Director

Dominga Sotomayor

Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands | 2018 | 110 min | Spanish

• Producer Rodrigo Teixeira , Dominga Sotomayor
• Production Company Cinestación , RT Features , Ruda Cine , Circe films
• Screenplay Dominga Sotomayor
• Cinematography Inti Briones
• Editing Catalina Marín
• Sound Julia Huberman
• Cast Demian Hernàndez , Antar Machado , Magdalena Totoro , Matías Oviedo , Antonia Zegers , Alejandro Goic , Mercedes Mujica , Eyal Meyer , Gabriel Cañas , Andrés Aliaga
• Contacts

  Stray Dogs

  lison@stray-dogs.com

About the Film

Too Late to Die Young takes place during the summer of 1990, as Chile was reassembling its democracy after the fall of General Augusto Pinochet; however, these socio-political developments have little to do with the lives depicted in the film.

A small group of families live in an isolated community right below the Andes, building a new world away from the urban excesses, with the emerging freedom that followed the recent end of the dictatorship.

In this time of change and reckoning, 16-year-old Sofía and Lucas, and 10-year-old Clara – neighbors in this dry land – struggle with their parents, first loves, and fears, as they prepare a big party for New Year’s Eve. They may live far from the dangers of the city, but not from those of nature.

Too Late to Die Young is a film about growing up in a period of massive changes; it deals with the nostalgia and the demystification of a period. It’s a coming-of-age story, not just of the young characters but also of the society in Chile, a country that was aching after dictatorship. Sotomayor explores the uneasy relationship between generations and classes, and captures the wisdom of children and the foolishness of adults – the strange melancholy of growing up.