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THE BOY AND THE LAKE

IN DEVELOPMENT

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Argentina / Colombia

At 20, Mateo carries the weight of being seen as a murderer. Forced to leave his native Buenos Aires, he hides away in a family hotel on the shores of Lake Tota, Colombia, where he lives with his pregnant sister and tries to outrun a past that refuses to let him go. But the ghost of his late boyfriend and the arrival of a young man who looks just like him drag Mateo into a spiral of obsession, jealousy, and violent impulses. When a body washes up on the lake’s shore, suspicion inevitably falls on him. Yet what truly threatens to destroy him is not the shadow of guilt, but something far more merciless: love itself, which slips away and seems to wither the moment it reaches his hands.

Supported by Universidad del Cine (UCINE) and the Metropolitan Fund for Culture, Arts and Sciences of the Buenos Aires City Government.

Script and direction: Mauricio Escobar Durán

Production Companies: Esquimal Cine, Ícaro Films

Executive Production: Lucía Dellacha, Cecilia Pisano, Ismael Egui Saad

Genre: Melodrama/Thriller

Duration: 90'

Shooting format: HD

Expected completion: 2028

Participations

  • X Producers and Film Projects Market, FICCali 2025
  • Feature Films