Kala azar describes of a place that cannot sustain animal life any longer. In a big city somewhere in the south of Europe, a couple takes care of dead animals and abandoned roadkill as an act to give meaning to their life. Kala azar is a meditation on the paradox of life-circles among beings of different species. A film about existence, on the boundaries between living and dead, human and non-human.
At the margins of a city somewhere in the south of Europe, a young couple start their day with their job routine: collecting deceased pets from homes and taking them to a pet crematorium. Outside of their job’s constraints, they also collect and cremate roadkill found during their drives. In this desolate environment, the couples’ stoic perseverance creates a space through which their love grows until the moment they have a car accident and cause a roadkill themselves…
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Kala azar describes of a place that cannot sustain animal life any longer, where a young couple take care of dead animals to give meaning to their life.
Kala azar es una especie de road movie inusual protagonizada por una joven pareja que, con su furgoneta, se dedica a recoger animales muertos —entregados por sus propietarios o encontrados en la carretera— para llevarlos a incinerar y devolver las cenizas a sus dueños. Los problemas empiezan cuando, sin querer, atropellan a un perro abandonado. Una película sobre la vida y la muerte que difumina las líneas entre animales y humanos y que compitió en Róterdam.
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Una pareja que se dedica a ayudar a gente que ha perdido su mascota atropella accidentalmente a un perro.
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