AFI Fest 2015 Nominated Audience Award New Auteurs Lorenzo Vigas      Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema 2015 Won Best Actor Luis Silva      Glasgow Film Festival 2016 Nominated Audience Award Lorenzo Vigas      Havana Film Festival 2015 Won Grand Coral - First Prize First Work Lorenzo Vigas      Mar del Plata Film Festival 2015 Nominated Best Latin-American Film Latin-American Competition Lorenzo Vigas      Miami Film Festival 2016 Won Jordan Alexander Ressler Screenwriting Award Best Screenplay Lorenzo Vigas      Montclair Film Festival (MFF) 2016 Nominated Narrative Feature Competition Lorenzo Vigas      Munich Film Festival 2016 Nominated CineVision Award Best Film By An Emerging Director Lorenzo Vigas      Premios Fénix (Fenix Film Awards) 2016 Nominated Premio Fénix Best Actor Alfredo Castro    Best Editing Isabela Monteiro de Castro    Best Screenplay Lorenzo Vigas    Best Film     San Francisco International Film Festival 2016 Nominated Golden Gate Award New Director Lorenzo Vigas      San Sebastián International Film Festival 2015 Won Horizons Award - Special Mention Luis Silva    For his performance. Nominated Horizons Award Lorenzo Vigas      Thessaloniki Film Festival 2015 Won Best Actor Alfredo Castro  Won Best Screenplay Lorenzo Vigas  Nominated Golden Alexander Lorenzo Vigas    Venice Film Festival 2015 Won Golden Lion Lorenzo Vigas  Nominated Green Drop Award Lorenzo Vigas    Zagreb Film Festival 2015 Nominated The Golden Pram Best Film Lorenzo Vigas  Factor RH Producciones  Malandro Films  Lucia Films

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From Afar (Spanish: Desde allá) is a 2015 Venezuelan drama film directed by Lorenzo Vigas. It won the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.

The film is about Armando, a wealthy middle-aged man who gets sexually involved with Élder, a young man from a street gang.

Storyline

Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide Armando''s masturbatory object. Although a following encounter ends in a beating for Armando, he continues to make the boy dependent. What is the final result that Armando desires? Is it something more than a conflicted relationship with a hustler?

User Reviews
Great movie. Very human narrative
26 August 2016 | by colarusso-1 (Brazil)
This film is one of the best productions made in Latin America have seen in recent years. It shows clearly the loneliness and abandonment leading to attitudes often repulsive. The highly original narrative takes us to a completely unexpected outcome. In this aspect the film has a highly original narrative, nothing the usual story of an old man paying to have sex with a young man. Abandonment, loneliness, violence. The sad fact of everyday life. Excellent actors and an excellent pace of narrative to the end. The film even deserved all the awards he received. A masterpiece. I can not understand the criticism as negative other commentators. It''s an intimate film with enormous human content. For those who live in Latin America like me it is clear that the director knows the violent environment of cities like Caracas. Great movie.