THE LONELINESS OF THE BONES

In Spanish with English subtitles

Director, Screenplay: Alfredo Lichter

Producer: DAXFILMS

Print Courtesy: Alfredo Lichter

In the early 1960s, Natalie arrives in Tierra del Fuego from the United States to start a family. There, she dedicates her life to exploring the islands, looking for plants for an herbarium, and finding the bones of whales and dolphins for a museum. She creates an endless collection. This is the life of a woman who had the audacity to venture into a place with no room for the weak 150 years ago. It’s a nearly forgotten story from another time and another astonishing part of the world that few ever see. THE LONELINESS OF THE BONES takes Argentine director Alfredo Lichter, who graced us at MIFF with his wonderful NATURAL HISTORY, to this unique and dreamlike landscape for a documentary that’s also a work of the imagination, because there’s no other way than Lichter’s truthful yet uniquely cinematic approach to fully appreciate Natalie’s life, work, and landscape. Sponsored by Kathryn Slott