Credits: screenplay: Pablo Giorgelli, Salvador Roselli; director of photography: Diego Poleri; editor: María Astrauskas; producer: Pablo Giorgelli, Ariel Rotter; production: AireCine, Utópica Cine, Armonika Entertainment;

Country: Argentina, Spain

Year: 2011

Running time: 85

Colour: Colour

Format: 35 mm

A two-hander shot almost entirely in the cab of a large truck, with small names and an even smaller budget, Giorgelli’s road movie depends on tiny gestures and the slightest of glances to advance the story of an Argentine driver and the indigenous Paraguayan woman and her baby daughter to whom he provides a lift from Asuncion to Buenos Aires. LAS ACACIAS refuses to announce itself as some sort of cinematic achievement. The makes deceptively simple the journey from loneliness to attachment; the trip resonates powerfully in even the most hardened viewer. The film won the Camera d’or in Cannes, the best first feature in all of the festival’s sections.