An account of the events that led a young tourist to permanent silence, after taking shelter with a peasant family whose dog he helped to exterminate.
Social & External
The people behind it
Peter Capaldi
The Tourist
Anthony Pedley
The Peasant
Rupert Holliday-Evans
The Backpacker
Giovanni Mastronardi
The Barman
Margarite Estévez Pardo
The Peasant's Wife
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Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
