translated from Spanish: Chilean film “White in White” wins award at Venice film

The Spanish-Chilean feature film “Blanco en blanco”, by Théo Court, won the Award for Best Director of the Section Orizzonti – awarded by the Jury composed of Susanna Nicchiarelli, Alvaro Brechner, Mark Adams, Rachid Bouchareb and Eva Sangiorgi – at the 76th edition of the Venice Mostra.
In this way, it became the only Latin American production distinguished at the ceremony.
This is in addition to the FIPRESCI Prize for Parallel Sections (to which the Orizzonti films and The Critics Week were chosen), announced by the jury of the International Federation of the Film Press.
He was distinguished by the unique approach to a journey towards modernity and madness in a remote part of the world, combining the harsh portrait of genocide with the expression of an artist’s soul. The film provides beautiful images and a delicate rendition of Alfredo Castro.
Patagonian Western
The actor Castro – also present in this edition of Venice with another Chilean film, “El Príncipe”, regular actor of Pablo Larraín, with which he has collaborated in films such as “Tony Manero”, “No”, “El Club” and “Neruda”, and who was the lead actor of the winner of the Golden Lion ” I desed there”, by Lorenzo Vigas- stars in this fascinating historical drama, with echoes of Patagonian western.
During the Italian competition Castro also received the Starlight International Cinema Award for outstanding career, the first time this recognition was received by a Latin American artist.
Inspired by the photos of the Selknam people’s massacre in the late 19th century, “Blank White” is a haunting film, with disturbing beauty, filmed in the last corner of the planet.
The history of the film is set in the prelude of the twentieth century. Pedro (Alfredo Castro) arrives in Tierra del Fuego, a hostile and violent territory, to photograph the marriage of the powerful latifundista, Mr. Porter.
The bride-to-be, barely a child, becomes her obsession. Trying to capture its beauty, he betrays the power that dominates the territory. Discovered and punished, Peter cannot escape and ends up being a participant and accomplice in a society that coexists with the genocide of the Selknam natives.

Original source in Spanish