El Juego

Benjamin Naishtat

IndieLisboa 2011 • Carte blanche Le Fresnoy

France, Argentina, Fiction, 2010, 20′

A group of armed men are wandering in the jungle, tracking each other. Some move in pairs, some move alone, some wear military uniforms and some don’t. Like in any sort of game, rivalries and internal conflicts will not take long to emerge, drawing a line

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