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Audience Award Competition Short Film 2020
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It’s All the Salt’s Fault
María Cristina Pérez
Picture by picture a daughter looks through the family album, encountering parents, siblings, parties and excursions. In her commentary one can taste the salt and poison behind that normalcy.
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It’s All the Salt’s Fault

Todo es culpa de la sal
María Cristina Pérez
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2020
Animated Film
Colombia
2020
10 minutes
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

Click, frame change, click, frame change. The narrator presents her family in snapshots: the father in his youth, the mother posing in an armchair, siblings, birthdays, excursions, the usual. But the commentary by the daughter looking back adds something profoundly salty, perhaps even poisoned, to the unfolded normalcy. Tiny insults accumulate into sadness. It (almost) doesn’t matter that the family members in question are sloths.

Sylvia Görke

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
María Cristina Pérez
Script
María Cristina Pérez
Editor
Mauricio Cuervo
Producer
Mauricio Cuervo
Sound
Daniel Jones Cozzarelli
Score
Daniel Jones Cozzarelli
Animation
María Cristina Pérez
Narrator
Sara Isabella Martínez Rey