Oro amargo
Carola is 16 and dreams of a higher education and a house by the sea, but lives with Pacifico, her father, in the middle of the Atacama Desert. Together with a small group of miners, they work the artisanal Cobra gold mine to survive. Father and daughter hide a treasure from the others: a vein of gold on which they secretly work at night. Like everyone else, they want to change their destiny. One day a miner discovers their secret and violently breaks into the gold mine. Carola decides to challenge the patriarchal structures and laws of the jungle as well as her own immaturity to continue the pursuit of her longed-for dream. (Festival information, Warsaw 2024)
Still keep the hope, even if it is hopeless!
Sometimes the worst tragedies can become opportunities for profound transformations. Carola, a young woman in North Chile, decides to take her life in her hands, and fight against the patriarchal structures and brutal laws of the jungle. Like a resurrection, she descends to the depths of hell to emerge stronger and increase a self-empowerment which become the key to a new life. Through magnificent landscapes and a tense drama, the director allows us to perceive that in the face of the impossible, hope remains.