The Delights

202166 minPG

Synopsis

More than 120 kids live together in Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school in the Argentine countryside. Throughout the year, in addition to the compulsory subjects, they learn activities related to farm work. A doctor and other members of the school staff lend an ear during the daily struggles with misbehavior, physical ailments and the desire to return home. In that school, away from their families, they will experience the end of their childhood and the beginning of their youth.

Credits

Director

Eduardo Crespo

Eduardo Crespo was born in Crespo, Argentina, in 1983. Director, Producer and Cinematographer. His latest film We Will Never Die (2020) was premiered in the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Film Festival and won the New Vision Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. He directed the documentary Crespo (The persistence of memory) (2016) and As Close as Possible (2012). Director of photography for several films including Brief Story from the Green Planet by Santiago Loza, Again Once Again by Romina Paula and Today I Felt No Fear by Iván Fund. In 2021 he was developing a new project called La gruta del viento in the Ikusmira Berriak residency at the San Sebastian Film Festival, where he won the Irusoin Award.

Details

Original TitleLas delicias
Country of ProductionArgentina
Spoken LanguagesLatin American Spanish
SubtitleEnglish
ColorColor

Festival records

Edition | Program

2022International Feature-Length Competition
Competition Program Note
Celebrating the 21st year of the competition program, Festival Film Dokumenter received a wide array of vibrant documentary films from around Indonesia and all over the world. This program consistently strives to show documentary films that are reflective and intervene the social reality through creative ways of storytelling.
In this year of 2022, we have received 400 films that are selected by a committee of fellows from within and also good supporters of FFD from over the years. Luckily, the numbers and quality of films has been growing over the past four years of it’s being divided in four categories. The four categories in competition are International Feature-length Documentary, Indonesian Feature-length Documentary, Short Documentary, and Student Documentary.
We selected 3 student documentary films, 8 short documentary films, 3 Indonesian feature-length documentary films, and 8 of international feature-length documentary films to be screened during the six-day festival. From each category, the team of final juries will award one winner that will be announced at the closing night of the festival. The competition program honors the emergence of documentaries with perspectives, storytelling styles, and colorful approaches every year, and hence we look forward to having more in the upcoming future.

— Rugun Sirait & Riskya Duavania
Program Coordinator

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