Rancho

(Rancho)
Pedro Speroni | Documentary

2021 | 70 minutes | Argentina

Set in an Argentine maximum security prison, Rancho offers testimony of the moments that build a chorus of characters, united by the prison as well as their violent upbringings.

Synopsis

In a maximum-security prison in Argentina, a boxer doggedly seeks his freedom. A group of guys dreams of one day making their millions. A young man comes in for killing his stepfather. The leader of the place has been sitting there for 30 years. Throughout, the same word is repeated: ‘rancho’, used with liberating flexibility. You call your friend ‘rancho’, you ‘ranch’ together.

Pedro Speroni’s prison portrait is a highly concentrated one, built entirely from the moments these men share while incarcerated. Their exchanges are intense: they joke about muggings, and about beating people to a pulp; they jostle and spar; they confide in quiet moments. Society puts up barriers that these men bounce against like balls in a pinball machine, all ending, ultimately, in the same place. What they create there together is their own kind of utopia: a closed environment with rules and norms of their own making.

Reviews

“Speroni's film has a very different vibe from many prison documentaries, which often focus on the brutality and hopelessness of the situation. He, instead, captures a camaraderie which has morphed into something more positive in prison.” – Amber Wilkinson, Eye For Film

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Main credits

Speroni, Pedro (film director)
Speroni, Pedro (screenwriter)
Speroni, Pedro (film producer)

Other credits

Cinematography, Pedro Speroni, Santiago Tróccoli; editing, Miguel Colombo.


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Festivals

BAFICI - Gong Award for Best First Feature Film; Entreveus Belfort - Audience Award; SHEFFIELD Documentary Festival; Guadalajara International Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Pedro Speroni

NATIONALITY: Argentina

YEAR: 2021

GENRE: Documentary

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: High School, College, Adults

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE

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