The Tenth Day (working title)

Work In Progress

The most extraordinary survival story ever…

In October 1972 an amateur rugby team from Montevideo boarded a plane to Chile. After bad weather, the control tower lost contact with the plane. Sixteen survived the crash--and the 72 days it took to be rescued--living in almost complete darkness at an altitude of over 4000 metres in the Andes.

Thirty-three years after the event, director Gonzalo Arijon, a friend from childhood of many of the young men on plane, has unparalleled access to the survivors in this fascinating film. Many of the survivors speak on camera about their extraordinary ordeal for the first time. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see this work in progress screening.

Gonzalo Arijon is a Guest of the Festival

The tenth day arrived, the day when we hear on the radio, that the search has been called off, the day when we had no more food at all… Then, we said to ourselves: if Christ could offer His flesh and His blood to His Apostles during the Last Supper, then surely He had shown us the way and we must do the same: take His blood and His flesh as incarnated in our friends who had died in the crash… So that this became an intimate Communion for all of us… and this is what helped us to survive.

Alfredo Delgado