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A down-on-his-luck driver in Buenos Aires takes a last-minute fare: an elderly Muslim man who must reach La Paz.
A down-on-his-luck driver in Buenos Aires takes a last-minute fare: an elderly Muslim man who must reach La Paz. The pair set off across Argentina and Bolivia, their cramped car carrying clashing tastes, frayed tempers and quiet hopes. Detours, breakdowns and the passenger’s fragile health turn the job into an unexpected reckoning, as the journey becomes his first step toward pilgrimage and the driver’s lesson in responsibility, empathy and faith.

Filmed along real highways and border towns, this understated road movie traces a 4,000-kilometre route where small encounters remap two lives. With gentle humour and human detail, it opens a window onto intergenerational friendship and cross-cultural understanding, reminding us that sometimes the most transformative destinations are found in transit.

Credits

Director
Francisco Varone
Screenwriter
Francisco Varone
Producer
Gema Juarez Allen, Juan Taratuto
Production Company
Gema Films
Sales Company
Sandro Fiorin

About the Director

Francisco Varone
Francisco Varone was born in 1978 in Buenos Aires. In 1999, he graduated from the Universidad del Cine and started his career as an assistant director on commercials and feature films the following year. He has received three Lions d'Or at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, a Clio Award and a Sol de Oro – San Sebastián for some of the nearly 100 commercials he shot between 2005

Dates and Showtimes

Thu 25 September7:00 PM
1st Screening

Museum of Islamic Art - Auditorium

Fee: 0 QAR