Jorge is a young farmer who lives at the top of the mountains. All his contemporaries have migrated to the city, but he has stayed behind to tend to the coffee plantation that he inherited from his father while taking care of his grandfather and having an affair with his cousin Rosa. The town festivities quickly approach and he anxiously awaits the moment to meet again with Andrea, his ex-girlfriend, whom he has not been able to forget despite the time and distance. As Jorge becomes increasingly obsessed with this reunion, a silent plague invades the coffee plantation. The festivities arrive and in the midst of the strident music and hallucinations, Jorge understands that everything that brought them together has disappeared and most importantly, that staying in his land is an act of love and resistance.
The Rust
La Roya
62nd TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
Available at the Agora Market. |
- Direction: Juan Sebastián Mesa
- Script: Juan Sebastián Mesa
- Cinematography: David Correa Franco
- Editing: Etienne Boussac, Juan Cañola
- Sound: Alejandro Escobar, Daniel Vásquez, Sebastián Alzate
- Actors: Juan Daniel Ortiz, Paula Andrea, Cano Laura Gutiérrez
- Production: Monociclo Cine
- Producers: Alexander Arbelaez, José Manuel Duque
- Co-production: Dublin Films
- Co-producers: David Hurst
- Production Design: Mary Luz Cardona
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Colombia, France
- Production Year: 2021
- Duration: 83'
- Contact: Dublin Films
Juan Sebastián Mesa
Juan Sebastián Mesa (Medellin, Colombia. 1989) is a director, photographer and co-founder of the production company Monociclo Cine. His debut film, Los nadie (2016), landed, among other distinctions, the Audience Award at the Settimana Internazionale della Critica in Venice and opened the 56th Cartagena de Indias Festival. His most recent short film, Tierra Mojada (2017) was part of the Official Selection at Venice, Sundance, and Clermont-Ferrand. The La Roya project was selected for the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum in 2017.
Filmography
2013 Kalashnikov (short)
2016 The Nobodies
2017 Swamp (short)
2021 The Rust