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By Javier FUENTES-LEON

DYNAMO PRODUCCIONES (COLOMBIA) - as FIN

Drama - Completed 2008

A love-ghost from the past will make Miguel accept his true essence… before society and before himself.

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Sundance Film Festival 2010

World Cinema Competition World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Countries
- COLOMBIA, PERU, FRANCE, GERMANY
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 95 mn
- Director(s)
- Javier FUENTES-LEON
- Writer(s)
- Javier FUENTES-LEON
- Cast
- Cristian MERCADO, Manolo CARDONA, Tatiana ASTENGO
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-ACA0-0000-4-0000-0000-P
- EIDR
- 10.5240/BCA8-A059-B9BE-69B3-DDDD-Q
- Producer(s)
- Javier FUENTES-LEON (EL CALVO FILMS), Rodrigo GUERRERO (DYNAMO CAPITAL), Emilie GEORGES (LA CINÉFACTURE ), Ole LANDSJÖAASEN (NEUECAMEOFILM )
- Synopsis
- Miguel is a young fisherman, loved by people in his small coast town in Northern Peru. The town is known for its religious rituals related to death. Miguel is married to beautiful Mariela, who is about to give birth to her first child. But Miguel has a secret. He is in love with Santiago, a painter who is rejected by most of the people for being notorious and agnostic.
  The situation gets complicated when Santiago drowns by accident at sea. Santiago’s ghost returns and asks Miguel to find his body and to bury him, according to the town’s rituals so his soul can rest in peace. Miguel has to choose: if he accepts, he will reveal his relationship with Santiago, only the people closest to the dead ones can perform the ritual, and he will ruin his marriage and his reputation forever. If he doesn’t, he will sentence his lover to eternal angst.
  Miguel tries by all the means to conceal the situation, but the town’s obsession with Santiago’s disappearance, Mariela’s suspicions, which grow more certain, and the insistence of Santiago’s ghost to rest in peace, make him face his own fears and prejudices and to show to everyone around him, but especially to himself, that he is an honorable man and a man who keeps his word, even if that means loosing everything he has achieved.
- Beginning of shooting
- Nov 01, 2008

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