PERRO BOMBA

By Juan CACERES

HABANERO - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2019

A Haitian immigrant living in Chile has his precariously balanced life disrupted in a series of unexpected events that stoke a large anti-immigration sentiment in the city.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2019
Miami IFF 2019
IberoAmericanCompetition
FICCI Cartagena 2019
Muestra AFRO
Guadalajara FICG 2019
IberoAmerican Competition/ FEISAL Special Mention
Festival de Malaga 2019
ZonaZine/Best Ibero Film/Best Actor/Audience award
Toulouse (ARCALT) 2019
Official Competition / Special Jury mention to actor
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama, First film, Social issues
    • Countries
    • CHILE
    • Languages
    • CREOLE, SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Juan CACERES
    • Writer(s)
    • Juan CACERES
    • Producer(s)
    • Alejandro UGARTE (INFRACTOR FILMS), Esteban SANDOVAL (PEJEPERRO FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • Steevens is a young Haitian living an uneasy but somewhat stable life in Santiago de Chile. This precariously balanced life is disrupted when Junior, a childhood friend, arrives illegally in Chile seeking assistance to establish himself. Initially, Steevens does everything to support his friend and even gets him a job with his employer, but an incident at their workplace erupts racial tensions and stokes a large anti-immigration sentiment in the city. Steveens loses his working documents and his home, and is left to wander the city looking for a chance to restart his life beyond the margins of society.

      PLOT KEYWORDS
      Migration | Race & ethnicity | Social justice | Human & civil rights | Labor issues | Chile | Haiti | Caribbean | Black studies | First Film