LOS REYES
The surprise dog-umentary hit of the year, Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff's delightfully immersive film follows the fortunes of Chola and Football, two stray dogs living in Los Reyes — the oldest skate park in Santiago. Spending their days alongside speeding skateboards and rowdy teenagers, the pair fill their time playing with abandoned balls, finding sticks, trying to stay dry or cool and keeping a watchful eye on the park — all while the confusing world of humans bustles on around them. Originally imagined as a project about the park's young skaters, Perut and Osnovikoff switched gears when they realized that Chola and Football were becoming the true subjects of their film. But the skaters' stories remain, unfolding in the artfully captured snippets of conversations and fragments of bodies seen in the environment surrounding the dogs. Winner, Special Jury Award, 2019 IDFA; Official Selection, 2019 Film Comment Selects, Miami, Portland and CPH:DOX film festivals. DIR/SCR/PROD Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff; PROD Maite Alberdi. Chile, 2018, color, 78 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 78 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, September 15, 2019
Genre: Documentary
