50 Years of SIFF: At the End of the Tunnel
April 19 - May 3, 2024
Wheelchair user and computer geek Joaquin is thrust into a dangerous game of survival, double-cross, and redemption when he discovers his new neighbors, including a single mother whom he has feelings for, are planning a bank heist by tunneling under his home. HEBE TABACHNIK CHOICE.
Seattle International Film Festival 2017 Golden Space Needle Audience Award: Best Film and Best Director.
"Bolstered by tight editing and a rich, evocative sound design, writer/director Rodrigo Grande brings an emotionally rich tale of two wounded souls struggling for connection inside a taut, absorbing cat and mouse thriller that would’ve made Hitchcock proud.The film was highly enjoyed by the SIFF audience who followed the film to several venues during the festival and ended up receiving the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Film and Best Director, only the second time in the history of the festival that the same film picked those two coveted awards."—Hebe Tabachnik, SIFF Senior Programmer
Reeling from loss and living in self-imposed exile, wheelchair user Joaquin (Leonardo Sbaraglia, Wild Tales) whittles his days away stewing in bitterness and fiddling with surveillance equipment in his grungy basement; but when a room-for-rent ad is answered by Berta (Clara Lago, Spanish Affair), Joaquin finds his antisocial way of life upended by the brash, sexy single mom and her mysterious young daughter. As his icy disposition slowly thaws, he uncovers a plot by a gang of criminals, led by psychopath Galetero (Pablo Echarri), to tunnel their way beneath his home and into the vault of a nearby bank. As his feelings for Berta grow and he discovers that the plot runs deeper and closer than he ever imagined, Joaquin is thrust into a dangerous game of survival and redemption in this wild, unpredictable roller-coaster ride of a thriller. Bolstered by tight editing and a rich, evocative sound design, writer/director Rodrigo Grande follows up his 2009 hit A Matter of Principles with an emotionally deep tale of two wounded souls struggling for connection inside a taut, absorbing cat-and-mouse thriller that would’ve made Hitchcock proud.
- Original Language Title: Al Final del túnel
- Director: Rodrigo Grande
- Country: Spain, Argentina
- Year: 2016
- Running Time: 120 min.
- Producer: Mariela Besuievsky, Pablo Echarri, Martin Seefeld, Gerardo Herrero, Vanessa Ragone, Axel Kuschevatzky
- Screenplay: Rodrigo Grande
- Cinematographers: Félix Monti
- Editors: Leire Alonso, Manuel Bauer, Irene Blecua
- Production Designer: Lucio Godoy, Federico Jusid
- Music: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Federico Luppi, Clara Lago, Pablo Echarri, Uma Salduende
- Awards: A Matter of Principles (2009) Gangs from Rosario (2001)
- Filmography: Wheelchair user and computer geek Joaquin is thrust into a dangerous game of survival, double-cross, and redemption when he discovers that his new neighbors, including a single mother whom he has feelings for, are planning a bank heist by tunneling under his home.
- Language: Spanish
- US Distributor: Latido Films
- International Sales: http://www.latidofilms.com/at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-2/