Sinopsis
Fiction. Mariana (Antoia Zegers) is a fourty-two-year old woman who belongs to the Chilean bourgeoisie accomplice to the dictatorship. Both her father (Alejandro Siveking) and her husband, only interested in his work, despise her. Mariana feels a strange attraction to Juan, her sixty-two-year old riding instructor (Alfredo Castro), a former army colonel with a dark past.
Marcela Said premiered in 1999 her first documentary, Valparaiso, produced by Les Films d’Ici for the French television. In 2001 she directed the documentary I Love Pinochet, which won awards at the Valparaíso Film Festival and at the Santiago International Documentary Festival. In 2006, Said directed a third documentary, Opus Dei, A Silent Crusade alongside Jean de Certeau. The film won the 2007 Sienna Award.
Said’s next film, The Young Butler, also directed with Jean de Certeau, premiered at the 2011 Berlinale. The Young Butler received the 2011 Munich Documentary Festival Horizons Award, the 2011 FIDOCS Critics Award, the Valdivia Festival Critics Award and the 2012 Altazor Award in the category of best documentary direction.
Said’s first fictional film The Summer of Flying Fish (2013), received the Biarritz Critics Award, and the best director category award at the River Run Festival in the USA. Her second fictional feature film Los perros (2017) premiered at the Cannes’ Critics Week, and at San Sebastian’s Official Selection, obtaining the Latin Horizons Award.
Friday 6th April. 19.30h
Casa de América
Sección: Three women. Three movies. Three visions of Latin America
Year of Production: 2017
Duración: 94′
Country: Chile, Francia, Argentina, Alemania and Portugal
Language: Spanish
Director: Marcela Said
Cast: Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Rafael Spregelburd and Alejandro Sieveking
Producers: Sophie Erbs, Tom Dercourt and Augusto Matte
Production Companies: Cinema Defacto, Jirafa, Augenschein Filmproduktion, Rei Cine and Terratreme
International Sales: Karma Films
Main Festivals and Awards: San Sebastián, Biarritz-América Latina, Huelva, Estocolmo, Calcuta, El Cairo, Munich, Tarragona and La Habana.
