PARADISE

PARAISO

By Pablo FALÁ

LA FUNDACIÓN CINE - as PROD / FIN

First film - Completed 2017

After living abroad for a while, Sofia takes refuge in a cabin in Traslasierras, in what seems to be a very quiet city. But nothing is what it seems to be, and she will begin to face her true conflicts.

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& Awards

Ventana Sur 2017
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    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 64 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Pablo FALÁ
    • Writer(s)
    • Pablo FALÁ
    • Producer(s)
    • Julian PALACIOS (LA FUNDACIÓN CINE), Marcos MOSSELLO (LA FUNDACIÓN CINE)
    • Synopsis
    • Being detached in a cottage in Traslasierras, Cordoba, Sofia meets up with her ex-boyfriend, Lautaro. Lautaro believes that Sofia invites him so as to make up their relationship after she had been abroad for a while. She avoids talking about her life abroad, what is going on now, why she came back and what she is doing there.
      Sofia thinks she has everything under control; she is always throwing parties and taking drugs. She begins flirting with Clara, a girl she barely knows, who stays over after a party.
      Clara, Sofia and Lautaro decide to have dinner together and to invite Franco as well, one of Clara’s friends. While they are discussing about the benefits of living in Europe, the differences with living in Argentina and the reasons why people choose to go away, Sofia begins to feel questioned for having left, questioned mainly by Lautaro. She turns to drugs, parties and alcohol in order to find satisfaction, but that makes it even more evident that the only one who is an outcast and does not fit is her.
      Tension and confusion reach climax when she ends the night hooking up with Clara and leaving Lautaro aside. Lautaro reproaches it and they both burst out in a quarrel where the long kept truths come out face to face. Lautaro realises that Sofia is absolutely hurt by herself, that she is the only one who can save her and that no loving can put up with and hold someone who is not choosing to be in good terms with herself first.
      Lautaro decides to leave her and go away, the same as the others did.
      Sofia wakes up after the previous night, all by herself, and she finally realises that what she has gone to look for to this Paradise at the base of the mountain is some shelter while she tries to find herself again.