Eight million people have left the once prosperous nation of Venezuela. The exodus of a third of our country left an indescribable scar. We changed forever, and the sense of a shared home is now a mere memory. Death Has No Master is told from the perspective of an exiled woman who returns to Venezuela to reclaim her past. The process will be brutal, but as an author, I try not to judge the actions of my characters. They are neither heroes nor villains. They are both perpetrators and victims of the same corruption and violence. Through the metaphor of this fight for a house, I want to show the class co-dependence that exists in Latin America, and the murderous quality of classism. And I especially want to illuminate what’s at stake: the future of generations to come, and life itself. What can we expect from a generation that is growing in such an abyss, where violence is omnipresent? In a country where everything is broken and the exodus won’t cease, who deserves what property? My intention is to unearth such questions, and I hope this film shows that a corrupt legal system only creates a vicious circle of violence, in which we all lose.

Asia Argento, Dogreika Tovar, Jorge Thiele Hederrich, Yermain Sequera

DIRECTING: Jorge Thielen Armand

SCREENPLAY: Jorge Thielen Armand

PRODUCTION: Jorge Thielen Armand (La faena films), Stefano Centini (Volos Films), Arantza Maldonado (Faits divers média)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Luis Arteaga

SOUND: Pablo Villegas, Sylvain Bellemare

ORIGINAL SCORE: Vittorio Giampetro

EDITING: Felipe Guerrero