2024 | Argentina | Fiction

El mensaje (The Message)

  • Spanish - 90 mins
  • Director | Iván Fund
  • Writer | Iván Fund, Martín Felipe Castagnet
  • Producer | Laura Mara Tablón, Gustavo Schiaffino

STATUS: Post-Production

This film is currently not available.   

At the height of the economic crisis, a 9-year-old girl with the gift of communicating with animals and her opportunity-grabbing guardians survive by offering services as a pet medium. The travelling family must address their own inability to communicate while driving through the Argentinian countryside in a small motorhome on their way to visit the girl's mother in a mental institution. An emotional road movie along dusty roads showing us that innocence is a treasure. A supernatural business, where the transcendental earns money and opportunism rubs shoulders with the truth. Gift or racket, one thing is certain: the service is real, and nobody is alone.

economic crisis magical realism child protagonist animal
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