“The idea behind this film began when I was passing the winter months in Uruguay during the second lockdown,” says director Felipe Sanguinetti of Amoris Pomum. “I was spending time with friends at their fantastic organic restaurant and farm, Cruz Del Sur in Jose Ignacio, which specialises in heritage tomatoes. Each variety of tomato burst with a different flavor and texture so exquisite that you couldn’t wait to try the next one.

“Having just made a film about diamonds for one of my clients, the idea of making a film about tomatoes being as precious as these beautiful pure stones unfolded. With the tomato season almost at its end we quickly wrote the story and put together a team. By chance, my long-term friend and DOP Sebastian Cantillo was in town and we began filming our love affair with the tomato.

“The idea was to capture the beauty and realism of nature and its fruit, the relationship between man and Mother Nature, the last of the summer days, and, in the intensity of this short film, a part of our Uruguayan experience.”

Amoris Pomum is narrated by prolific Argentine actor Ricardo Darín using the words of a poem written by the 1971 Nobel Prize for literature winner, Pablo Neruda.