Film inspired by the real story of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri. Killed on July 2, 1986 during the first national protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
Cinematography
Fire as character—beauty and horror inseparable.
Acting
Maldonado's Rodrigo burns with gentle, doomed hope.
Direction
Gaviola refuses easy catharsis. The absence is the point.
Director
Tatiana Gaviola
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rodrigo Rojas de Negri was a 19-year-old Chilean-American photographer; his death became a turning point in exposing Pinochet's regime to international scrutiny.
The film joins Chile's post-dictatorship cinema of 'memory against forgetting'—think Machuca, No, and the ongoing prosecutions that only began in earnest after 1990.
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