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The Chagra

2017 · 13 min

A quiet, disorienting drift through a fading mind, where memory and myth blur into something fragile and strange.

Directed by: Adrián Espinosa
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery
Starring: Neal George Bustamante, Marco Bustos, Paola Guatumiño

Overview: El Chagra is a short film that is constructed with two main concepts. The Alzheimer's disease and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Creating an analogy between the two, we assemble a cinematographic journey through Don Genaros disturbed mind. Recollecting, relapsing and reviving his last memories we try to give the audience a hint of the whole background, and story about his life by creating the divergent freedom, a glimpse of interpretation of the world as the main character sees it.

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Directed by: Adrián Espinosa
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery
Starring: Neal George Bustamante, Marco Bustos, Paola Guatumiño

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
identity
death
isolation
faith
Places: home
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	4
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: fantasy, mystery
Directed by: Adrián Espinosa
Written by: Adrián Espinosa
Starring: Neal George Bustamante, Marco Bustos, Paola Guatumiño, Emilio Coello, Teodoro Chicaiza, Marcelo Paredes, Gabriel Solís
Cinematography: Nicolás Riofrío
Runtime: 13 min
Country: Ecuador
Languages: Spanish

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