The adventure begins when everything goes wrong

Telmo, a young aspiring filmmaker, reaches the most remote part of the Amazon. He comes full of naive hope, romantic ideas, and a camera.

Astonished, he films for a year a mesmerizing reality that overwhelms him. From then on, nothing goes as planned. The Amazon’s reality is unpredictable, absurd, poetic, and surprising. As Telmo goes deeper into the jungle, the world becomes gradually more mysterious under his filmic eye.

The journey takes Telmo to the limits of both reason and his world, into the habitat of the feared Taromenane, the hidden ones. It is at that imaginary boundary that Telmo finds himself. He’s a storyteller, and he decides to tell this story.

The camera aims to be an extension of the eye. At first it is the astonished look of the traveler, and during the film it moves towards fascination and everyday life, towards the self and the other. It’s a look that allows itself to be found.

There were many moments lacking action that I tried to fill with dialogue on camera, exploring my own acting in that place that was so foreign to me.

I met real survivors. Survivors of history trying to keep their lifestyle in an ever-changing, foreign world.

DIRECTOR'S NOTE

I read once that the adventure starts when things go wrong. This film is about that. I wanted to make a movie so badly, that I started doing it having no clue of what I was doing. I knew I wanted to find one truth and talk about it without artifice. I firmly believed that life itself, in all its normalcy, can be exceptional if you know where and how to look. Then, fate wanted me to be in privileged places and times with my camera. Unbeknownst to me, it was already

happening. The movie was being born, but I couldn’t see it yet. I spent several months like this in the Amazon, searching for the

documentary that never seemed to arrive. I never found that truth I was looking for, but that year gave me something real: this movie. Good and bad times, laughter and loneliness, the jungle, the river, and mainly, the people. People like you and me, with hopes and failures, that I found and who found me in that jungle. I hope this movie is for you as wonderful an adventure as it was for me to make it

Nature plays a key role. Sometimes it’s a character, others the stage.

In that remote part of the jungle, someone is watching. Who are they?

It was that year, you know. The year of waiting.

PRODUCER'S EXPERIENCE

Arena was established in 2000 as an independent production

company specializing in documentary film. Today, we’re a solid team with vast filmmaking experience.

Documentaries such as Nömadak TX, The Ridge, Walls, District Zero, Bizimina, Oskara, Cholitas, Dardara, Chhaupadi, or Ride Your Dream have been brought to life by Arena. They all have something in common: they are real stories made of people. We believe that what is intimate is also universal, which has allowed our films to have ample international distribution. Arena has been producing films from young -and some not so young- filmmakers for a while. We’ve had the pleasure to work with Ainara Vera, Marina Lameiro, Iñaki Alforja, Jon Maya, Raúl de la Fuente and now, Telmo. By blending our expertise with his passion, and our craft with his creative flair, we have created a film that is completely different from anything we’ve done before.

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The moving of the fridge, you better see it in the film.

Silence and solitude awaken your awe for simple things, like a butterfly that lands on your hand. But the jungle doesn’t cater to sensitivities. Life there can be as fleeting as the simple flight of an insect.