White Elephant

While building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace in a young, atheist social worker. The "Villa Virgin", a shantytown in the slums of Buenos Aires. Julian and Nicolas, two priests and long-standing friends, work tirelessly to help the local people. Julian uses his political connections to oversee the construction of a hospital. Nicolas joins him following the failure of a project he was leading in the jungle, after paramilitary forces assassinated members of the community. Deeply troubled, he finds a little comfort in Luciana, a young, attractive, atheist social worker. As Nicolas' faith weakens, tension and violence between the slum drug dealing cartels grow. And when work on the hospital is halted by ministerial decree, the fuse is lit...

Keywords

• africa
• Cannes: Un Certain Regard
• economy
• Festival de Cannes
• Jérémie Renier
• politics
• religion
• South America Cinema
• struggle

Actors

• Pablo Gatti
• Ricardo Darín
• Martina Gusman
• Jérémie Renier
• Esteban Díaz
• Walter Jakob
• Miguel Arancibia
• Federico Barga

Director

• Pablo Trapero