#97. Manuel Nieto Zas’ El Lugar Del Hijo (The Militant)
Gist: Workshopped at Cannes’ Cinefondation Residence in 2008′, this is about a college student involved in militant leftist activism is faced with some difficult decisions when his father suddenly dies, leaving him in charge of their troubled ranch and forcing him to take on the role of a middle class bourgeois.
Prediction: Un Certain Regard: Right on cue, we should meet with a new figure in Uruguayan cinema and logically the launching pad might be in the same lieu where his first director work on films from Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll (25 Watts and Whisky), Lisandro Alonso (Los Muertos and Liverpool) and Paz Encina (Hamaca Paraguaya) were presented. His first feature film, The Dogpound showed at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006, where it won the VPRO Tiger Award, and work on this sophomore film actually began in late 2011 – so this is definitely being readied for an international premiere.
