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ESQUÍ

By Manque LA BANCA

BRASILIANA CINEMATOGRÁFICA - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2021

Under a calm bliss in Bariloche, myths and legends appear from the underworld. What's left unsaid boils up like lava through the power of techno. The other "Esqui", of hidden faces, lost voices, those that weren't there.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale Forum 2021
Fipresci Prize
Indie Lisboa 2021
Int'l Competition
BelDocs 2021
Int'l Competition
IFFI 2021
Int'l Competition
Festival Du Nouveau Cinema 2021
Les nouveaux alquimistes
Cinelatino 2022
Documentary Competition
ficunam 2022
Panorama Int'l
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, First film
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA, BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, GERMAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 74 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Manque LA BANCA
    • Producer(s)
    • Victoria MAROTTA (Un Puma), Jeronimo QUEVEDO (Un Puma), Franco BACCHIANI (Un Puma), André MIELNIK (Brasiliana)
    • Synopsis
    • Under the calm bliss during peak tourist season in the city of Bariloche, a series of myths and legends begin creeping up from the underworld. Slow tectonic shifts and mysterious events emerge to expose a history of hidden repression of the town’s native people, land exploitation, a murderous state perpetuated over 500 years. Everything that’s left unsaid boils up like lava, not through traditional soundscapes but rather through the power of techno-stridently pulsing throughout the entire film. Another Bariloche exists, the other ESQUI, the hidden faces, the forgotten voices, those that were never there.

      ESQUÍ is a poetic hybrid documentary that shows how colonization adapted to the contemporary world and strengthened its roots to keep inequality alive.