Russian title: Красный Рохо Original title: Rojo Red
Short movie – Colombia Production year: 2007 Movie length: 14 minutes
Director: Juan Manuel Betancourt Writer: Juan Manuel Betancourt, Juan Diaz B., Natalia Perez P. Cinematograph: Natalia Perez P. Music: Fabian Torres
Movie description:
Federico Guillermo, a 7 year-old boy, gets grounded for making a mess while playing in the liv-ing room and not wearing the orthopedic shoes he’s been told. Federico refuses to wear them but he just can’t take them off so he decides to run away from home. His sister is just able to yell at him: »Tie your laces or you will fall!!«. In the run Federico suddenly falls down and discovers that he fell because of a fabric hole on the pavement and not for the laces. He tries to set free his foot from the threads, realizing that every time he pulls a string something is destroyed in the world. Federico starts looking for the string that will destroy his own shoes.
What would happen if the world was hanging on a thread, and you knew where to pull the strings?