A beast has arrived at a small town on the border between Argentina and Brazil. People talk about it being the spirit of an evil man transforming into different animals to stalk its prey. Women are told to be afraid just as they’re told they’ll be protected. Whether businessmen, men of God, or neighbors, no one will rest until the creature is caught. Except, of course, that it never will be. Because while we see it as a bull watching from the forest, we know this spirit actually takes its form from a different species. Its many faces come in the form of those businessmen, men of God, and neighbors. It feeds on tradition, power, and violence. And it will pounce unless its prey emboldens itself to fight back.
Fear is what drove Mateo from his home, the person he became proving too unpredictable and aggressive to stay.
Fear is what drove Mateo from his home, the person he became proving too unpredictable and aggressive to stay.
- 9/10/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years. Photo: Agatha A. Nitecka © 45 Years Film Ltd
Earlier this week, the Berlin International Film Festival announced that it will be switching to gender neutral acting awards from its 2021 edition. Whether the pitting of women directly against men will lead to more parity is a matter of debate - although the festival has a strong record on equality in its programming and staffing - but it got us thinking about some of the great performances, both male and female that have been rewarded down the years. Not all are available to stream - including Nina Hoss' magnetic performance in Christian Petzold's 2007 metaphysical thriller Yella, Requiem (2006), which put Toni Erdmann's Sandra Hüller on the map and Sidney Poitier's breakthrough role in The Defiant Ones in 1958 - but here's some of the best that are.
The Heiresses, Mubi and available to rent on other...
Earlier this week, the Berlin International Film Festival announced that it will be switching to gender neutral acting awards from its 2021 edition. Whether the pitting of women directly against men will lead to more parity is a matter of debate - although the festival has a strong record on equality in its programming and staffing - but it got us thinking about some of the great performances, both male and female that have been rewarded down the years. Not all are available to stream - including Nina Hoss' magnetic performance in Christian Petzold's 2007 metaphysical thriller Yella, Requiem (2006), which put Toni Erdmann's Sandra Hüller on the map and Sidney Poitier's breakthrough role in The Defiant Ones in 1958 - but here's some of the best that are.
The Heiresses, Mubi and available to rent on other...
- 8/28/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Three of Argentina’s foremost auteurs – “Rojo’s” Benjamin Naishtat, “The Third Side of the River’s” Celina Murga, and “Two Shots Fired’s” Martin Rejtman – will present new movie projects at a 9th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the industry centerpiece at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
They will be joined by up-and-coming directors such as “The Heiresses’” Marcelo Martinessi, “The Sharks’” Lucia Garibaldi and “The Future Perfect’s” Nele Wohlatz in a lineup that is long on strong and fairly established Argentine talent, has a clutch of new Colombian directors, and presses the urgent social-issue concerns that have come to characterize Latin American cinema.
Catapulted to fame when Martin Scorsese executive produced “The Third Side of the River,” Murga will present “The Smell of Freshly Cut Grass,” a high-concept gender drama starring “Paulina’s” Dolores Fonzi and co-written with partner and fellow film director Juan Villegas (“Las...
They will be joined by up-and-coming directors such as “The Heiresses’” Marcelo Martinessi, “The Sharks’” Lucia Garibaldi and “The Future Perfect’s” Nele Wohlatz in a lineup that is long on strong and fairly established Argentine talent, has a clutch of new Colombian directors, and presses the urgent social-issue concerns that have come to characterize Latin American cinema.
Catapulted to fame when Martin Scorsese executive produced “The Third Side of the River,” Murga will present “The Smell of Freshly Cut Grass,” a high-concept gender drama starring “Paulina’s” Dolores Fonzi and co-written with partner and fellow film director Juan Villegas (“Las...
- 8/13/2020
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's Roma topped the sixth edition of the Platino Awards, a ceremony honoring the best in Latin American and Ibero-American cinema and TV.
Cuaron's black-and-white semiautobiographical film won five Platinos at the awards event held in Mexico on Sunday, including best picture, director, cinematography, screenplay and sound.
Other nominees picking up multiple awards were Paraguay's The Heiresses, winner of best first work and best actress for Ana Brun; and the Spanish thriller The Realm, which scored best actor for Antonio de la Torre.
But the night belonged to Roma, a Mexico City-set story based on the hardships ...
Cuaron's black-and-white semiautobiographical film won five Platinos at the awards event held in Mexico on Sunday, including best picture, director, cinematography, screenplay and sound.
Other nominees picking up multiple awards were Paraguay's The Heiresses, winner of best first work and best actress for Ana Brun; and the Spanish thriller The Realm, which scored best actor for Antonio de la Torre.
But the night belonged to Roma, a Mexico City-set story based on the hardships ...
- 5/13/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's Roma topped the sixth edition of the Platino Awards, a ceremony honoring the best in Latin American and Ibero-American cinema and TV.
