Sentados frente al fuego
- Alejandro Fernández Almendras
- 2011
- Chili
- 120 min
- Films in Progress 19 / Toulouse 2011
During the year, once per season, a man offers a present to his ill wife. They spent much of their life together and he observes silently the illness that is spreading, without anybody able to stop it. The four presents are simple, but they represent the most he can give: a recent-born kitten, a tête-à-tête night of love, a black and white television, a trip to get to know the snow. A meditation on love and death.
Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Alejandro Fernández Almendras was born in Chile, 1971. His first short film –Lo que trae la lluvia – won the Best Short Film Award of the Latin American Short Film Festival. It has also been included in the official selection of more than 30 festivals. The script of his first feature film – Huacho – was awarded by the Sundance/NHK Prize and “Groupama Gan pour le Cinéma” foundation. Huacho was screened during the Critics’ Week of the 2009 Cannes Festival. His feature film Matar a un hombre (2014) was awarded by the Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Festival and stood for Chile in the pre-selections for the Oscars.
Filmography
2016 – Aquí no ha pasado nada (feature film)
2014 – Matar a un hombre (feature film)
2011 – Sentados frente al fuego (feature film)
2009 – Huacho (feature film)
2007 – Lo que trae la lluvia (short film)
Production notes
El Remanso Cine was created in 2004 to design and develop audiovisual projects, first in the framework of short films, with Desde lejos (2004) and Lo que trae la lluvia (2006), then with feature films: Huacho (2009) and Sentados frente al fuego (2011).
“This company is looking for the development of a different cinema, not better not exclusive, only different, that has to do with the manager of making cinema that we like, that attracts and moves us”
Support
Aid to the scriptwriting and project development: CORFO, Chili.
Vision Sud Est Aid (open Doors Locarno film Festival), Switzerland.
Aid to the production: Audiovisual Development Fund, Chili.
World Cinema Fund Aid, Germany.
Still waiting for an answer: Ibermedia.
- Original title
- Sentados frente al fuego
- Direction
- Alejandro Fernández Almendras
- Country
- Chili
- Année
- 2011
- Scenario
- Alejandro Fernández Almendras
- Picture
- Inti Briones
- Cutting
- Alejandro Fernández Almendras
- Actors
- Daniel Muñoz (Daniel), Alejandra Yañez (Alejandra)
- Original version
- Espagnol
- Awards
Premio Work in Progress – SANFIC 7 – Chile – 2011
- Trailer
- Voir la bande-annonce
- Production
- El Remanso Cine