THE BURN
Director René BALLESTEROS
Countries Chile, France
Duration 65 min
Synopsis
The mother of the director left Chili to go to Venezuela 26 years ago, he did not see her again. She is missed; she disappeared through the silence of the father and the grand mother who raised him and his sister. The only physical trace of their mother is a library, filled with books from a publisher named « Quimantú », prohibited during Chilean military dictatorship. The children have grown up : the brother a film-maker, the daughter a librarian. They will try to understand, to retrieve, to fix, to give a body to the telephonic voice of their mother, to finish the spell of the family's phantom limb.
The mother of the director left Chili to go to Venezuela 26 years ago, he did not see her again. She is missed; she disappeared through the silence of the father and the grand mother who raised him and his sister. The only physical trace of their mother is a library, filled with books from a publisher named « Quimantú », prohibited during Chilean military dictatorship. The children have grown up : the brother a film-maker, the daughter a librarian. They will try to understand, to retrieve, to fix, to give a body to the telephonic voice of their mother, to finish the spell of the family's phantom limb.