Cinema
After the Storm
Después de la tormenta
Tristán Bauer · 1991
Synopsis
A couple and their two children live in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and are short of money, according to the Bafilma platform. Sundance sets the story at the time when Argentina, despite the first successes of democratisation, is going through its worst economic crisis: the father, a worker, loses his job at the factory, and the family sinks into poverty near a rubbish dump in the capital.
Context
This first feature-length fiction film received the new directors prize at San Sebastián in 1990, then eight Silver Condors, including those for film and direction; an Uruguayan entry dates it to 1991. Sundance presented it in 1991 in its section devoted to Mexico and Latin America. The province of Buenos Aires now shows it on its Bafilma platform.
Who it is for
A restrained social drama in Spanish, about a working-class family pushed towards the rubbish dump by the crisis.
Prizes and reception
Honoured at the Basque festival for a first fiction film, then showered with awards by Argentine critics.
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