Zahorí Review — Zahorí (2021) Film Review from the 74th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Marí Alessandrini, starring Lara Tortosa, Santos Curapil, Cirilo Wesley, Sabine Timoteo, and Pablo Limarzi. Amidst the Argentinian Patagonia, 13-year-old Mora (Lara Tortosa) scrapes by in a rural lifestyle with her brother Himeko (Cirilo Wesley) and their strictly-vegan Italian immigrant [...]
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- 8/30/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
After Blue (Paradis sale)The lineup for the 2021 festival has been revealed, including new films by Bertrand Mandico, Axelle Ropert, Abel Ferrara and others, alongside retrospectives and tributes, and much more.Piazza GRANDEBeckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino)Free Guy (Shawn Levy)Heat (Michael Mann)Hinterland (Stefan Ruzowitzky)Ida Red (John Swab)Monte Verità (Stefan Jäger)National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis)Respect (Liesl Tommy)Rose (Aurélie Saada)Sinkhole (Kim Ji-hoon)The Alleys (Bassel Ghandour)The Terminator (James Cameron)Vortex (Gaspar Noé)Yaya e Lennie — The Walking Liberty (Alessandro Rak)Tomorrow My Love (Gitanjali Rao)Lynx (Laurent Geslin)Zeros and OnesCONCORSO INTERNAZIONALEAfter Blue (Paradis sale) (Bertrand Mandico)Al Naher (The River) (Ghassan Salhab)Espíritu sagrado (The Sacred Spirit) (Chema García Ibarra)Gerda (Natalya Kudryashova)I giganti (The Giants) (Bonifacio Angius)Jiao ma teng hui (A New Old Play) (Jiongjiong Qiu)Juju StoriesLa Place d'une autre (Secret Name) (Aurélia Georges)Leynilögga (Cop Secret...
- 7/1/2021
- MUBI
Zahori
Argentina’s Marí Alessandrini is set for an ambitious debut in 2021 with Zahori, the production of which was halted by the pandemic earlier this year, forcing the director to finish the editing process on her own. The film is led by Lara Totoso and Santos Curapil, both making their debut, and is produced by Nadedja Magnenat. Alessandrini developed her script in the Cannes film festival residency program Cinefondation in 2015 and the project was also part of this year’s Locarno program The Films After Tomorrow for productions halted by the pandemic where she won best Swiss title.
Gist: Described as a reappropriated feminist Western, 13-year-old Mora lives on the Patagonia Steppe of Argentina and is misunderstood by her parents and peers.…...
Argentina’s Marí Alessandrini is set for an ambitious debut in 2021 with Zahori, the production of which was halted by the pandemic earlier this year, forcing the director to finish the editing process on her own. The film is led by Lara Totoso and Santos Curapil, both making their debut, and is produced by Nadedja Magnenat. Alessandrini developed her script in the Cannes film festival residency program Cinefondation in 2015 and the project was also part of this year’s Locarno program The Films After Tomorrow for productions halted by the pandemic where she won best Swiss title.
Gist: Described as a reappropriated feminist Western, 13-year-old Mora lives on the Patagonia Steppe of Argentina and is misunderstood by her parents and peers.…...
- 1/3/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Lucrecia Martel and Marí Alessandrini, two directors whose gazes wander from Switzerland to Argentina, have won the two Leopard awards in the main section The Films After Tomorrow. The 2020 edition of the Locarno Film Festival concluded at the GranRex, with a screening of La France contre les robots from established French director Jean-Marie Straub followed by Lockdown Collection, a series of Swiss short films emblematic of today. This decidedly (and inevitably) atypical edition had to replace the Piazza Grande with the web. 320,000 virtual visitors from all over the world enjoyed 80,000 views of original content and films offered during this edition, which took place from 5 to 15 August. Meanwhile, 103 live projections on the three main screens of Locarno attracted a total of 6,000 spectators. The main section of this unique edition was The Films After Tomorrow, in which competed ten international and ten Swiss films, all...
The festival awarded cash prizes to projects that have stalled at various stages of production due to Covid-19.
Lucrecia Martel’s Chocobar has won the top international prize in the Locarno Film Festival’s The Films After Tomorrow initiative, for projects that have stalled at various stages of production due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival is running as a hybrid event from August 5-15.
Hybrid documentary Chocobar is Martel’s first foray into non-fiction and centres on the murder of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar by a white landowner. It was named best international project by the international jury, made up of Nadav Lapid,...
