AZOR
Directed by Andreas Fontana, 2021
SYNOPSIS
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to an Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.
Cast
Fabrizio RONGIONE
Stéphanie CLEAU
Elli MEDEIROS
Juan TRENCH
Pablo TORRE NILSON
Gilles PRIVAT
Juan Pablo GERRETO
Alexandre TROCKI
Technical Crew
Written and Directed by
Andreas FONTANA
Written in collaboration with
Mariano LLINÁS
Photography
Gabriel SANDRU
Editing
Nicolas DESMAISON
Sound
Xavier LAVOREL
Original Score
Paul Courlet
Technical Data
Fiction - France - 2021
100 minutes - 2K - Color - 1.77
Version
French and Spanish with French subtitles
French and Spanish with English subtitles
Production
Alina Film / Switzerland
Ruda Cine / Argentina
Local Films
Festivals
WORD PREMIERE:
Berlinale – Festival International du film de Berlin / Allemagne / 2021
Nomination : Best International Movie
Gotham Independent Film Awards / États-Unis / 2021
Festival International du film d’Athènes / Grèce / 2021
Festival International du film de San Sebastián / Espagne / 2021
Festival International du Film de Reykjavik / Islande / 2021
Festival International du film de Bruxelles / Belgique / 2021
Festival du Film de Londres – BFI / Angleterre / 2021
Festival du Film de Jérusalem / Israël / 2021
Festival International du Film de Melbourne / Australie / 2021
New Directors / New Films Festival / Etats-Unis / 2021
Festival International du Film de Moscou / Russie / 2021
Sélection Films After Tomorrow – Locarno Festival 2020
Partnerships
SSA Grand 2016 for a first feature-length fiction film
MIGROS Grand 2016 for a film concept
Selection at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum of the San Sebastian Film 2016
Producers Pooling Programm (PPP), organized by Focal
Supported by the Federal Office of Culture, with the participation of Cinéforom, and supported by the Loterie Romande.
With the participation of the National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), INCAA, and Suissimage.
TRAILER
Andreas Fontana
Andreas Fontana, born in Switzerland in 1982. After a degree in Geneva, he moved to Buenos Aires where he trained as an assistant director.
His first short film COTONOV VANISHED (2009) won the First Steps prize at Vision du Réel in Nyon in 2010. It also won the the prize of the best short film at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence in 2010. His last movie, PEDRO M, 1981, has been nominated for the Swiss Film Award 2016 in the short films cathegory.
In January 2016, Andreas Fontana and Zahra Vargas received the Upcoming Lab Prize from Solothurn for the development of a feature-length documentary project, NOTHINGWOOD.
He also works as assistant as well as co-screenwriter for Zahra Vargas (The End of Homer, 2015, presented in Berlin and Clermont-Ferrand) and Maryam Goormaghtigh (Flight to the Pantheon, 2011).
In 2021, he presented his first feature film, AZOR, at the Berlinale.