two children go on vacation with their parents to northern Chile. It all ends on a Sunday. Lucía and Manuel travel with their parents, Ana and Fernando, to spend a long weekend together. The couple has decided to separate but had already planned this trip with their children, so they embark on it anyway. Gradually, this time together becomes a final farewell; a long journey where the solitude of the landscape and the confinement in the car reveal the adults' crisis. The children only want to reach a beach: Fernando, a place his father left him, and Ana, a non-existent place where things can be good again. The narrative will be created from Lucía's distant and fragmented perspective on this last family trip.
Technical Details
Direction:
Dominga Sotomayor
Cinematography:
Bárbara Álvarez
Music:
Diego Fontecilla, Elisa Arteche
Language:
Spanish
Production:
Benjamin Domenech, Gregorio González
Art Direction:
Estefanía Larraín
Sound:
Roberto Espinoza
Subtitles:
English
Screenplay:
Dominga Sotomayor
Editing:
Danielle Fillios, Catalina Marín
Cast:
Santi Ahumada (Lucía), Emiliano Freifeld (Manuel), Francisco Pérez-Bannen (father), Paola Giannini (mother)
Director
Dominga Sotomayor
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1985. In 2007, she completed her studies and founded the production company Cinestación. She has directed several short films that have won awards at numerous international festivals. Her first feature film, "De jueves a domingo" (Thursday to Sunday), premiered in the Official Selection of the Rotterdam International Film Festival. The film was made with the support of Cannes Cinéfondation Résidence, Hubert Bals Fund, Dutch Film Fonds, Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual, CORFO, Ibermedia, Buenos Aires Lab, AustraLab, and TyPA. Sotomayor is currently preparing her second film, "Tarde para morir joven" (Late to Die Young), which has been selected to participate in the Binger Filmlab and Jerusalem International Film Lab programs.
