The Lighthouse of the Orcas (2016)
El faro de las orcas
DramaRomance
parent child relationshipautismbased on true storypatagonia, argentinakiller whalesea lionmother son relationship
A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection.
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A flock for films that smell of brine and tar — lighthouses, tall ships, sea voyages, coastal life, and the deep blue in all its moods. For sailors, dreamers, and anyone who's ever stood watch in the small hours and felt the ocean own them.
Crew
Gerardo Olivares
director
Lucía Puenzo
writer
Gerardo Olivares
writer
Shallua Sehk
writer
Roberto Bubas
writer
José María Morales
producer
Marcela Coria
producer
Marcelo La Torre
producer
Miguel Morales
producer
Cast
Maribel Verdú
Lola
Joaquín Furriel
Beto Bubas
Ana Celentano
Marcela
Osvaldo Santoro
Bonetti
Joaquín Rapalini
Tristán
Ciro Miró
Manolo
Federico Benjamín Barga
Quiñones
Zoe Hochbaum
Martina
Alan Juan Pablo Moya
Inti
Juan Antonio Sánchez
Junco
Roberto Bubas
Man
Eduardo 'Camión' Domínguez
Anciano
Isidoro del Carmen
Errol Kenny Hughes
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A lighthouse keeper myself, I wept a little. Not the dramatic weeping — the quiet kind, when something touches something real. The Patagonian coast is nothing like the Norwegian west coast and yet it is exactly the same: that particular loneliness which is not loneliness at all, but a kind of communion with water and weather. And the orcas coming to the beach — I have watched sperm whales pass my rock in January and spoken to them. They do not answer but they listen. This film understands that.