UNDER THE SKY SHELTER

AL AMPARO DEL CIELO

By Diego ACOSTA

SANTIAGO INDEPENDIENTE - as PROD

Road movie - Post-Production 2021

Don Cucho is a transhumant muleteer who once a year takes more than a thousand sheep to the heart of the Andes Mountains. Accompanied by six men and ten dogs, he crosses forests, cliffs and rivers looking for food for his cattle, knowing that at the same time, he risk his life for it.

Festivals
& Awards

FICValdivia 2021
International Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Road movie, Experimental, Documentary
    • Countries
    • CHILE
    • Languages
    • SPANISH-CHILEAN
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 70 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Diego ACOSTA
    • Producer(s)
    • Florencia DUPONT (SANTIAGO INDEPENDIENTE)
    • Synopsis
    • Don Cucho (65) is a transhumant muleteer who once a year takes more than a thousand sheep to the heart of the Andes Mountains. Accompanied by six men and ten dogs, he crosses forests, cliffs and rivers looking for food for his cattle, knowing that at the same time, he risks his life in each journey.
      Once up, Don Cucho is totally alone during the season, but in his dreams he is still accompanied by muleteers who are now gone. Filmed in 16mm in black and white, "Under the sky shelter" is the poetic portrait of life and dreams of a man who lives isolated in nature.
      This documentary is proposed as a journey in time that goes into the ancient rites of the transhumant man resisting to disappear