Historia del miedo (2014)

	Also Known As: Histoire de la peur, History of fear
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Benjamin Naishtat
	Actors: Jonathan Da Rosa, Tatiana Giménez
	Country: RA, UY, F, D
	Genre: Drama, Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 23.09.2014, Kursaal2, FSSDZ2014, Spanish with English subtitles
Synopsis: An helicopter warns the inhabitants of a Barrio (neighbourhood) that they have one week to leave. The loud speaker does not work. There a family faces unexplained small fires just behind their property. Tati and Pola work there as servant and gardener.
Review:  This is the first movie I see in the Donostia Zinemaldia 2014, the Film Festival of San Sebastian. This multiple social portrait presents different categories of people in the daily life and their fears, often linked to the unknown and its metaphor the dark in opposition to the light. Black out during the night having the kids playing outside; house alarm belling without knowing why; dogs barking in the far. The sudden appearance and disappearance of lights have been used a lot to generate this atmosphere. The sound track without music has been worked a lot to create atmospheres supporting the expression of fear. During the Q&A after the movie, the director explained his will to show that fear is amorph and therefore he did not want to show it via images but via atmospheres.
Rating: 6 /10