Cara hesitates. She is 37. She is married, possibly pregnant and she is supposed to be happy while she travels towards summer vacation along with her husband and a jet ski hooked to the back of the car. But maybe she doesn’t want to be there. Maybe she prefers to be hitchhiking with a random Norwegian backpacker heading to a beautiful national park where she could walk among big trees and talk about birds and old pop songs with the park ranger. Yes, maybe that would be better…
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
This is beautifully personal film making. A mature and honest look at life's long journey and how we are all tourists at some point even within ourselves. Great performances, playful direction and a lovely rendering of that sense of optimism, courage and shift in perspective that can only be gained as a 'tourist'. 3.5 stars
