AUSTRAL FEVER
Production by Brisa Films
4K
20min
Synopsis_
After an injury places a teenager on bed rest, he and his adult caretaker develop an unusual attraction to his wound. Filmed mostly in dimly lit spaces with southern Chile’s mountain range as its backdrop, Austral Fever is a slow-burning, quietly perverse fantasy about cabin fever, addictive pleasures, and the mysteries of the human body.
(Español)Después de que una lesión obliga a un adolescente a guardar reposo en cama, él y su cuidadora desarrollan una atracción inusual por su herida. Filmada principalmente en espacios tenuemente iluminados, con la cordillera del sur de Chile como telón de fondo, Fiebre Austral es una fantasía silenciosamente perversa y de combustión lenta sobre el encierro, los placeres adictivos y los misterios del cuerpo humano.
Screenings_
- La Biennale di Venezia 2019 / Orizzonti Competition
- Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2019
- San Sebastian International Film Festival 2019
- New York International Film Festival 2019
- Valdivia International Film Festival 2019
- Poitiers Film Festival 2019
- Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro 2020
- Janela Cinema do Recife International Short Film Festival 2020
- Lobo Fest Brasilia 2020
- Zagreb International Film Festival 2020
- Pančevo International Film Festival 2020
- Uppsala Short Film Festival 2020
- Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema 2019
- Chilean Film Festival 2020
- IndieLisboa 2020
- FICUNAM 2020
- Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival 2020
- Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse 2020
- Zubroffka Film Festival 2020
- São Paulo International Short Film Festival 2019
- Drama International Short Film Festival 2020
- Hong Kong International Film Festival 2020
- Shanghai International Film Festival 2020
- Dresden International Short Film Festival 2020
- La Serena International Film Festival 2020
- Shorts Mexico 2020
- Kyiv Molodist International Film Festival 2020
- Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art 2020
- Madrid International Film Festival 2020
- Vladivostok IFF PACIFIC MERIDIAN 2020
Awards
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Special Mention of the Jury in the NEST Competition, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2019
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Best Short Film, Valdivia International Film Festival 2019
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Uppsala Award in Memory of Ingmar Bergman, Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2019
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Golden Reiter der Jugendury, Dresden International Film Festival 2020
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Best Short Film, Vladivostok Pacific Meridian 2020
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Special Mention, Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art 2020
- International Award, Madrid International Film Festival 2020
Credits
Director: Thomas Woodroffe
Production: Brisa (Joaquín Echeverría, Pascual Mena), Apolillado (Rodrigo Díaz)
Screenplay: Thomas Woodroffe, Camila Aboitiz, Gabriel Goicoechea
Cinematographer: Emilia Martín
Editor: Camila Aboitiz, Gabriel Goicoechea
Production Designer: Rafael Pontigo
Costume Designer: Franklin Sepúlveda
Sound: Catalina Mateluna, Roberto Espinoza
Visual Effects: Franklin Sepúlveda
Links
https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2019/orizzonti/fiebre-austral-austral-fever
https://antes.cinemachile.cl/en/espanol-documental-noticias-y-el-corto-fiebre-austral-protagonizan-nuestro-tercer-jueves-de-cine-chileno/
https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/2019/sections_and_films/nest_film_students/8/in