SANFIC Industria is an industry space for the development and promotion of national and ibero-american cinema taking place during the Santiago International Film Festival, one of the leading festivals in the region. SANFIC welcomes both film and series projects in-development and also work-in-progress projects. The 10th SANFIC Industria will take place in Santiago in the second term of 2021.
Goes to Cannes
SANFIC Industria - Santiago International Film Festival
Projects
Goes to Cannes
FRIDAY 9 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Daughter
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Martin Desalvo
Produced by: Florencia Brocchi (Domenica Films)
Country of production: Argentina
Original title: La hija
Genre: Feature film
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 70 min
Completed in: 2021
Juana lives with her alcoholic father in an isolated farm. Their life is marked by hard labor and by the absence of Juana’s dead mother. When the need to find out the truth about what happened is awakened, she’ll begin to confront her father and to explore a forbidden path of jungle that may hold a secret.
Goes to Cannes
FRIDAY 9 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Empty House
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Giovani Borba
Produced by: Tatiana Sager (Panda Filmes)
Country of production: Brazil
Original title: Casa Vazia
Genre: Feature film
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 85 min
Completed in: 2021
Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the nights on the pastures.
Goes to Cannes
FRIDAY 9 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Patient(ly)
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Constanza Fernández
Produced by: Roberto Doveris & Constanza Fernández (Niña Niño Films, Celosa Producciones, Fundación Pacuar)
Country of production: Chile
Original title: El Pa(de)ciente
Genre: Feature film
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 108 min
Completed in: 2021
A doctor and expert in ethics, Sergio Graf has to fight the Chilean health system as a patient when he gets Guillain-Barré syndrome. It is a journey toward physical deterioration, a loss of safety, and returning to something that he has until now taken for granted: his family.
Goes to Cannes
FRIDAY 9 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
That weekend
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Mara Pescio
Produced by: Georgina Baisch & Santiago Carabante & Cecilia Salim & Paula Zyngierman & Tathiani Sacilotto (Maravillacine, Murillo Cine, Persona Non grata Pictures)
Country of production: Argentina, Brazil
Original title: Ese fin de semana
Genre: Feature film
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 67 min
Completed in: 2021
Julia returns to Misiones to sign a document that allows her daughter to leave the country with her father, but she must also recover something that belongs to her and that is being claimed. The reuniting with his daughter and with the neighborhood that she left years ago will not be the one she expected.
Goes to Cannes
FRIDAY 9 JULY 2021
14:15 2h
Life That’s Left
Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Flavio Botelho
Produced by: Caio Gullane & Fabiano Gullane & Flavio Botelho & Claudia Büschel (Gullane)
Country of production: Brazil
Original title: Vida que resta
Genre: Feature film
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 88 min
Completed in: 2021
After the sudden and tragic lost of Felipe, a young man suffering from depression who commits suicide inside his home, his parents, Francisca, a college professor, and Carlos, an otolaryngologist, fight to find new ways to carry on, each reacting in its own way to the experience.