THE MILITANT (FEATURE)
Director: MANUEL NIETO ZAS / Fiction / 129' Uruguay - Argentina, 2012. Premier at Toronto International Film Festival. It’s been in the OFFICIAL SELECTION at: Rotterdam, Göteborg, Sao Paulo, La Habana, Geneve, Dublín, FICUNAM, Toulouse, BAFICI, Dallas, San Francisco, among others.
AWARDS: “Best New Director”, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival; “Best Foreigner Movie” Gramado International Film Festival; “Best Director”, Lima International Film Festival.
"El lugar del hijo/The militant" is the story of a student who is being told of his father’s death and has to travel to Salto, a town in the north of the country to attend his funeral. In Salto he discovers that his father left him a farm with debts and a house in town with a lover who settles down there with him. It is a story of rootlessness and of personal reconstruction, a metaphor on the inherited country and the youth which at some point has to deal with it"
