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AZOR

Directed by Andreas Fontana, 2021

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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

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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.

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