98 Seconds Without Shadow

Local title
98 sekundit ilma varjuta
Original title
98 Segundos Sin Sombra
Director
Juan Pablo Richter
Country
Year
2021

Genoveva, 16, lives in a small Bolivian shithole of a town in the 80´s. Her obsession is time. For how long it takes an ant to cross a leaf from one side to the other or the time it takes for a glass of water to fill. In the loneliness of her adolescent days, her adolescent hours, her adolescent minutes, Geno tries to survive the nuns at school, her hostile classmates, her hopeless parents, and men with guns. “What rules “The Shithole” are the drugs and the mediocrity”, she repeats constantly. Everything is registered in her diary and in her memory until she meets Hernán, her mother´s spiritual leader, a young foreigner who has recently arrived in town. For Geno, it is something that leaves her breathless, shakes her, steals her thoughts and gives her pleasure; but not like the pleasure of spending her afternoons with her ailing but bewitching grandmother, Clara Luz, or that of changing the diapers of her cherished baby brother Nacho, but rather like something she had never felt or imagined before in her life. In the 473,040,000 seconds that had elapsed since the day she was born: Love?

Director
Juan Pablo Richter
Screenwriter
Juan Pablo Richter, Giovanna Rivero
Producer
Paola Gosalvez
Cast
Iran Zeitun, Géraldine Chaplin, Quim del Rio, Nakai Mirtenbaum, Patricia García
Director of Photography
Luis Otero
Editing
Eliane Katz
Art director
Camilo Barreto
Composer
Gabriel Lema
Production
Pucara Films
World sales
Pucara Films
Distribution
Pucara Films
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Juan Pablo Richter
Director
Biography

Born in Trinidad, Bolivia, on February 9, 1982. Juan Pablo Richter has directed more than 10 short films and worked on 25 other short films as Director of Photography, Producer, Screenwriter and Editor. He directed the short film The Last Step (2012), which was selected for the 2013 Short Film Corner of the Cannes Festival and won the Best Bolivian Short Film at the Fenavid International Festival in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The Last Step also won the second place prize for the Best Short Film at the Eduardo Abaroa Plurinational Award in Cochabamba in Bolivia and the Best Photography at the Third International Short Film Week in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His first feature film Casting was in the official selection of the “Buenos Aires Red Blood” International Film Festival in Argentina.

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Screening031102 / 98 sekundit ilma varjuta
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Q&A guestsPaola Gosalvez - Producer, Juan Pablo Richter Paz - Director
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Screening071203 / 98 sekundit ilma varjuta
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Q&A guestsPaola Gosalvez - Producer, Juan Pablo Richter Paz - Director
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Screening101203 / 98 sekundit ilma varjuta
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