GOING BACK HOME

VOLVER A CASA

By Catalina ALARCÓN

PEQUÉN PRODUCCIONES - as PROD

Female director - Development 2022

Inmates of Valparaiso’s prison go back home through personal VR experiences, reconnecting with their families as they struggle to defend their human rights in the adversity of an overcrowded prison.

Festivals
& Awards

FICCI Cartagena 2018
Puerto Ficci Script Lab
SANFIC 2019
Santiago Lab
Eurodoc 2019
CCC 2020
CCC lab
Nuevas Miradas EICTV 2020
Script Lab
San Sebastian 2021
Foro Lau Haizetara
Guadalajara FICG 2021
Foro de coproducción
Cinelatino 2021
Development lab
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Female director, First film, Documentary
    • Countries
    • CHILE, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Catalina ALARCÓN
    • Writer(s)
    • Valeria HOFFMANN
    • Producer(s)
    • Daniela CAMINO (MIMBRE PRODUCTIONS), Joséphine SCHROEDER (Les Productions du Désert)
    • Synopsis
    • Going back home follows the participant of a pioneer program in Valparaíso’s prison allowing inmates to go back home through VR experiences. In these experiences, the inmates help each other to create the best conditions in the prison to visit their families, while physically reacting as if they were at home. Ariel (20) has a terminally ill mother, Cueto (45) dreams of seeing his nieces again, Claudio (54) is an outsider who misses the sea and Franco (26) is desperate to finish his sentence and reunite with his son. Each of them has the opportunity to see the outside world, and the virtual reality experiences leave them feeling at home with their loved ones, connecting with their identities, as they fight to defend their human rights in the adversity of a violent and crowded prison. The last virtual reality experience they live is collective. The inmates react to these VR experiences physically, like a dance, in contrast to the cold walls of the prison that surrounded them.
    • Partners & financing
    • Corfo development
      Mimbre Producciones
      Pequén Producciones
      Les Productions du désert
    • Beginning of shooting
    • May 02, 2022
    • End of shooting
    • Oct 07, 2022