"Perro Bomba", available in e-cinema since June 1
"This country is fucked up," laments a site manager (Alfredo Castro, a favorite actor of Pablo Larrain) speaking of Chile which exploits Haitians in search of work and a legal situation. Steevens (Steevens Benjamin) is one of them. He struggles to find a job at Junior (Junior Valcin), his childhood friend, who has just landed in the country. But the young worker sees his situation deteriorate following increasingly violent altercations with his xenophobic boss. Born in Santiago in 1990, uncompromising observer of political and economic reality, Juan Caceres is the author of a first film, Perro Bomba, which has the value of testimony. After two short films that both wanted to distract and encourage reflection, the director portrays a familiar daily life that is conducive to the debate on migrants. His battered antihero both by the Chileans and by his own community falls into marginality. Camera in
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