Having impressed at the Morelia Intl. Film Festival in the past with her short films, Spanish born, Mexican trained filmmaker Anaïs Pareto Onghena returns to the Michoacán capital with her latest feature “Santa Bárbara,” participating in the Impulso Morelia works in progress sidebar.
Bárbara, a Bolivian woman living in Barcelona for more than a decade, works as a housekeeper and lives with her girlfriend Maribel. On one of her weekly calls to her children, still living with her mother back home, she learns her eldest, Ulises, has been arrested. She brings the boy to live with her in Barcelona, where the two are forced to meet each other anew after 12 years apart.
Santa Úrsula Films, Pareto Onghena’s label, co-produces alongside Spain’s Timber Films. Prominent Argentine auteur writer-director Paula Markovich consulted on the screenplay, which won best screenplay at the Guanajuato Intl. Film Festival last year.
Pareto Onghena discussed the film,...
Bárbara, a Bolivian woman living in Barcelona for more than a decade, works as a housekeeper and lives with her girlfriend Maribel. On one of her weekly calls to her children, still living with her mother back home, she learns her eldest, Ulises, has been arrested. She brings the boy to live with her in Barcelona, where the two are forced to meet each other anew after 12 years apart.
Santa Úrsula Films, Pareto Onghena’s label, co-produces alongside Spain’s Timber Films. Prominent Argentine auteur writer-director Paula Markovich consulted on the screenplay, which won best screenplay at the Guanajuato Intl. Film Festival last year.
Pareto Onghena discussed the film,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Morelia Film Festival’s (Ficm) Impulso sidebar for pix in progress will run Sunday through Tuesday this coming week, having become one of the territories most important launchpads for Latin American feature films in post-production.
Many of the participating films in recent editions have gone on to find festival success the world around.
Last year, Hari Sama’s “This is Not Berlin” was the talk of the day, and since being finished has made major impacts at Sundance, Tribeca and Malaga. From 2017, Andres Kaiser’s cabin in the woods thriller “Feral” went on to win awards at Los Cabos and participate in several major genre fests across Europe and North America. 2016 hosted Joshua Gil’s “Sanctorum” which closed Venice Critics’ Week this year.
Other standout participants include, but are not limited to: “The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadi’c” from Marta Hernaiz (Berlinale 2018); “Devil’s Freedom” from Everardo González (Berlinale...
Many of the participating films in recent editions have gone on to find festival success the world around.
Last year, Hari Sama’s “This is Not Berlin” was the talk of the day, and since being finished has made major impacts at Sundance, Tribeca and Malaga. From 2017, Andres Kaiser’s cabin in the woods thriller “Feral” went on to win awards at Los Cabos and participate in several major genre fests across Europe and North America. 2016 hosted Joshua Gil’s “Sanctorum” which closed Venice Critics’ Week this year.
Other standout participants include, but are not limited to: “The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadi’c” from Marta Hernaiz (Berlinale 2018); “Devil’s Freedom” from Everardo González (Berlinale...
- 10/18/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s Cannes Film Festival will see a much less prominent Latino presence than in previous years. Considering that in the past two editions the award for Best Director went to Carlos Reygadas (Post Tenebraz Lux) and Amat Escalante (Heli) respectively, the limited selection of Latin American films should come as surprise. There is only a handful of these films throughout the entire program, but despite the shortage of Latin talent at the Croisette this time around, the ones that made the cut are promising works.
Here are some highlights of the upcoming Latino presence in Cannes.
-Wild Tales by Damián Szifron is the only Latino Film in the main Competition
As the sole Latin American representative to compete for the Palm d’Or, the Argentine film promises to impress audiences at its World Premiere on Saturday May 17th. Starring famous actor Ricardo Darín, as well as Darío Grandinetti, Leonardo Sbaraglia, and Oscar Martínez, the film is said to be controversial and possibly divisive as Cannes’ Thierry Frémaux assured.
-Refugee by Diego Lerman is the only Latin American feature in the Directors’ Fortnight
This is the latest from the Argentine filmmaker, which is a road movie that follows a young boy and his pregnant mother as they run away from a violent environment. Starring Julieta Díaz and Sebastián Molinaro, it’s a co-production between Campo Cine (Argentina) and Burning Blue (Colombia). A short film from Brazil titled Heartless (Sem coração) by Nara Normande y Tião, will also play in this section of the festival. Trincheira Filmes, Garça Torta and CinemaScópio produced the short.
-Gente de Bien (Good People) will be the only Latin American film to play in Cannes’ Critic’s Week
The feature debut from Colombian director Franco Lolli, Gente de Bien, will represent the region during the 53rd edition of this parallel section. The cast includes Brayan Santamaría, Carlos Fernando Pérez and Alejandra Borrero, in a story about a son’s relationship with his father. Charles Tesson, Artistic Director of this program, said of the film “ It is a work of overwhelming sincerity, close to the emotion in some of films by Ozu”. The film was produced by Evidencia Films, Geko Films. Ad Vitam will distribute it in France, and Versatile is its Isa.
Although there will be no Latin American shorts playing in this section, for the 11th consecutive year as part of a Cannes partnership with the Morelia International Film Festival, a program of Mexican shorts will be featured. Among these films are Aningaaq by Jonás Cuarón,The Sidewalk by Anaïs Pareto Onghena, The End of the Existence of Things by Dalia Huerta Cano, Jesuralem by Alicia Segovia Juárez, The Invisible Mountains by Ángel Linares, and The Last Veil by David Palomino Benítez.
Here are some highlights of the upcoming Latino presence in Cannes.
-Wild Tales by Damián Szifron is the only Latino Film in the main Competition
As the sole Latin American representative to compete for the Palm d’Or, the Argentine film promises to impress audiences at its World Premiere on Saturday May 17th. Starring famous actor Ricardo Darín, as well as Darío Grandinetti, Leonardo Sbaraglia, and Oscar Martínez, the film is said to be controversial and possibly divisive as Cannes’ Thierry Frémaux assured.
-Refugee by Diego Lerman is the only Latin American feature in the Directors’ Fortnight
This is the latest from the Argentine filmmaker, which is a road movie that follows a young boy and his pregnant mother as they run away from a violent environment. Starring Julieta Díaz and Sebastián Molinaro, it’s a co-production between Campo Cine (Argentina) and Burning Blue (Colombia). A short film from Brazil titled Heartless (Sem coração) by Nara Normande y Tião, will also play in this section of the festival. Trincheira Filmes, Garça Torta and CinemaScópio produced the short.
-Gente de Bien (Good People) will be the only Latin American film to play in Cannes’ Critic’s Week
The feature debut from Colombian director Franco Lolli, Gente de Bien, will represent the region during the 53rd edition of this parallel section. The cast includes Brayan Santamaría, Carlos Fernando Pérez and Alejandra Borrero, in a story about a son’s relationship with his father. Charles Tesson, Artistic Director of this program, said of the film “ It is a work of overwhelming sincerity, close to the emotion in some of films by Ozu”. The film was produced by Evidencia Films, Geko Films. Ad Vitam will distribute it in France, and Versatile is its Isa.
Although there will be no Latin American shorts playing in this section, for the 11th consecutive year as part of a Cannes partnership with the Morelia International Film Festival, a program of Mexican shorts will be featured. Among these films are Aningaaq by Jonás Cuarón,The Sidewalk by Anaïs Pareto Onghena, The End of the Existence of Things by Dalia Huerta Cano, Jesuralem by Alicia Segovia Juárez, The Invisible Mountains by Ángel Linares, and The Last Veil by David Palomino Benítez.
- 5/13/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
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