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Directors Diego Ayala, Aníbal Jofre Talk Sanfic Competition Player ‘The Affections’: ‘We Always Wanted to Approach the Scenes From the Intimacy of the Characters’
The film centers a school inspector as he mourns the complicated loss of his teen daughter and readies for its International debut at the August fest.
Produced by Valentina Roblero Arellano and Francisca Mery at Chile’s Orion Cine and co-produced by Ecuador’s Incubadora, the film follows school inspector Benajmín (Gastón Salgado) amidst the unrest as student pushback simmers and he grows weary of his daughter Karina’s (Catalina Ríos) close friend Iván (Gianluca Abarza), who encourages her bold activism. “Since then, we’ve worked mobilized by the affections as a banner of struggle, turning the difficult path of production into an exquisite process of cinematic thought, where elements such as music have appeared, disrupting the language with a fissure in reality,” she continued. With no shortage of big-screen representation of the country’s dogged upheaval in circulation, “The Affections” proves a uniquely sobering, class-conscious dive into the consequence of holding onto the ignorance that fuels hatred, doing so from the dissonant and nearly suffocating first-hand perspective of its tortured male lead and the teenagers he’s meant to look after.
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