Cuaron's black-and-white semiautobiographical film won five Platinos at the awards event held in Mexico on Sunday, including best picture, director, cinematography, screenplay and sound.
Other nominees picking up multiple awards were Paraguay's The Heiresses, winner of best first work and best actress for Ana Brun; and the Spanish thriller The Realm, which scored best actor for Antonio de la Torre.
But the night belonged to Roma, a Mexico City-set story based on the hardships ...
Cuaron's black-and-white semiautobiographical film won five Platinos at the awards event held in Mexico on Sunday, including best picture, director, cinematography, screenplay and sound.
Other nominees picking up multiple awards were Paraguay's The Heiresses, winner of best first work and best actress for Ana Brun; and the Spanish thriller The Realm, which scored best actor for Antonio de la Torre.
But the night belonged to Roma, a Mexico City-set story based on the hardships ...
- 5/13/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” made a sweep of the 6th Premios Platino on Sunday, May 12, trouncing its fellow nominees in direction, cinematography, screenplay, sound, and best Iberoamerican film.
The annual Iberoamerican awards ceremony, held once again at the Teatro Gran Tlachco within the sprawling Ecotourist Xcaret Park in Mexico’s Riviera Maya coast, was beamed live on TNT Latin America and by 19 free-to-air television networks from Latin America and Spain.
“Roma” was a shoo-in given its nine noms and all the prominent awards it has collected since its Golden Lion win at the 75th Venice Film Fest and culminating in its capture of Mexico’s first-ever best international film Oscar (formerly known as the best foreign language film award), as well as best director and best cinematography Academy Awards for Cuaron.
In a glittering ceremony opened by iconic Spanish crooner Raphael, who received a lifetime achievement award a day prior,...
The annual Iberoamerican awards ceremony, held once again at the Teatro Gran Tlachco within the sprawling Ecotourist Xcaret Park in Mexico’s Riviera Maya coast, was beamed live on TNT Latin America and by 19 free-to-air television networks from Latin America and Spain.
“Roma” was a shoo-in given its nine noms and all the prominent awards it has collected since its Golden Lion win at the 75th Venice Film Fest and culminating in its capture of Mexico’s first-ever best international film Oscar (formerly known as the best foreign language film award), as well as best director and best cinematography Academy Awards for Cuaron.
In a glittering ceremony opened by iconic Spanish crooner Raphael, who received a lifetime achievement award a day prior,...
- 5/13/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
As was widely anticipated, Alfonso Cuaron’s triple Oscar-winning “Roma” dominated the 6th Premios Platino nominations, unveiled Thursday at Hollywood’s legendary Roosevelt Hotel, the site of the very first Oscars. It snagged a total of nine nominations, including best film, director, art direction, cinematography, and acting for its two Oscar-nominated actresses, Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira.
“Roma,” which won Mexico’s first best foreign-language film Oscar, is up against pics that were also submitted for their respective countries in the Academy Awards’ foreign-language category: Colombia’s “Pajaros de Verano,” Uruguay’s “La Noche de 12 Años,” and Spain’s “Campeones.” The first two titles nabbed six Premios Platino noms each while “Campeones” took five. Paraguay’s Oscar submission “Las Herederas” took five nominations.
The ceremony streamed live on Facebook with Premios Platino ambassador and CNN Español journalist Juan Carlos Arciniegas hosting the event alongside actors Joaquin Cosio, Angie Cepeda,...
“Roma,” which won Mexico’s first best foreign-language film Oscar, is up against pics that were also submitted for their respective countries in the Academy Awards’ foreign-language category: Colombia’s “Pajaros de Verano,” Uruguay’s “La Noche de 12 Años,” and Spain’s “Campeones.” The first two titles nabbed six Premios Platino noms each while “Campeones” took five. Paraguay’s Oscar submission “Las Herederas” took five nominations.
The ceremony streamed live on Facebook with Premios Platino ambassador and CNN Español journalist Juan Carlos Arciniegas hosting the event alongside actors Joaquin Cosio, Angie Cepeda,...
- 3/21/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi‘s feature debut is one of the more unique queer cinema film examples of recent memory in terms of offering a glimpse into homosexuality via a demographic that is not often cinematically put on display. Commencing with the happy partnership between Chela (Ana Brun) and Chiquita (Margarita Irun), The Heiresses delves into the notion of love, interdependence, ageism and what occurs when the affluent…are forcibly placed into a different demographic circle. This seismic shift asks the character of Chiquita to reevaluate her status and her future, and what is remarkable is how her own desire becomes an obstacle of sorts.…...
