FAMILY MEMBERS

LOS MIEMBROS DE LA FAMILIA

By Mateo BENDESKY

BARTON FILMS, S.L. - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, SPAIN

Drama - Completed 2019

Body-obsessed Lucas and his mystically-inclined sister become stranded when they travel to a province town to fulfill their dead mother’s last wishes.
A tale of love, loss and fitness.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale 2019
Panorama
Cinema Jove 2019
Special Mention of the Jury
Ventana Sur 2019
FICIC 2019
Frameline 2019
Era New Horizons - Poland 2019
Frame Out 2019
SANFIC 2019
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama, Comedy, LGBT
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH-ARGENTINE
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mateo BENDESKY
    • Writer(s)
    • Mateo BENDESKY
    • Producer(s)
    • Agustina COSTA VARSI (Volpe Films), Diego DUBCOVSKY (VARSOVIA FILMS), Mateo BENDESKY
    • Synopsis
    • Lucas (17) and Gilda (20) travel to a small Argentine beach town to fulfill the last wishes of their recently deceased mother: scatter her remains in the ocean. Unfortunately, the only “remains” they have is her prosthetic hand, but as Gilda says when they throw it into the surf, “it’s the same as long as we get it off our backs”. Ready to return home, the two siblings find themselves stranded by a nationwide bus strike. Lucas, obsessed with bodybuilding and contact fighting, finds the nearly deserted town fertile ground for exploring his sexuality and the limits of his body. Gilda, still affected by her recent stay at a rehab center and obsessed with her “bad energy”, tries countless therapies and divination methods in order to find some meaning in the world. Trapped in their own limbo, the two confront the empty space left by their mother’s suicide as they bid farewell to their adolescence and face the ambiguity of life, death and fitness.