THE MESSAGE | EL MENSAJE

ARGENTINA, SPAIN, URUGUAY | 2025 | B&W | DCP | 91’ | SPANISH

A quiet girl, who has inherited from the women in her family an ability to communicate psychically with animals and sometimes convey what they feel and think, offers her services for money, traveling through the Argentine countryside accompanied by a friendly couple. We do not know what circumstances have led these three people to become traveling companions. Nor do we know if the little girl really has this strange gift or if this is just the most dreamlike way she has found to communicate her inner world. What Ivan Fund's charmingly mysterious and elliptical road movie leaves us to understand is that everything in this life is a result of our fundamental need to believe in something. The rest is left for us to decipher as we wish. Silver Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival. L.K.

DIRECTOR: Iván Fund
SCREENWRITERS: Iván Fund, Martín Felipe Castagnet
DoP: Gustavo Schiaffino
MUSIC: Mauro Mourelos
PRINCIPAL CAST: Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Anika Bootz, Betania Cappato

IVÁN FUND
Argentine filmmaker, born in 1984. In 2002, he moved to Buenos Aires and worked as a cinematographer. In 2005 he directed his first short film, “Vals”. In 2009, his first feature film, «La Risa», was a BAFICI Official Selection. 

FILMOGRAPHY

2025 The Message
2021 Dusk Stone
2018 There Will Come Soft Rains
2017 Toublanc
2012 I Got Lost A Week Ago
2011 Today I Felt No Fear
2010 The Lips
2009 The Laugh