From Afar

Lorenzo Vigas · 2015 CE · Film · Latin American · Contemporary

A middle-aged dental prosthetist in Caracas picks up young men from the street, pays them to undress and sit at a distance while he watches, and never touches them; one of them, a gang member, robs him and then keeps coming back. Somewhere behind this is the father the older man watches from across a road. First Venezuelan film to take the Golden Lion.

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