30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

Hunting is a natural right for every puma, therefore man is not allowed anything other than to come to terms with the predator. In Puna, on the mountain range of the Argentine Andes on the border with Bolivia, a shepherd follows the furrow traced by the rituals of his ancestors to defend his flock of llamas from the voracity of a beast that devours their bodies and marks a landscape made of stone and blood, anchored to an ancestral spirituality. With his debut film, Alejandro Telémaco Tarraf constructs a narrative poised between the ethnographic impulse and the charm of Argentine cosmogonic traditions, exploring the formal contradictions of an aesthetic that oscillates between the lunar panoramas of Condor, a fraction of the plain of the plateau of Puna, and close-ups of the protagonists' faces and bodies, minute evidence of the silent cruelty that surrounds them.

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  Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf

  Alejandro Telémaco Tarraf is an Argentine director. He studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires and Cinematography at SICA. His films have been screened at numerous festivals including Rotterdam, AFI Fest, Bafici and Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. In 2020 he made his feature film debut with Piedra Sola, selected in the Tiger Competition of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, with which he obtained numerous international awards.