Tigre
Argentina
Silvina Elena Schnicer, Ulises Porra Guardiola
It’s summer, the heat is stifling.
Rina, a 65 years old woman, returns to her old house in the middle of the Tigre Delta isles, a labyrinth of rivers and thick jungles. The islanders say that you can suffer the “mal del sauce” (willow malady), a sort of pleasure or lethargy that traps you to daze and neutralizes your ability to react.
Humidity and vegetation invaded the house completely: Rina abandoned it fifteen years ago. Nevertheless, the memories of a past of splendour shine through. Rina wants to recover her house and, in this way, recommence the relationship with her son. But Facundo wants to see her only because he is interested in selling the house to pay his debts.
Her friend Elena, the former maid Ana Laura and their children, join Rina. During five days the house is inhabited by a disparate group of people that fill the place with an unusual and increasing noise.
The Delta, enveloping, penetrates and disturbs them.
A teenager seduces an older woman and, when he can have her, decides to sleep with her daughter instead. A girl looses her virginity in a bathroom. Her best friend, spiteful and with a broken heart, secretly caresses a twelve years old boy, who is carried along by a pleasure before unknown.
A group of islander children goes across the island freely, some play with tin soldiers on the body of a girl, while one nails a spear through the reeds of the hut.
A man suffers the advance of shingles under his skin, until a woman explains him that it is a disease cause by love and he asks for help to escape the island; two mothers toast in the darkness, get drunk and promise themselves that they will learn how to be alone.
The Tigre caught them all, now it’s late.
Rina, a 65 years old woman, returns to her old house in the middle of the Tigre Delta isles, a labyrinth of rivers and thick jungles. The islanders say that you can suffer the “mal del sauce” (willow malady), a sort of pleasure or lethargy that traps you to daze and neutralizes your ability to react.
Humidity and vegetation invaded the house completely: Rina abandoned it fifteen years ago. Nevertheless, the memories of a past of splendour shine through. Rina wants to recover her house and, in this way, recommence the relationship with her son. But Facundo wants to see her only because he is interested in selling the house to pay his debts.
Her friend Elena, the former maid Ana Laura and their children, join Rina. During five days the house is inhabited by a disparate group of people that fill the place with an unusual and increasing noise.
The Delta, enveloping, penetrates and disturbs them.
A teenager seduces an older woman and, when he can have her, decides to sleep with her daughter instead. A girl looses her virginity in a bathroom. Her best friend, spiteful and with a broken heart, secretly caresses a twelve years old boy, who is carried along by a pleasure before unknown.
A group of islander children goes across the island freely, some play with tin soldiers on the body of a girl, while one nails a spear through the reeds of the hut.
A man suffers the advance of shingles under his skin, until a woman explains him that it is a disease cause by love and he asks for help to escape the island; two mothers toast in the darkness, get drunk and promise themselves that they will learn how to be alone.
The Tigre caught them all, now it’s late.
Support:
Festivals and Awards:
Toronto 2017, section Discovery: opening night film
San Sebastian 2017: Nuevos Directores Competition
San Sebastian 2017: Nuevos Directores Competition
World Sales:
Pucara Cine