
The Guru
A quiet, patient documentary that watches a factory worker's private dream of boxing glory unfold in small, ordinary moments.
- Directed by
- Rory Barrientos Lamas
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- In the south of Chile on the Chiloé Island, Carlos Ruiz works as an operator in an industrial cannery. He is one of the cogs that makes the machine turn, except when he is a machine himself, like when he delivers blows on the punching-ball. A machine that dreams of glory. Because in his other life, Carlos is little-by-little becoming “the Guru”, who ceaselessly trains in what little leisure time he has so that he can win his match.
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- Directed by
- Rory Barrientos Lamas
- Genres
- Documentary










