Instrucciones para soltar (2019)
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Ficha Técnica
Título: Instrucciones para soltar
Año: 2019
Duración: 8'03''
Idioma: Español
País: México
Formato: súper 16 mm
Elenco: Leonel Dmitri Handal y Mafer Marquez
Dirección y guión: Gustavo Gamero
Producción: Gustavo Gamero
Dirección de fotografía: Sebastián Valdivieso y Gustavo Gamero
Diseño de producción: Bárbara Ramírez
Sonido: Stefania Kirnbauer
Edición: Gustavo Gamero
Sinopsis
Daphne y Mafer se conocen en un hotel, rápidamente se hacen amigas y la química empieza a surgir entre ellas.
Premios y Menciones
Mención Especial del Jurado - OutFest Los Angeles 2020
Best Director Award, Best International Film Nomination - BFI Future Film Festival 2021
Mención Honorífica del Jurado de la Prensa - Shorts México 2020
Mención Honorífica - Cecehachero Film Fest.
Selecciones Oficiales
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020. Voices Short
Palm Springs International ShortFest 2020. LGBT+ Short Competition.
Slamdance Film Festival 2021
Melbourne International Film Festival 2020
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival 2020
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2020
Korea Queer Film Festival 2021
Festival Internacional de Cine LGBTIQ+ OutFestPerú 2020
Queer Screen Australia 2020
Cuórum Morelia 2019
Oaxaca FilmFest 2019. Nueva Industria.
Festival Internacional de Cine de León 2020
El Paso Film Festival 2021
Reseñas
An intimate encounter between two women is recounted in this melancholic ode to a brief love that has been lost.
Two women meet while on holiday and their brief but intimate encounter leads one of them to later recount it. With the audio of their conversations and beautifully shot 16mm visuals, we are taken through those few moments the two shared together. A film as a sweet and somber ritual of letting go.
International Film Festival Rotterdam
https://iffr.com/en/2020/films/instrucciones-para-soltar
“This was a beautifully shot film that really showcased Gustavo’s brilliant directorial abilities. We felt the film did particularly well in conveying the story of a sweet and intimate relationship in an intelligent and poetic way that was both visually inviting and directorially well told. Each shot was carefully constructed to create a piece of work that was in the end a truly unique film.”
Waad Al-Kateab, jury of BFI Future Film Festival
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/awards-14th-bfi-future-film-festival
Shot in dreamy, mournful 16mm, Instructions to Let Go – which had its international premiere at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam – collides past conversations with present scenes of loneliness to depict connection, distance, and the simultaneous promise and peril of hope.
Melbourne International Film Festival
https://2020.miff.com.au/film/instructions-to-let-go/
Utilising sound and sight to represent past and present respectively, writer-director Gustavo Gamero’s unique approach to Instructions to Let Go elevates a simple premise of reliving past romance into a picture which astutely captures the depression and loneliness of lost relationships.
Brooke Heinz para Rough Cut Film
Por otro lado, Gamero retrata el duelo desde lo individual, el silencio y el reflejo. Muestra una nostalgia muy particular de la juventud, esa que existe aunque no se tenga demasiado que añorar y la hace más dolorosa de lo que podría ser. Los múltiples espejos en los que se mira la protagonista ayudan a subrayar su soledad y como el dolor es algo que la atraviesa solo a ella.
La cinta no sólo habla del vacío que sentimos al hacer todo aquello que antes se compartió en pareja, muestra también el eterno contraste entre el espacio y el cuerpo: al hotel vamos por una noche, pero estamos aislados en nosotros mismos toda la vida.
Ximena Chávez Prado para Girls at Films
https://girlsatfilms.com/2020/09/17/vlaff2020-instrucciones-para-soltar/
In Instrucciones Para Soltar, isolation is explored through a narrow focus on one character in a hotel room. Initially, they seem like a voyeur, eavesdropping on the conversations of others — but when reality is in fact revealed, the situation is one of reminiscence; of elusive memories and forgotten pasts. Of a love affair that is played out in one’s mind over and over and over again, long when the love affair itself has passed. As the film’s title advises, the best practice might sometimes be to go through the motions of loss, in order to lay them to rest.
Vivian Hua para REDEFINE Mag
https://redefinemag.net/2021/superb-short-films-at-slamdance-2021/
A gentle, heartbreaking story of missed love, this Mexican film starts full of ambiguity, but becomes more affecting as it gradually unfurls. We start by hearing an eavesdropped conversation of two women bonding after a chance encounter in a hotel swimming pool, but in the visuals we only see one person, listlessly sitting around in that same pool. The ending does soon become clear, but that only makes you wish harder for some other conclusion.
Jochan Embley para Evening Standard
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/bfi-future-film-festival-2021-best-shorts-films-b919849.html
Another offering is Instructions to Let Go ( Instrucciones para Soltar 2019), 8min, has attracted nominations for Best Director, Best International Film + Special Mention. With Leonel Dmitri Handal and Mafer Márquez, this gentle and sad ode to a girl having to let go of a dream, focusses on re-living the romantic encounter that she hopes to find once again. Shot in 16mm with a fine eye for details and vivid and emotional voice-off memories of conversations once held, Gamero recreates a minimal world of betrayal that is very moving. While Gustavo Gamero’s Instructions to let Go (2019)
Corina J Poore para LatinoLife UK
https://www.latinolife.co.uk/articles/latino-short-films-bfi-future-film-festival