COUNTRY
Peru, Uruguay
PRODUCTION
El Árbol Azul Films
YEAR2023
DURATION72 min
WRITING Joanna Lombardi Pollarolo
CINEMATOGRAPHY Micaela Cajahuaringa
EDITION Eric Williams
CAST Hilton Gratelly, Hilda Curo, María Cristina Pérez, Roxana Herrera, Melvin Quijada
CONTACT joannalombardi@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS Hilton is the gravedigger of an illegal cemetery, there's a sign in front of his house 'Grave hole digging service' Hilda and Cristina cross the cemetery, they have been told that a settlement will begin nearby. They are young and want to have their own home. Hilton watches with concern as the settlement begins to form. If they invade, he will have no place to continue digging graves. The settlement and the cemetery are close, and the dead seem to have achieved what they desire: A home.
Joanna Lombardi Pollarolo
Director, showrunner, executive producer. She directed
Casadentro in 2012, which won both the Zenit de Oro at the Montreal Film Festival and the FIPRESCI International Critics Award. In 2014, she shot her second feature film
Solos, which had its international premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Solos has been screened at the festivals in Moscow, Isola, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, among others. In 2017, she directed her first commissioned feature film,
Soltera codiciada (
How to Get Over a Breakup), that was released in May 2018, leading the box office. It was the first Peruvian film to be picked up by Netflix as an original. In 2023 she directed
Soltera codiciada 2 (
How to Deal With a Heartbreak) as a Netflix worldwide original. Her latest film
Quédate quieto participates in the San Sebastian Film Festival in co-production forum in 2021.
FILMOGRAPHY
Soltera codiciada 2 (feature film, 2023),
Soltera codiciada (feature film, 2017),
Solos (feature film, 2015),
Casadentro (feature film, 2012),
Una mujer (short film, 2011),
De noche (short film, 2009)
