Before You Go

Best friends Daniel and Franco head into the Patagonian wilderness for one last camping trip before college pulls them in different directions. When their supplies tumble over a cliff, the two are forced to break into an empty cabin by a remote lake and wait out the weather. Stranded with nothing to do but talk, the boys drift toward the feelings they have never put into words, and the easy rhythm of their friendship gives way to something charged and uncertain. Directed by Vicente del Rio Laya, this Chilean short stars Nicola Vilander as Daniel and Joaquin Batarce as Franco, and runs a compact fourteen minutes. It is a bittersweet coming-of-age story about the infatuations that surface just as the people we love are about to leave, told with restraint and a keen eye for the landscape that surrounds them.