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Nona, If They Soak Me I'll Burn Them

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After an act of vengeance on the home of her ex-lover, Nona, 66, flees to her summer house on the Chilean coast. There, forest fires are spreading, but her home is undamaged. While houses go up in flames, Nona displays different sides of her character: the grandmother, the friend, the anarchist… Mischief, satire, and personal memoir mix with a weird little shiver of fear in this quasi-autobiographical piece by Chilean artist and filmmaker Camila José Donoso, who uses a combination of digital video and Super 8. The film stars her grandmother, Josefina Ramírez, playing herself, or a version of herself – the “Nona” of the title.

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