The Perfect David by Felipe Gómez Aparicio
The Tribeca Film Festival has announced additional titles that will premiere online in its Tribeca at Home section during its 20th anniversary edition, which includes a handful of Latin American fiction and non-fiction titles: the Argentine film The Perfect David / El perfecto David by Felipe Gómez Aparicio, the Chilean documentary Primera by Vee Bravo; and the documentary film Tigre Gente by Elizabeth Unger, the three of them in their world premiere.
“Tribeca at Home allows us to bring the heart of this festival to even more communities around the country,” said Tribeca Enterprises and Tribeca Festival Co-Founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal. “While we are excited to gather in person this year with our live screenings reaching every corner of NYC, festival goers and the at-home audiences will have more access to a diverse lineup of storytellers than ever before.”
Starring Umbra Colombo and Mauricio di Yorio, Gomez Aparicio’s unsettling The Perfect David explores with atmospheric visual precision the toxic dynamic between a teenager obsessively training to become a bodybuilder, and his controlling mother—a renowned artist who is directly involved in her son’s pursuit of physical perfection. With In Spanish with English subtitles.
The highly-charged documentary Primera brings the audience into the volatile circumstances that led to the student uprisings in Chile in late 2019, and how a rising resistance movement—led by student protesters, activists, street artists and community leaders—fought back against the Chilean government’s oppressive policies and militaristic implementation of force. With kinetic flair, the narrative immerses itself in the exploits of activists that took to the streets to reclaim their country and advocate for a just society.
In Tigre Gente, a Bolivian park ranger and a young Chinese journalist risk their lives to go undercover and investigate a new, deadly jaguar trade that’s sweeping South America. Along the way, they grapple with questions of empathy, responsibility, and bridging a cultural gap to prevent the jaguar trade from spiraling out of control.
