La Perrera /

The dog pound

Desperate and unfortunate, lazy and hesitant, David, a 25-year-old guy, has failed as a student and lost scholarship which supported him in the capital city. To get it back, he must pass an exam that will take place in a year's time. In order to let time go by, sit for the exam and finally get his independence back, David has come to live at La Pedrera, a small beach town where his father will abandon him after assigning the mission of building his own house during the winter. This is the story of the construction of this house as well as David's
tragicomic fight to survive in a new world, a place where there are nearly as many dogs as men, where there are almost no women, where nobody wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.

Screenplay and Direction

Manuel Nieto Zas

Cinematography and Camera

Guillermo Nieto

Art Direction

Gonzalo Delgado Galiana

Editing

Fernando Epstein

Music

Buenos Muchachos / Flormaleva

Sound Direction

Catriel Vildosola

Production Design

Agustina Chiarino

Poster Design

Luis Bellagamba

Cast

David

Pablo Riera

Ruben

Martín Adjemian

Rodney

Sergio Gorfain

Evelin

Sofía Dabarca

Blondina

Adriana Barboza

Richard

Richard Vera

Pototo

Mauro de los Santos

Rafa

Federico Silva

Kike

Richard Diego Torbay

Diariero

Gabriel Pellejero

Chino

Chino Carlitos

Eddie

Miguel Coitiño

La Perrera, humorous chronicle of a year of trouble and sexual misery, achieves an odd mixture of triviality in its apparent purpose, of stylistic elegance and radical pessimism.

On a background of emotional and social misery, of sexual frustration and uncontrolled drug use, the construction essay of this young bourgeois turns into a tragicomic epic.