Jamie Lang Silvina Schnicer‘s debut solo feature, “The Cottage,” screens in competition this week at Morocco’s Marrakech Film Festival.
The film follows an upper-middle-class family in Argentina as they visit their vacation home in a rural neighborhood, only to find that squatters have been using the building and left it in an unpleasant state.
The family patriarch, Rudi, tries to convince the other homeowners in the community that Tomás, the gatekeeper, is to blame and should be fired.
Meanwhile, out of sight of their parents, the neighborhood kids wander the streets, engaging in time-honored traditions of mischief, until things go much too far, and they commit an unspeakable act.
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