Ilse Hughan

Lisandro Alonso

The vision of Lisandro Alonso, the blinding photography of Kaurismäki's regular cameraman and the use of actor/musician Viggo Mortensen combined to ensure a magic result. A Danish military engineer sets off in 19th-century Patagonia looking for his missing daughter. A mysterious masterpiece. Nominated for The Big Screen Award

IFFR 2015

Jauja, 

Spectrum

Jauja

Alsonso's latest triumph is again about a man with a mission and his relationship with the landscape. The Argentine sailor Farrrel returns to bitterly cold Ushuaia, the most southerly town in the world, to look for the family he deserted twenty years before.

IFFR 2009

Liverpool, 

Liverpool

Martín Rejtman

It was worth the wait, this new feature from Rejtman. A dry, sure-footed tragicomedy in which 17-year-old Mariano finds a pistol one hot day and then shoots himself with it, twice. He survives the incident, almost nonchalantly, but what has changed for him, his family and friends?

Dos disparos, 

Limelight

Dos disparos

Catriel Vildosola

Début by Lisandro Alonso (Los muertos, Liverpool) is about the length of one take from his features.

Dos en la vereda, 

Signals: First Things First

Dos en la vereda

An encounter with an owl. Made as trailer for the 2009 Bafici Film Festival in Buenos Aires. Its maker, Lisandro Alsonso, also made a leader/trailer for the Hubert Bals Fund.

IFFR 2010

S/T, 

Signals - RE: Reloaded

Pablo Lamar

In precise, unhurried compositions of image and sound, Lamar’s feature debut portrays a man and his dying wife, living in a remote hut in the hills of Paraguay. All the stages of mourning are passed through in a single day in this wordless account of an emotional earthquake. With Tiger Talk in Schouwburg Foyer on Wed 3 Feb, 22:00.

IFFR 2016

última tierra, La

Hivos Tiger Awards Competition

La última tierra

Paz Encina

Tranquil minimalist drama in which an elderly couple in the Paraguayan countryside wait in vain for the return of their son who is fighting at the front.

IFFR 2007

Hamaca Paraguaya, 

Cinema of the Future: Sturm und Drang

Hamaca Paraguaya

Narcissism without the director appearing on screen. The camera circles meticulously in lengthy shots filled with emptiness and decay around a screening of the previous film by the maker. Empty? Maybe. Brilliant? Certainly.

Fantasma, 

Fantasma

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025