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MAP OF LATIN AMERICAN DREAMS

MAPA DE SUEÑOS LATINOAMERICANOS

By Martin WEBER

INCAA - INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CINE Y ARTES AUDIOVISUALES - as PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2019

This is an artist's road movie from Patagonia to Tijuana to rediscover two decades later several characters from his photos witnessing the changes in Latin America through their lives.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, First film, Art - Culture
- Countries
- ARGENTINA, MEXICO
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Martin WEBER
- Synopsis
- Between 1992 and 2013 the Argentine artist, Martín Weber, photographed Latin America asking people to write their dreams with chalk on a wooden board. Decades later, he wondered if any of those wishes had been fulfilled. This film starts a new journey in the search for the same people to give testimony of their lives. For eight years Martin travels through Argentina, Peru, Nicaragua, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. On his path he witnesses the economic, political, social and military violence that mark the continent. Martín ventures beyond the limits of the conventional gaze and enters territories where migrations clearly show the consequences of the degradation of the social fabric. The shared experience reveals the fractures and gaps in the dreams portrayed. His characters held by resilience, struggle between hope and despair, between emigrating and remaining home.This journey invites the spectator to identify in collective and private stories. If a photo freezes a moment, this film wants to melt those past moments and give them back the strength of the present.