Lucrecia Martel’s Chocobar has won the top international prize in the Locarno Film Festival’s The Films After Tomorrow initiative, for projects that have stalled at various stages of production due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival is running as a hybrid event from August 5-15.
Hybrid documentary Chocobar is Martel’s first foray into non-fiction and centres on the murder of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar by a white landowner. It was named best international project by the international jury, made up of Nadav Lapid,...
- 8/14/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
The festival awarded cash prizes to projects that have stalled at various stages of production due to Covid-19.
Lucrecia Martel’s Chocobar has won the top international prize in the Locarno Film Festival’s The Films After Tomorrow initiative, for projects that have stalled at various stages of production due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival is running as a hybrid event from August 5-15.
Hybrid documentary Chocobar is Martel’s first foray into non-fiction and centres on the murder of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar by a white landowner. It was named best international project by the international jury, made up of Nadav Lapid,...
Lucrecia Martel’s Chocobar has won the top international prize in the Locarno Film Festival’s The Films After Tomorrow initiative, for projects that have stalled at various stages of production due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival is running as a hybrid event from August 5-15.
Hybrid documentary Chocobar is Martel’s first foray into non-fiction and centres on the murder of indigenous activist Javier Chocobar by a white landowner. It was named best international project by the international jury, made up of Nadav Lapid,...
- 8/14/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Production on Argentine-born, Swiss-educated filmmaker Marí Alessandrini’s debut feature “Zahorí” ground to a halt in the middle of post-production. With the same amount of already limited budget and an estimated extra year before the film can premiere, she has been forced to finish editing on her own.
With more than a decade of short filmmaking experience in both fiction and documentary, Alessandrini has spent plenty of time in the editing room on previous projects, although never on something as ambitious as “Zahorí.”
Like much of her work, “Zahorí” takes place in her native Argentina, on the Patagonia Steppe. There, 13-year-old Mora, misunderstood by her parents and the school she attends, and her friend Nazareno, an elderly Mapuche man who understands her better than most, embark together on the path toward the elder’s death, in a coming-of-age journey for the young girl.
In a brief presentation video available on Locarno’s website,...
With more than a decade of short filmmaking experience in both fiction and documentary, Alessandrini has spent plenty of time in the editing room on previous projects, although never on something as ambitious as “Zahorí.”
Like much of her work, “Zahorí” takes place in her native Argentina, on the Patagonia Steppe. There, 13-year-old Mora, misunderstood by her parents and the school she attends, and her friend Nazareno, an elderly Mapuche man who understands her better than most, embark together on the path toward the elder’s death, in a coming-of-age journey for the young girl.
In a brief presentation video available on Locarno’s website,...
- 8/11/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Like most film festivals this year, Locarno Film Festival will not be moving ahead as usual. However, they’ve found inventive ways to both celebrate filmmakers they’ve long admired and present films physically and digitally. After announcing a new initiative to support new films by Lucrecia Martel, Lisandro Alonso, Lav Diaz, Wang Bing, Miguel Gomes, and more, they’ve asked this class of talented directors to select their favorite films in Locarno history.
A Journey in the Festival’s History is devoted to Locarno’s 73-year history of showing the best in international cinema. Made up of twenty films, a selection will screen online for those in Switzerland as well as Mubi internationally. On August 5-15, they will also screen in person at Locarno’s theaters.
Lili Hinstin, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, said, “It would be an impossible task to present a review of the history...
A Journey in the Festival’s History is devoted to Locarno’s 73-year history of showing the best in international cinema. Made up of twenty films, a selection will screen online for those in Switzerland as well as Mubi internationally. On August 5-15, they will also screen in person at Locarno’s theaters.
Lili Hinstin, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival, said, “It would be an impossible task to present a review of the history...
- 7/21/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Films by Roberto Rossellini, Chantel Akerman and Marguerite Duras feature in selection.
The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the selection of 20 classic film titles that will be showcased in its A Journey In The Festival’s History sidebar as part of its special hybrid edition running August 5 to 15.
The line-up is part of the festival’s ’Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films’ edition which was created after it was forced to cancel its 73rd edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The titles have been selected by the directors taking part in its festival’s exceptional The Films After Tomorrow initiative...
The Locarno Film Festival has unveiled the selection of 20 classic film titles that will be showcased in its A Journey In The Festival’s History sidebar as part of its special hybrid edition running August 5 to 15.
The line-up is part of the festival’s ’Locarno 2020 – For the Future of Films’ edition which was created after it was forced to cancel its 73rd edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The titles have been selected by the directors taking part in its festival’s exceptional The Films After Tomorrow initiative...
- 7/20/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
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