Disney+ has picked up Latin American rights to Diego Yaker’s Argentine-Spanish revenge thriller “Una jirafa en el balcón” and is planning a theatrical release in Argentina and Uruguay.
Barcelona-based indie studio Filmax is handling Spanish distribution and international sales rights on the film.
Hitting the final straits of its shoot, “Una jirafa en el balcón” is filming in Barcelona over Nov. 14-17, after previously lensing in Argentina’s La Rioja region and Buenos Aires.
The film toplines Argentine actress Andrea Frigerio and Spain’s Diana Gómez, Artur Busquets and “Mudar la piel’s” Mingo Rafols.
Frigerio plays Lidia Muñoz (64), a retired woman living in Barcelona since 1978 who was forced into exile from Argentina after the military dictatorship ruling the country those years tried to kidnap her and make her disappear. Pregnant with her only daughter Valeria (Gómez), who is now 36, she managed to flee to Spain.
40 years later, at her home in Barcelona,...
Barcelona-based indie studio Filmax is handling Spanish distribution and international sales rights on the film.
Hitting the final straits of its shoot, “Una jirafa en el balcón” is filming in Barcelona over Nov. 14-17, after previously lensing in Argentina’s La Rioja region and Buenos Aires.
The film toplines Argentine actress Andrea Frigerio and Spain’s Diana Gómez, Artur Busquets and “Mudar la piel’s” Mingo Rafols.
Frigerio plays Lidia Muñoz (64), a retired woman living in Barcelona since 1978 who was forced into exile from Argentina after the military dictatorship ruling the country those years tried to kidnap her and make her disappear. Pregnant with her only daughter Valeria (Gómez), who is now 36, she managed to flee to Spain.
40 years later, at her home in Barcelona,...
- 11/15/2023
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
The San Sebastián Film Festival has revealed the Official Selection for its latest edition, which is due to unfold from September 22 — 30.
The festival, which is celebrating its 71st edition, will screen Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s latest film Mmxx in competition. The festival describes the pic as a story that captures the “wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.”
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse returns to San Sebastian this year with his tenth full-length film, A Silence, a drama starring Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil. In 2015, he won the fest’s Silver Shell for Best Director for The White Knights, and two of his films have screened in the Perlak sidebar: After Love (2016) and The Restless (2021).
American filmmaker Raven Jackson will enter Competition with her debut film, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The festival described the pic as “a lyrical exploration of the life of a woman in Mississippi.
The festival, which is celebrating its 71st edition, will screen Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s latest film Mmxx in competition. The festival describes the pic as a story that captures the “wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.”
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse returns to San Sebastian this year with his tenth full-length film, A Silence, a drama starring Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil. In 2015, he won the fest’s Silver Shell for Best Director for The White Knights, and two of his films have screened in the Perlak sidebar: After Love (2016) and The Restless (2021).
American filmmaker Raven Jackson will enter Competition with her debut film, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The festival described the pic as “a lyrical exploration of the life of a woman in Mississippi.
- 7/7/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Creepshow TV series wrapped up its first season this past Halloween on Shudder, but the anthology series lives on courtesy of Fright-Rags! New, officially licensed apparel including T-shirts and enamel pins for the show are now available. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a trailer and poster Automation trailer and poster and Rojo and Midday Demons release details.
Fright-Rags' Creepshow TV Series Apparel Release Details: "Officially Licensed Creepshow - The Series T-Shirt! Artwork by Justin Osbourn.
Printed on our super soft 4.5oz 100% pre-shrunk ringspun cotton shirts.
Ships in 1-2 business days.
Us customers: Please allow 3-5 days for delivery.
International customers: Please allow 10-14 days for delivery."
For more information, visit Fright-Rags' website.
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Automation Trailer and Release Details: "A workplace robot, Auto, transforms into a killing machine when he discovers he will be replaced by a more efficient model.
Garo Setian directed, produced, and edited Automation, and co-wrote alongside...
