Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired Bolivian director Kiro Russo’s “El Gran Movimiento” which will world premiere at Venice in the Horizons section.
“El Gran Movimiento” marks Russo’s follow up to his 2016 feature debut “Dark Skull” which won a prize at Locarno and played at San Sebastian, among other festivals. “Dark Skull” went on to represent Bolivia in the Oscar race.
Set in contemporary Bolivia, the movie follows Elder and his companions who arrive in La Paz after a seven-day walk and seeks to be reinstated in his work at the mine. Once in the city, Elder gets a job but his health starts to deteriorate. An elderly woman known as Mama Pancha connects him to Max, a witch doctor, hermit, and clown, who will try to bring the young man back to life.
The movie is produced by Russo and Pablo Paniagua at Socavón and Alexa Rivero...
“El Gran Movimiento” marks Russo’s follow up to his 2016 feature debut “Dark Skull” which won a prize at Locarno and played at San Sebastian, among other festivals. “Dark Skull” went on to represent Bolivia in the Oscar race.
Set in contemporary Bolivia, the movie follows Elder and his companions who arrive in La Paz after a seven-day walk and seeks to be reinstated in his work at the mine. Once in the city, Elder gets a job but his health starts to deteriorate. An elderly woman known as Mama Pancha connects him to Max, a witch doctor, hermit, and clown, who will try to bring the young man back to life.
The movie is produced by Russo and Pablo Paniagua at Socavón and Alexa Rivero...
- 7/27/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Directly opposite is the Elkridge Hotel. It can’t be entered. I wonder what’s inside. Is the block/cube poured full of colour, or transparency, with the road/pavement continuing on the floor?” —An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in GTA Online, Michael CroweA ride in an autonomous taxi through a speculative future city via a lecture-cum-film performance, Hello, City! is surely one of the more immediately eye-catching prospects at this year’s Open City Documentary Festival in London. The set-up will be reminiscent of Sam Green’s performative documentaries like A Thousand Thoughts (2018) and The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012). In this instance, speculative architect Liam Young, co-founder of the London think tank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today, will act as tour guide to the city of the future while a big screen blend of documentary footage and computer-generated imagery illustrate and illuminate his words. What promises to...
- 10/4/2018
- MUBI
Julio Cezar Ticona as Elder in Dark Skull. Kiro Russo: "I know that I took a lot of risks because people told me, 'I don't like the movie because I don't like the character'.. But that's the reality' Bolivian director Kiro Russo is fast making a name for himself. His first three short films toured the festival circuit – with documentary Juku winning the Short Film Grand Prize at IndieLisboa. In his first feature Dark Skull (Viejo Calavera) – which picked up a Fipresci prize for Best Latin American Film in Rio De Janeiro and a Special Mention at Locarno – he blends documentary elements with a fictional narrative to tell the story of a young man, who has a problem with alcohol and who finds himself with no option but to take his dead father’s job in the mines.
Russo, who was born in La Paz, says attending film festivals...
Russo, who was born in La Paz, says attending film festivals...
- 12/19/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Debuts The Winter and The Giant, share the special jury prize; Hong Sang-soo wins Silver Shell for best director.
The San Sebastián International Film Festival (Sept 16-24) awards ceremony had a marked Asian flavour last night [24].
Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary - the social satire about a woman seeking to restore honour after a bitter divorce - won the Golden Shell for best film at the 64th edition of the festival.
I Am Not Madame Bovary, which had previously won the fipresci prize in Toronto, also earned Chinese star Fan Bingbing the Silver Shell in San Sebastián for best actress.
South Korea’s director Hong Sang-soo won the Silver Shell for best director for the love story Yourself And Yours.
The Special Jury Prize was shared between the Argentinian-French coproduction The Winter, a contemporary western set in a remote area in Patagonia by first time director Emiliano Torres, and the Swedish-Danish...
The San Sebastián International Film Festival (Sept 16-24) awards ceremony had a marked Asian flavour last night [24].
Feng Xiaogang’s I Am Not Madame Bovary - the social satire about a woman seeking to restore honour after a bitter divorce - won the Golden Shell for best film at the 64th edition of the festival.
I Am Not Madame Bovary, which had previously won the fipresci prize in Toronto, also earned Chinese star Fan Bingbing the Silver Shell in San Sebastián for best actress.
South Korea’s director Hong Sang-soo won the Silver Shell for best director for the love story Yourself And Yours.
The Special Jury Prize was shared between the Argentinian-French coproduction The Winter, a contemporary western set in a remote area in Patagonia by first time director Emiliano Torres, and the Swedish-Danish...
- 9/25/2016
- ScreenDaily
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