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12.08.2022 / 15:05
Anahi Berneri, Emiliano Torres Set for San Sebastian’s Co-Production Forum
One of a Thousand,” 2020 ) or Toronto (Agustina San Martin, “To Kill a Beast,” 2021).Ulises Porra’s second feature “Carajita” won San Sebastian’s own prestigious New Directors strand last year in a competition that also featured Juan Sebastián Mesa’s “The Rust,” his sophomore outing.10 of the 14 projects would be second or third features. Their issues – and those of more mature directors – are very much of this age: a female friendship tale (“La Hija del General”); Argentine rural queer sensibility (“They Burn in the Same Way”); a woman’s renouncement of family (“Rona”); contemporary solitude (“To Die on Your Feet”).Epitomising a new generation, one project, Manuel Luque’s “Inspection on Earth,” is sci-fi, another “Todo el mundo,” from Argentina’s Agustina San Martín, who caught attention with her atmospheric genre allegory “To Kill a Beast.”San Sebastian 2022 Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Contenders:“The Blue Flamingo,” (“Voo do Flamingo,” Beatriz Seigner, Brazil)Produced by Brazil’s Abrolhos Filmes and Globo Filmes,and pitched at Rome’s MIA Market in 2020, a drama about a boy, 11, travelling to a largely abandoned beach town to meet his father for the first time.