Waiting for his big dream (a film role) to come true, Pablo works as a training actor in a patient-care programme at a medical faculty and a paid participant in group therapy sessions. To make ends meet, he sublets a room in his apartment in a suburb of Santiago de Chile. However, he seems to have lost control when his housemate departs, leaving him with rent arrears, a collection of plants, a dog, a woolly jumper, and... a house ghost. Pablo is 30, and when it comes to romance he is also chasing apparitions. He is secretly still in love with his ex-boyfriend, a popular YouTuber.
Acting
Juan Cano's beautifully passive, drifting performance as Pablo.
Direction
Doveris balances the supernatural and mundane with zero spectacle.
Writing
The ghost as emotional deadweight—literal and figurative.
Director
Roberto Doveris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Doveris emerged from Chile's vibrant queer indie scene; this premiered at San Sebastián's New Directors competition.
The ghost's unfinished business mirrors Pablo's own suspended adulthood—both stuck in liminal spaces, neither fully present nor gone.
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