Fright-Rags' Creepshow TV Series Apparel Release Details: "Officially Licensed Creepshow - The Series T-Shirt! Artwork by Justin Osbourn.
Printed on our super soft 4.5oz 100% pre-shrunk ringspun cotton shirts.
Ships in 1-2 business days.
Us customers: Please allow 3-5 days for delivery.
International customers: Please allow 10-14 days for delivery."
For more information, visit Fright-Rags' website.
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Automation Trailer and Release Details: "A workplace robot, Auto, transforms into a killing machine when he discovers he will be replaced by a more efficient model.
Garo Setian directed, produced, and edited Automation, and co-wrote alongside...
- 11/8/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Ioncinema.com’s Ioncinephile of the Month feature focuses on an emerging voice from the world of cinema. This month, we are pleased to introduce Argentinian born filmmaker Benjamín Naishtat – who premiered his third feature film (technically second) in the Platform section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, the enigmatic Alfredo Castro and the unforgettable and lingering presence of Diego Cremonesi, Rojo was a triple winner at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Distrib Films Us opens the film Friday, July 12 at Film at Lincoln Center and the Quad Cinema in New York City, and on Friday, July 19 at the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles.…...
- 7/1/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The 17th Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30 – Dec 08) has set a jury comprising Suspiria star Dakota Johnson, Indian actress Ileana D’Cruz (Barfi!), Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist Joana Hadjithomas (I Want To See), Brit director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Moroccan director Tala Hadid (House In The Fields), French director Laurent Cantet (The Class), German actor Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Mexican director Michel Franco (April’s Daughter). As previously revealed, director James Gray will serve as jury president.
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
- 11/19/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The past is a hurriedly abandoned house, ripe for the looting, in Benjamin Naishtat’s superbly sinister and stylish “Rojo.” And so it begins with one: A mid-sized, detached 1970s home, its windows shuttered like the closed eyes of a coma patient. A portly, well-dressed man emerges carrying an ornamental clock — this scoreless scene, set to chilly early-morning birdsong, is already tinged with absurdity — before a girl scurries off with an armful of clothes, an older lady totters out under the weight of a gilt mirror and some men maneuver a TV through the doorway. They are not residents, nor neighbors attending a yard sale; they are scavengers, implicitly turning some unseen family’s misfortune to their own end. This is regional Argentina in 1975, and while the coup d’état won’t happen for months, the unease of it is already an airborne disease carried backward on the wind. Argentina...
- 9/28/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Rojo opens as people leave a house with objects in-hand, the assumption being that they were bought in an estate sale or pilfered before one could begin. A man (Diego Cremonesi) looks in the front door as clueless as we are to what’s happening before a jump cut finds him entering a packed restaurant. Impatient by the bar, he gruffly asks a gentleman seated alone (Dario Grandinetti’s Claudio) if he’s done eating. An argument colored by entitlement and false manners respectively breaks out until chaos reigns supreme. It’s a wild, disorienting scene culminating with the credits above silent scenes of calm in the aftermath once Claudio’s wife (Andrea Frigerio) arrives. Two gunshots and a trip to the desert later ready the real drama to commence.
Or do they? With a quick restart three months later, Benjamín Naishtat’s Rojo acts as though nothing occurred. We...
Or do they? With a quick restart three months later, Benjamín Naishtat’s Rojo acts as though nothing occurred. We...
- 9/16/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"Never forget I was a cop, before being a famous TV celebrity." ScreenDaily has debuted the first official trailer for an Argentinian film premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in just a few weeks. Rojo is the latest film from Argentinian filmmaker Benjamín Naishtat, set in the mid-1970s (when mustaches were still a big thing) following a successful lawyer with a comfortable life in a small town. A strange man arrives and starts insulting him, but the locals defend him and throw him out. Later that night the lawyer takes a path of no return involving death, secrets and silences. Starring Dario Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, and Diego Cremonesi. Tiff says that Naishtat "deliberately builds a quiet mood of foreboding and impeding doom through a carefully constructed, almost hypnotic narrative." View some footage below. Here's the first official trailer for Benjamín Naishtat's Rojo, direct from ScreenDaily's YouTube:...
