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ESTRELLAS del DESIERTO / Desert Lights

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BEST NARRATIVE SHORT

Katherina Harder Sacre

18 min | Chile | 2022 | Massachusetts Premiere

In the middle of Atacama Desert, Antay who is 12-years old sees his town disappearing due to the drought. Alongside his friends and their football team, they will try to hang on to the last sunrays, their childhood fragments and the ties with those who still resist.

Awards: Best Fiction & Best Editing ~ Lenola Inventa un Film, Italy; Best Short ~ Cineco International Festival of Film and Ecology, Spain; Best Short ~ Latin American Short Film Festival Imagenesociales, Argentina; Best Short ~ Ischia Film Festival, Italy; Best Ibero-American Short Film ~ MICMX-Traveling MX Film Show, Mexico; Best Short Film Direction & Best Actor ~ Curta Taquary-National Festival of Curta Metragem, Brazil; Best Ibero-American Short ~ Skyline Benidorm Film Festival, Spain; Best Short Fil & Audience Award ~ Chilean Film Festival, Chile; Best Short ~ Ibero-American Miami Film Festival, USA; Best Short ~ Ñuble National Film Festival, Chile; Best Film ~ International Amity Short Film Festival, Turkey; Best Film ~ Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale, USA; et.al.

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