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El gancho

Sandra Higuita Marin

Colombia

2007

This is the story of a journey: you set out, you wander around, you look for something and you try to get so a certain place. It is also the story of a friendship that evolves between two young boys as they move along the streets of Medellin, attaching their bikes with a hook to the back of a bus or a van. John and Dayron live in the part of the city, an in the  suburbs. One day they head towards the city center in order to pick up the retirement money of Ms. Eucaris, an old women living nearby, whom John has known since his childhood. Back home, John watches Ms. Eucaris being taken out of her house and put into an ambulance. He decides to keep the money and with it he leaves for a journey on his bike, together with a new friend. Both of them are hiding a little secret before the other.

Support

CHF 50'000 for production fiction

Festivals and Awards

Mar del Plata 2014

World Sales

Urban Films

Distribution Switzerland

available for distribution at visions sud est

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