Film Info
Kiltro

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Kiltro
Director	Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Country
Year	2006
Format	35 mm
Colour	Color
Duration	93'

Cast:

Marko Zaror, Caterina Jadresic, Miguel Ángel De Luca, Alejandro Castillo, Man Soo-yoon

Credits:

G, E: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
F: Víctor Jiménez Atkin
DA: María Eugenia Navarro
S: Filmosonido
M: Rocco
P: Derek Rundell
PE: Derek Rundell, Marko Zaror, Diego Izquierdo
CP: Ronnoc Entertainment, Chilechita

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Synopsis

There are two main roads in the history of Latin American cinema: the political and/or auteur film (whether it’s allegorical or explicit) and the core of popular genres (comedy, melodrama, period piece) that are nationalized through music. But, how does one nationalize and make martial arts Latin American? The answer is in this film. The word Kiltro refers to stray dogs of unknown linage, just like Zami, a young Arab man who never met his father and is in love with Kim, the beautiful teenage daughter of an Oriental master who lives in the same multi-ethnic neighborhood. Zami will attempt to seduce her by being a tender man as he beats away his rivals in romance. However, Max Kalba returns after decades away to settle some scores with Kim’s father... Díaz builds his story using the codes of Oriental cinema, but adding Latin American comedy and melodrama, as well as a few touches of universal popular culture. The result of this mixture of lineages is a film that is regarded as the first martial arts film of these half-caste lands of ours, turning its lead Marko Zaror in this genre’s first hero.