Iris and Ariel are 17 years old, they are twin brothers and they live with their mother and older sister, Lía, on a beach full of molluscs, birds and reptiles. Teenagers have grown up isolated from the continent, in a fraternal relationship that goes beyond the limits of the common and with a transcendental bond with nature. In search of what lies beyond the ocean, Iris decides to leave the island and go to the city. The shopping malls, the noise, the search for an absent father, the separation from her twin and the absence of her mother define the importance of love for her siblings and her identity in nature, that is the plot that presents The octopus skin (Octopus skin), by the Ecuadorian filmmaker Ana Cristina Barragán.
This film is one of twelve stories that take place in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico, which complete the section Latin Horizonsthe selection of feature films of the year, unreleased in Spain, from among all those produced totally or partially in Latin America, directed by filmmakers of Latin origin, or that have Latin communities from the rest of the world as their framework or theme.
The selection that will compete for the Horizontes Award includes four films from the latest edition of WIP Latam: Two seasons, octopus skin, A male Y Vicenta B.
The director and screenwriter Ana Cristina Barragan (Quito, 1987), who last year studied a postgraduate degree in creation at Elías Quejereta Zine Eskola, returns to San Sebastián with octopus skin / Octopus Skin, which was part of the WIP Latam 2021 harvest and will close the section. Barragán obtained with his first feature film, Sunrise (2016), a special mention from the Horizontes jury.
His latest project, the ivyis part of this year’s Ikusmira Berriak residency program.
All the films in the Horizontes Latinos section are eligible for the Horizontes Award, endowed with 35,000 euros for the director or director and the distributor in Spain. The Horizontes Award jury is in charge of assessing and awarding these films. Horizontes Latinos films that are the first or second of their director or director (in this case, 1976, Carvao, Two seasons, The pack, octopus skin, Sublime, I have electric dreams Y A male) are also eligible for the TCM Youth Award, awarded by a jury made up of 150 students between the ages of 18 and 25.
“In The Octopus Skin I want to address fraternity by taking it to the extreme: to twinning. I want to talk about that mix between beauty and darkness in twin relationships, in the unique language of brothers, that hermetic complicity of a very own and incomprehensible world and in the rupture that growing up and separating implies”, Barragán points out in a statement.
In this production “I am interested in finding a wonderful visual universe that goes through language. The Pacific Ocean and Punta Barandúa are the spaces that form the imaginary island that will be created in octopus skin, a universe of animals with prehistoric features, esplanades and molluscs. I need to create an aroma, a particular flavor that transcends the image and stays with the viewer; film this universe with rarity, with intimacy”, comments the Ecuadorian. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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