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By Axel CHEB TERRAB, Francisco BERENY

AXEL CHEB TERRAB (INDEPENDENT) - as PROD

Art - Culture - Development 2023

From the unannounced absence of the costume designer from a play, ego games, romantic tensions, existential crises and family encounters and disagreements will be unleashed between the actors, the director, the workers of the cultural center and the spectators who attended the performance, putting both the production of the work and the fate of each of them at risk.

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Second film, Comedy
- Countries
- ARGENTINA
- Languages
- SPANISH-ARGENTINE
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Axel CHEB TERRAB, Francisco BERENY
- Cast
- Pablo RAGONI, Camila PERALTA, Hernán CUEVAS, Paula GRINSZPAN, Charo LÓPEZ
- Synopsis
- We enter the underworld of a Cultural Center in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Urquiza, another day of work where a new performance will be presented, like every week, of a play. Homer, director of the play, panics when he finds out that Anastasia, in charge of the costumes and props they use, is absent without prior notice. There are less than two hours until the start of the performance, which is sold out, among other spectators, by his own mother, a popular teacher of the national theater, with whom Homer has a relationship based on disappointment and envy. This fact triggers a sequence of events for all those involved that will challenge them in their personal and intra-work conflicts. The sharpness of the comedy and the distressing and penetrating nature of a drama summarize this world narrated and told by more than ten characters who have a direct or indirect relationship with each other. The actor Ilario gets drunk waiting for Homer's response, who does not want to go on stage; María finds that her absent father appeared at the function; The employee Sergio is going through an existential crisis related to his work; Ambrosio wants to be a father at sixty with his lover Sofía, an employee of the property, and many other conflicts whose tension emerges when several of them realize that they are part of a fiction. Time is of the essence and every minute we are closer to everything being at risk. That the given order is modified and that relationships collapse. On an insignificant basis of reality, the imagination spins and weaves new drawings: a mixture of pure inventions, absurdities and improvisations.