By mixing personal footage filmed by Federico Veiroj over 30 years, excerpts from his fictional films as a director, and filmed records of a psychiatric clinic where the director’s father undergoes an assessment to establish his diagnosis, an irreverent and humorous fresco is constructed that addresses an uncomfortable family experience, a complex father-son relationship, and a crazy story of rise and fall.
Federico Veiroj
He was born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1976 and graduated in Communication Sciences from the Catholic University of Uruguay. In 1996 he began directing and producing short films, the last of which (‘As Follows’, 2004) won awards at the Gijón and Cinema Jove festivals. In 2008, he made his feature film debut with ‘Acne’, which premiered at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won the TVE Films-in-Progress Award at the 2007 San Sebastian Film Festival and was nominated for a Goya Award. 'A Useful Life' (“010), his second feature film, won the Industry’s Films-in-Progress Award in San Sebastián. With 'The Apostate’ (2015), he won the Fipresci Award in San Sebastian and received a special mention from the international jury, while ‘Belmonte’ (2018) won the award for best screenplay at the Mar del Plata Film Festival and ‘The Moneychanger’ (2019) returned to the San Sebastian Festival and earned the trophy for best adapted screenplay from the Argentine Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
