Synopsis

Bastard, is the biological son of a genocidal trying to redeem his past. At 35 years old he discovers that his biological father, whom he has never seen, is guilty of crimes against humanity. He decides to meet him and live with him the last years of his life. He initiates a long remediation journey that leads him to break with his genocidal heritage and meeting the families of his father’s victims.

Team

• Pepe

  Rovano

  Director

  Documentalist and interdisciplinary researcher, based in Viña del Mar, Chile. His films relate personal stories linked to Human Rights and generational transmission of memory. His artwork navegates documentaries, installation and performance, in which he uses archives, sound pieces and immersive narratives XR.

• Kamila

  Véliz

  Executive Producer

  Filmmaker specialized in film direction and executive production from the University of Valparaíso, with postgraduate studies in creation and development of premium series and feature films from EICTV. She is an academic at the University of La Serena (Chile) teaching the FILM subject for the School of Journalism, Faculty of Communications and Social Sciences.

• Clara

  Taricco

  Producer
• Catalina

  Donoso

  Producer
• Antonia

  Valenzuela

  Producer
• Stefano

  Tealdi

  Producer

Technical Info

Written and Directed by Pepe Rovano
Executive Co-production: Pepe Rovano- Stefano Tealdi- Andreas Rockseen- Kamila Véliz – Catalina Donoso.
Executive Production Chile: Clara Taricco – Antonia Valenzuela.
Direction Assistant: María Teresa Paz
Montage: Juan Eduardo Murillo.
Montage Assistant: Emilia Rothen – José de la Maza.
Montage Adviser: Lissette Orozco- Gorki Müller- Göran Gester.
Color Post-production: Michael Cavanagh, Kerstin Übelacker, Mike Jones

Awards and Official Selections

Awards and Funding

2016 Audiovisual Fund, Development line in co-production with Italy
2020 Audiovisual Fund, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Patrimony (Chile)
2020 Torino Film Lab TFL Audience Design (Italy)
2021 Regione Piemonte Film Fund (Italy)
2023 Swedish Film Institute Fund and Film National Fund (Sweden).
2022 Miradoc Distribuition Program (Chile)

Festivals

WIP Cannes Festival (2021), WIP IDFA (2020) , WIP Doc Sheffield (2020) WIP Berlinale (2020), WIP Guadalajara (2021), WIP Locarno (2019), WIP Dok Leipzig (2018).