Husek

The way in which the territory is inhabited by the indigenous cultures of the Gran Chaco generates community movements close to the forest and the river, sources of life. The government is planning a new territorial order with popular houses and the displacement of wichí families to the new urban periphery.
Ana is the architect in charge of the project. Valentino is the chief of his community and with his grandson Leonel they will try to mediate what they consider to be a new cultural outrage.

  • Daniela Seggiaro
    Director
    Nosilatiaj. La belleza
  • Daniela Seggiaro
    Writer
  • Osvaldo Villagra
    Writer
  • Alvaro Urtizberea
    Producer
    La niña santa
  • Juan Rivero
    Key Cast
    "Valentino"
  • Verónica Gerez
    Key Cast
    "Ana"
  • Leonel Gutiérrez
    Key Cast
    "Leonel"
  • Carla Crespo
    Key Cast
    "Rocío"
  • Guillermo Saposnik
    Cinematography
  • Julián D'Angiolillo
    Editor
  • Catriel Vildosola
    Sound
  • Whisky
    Music
  • Guido Yannitto
    Art Direction
  • Bruno Alfarano
    Art Direction
  • Makarena Fuentes
    Costumes
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Husek
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Drama, Aborigin cultures, Politics, Woman, Human Rights
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 29 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital - RED Classic
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:66:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • FID Marseille
    Marseille
    France
    July 20, 2021
    World Premiere
    Mention for Prix George de Beauregard
  • Mar del Plata IFF
    Mar del Pata
    Argentina
    November 21, 2021
    American Premiere
    Argentine Competition - ''Mujeres de Cine'' Award - ''Patacón'' Award to actress Verónica Gerez
  • Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse
    Toulouse
    France
    March 29, 2022
    Official Selection
  • First Look at Museum of the Moving Image NY
    New York, NY
    United States
    March 20, 2022
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Cine Las Americas
    Austin, Texas
    United States
    June 9, 2022
    Competition
  • Ischia Film Festival
    Ischia, Naples
    Italy
    June 30, 2022
    Italian Premiere
    Denied Location Competition
  • BíoBíoCine
    Concepción
    Chile
    July 21, 2022
    Chilean Premiere
    Best Film - Competition
  • Islantilla Cinefórum
    Islantilla, Huelva
    Spain
    July 25, 2022
    Spain Premiere
    Feature Competition
  • Mostra Ecofalante
    Sao Paulo, SP
    Brazil
    August 23, 2022
    Brazilian Premiere
    Latin American Competition
  • Chiloé FF
    Castro, Chiloé
    Chile
    September 8, 2022
    International Competition
  • Cine de las Alturas FF
    San Salvador de Jujuy
    Argentina
    September 5, 2022
    Feature Film Competition
  • Gral. Pico FF
    General Pico, La Pampa
    Argentina
    September 5, 2022
    National Feature Film Competition
  • trinidad+tobago FF
    Port of Spain
    Trinidad and Tobago
    September 26, 2022
    Caribbean Premiere
    Official Selection
  • San Francisco Latino
    San Francisco, CA
    United States
    October 23, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Trieste Ibero-Latino American FF
    Trieste
    Italy
    November 14, 2022
    Mundo Latino Competition
  • FICDHV Vieques
    Vieques
    Puerto Rico
    December 8, 2022
    Official Selection
  • Miradas Diversas
    Caracas
    Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
    December 1, 2022
    Competition
  • Veracruz World FF
    Veracruz
    Mexico
    December 18, 2022
    Best ibero-American Feature (given by Ibero-American Press)
Distribution Information
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    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Daniela Seggiaro

Daniela Seggiaro was born in northern Argentina. She studied film at the University of Buenos Aires, and since then has been working on projects that bring her closer to the indigenous world, documentation, film experimentation and collaborations
with other artistic languages. Her first fiction feature film Nosilatiaj. Beauty opened at the Berlinale and follows a long path with international and local recognition. Husek, her second fiction film, delves into a task of filmmaking work in conjunction with lots of members of wichí communities.
 Now, she is carrying out her documentary essay project Senda India / Our demand (FID Lab 2020).

FILMOGRAPHY
2012 – Nosilatiaj. La belleza – feature
2021 – Husek - feature

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Director Statement

Husek makes part of the work initiated in my first feature film BEAUTY: fiction stories that oscilate among Western and indigenous culture. This time not inscribed in the intimacy of a family, but along a web of groups related to the professional/political class on one hand and the Wichí community on the other; this film proposes to create a new point of listening and enunciation for indigenous language and thinking in the contemporary world.
HUSEK was concocted from rests of a long conversation that borders between the Spanish and Wichí Lhämtès languages. The writing work was shared with Osvaldo Villagra who, from his knowledge and experience as part of a Wichí community, contributed to build a multiple story, with a space to incorporate indigenous elements not only as representation, but also as a point of view on things. The film travels territories of marked spaces, broken dialogues, wounds that Western apathy is leaving on the landscape and the life of the people who inhabits it.
Through HUSEK's fictional story, the uncertainty of Ana (Vero Gerez) and the resistances of the Wichí people slip by, next to their nyat Valentino (Juan Rivero) and his grandson Leonel (Leonel Gutiérrez). The work with the actors asks for realism, but the multiplicity of the worlds evoked makes us wonder what is real. HUSEK is formed from dissimile forms of telling our stories, parallel thinking and language, porosities.
The shooting of HUSEK was possible thanks to a great intercultural team, and especially thanks to the support and work of the communities leaders like our dear bilingual teacher Juan Rivero, who this time was involved from the experience of playing one of the star roles of the film, and chief Valentino Dias, who guided us through the woods to tell us the story of an ancient fort and a historical conflict which sets the story running. This work is dedicated to them, to all those Wichí key people, male and female, that were gone on the first year of the pandemic. To their memory.