El cazador
Compact drama about a 15-year old boy who receives a video of him having sex with another boy.
101'
Argentina
IFFR 2020
Dreaming of great adventures, seventeen-year-old Zacarias has signed up for the Portuguese army. In 1917, after a long voyage, he ends up in Mozambique, where he has to defend this Portuguese colony against a German invasion. Zacarias can't wait, but when he contracts malaria, he is forced to stay behind in camp while his unit sets off for Niassa. Hardly recovered, he later leaves the camp on his own, determined to report to his unit. What follows is like a fever dream, as Zacarias travels on foot through Makua territory.
Alongside the native inhabitants, he encounters wild animals, lost colonists and German deserters. Loneliness, hunger, exhaustion and the after-effects of malaria make him increasingly confused. What is real and what is hallucination? Mosquito, told in non-chronological order, is a visually overwhelming war film without any war; the front is elsewhere – perhaps in Zacarias' head. Director João Nuno Pinto wrests from obscurity an overlooked episode from WWI.
Opening Film IFFR 2020. Also see Opening Night 2020: Mosquito & Party.
IFFR 2020
- 122'
- Portugal
- 2020
- Director
- João Nuno Pinto
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Portugal, France, Brazil
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 122'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Portuguese, German, Various
- Producers
- Paulo Branco, Ana Pinhão Moura, Mário Peixoto
- Production Companies
- Leopardo Filmes, Alfama Films, Delicatessen Filmes
- Sales
- Alfama Films
- Screenplay
- Fernanda Polacow, Gonçalo Waddington
- Cinematography
- Adolpho Veloso
- Editor
- Gustavo Giani
- Production Design
- Nuno Gabriel Mello
- Sound Design
- Gita Cerveira
- Music
- Justin Melland
- Cast
- João Nunes Monteiro, João Lagarto, Filipe Duarte, Sebastian Jehkul, Miguel Borges, António Nipita, Josefina Massango
- Director
- João Nuno Pinto
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Portugal, France, Brazil
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 122'
- Medium
- DCP
- Languages
- Portuguese, German, Various
- Producers
- Paulo Branco, Ana Pinhão Moura, Mário Peixoto
- Production Companies
- Leopardo Filmes, Alfama Films, Delicatessen Filmes
- Sales
- Alfama Films
- Screenplay
- Fernanda Polacow, Gonçalo Waddington
- Cinematography
- Adolpho Veloso
- Editor
- Gustavo Giani
- Production Design
- Nuno Gabriel Mello
- Sound Design
- Gita Cerveira
- Music
- Justin Melland
- Cast
- João Nunes Monteiro, João Lagarto, Filipe Duarte, Sebastian Jehkul, Miguel Borges, António Nipita, Josefina Massango
Programme IFFR 2020
Big Screen Competition
Nine new films, presented to a film-loving audience jury. The winner receives a Dutch cinema release and TV broadcast by VPRO.
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IFFR 2020