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 with the help of
Mariano LLINÁS
Photography
Gabriel SANDRU
Editing
Nicolas DESMAISON
Sound
Xavier LAVOREL
Soundtrack
Paul COURLET
Technical Details
Fiction - France - 2021
100' - 2K - Colour - 1.77:1
Versions
French and spanish with french subtitles
French and spanish with english subtitles
Production
Alina Films / Suisse
Ruda Cine / Argentine
Local Films / France
Partenaires
2016 :
SSA grant for a first feature film
MIGROS grant for a film idea
Selection for the International Europe - Latin America Co-production Forum at the San Sebastian Festival
Producers Pooling Program (PPP), organized by Focal
With
the participation of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (CNC)
the participation of INCAA and Suissimage
support from the Office Fédéral de la Culture (Federal Office for Culture)
support from Cinéforom
support from la Loterie Romande
Festivals
World premiere :
Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival / Germany / 2021
Nominated for Best Foreign Film :
Gotham Independent Film Awards / United States / 2021
Athens International Film Festival / Greece / 2021
San Sebastián International Film Festival / Spain / 2021
Reykjavik International Film Festival / Iceland / 2021
Brussels International Film Festival / Belgium / 2021
London Film Festival - BFI / England / 2021
Jerusalem Film Festival / Israel / 2021
Melbourne International Film Festival / Australia / 2021
New Directors / New Films Festival / United States / 2021
Moscow International Film Festival / Russia / 2021
Selection Films After Tomorrow - Locarno Festival 2020
TRAILER
Andreas Fontana was born in Switzerland in 1982. After earning a degree in Geneva, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he trained as an assistant director. His short film Cotonov Vanished (2009) won the First Steps Award at the Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon in 2010, as well as Best Short Film at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence the same year.
His most recent film, Pedro M, 1981, was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2016 Swiss Film Awards. In January 2016, Andreas Fontana and Zahra Vargas received the Upcoming Lab Award in Solothurn for the development of a feature-length documentary project titled Nothingwood.
He also works as an assistant and co-writer, collaborating with Zahra Vargas (The End of Homer, 2015, presented at Berlin and Clermont-Ferrand) and Maryam Goormaghtigh (Theft at the Pantheon, 2011). In 2021, he presented his first feature film, Azor, at the Berlinale.
