Winner of the FIPRESCI Award at 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival. This gorgeous first feature captures the hypnotic every-day rhythms of ordinary people living on a remote southern Chilean island in what director José Luis Torres Leiva describes as, “A film of ‘strolls:’ mental, virtual, on foot, in automobiles, aboard ferries.” Breathtaking camerawork, almost akin to painting, and perfectly calibrated sound capture the lonely lives of three women and a man whose relationship to the rain, windblown grasses and deserted shorelines is so quiet and mesmerizing, they nearly blend in with their environment. Torres Leiva has caused a sensation in the film festival circuit with this piece, establishing him as one of Chile’s most promising emerging filmmakers. (note courtesy Latin Beat)