- 8/21/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The film stars Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio and Alfredo Castro.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Rojo, Benjamin Naishtat’s 1970s drama that will have its world premiere in Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform section.
After its Toronto launch, it will then play in competition at San Sebastian Film Festival. International sales are handled by Luxbox.
The film follows a strange man who arrives at a restaurant in a quiet provincial city in an Argentine province, where he starts insulting renowned lawyer Claudio. The community supports the lawyer and the stranger is humiliated and thrown out of the place.
Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Rojo, Benjamin Naishtat’s 1970s drama that will have its world premiere in Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform section.
After its Toronto launch, it will then play in competition at San Sebastian Film Festival. International sales are handled by Luxbox.
The film follows a strange man who arrives at a restaurant in a quiet provincial city in an Argentine province, where he starts insulting renowned lawyer Claudio. The community supports the lawyer and the stranger is humiliated and thrown out of the place.
- 8/10/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Films from Valeria Sarmiento, Benjamín Naishtat, Markus Schleinzer and Simon Jaquemet also selected.
The first films to compete for the Golden Shell at the 2018 San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 21-29) have been announced.
They include Claire Denis’ English-language sci-fi title High Life, which stars Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin and Robert Pattinson, Naomi Kawase’s Vision, which also stars Binoche alongside Masatoshi Nagase, and South Korean director Kim Jee-woon’s Illang: The Wolf Brigade , a remake of anime Jin-Roh from Ghost In The Shell writer Mamoru Oshii. Kim’s I Saw The Devil competed at the festival in 2010.
Chilean director Valeria...
The first films to compete for the Golden Shell at the 2018 San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 21-29) have been announced.
They include Claire Denis’ English-language sci-fi title High Life, which stars Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin and Robert Pattinson, Naomi Kawase’s Vision, which also stars Binoche alongside Masatoshi Nagase, and South Korean director Kim Jee-woon’s Illang: The Wolf Brigade , a remake of anime Jin-Roh from Ghost In The Shell writer Mamoru Oshii. Kim’s I Saw The Devil competed at the festival in 2010.
Chilean director Valeria...
- 7/13/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Hadas Ben Aroya's People That Are Not Me took the Astor for best film at the 31st edition of the Mar del Plata Film Festival, which officially closed Saturday night with a ceremony at the Astor Piazzola hall of the Argentine city's Auditorium Theater, hosted by Argentine actress Andrea Frigerio (The Distinguished Citizen).
Romanian helmer Radu Jude picked the best director prize for Scarred Hearts, while Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama won a Jury Special Mention for best cinematography. The film, shot just before the terror attacks in Paris last November, depicts a group of adolescents who plant a series of bombs in the French capital.
Kleber Mendonça Filho's <a...
Romanian helmer Radu Jude picked the best director prize for Scarred Hearts, while Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama won a Jury Special Mention for best cinematography. The film, shot just before the terror attacks in Paris last November, depicts a group of adolescents who plant a series of bombs in the French capital.
Kleber Mendonça Filho's <a...
- 11/26/2016
- by Agustin Mango
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Title: El Ciudadano Ilustre (The Distinguished Citizen) Director: Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn Starring: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas, Manuel Vicente, Belén Chavanne, Gustavo Garzón, Julián Larquier, Emma Rivera. In recent years Argentinian cinema has proved to have a sophisticated take on dark comedies. ‘Relatos Salvajes’ (Wild Tales) was an anthology of cathartic politically incorrect stories. Now, is the turn of director duo Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn. The directors expose various contemporary debates through the gallows humour of ‘El Ciudadano Ilustre’ (The Distinguished Citizen). Daniel Mantovani is an Argentine writer who has lived in Europe for almost forty years, and is worldwide renowned for having been [ Read More ]
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- 9/4/2016
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
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