Film Screening: Los Territorios

Thursday / October 10, 2019 / 7 p.m.
Buck Hall, Landis Cinema

The desire to bear witness to the world’s great tragedies is addressed playfully by Ivan Granovsky in the humorous road movie, The Territories. 

After the terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Ivan decided to follow in the footsteps of his father, a respected journalist who writes for Página 12, Argentina’s most widely read progressive paper. He sets off on a journey to sites of contemporary geopolitical conflict. Determining where the frontline ends and this wannabe war correspondent’s ego trip begins proves even more difficult. From Greece to the less-democratic Brazil, from the Basque Country to Jerusalem, Granovsky is always too late, too early or in the wrong place. He asks clumsy questions, gets vague answers, and in the meantime receives e-mails from his mother telling him to repay his credit card debts to her.

An engrossing exploration into what it means to be a journalist, the film is about how we approach the conflicts – not the conflicts themselves – and the role the press plays in times of fake news. Through war correspondents, journalists, and political scientists, Granovsky narrates from what we call the front lines – the boundary between the journalist and the bullets.

The Territories is also a portrait of a thirty-something trying to find his way in a world full of opportunities, but with no idea of where to start.

Part of Lafayette’s 2019 Ibero American Film Festival.

Free for all! No tickets required.