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AZOR

Directed by Andreas Fontana, 2021

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SYNOPSIS

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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.

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CONTACT

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75002 PARIS

Mail : info@local-films.com

Phone: +33 (0)1.44.93.73.59 

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