Mariano Raffo

Collective film made in times of confinement. April 2020. The film gives visual form to inner worlds—what the directors see and how they see it. How they inhabit their spaces, their bodies, their fears and perspectives in isolation, and how they connect with the “outside worlds.”

An 8-year-old boy learns and explores in the thick of the forest. Carmelo's parents, like many neighbors in the area, left the city to live in the middle of nature. On this thorny and contradictory new path, the forest lurks and plays with their inexperienced wills. Thus, they attend the inevitable lesson of the Monte School.

A family of Bolivian immigrants living in Argentina operates a greengrocer in a neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires. In order to get employees for their business, they travel to Bolivia after eight years of absence. During the trip they meet their family, their friends and their abandoned traditions. But everything has changed and Bolivia does not seem to be its place either.