Blinded

(Ciegos)
Fernando Zuber | Drama

2019 | 81 minutes | Argentina

Thirteen year old Juan and his blind father Marco travel back to his childhood home uncovering memories and truths on their journey.

Synopsis

In Blinded, director Fernando Zuber crafts a meditative and visually poetic road film that explores intergenerational memory, trauma, and the complexities of father-son relationships.

Thirteen-year-old Juan accompanies his blind father Marco on a journey back to Marco’s childhood town in the rural borderlands where Paraguay and Argentina merge. Blinded during combat in the Falklands War, Marco returns for the first time in decades to visit his dying mother and confront the landscapes that shaped his final visual memories.

As Juan steps into the role of his father’s guide, the journey becomes a rite of passage for them both—one marked by silence, revelation, and the fragile act of remembering. While Juan navigates the emotional terrain of adolescence, Marco revisits the past with a son who sees the world for him.

Reviews

“It is a successful cross between family conflict, initiation story, and thriller.” – Gaspar Zimmerman, Diario Clarín

"A sensitive and valuable debut about a father-son relationship. Intimate but never underlined, respectful of the obscurities and emotional ups and downs of its creatures, 'Ciegos' works as a story of reconciliation and initiation at the same time.” – Ezequiel Boetti, OtrosCines.com

"The director skillfully builds and calibrates the rise of suspense and an unsettling tension." — Carla Leonardi, Hacerse la Crítica

"An intimate and sensitive film… the adventure of a father and son’s journey that will forever change their relationship." — Andrea Reyes, Cine y Teatro Argentino / Cine Argentino Hoy

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Festivals

Cine Las Americas; Shanghai International Film Festival;International Film Festival Luz del Desierto - Best National Film, Condor de Plata Awards - Best First Film, Honorary acting mention; Sur Award (Argentine Film Academy Awards) - Best First Work Nomination

DIRECTOR: Fernando Zuber

NATIONALITY: Argentina

YEAR: 2019

GENRE: Drama

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adult

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE

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