REFUGIADO

SHELTERED

By Diego LERMAN

MEMENTO INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2014

Matías, a four-year-old boy, arrives at a women’s shelter. He’s with his mother Laura. Laura decides to leave the shelter, to set out to rebuild her broken family. With Matías, she begins a whirlwind tour around the city, where previously-known things now pose a threat.

Festivals
& Awards

Directors' Fortnight 2014
San Sebastian FF 2014
Horizontes Latinos
Ventana Sur 2014
Latam
Guadalajara FICG 2015
International Feature
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Diego LERMAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Nico AVRUJ (Campo Cine)
    • Synopsis
    • 7 year old Matías returns home from a friend's birthday party to find his mother, Laura, unconscious on the floor.
      When she gets back to her senses they decide to leave home and rush to a shelter for abused women where they spend 48 hours before Laura decides to rebuild her life somewhere else.
      Through the eyes of Matías we will discover their escape in a city where everything Matías once knew feels dangerous and foreign until Laura finds a secure place to raise her son.