From Afar

Armando is a reserved, well off older man in Caracas who pays young men to come to his home, where he only wants to look at them from a distance. When he takes up with Elder, an aggressive teenager from the street, their transactional arrangement slowly turns into something more entangled and unstable.

The film holds desire at arm's length and circles the figure of the absent, damaging father, tracing how longing that cannot allow touch or trust still reaches for connection. It is a spare study of intimacy blocked by history and fear. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2015.