Private Project

Neither Totem Nor Taboo (Post Production)

A teenager has a trippy mushroom session. His mother sends him to live with his father, who is struggling to build a relationship with a decent, yet conventional man. The son, and his non-binary and trans friends, bring to the father an opportunity to question the rules he abides by, igniting the fundamental conflict between desire and prohibition.

  • Omar Beretta
    Director
    Gang Buntu (Indonesia)
  • Omar Beretta
    Writer
    Gang Buntu (Indonesia), Tusi Taxi (Argentina)
  • Joel Granito
    Writer
    Tusi Taxi (Argentina)
  • Omar Beretta
    Producer
    Gang Buntu (Indonesia)
  • Joel Granito
    Key Cast
    "Joel"
    Tusi Taxi (Argentina)
  • Omar Beretta
    Key Cast
    "Omar"
    Gang Buntu (Indonesia)
  • Candelaria Frías
    Key Cast
    "Madre"
    Narco Naif
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Ni Totem Ni Tabú
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    24 minutes 28 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 20, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Omar Beretta

Omar Beretta (Argentina)
Director and screenwriter

"Playparty #6" shown at the Queergestreift Queer Film Festival in Konstanz, Germany, a festival organised by students for students that explores feminism, art, eroticism and pornography. 2026

"Manila Killah" world premiere at the Bangkok Krub Gay Sauna to make diversity visible, and open up dialogue about desire, gender, and power. 2026

Dhaka DocLab, a pioneer platform for pitching and mentoring of documentary filmmakers. Observer, 2025

"Revenge" world premiere at the 26 BARS Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival, 2024

Short film "Dead End" added to Otherness Archive, the visual archive documenting queer films and its pioneers, as well as a space for contemporary filmmakers, 2024

Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba - Taller Internacional cine autorreferencial, 2023

Audiovisual production, Cooperación Española Cultura + Desarrollo, 2022

Lawyer, LGBT activist. Producer and host of the podcast #Putoelquelee since 2019 (https://spoti.fi/44mE9I2)

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Director Statement

We knew that the subversion of the orthodox family roles would be uncomfortable for the audience, so we decided to take an unorthodox approach: we used Smartphones and we edited with the careless technique of home made family videos. The light is not right and there is too much music, half way between YouTube and Tiktok. It is not professional, because the matter we dealt with was so urgent that it could not be staged. We rented a classical family house where the whole crew moved for three days, sharing meals, bathroom, and a fair amount of tension. The borders between reality and fiction were blurred. That fear that the world as we knew it was on the brink of disappearing was a disturbing yet exhilarating experience that we did not conceal, contrary to what "good" families do.