30/5 — 5/6/2024
64th International Film Festival
for Children and Youth

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Section: Beyond the Childhood Horizon

Rhinoceros (2022) 12

Argentina, Italy | 2022 | 85 min.

Damián is 11 years old and lives neglected on the streets during the day and sleeps next to his old plastic animals in a humble house in a poor fishing neighborhood at night. He’s rescued by social services and at a children's hospital they find that he has been abused. Leandro (40), a social worker, explains that they are going to take him to live in a children's home where they will take better care of him. But Damián wants to go home. He must decide for himself where he truly belongs.

CountryArgentina, Italy
Year2022
Duration85 min
Rating12
LanguageSpanish
SubtitleCzech, English
Directed by Arturo Castro Godoy
Screenplay Arturo Castro Godoy
Director of Photography Maximiliano Wendler
Music XNIDA
Edited by Eliane Katz
Contact Illmatic Film Group

Biography

Writer and director from Venezuela based in Argentina. He studied film, audiovisual and literature in Santa Fe. His feature films include Silence (El silencio, 2015), Breathe (Aire, 2018) and Rhino (Rinoceronte, 2022).

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