UNA SOMBRA OSCILANTE

AN OSCILLATING SHADOW

Celeste Rojas Mugica • Chile, Argentina, France • 2024 • 77 min. • 16mm, Super 8

SYNOPSIS

He develops and imagines a world inside a darkroom. His daughter weaves a dialogue inside it: about latent, invented images. About the ways of resisting and navigating the darkness.
“Una sombra oscilante” (An Oscillating Shadow) explores how the intimate and political weight of images can open spaces to reflect upon them as acts of resistance, either because they are made despite the horror of their context or because they offer an imaginary vanishing point that might just set us free.

TRAILER

AWARDS

Special Mention | First Film Competition
FIDMarseille International Film Festival. France (2024)
Best Chilean Feature Film Award
FicValdivia International Film Festival. Chile (2024)
Grand Award | ZIFF – ZINEBI First Film International Competition
ZINEBI Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film. Spain (2024)
DOCMA Award to Best Documentary Film
L’Alternativa Barcelona Independent Film Festival. Spain (2024)
Best Film | National Competition
FIDOCS Santiago International Documentary Film Festival. Chile (2024)
Best Documentary Film
Hainan Island Film Festival. China (2024)

FESTIVALS & ALTERNATIVE SCREENINGS

DokuFest International Documentary and Short Film Festival. Kosovo (2024)
Cámara Lúcida Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo. Ecuador (2024)
Festifreak International Independent Film Festival. Argentina (2024)
Viennale, Vienna International Film Festival. Austria (2024)
Kasseler Dokfest Documentary and Video Film Festival. Germany (2024)
RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival. Canada (2024)
Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival. Greece (2024)
Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival. Italy (2024)
Novos Cinemas de Pontevedra. Spain (2024)
International Film Festival of Kerala. India (2024)
FICH Festival Internacional de Cine de Chiloé. Chile (2024)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Ñuble. Chile (2025)
Festival de Cine UC. Chile (2025)
FECICH Festival de Cine Chileno. Chile (2025)

CREW

DIRECTOR & SCREENWRITER
Celeste Rojas Mugica

PRODUCERS
Florencia de Mugica (Bomba Cine)
Celeste Rojas Mugica
Xénia Maingot (Eaux Vives Productions)

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

CINEMATOGRAPHER
Natalia Medina Leiva

CAMERA
Natalia Medina Leiva
Celeste Rojas Mugica

EDITORS
Celeste Rojas Mugica
Mayra Morán

SOUND DESIGNER
Julián Galay

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Julián Galay
Violeta García

SOUND
Roberto Collío

ADDITIONAL SOUND
Alex Del Río

PHOTOGRAPHS
Luis Rojas
Celeste Rojas Mugica

TEXTS
Celeste Rojas Mugica
Nicolás Turjanski
Martín Cinzano

LABORATORIES
Cinelab Rumania
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola

COLOR GRADING
Tano Martín (In the Shadows)

SOUND MIXING
Emmanuel Croset

PAINTINGS FOR POSTER
Muriel Holguin

FESTIVALS & SALES
María Vera (KINO REBELDE)