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- In a dark and cold Helsinki, an unlucky taxi driver Veli-Matti struggles to maintain relationships with his children and estranged wife. Sometimes, losing everything is just a beginning.
- After having dedicated his whole life to pleasing the dead, Juancho begins to worry about who will fulfill his wishes when his time comes. Lonely and accompanied only by his faithful dog Pinina, this old mortician from a popular neighborhood, fights to maintain control over his body even when he dies. Juancho has almost everything arranged, the funeral home, the burial field, the hole. He just needs a condescending soul who takes care of his instructions, especially his greatest wish, to be buried standing up. GENERE This short film is based on different real experiences and informal conversations I have had with Juancho throughout the last few years. The story transits in a thin line between documentary and fiction, a line which can be often grey but is precisely what interested me the most. After a long investigation and years of getting closer to Juancho, I noticed that he felt more confident when he could hide behind a character. A lot of times, he pushed me away and only allowed me to see some parts of his life, but when I proposed that he acted, he lowered his guard. Working off a script, with a traced narrative, we continued feeding the short film with his experiences. Thanks to fiction, I could finally see the profoundness of his reality. DIRECTOR STATEMENT More than 25 years living a block away from the municipal morgue have made me have an inevitable relationship with death. Since I was a Young boy, I felt a strong intrigue when I would see the corpses being unloaded at the neighborhood funeral homes, almost always on the weekends which is when most people die. I watched hundreds of families lost in grieve while they waited for the body of one of their loved ones. I grew up watching the funeral home employees try to sell their services to these families in the most frivolous way, used to the same routine and smiling forensic doctors who passed the dead bodies through their hands. All these are complex matters, dead and images that most people prefer to avoid, but which I continued to question throughout my life. This is a short film inspired in the lives of many of these morticians from the neighborhood where I grew up, who prepare bodies by day and at night become a sort of living dead due to their crack addictions. They are people who dedicate their whole lives to please the wishes of the dead, and their families... And who ended up living on the Street, old and dying alone, destined to rest eternally in a common grave. Everything that the funerary ritual symbolizes is actually transcendental and definitive in the way we organize our lives. This short film is an opportunity for me to reconcile with all the dead whom I would see entering the morgue when I was a boy. Juan sin miedo invites the spectator to question their mortality, even for a second. To observe objectively from a distance, to decide about their own body. I believe these themes and questions become specifically relevant these last two years, as we are faced with a global pandemic, which has left us vulnerable and fearing our own death, or that of a loved one. This without a doubt, will forever change the way we perceive our own death and fragility in this world.