Oro Amargo
Year
2024
Length
82:09 min
Genre
Western, Coming of Age
Language
Spanish
Specs
DCI 4K / Colour
Country of production
CL, URY, DE, MEX
Production
Juntos Films
Co-production
Tarkiofilm, Plotlessfilm, Whiskey Content
In the Atacama Desert, a girl and her father secretly exploit a gold mine until one day the father is injured and the girl has to take his place. She is forced to lead a group of miners who soon want to take the mine away from her.
In the middle of the Atacama Desert, Carola dreams of a house by the sea. She lives there with her father Pacifico. To survive, they work with a small group of miners to develop a small copper mine. What the miners don't know is that Carola and her father are hiding a treasure. The gold vein they secretly work on at night is supposed to enable them to steer their fate in a better direction. When one of the miners discovers their secret, he violently storms the gold mine. While trying to defend themselves, the intruder is killed, but Pacifico is also seriously injured. Although Carola and her father manage to hide the worker's body, Carola must take her father's place in the mine and face not only the hostility of the workers, but also her own lack of maturity in order to continue pursuing her long-awaited dream.
Director Juan Olea
Screenplay Augustin Toscano, Francisco Hervé and Moises Sepulveda
Producer Arturo Pereyra, Cristóbal Zapata, Daniela Raviola, Felipe Egaña, Francisco Hervé, Juan Bernardo González, Moisés Sepúlveda, Tom Schreiber, Virginia Bogliolo
Cinematography Sergio Armstrong
Editing Valeria Hernández
Production design Bernardita Baeza
Costume design Gabriela de Armas
Casting Paulina Giglio
Film music Sofía Scheps
Sound design Daniel Yafalián
Sound mixing Tobias Fleig
Line producer Felipe Egaña
Production manager Camila Ramírez
Carola Katalina Sánchez
Pacifico Francisco Melo
Juan Mariá Daniel Antivilo
Vladimiro Moisés Angulo
Gaspar Matías Catalán
Anibal Aníbal Vásquez
Humberto Michael SilvaDíaz
Amadeo Carlos Donoso
Funding Programa Ibermedia, Fondo de fomento Audiovisual, Agencio del Cine y el Audiovisual del Uruguay, Uruguay Audiovisual, Hessen Film & Media
Programmes/Labs WIP Section Biennale Venice Market 2023, WIP Section San Sebastian 2023, European Work in Progress Cologne 2023
World sales Patra Spanou Film
Distribution jip film & verleih
Festivals (selection) 40th Warsaw FF – international competition 2024, 45th Cairo IFF – international critics week 2024, 55th IFFI Goa IFF 2024, 48th Göteborg IFF 2025, 2025 Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico, 2025 Lichter Filmfestival Frankfurt International – German premiere, 2025 Seattle International Film Festival, USA, 2025 Emden / Norderney International Film Festival nominated for SCORE Bernhard Wicki Prize
Awards Ecumenical Jury Prize – 40th Warsaw FF 2024