Cristina, a young nurse from the country, walks the streets of Santiago de Chile like a silver ball in a pinball machine. When she is not reading National Geographic to her elderly Hungarian patient Milos or flirting with a park gardener, she is following Tristán Greenberg, a 33-year-old architect whose wallet she finds after he is mugged. Tristán, who is temporarily unemployed while his construction workers are on strike, has been dumped by his too-perfect girlfriend Irene. He returns to the suburban home where he grew up to find that his mother is living with a sleazy magician. As the film progresses, Cristina’s and Tristán’s lives come together in a surprising way… This original and playful example of new Latin-American cinema was the Chilean entry for the Oscars. –Karlovy Vary
ALICIA SCHERSON was born in Santiago de Chile in 1974. After graduating as a biologist she studied filmmaking in the Escuela de Cine de Cuba, EICTV and then received a Master in Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her first feature film “PLAY” was shot in Chile and premiered in 2005 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, where it received the Best Director Award. It was acclaimed by the critics and received other 14 other international awards including Montreal Films du Mond, Karlovy Vary, La Habana and Indie Lisboa. PLAY has also been sold to theaters in Europe and Latin America. Her second feature TURISTAS, premiered in Tiger Competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2009 and is currently touring festivals worldwide. Alicia now lives in Chile where she works as a film teacher at Universidad de Chile and prepares a new movie, THE FUTURE, based on a novel by Roberto Bolaño. Filmografía / Filmography: 2007 “TOURISTS” (HD CAM- 35mm, 118 min Chili, France) with Aline… read more