- 1/18/2019
- by Amir Ganjavie
- IONCINEMA.com
January continues its slow roll on the Specialty side this weekend with very few anticipated limited releases. IFC Films has the headliner of the weekend with political thriller An Acceptable Loss starring Tika Sumpter and Jamie Lee Curtis. Chicago Fire director Joe Chappelle wrote and directed the title after finding inspiration from two documentaries by Errol Morris. Brooklyn-based Distrib Films believes it found an under-the-radar gem in last year’s Berlin Film Festival with The Heiresses, which took two Silver Bears at the event in the German capital.
Other openers this weekend include Screen Media’s 2016 Tribeca Nora Ephron prize-winner Adult Life Skills, as well as Freestyle Digital Media’s I Hate The Kids and Rlj Entertainment’s The Standoff at Sparrow Creek.
An Acceptable Loss
Director-writer: Joe Chappelle
Cast: Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Tavassoli, Jeff Hephner
Distributor: IFC Films
Veteran TV director Joe Chappelle had the idea...
Other openers this weekend include Screen Media’s 2016 Tribeca Nora Ephron prize-winner Adult Life Skills, as well as Freestyle Digital Media’s I Hate The Kids and Rlj Entertainment’s The Standoff at Sparrow Creek.
An Acceptable Loss
Director-writer: Joe Chappelle
Cast: Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Tavassoli, Jeff Hephner
Distributor: IFC Films
Veteran TV director Joe Chappelle had the idea...
- 1/17/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
While you catch up on the best films of 2018, it’s time to turn to the handful of highlights as we enter the first month of the new year. Along with a handful of festival favorites finally getting U.S. releases, there are a few promising studio features amongst Hollywood’s dumping ground.
Matinees to See: Communion (1/4), Rust Creek (1/4), Buffalo Boys (1/11), The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (1/18), Girl (1/18), Adult Life Skills (1/18)
10. State Like Sleep (Meredith Danluck; Jan. 1)
Starring Katherine Waterston and Michael Shannon, State Like Sleep follows a widow who must dig up a dark past a year after her husband died. A premiere at Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year where it received favorable reviews, it looks like a strong showcase for the Inherent Vice star as she goes down the rabbit hole of a criminal underworld.
9. Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie; Jan. 11)
After winning Berlinale nearly a year ago,...
Matinees to See: Communion (1/4), Rust Creek (1/4), Buffalo Boys (1/11), The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (1/18), Girl (1/18), Adult Life Skills (1/18)
10. State Like Sleep (Meredith Danluck; Jan. 1)
Starring Katherine Waterston and Michael Shannon, State Like Sleep follows a widow who must dig up a dark past a year after her husband died. A premiere at Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year where it received favorable reviews, it looks like a strong showcase for the Inherent Vice star as she goes down the rabbit hole of a criminal underworld.
9. Touch Me Not (Adina Pintilie; Jan. 11)
After winning Berlinale nearly a year ago,...
- 1/2/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Madrid — 1844 Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Benjamín Naishtat’s “Rojo,” whose theatrical and home entertainment release will be handled by Distrib Films Us, headed by François Scippa-Kohn.
Theatrical releases in New York and Los Angeles are planned for spring 2019, followed by main other markets nationwide, said Distrib Films Us president Scippa-Kohn.
Closed in the run-up to Ventana Sur, the deal builds on a budding U.S. release partnership already in place for Paraguay Oscar entry “The Heiresses,” acquired like “Rojo” from Luxbox, Hedi Zardi and Fiorella Moretti’s Paris-based sales agent.
The partnership between 1844 Entertainment and Distrib Films Us forms part of a wider deal including other titles such as Iranian Oscar submission “No Date No Signature.”
Taking in two of the biggest Latin American arthouse titles of the year, the sales confirm 1844 Ent. and Distrib Films as a burgeoning U.S. outlet for Latin American and...
Theatrical releases in New York and Los Angeles are planned for spring 2019, followed by main other markets nationwide, said Distrib Films Us president Scippa-Kohn.
Closed in the run-up to Ventana Sur, the deal builds on a budding U.S. release partnership already in place for Paraguay Oscar entry “The Heiresses,” acquired like “Rojo” from Luxbox, Hedi Zardi and Fiorella Moretti’s Paris-based sales agent.
The partnership between 1844 Entertainment and Distrib Films Us forms part of a wider deal including other titles such as Iranian Oscar submission “No Date No Signature.”
Taking in two of the biggest Latin American arthouse titles of the year, the sales confirm 1844 Ent. and Distrib Films as a burgeoning U.S. outlet for Latin American and...
- 12/5/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
"Dare yourself..." Distrib Films has debuted an official Us trailer for an drama from Paraguay titled The Heiresses (or originally Las Herederas in Spanish), which is Paraguay's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category for the Academy Awards this year. This originally premiered at the Berlin Film Festival at the beginning of this year, then went on to play at a great number of festivals all over the world throughout 2018. The film is about a woman who decides to start a local taxi service when she runs out of her inherited money, meeting a young new friend along the way. Described as a "character study with shrewd commentary on class, desire, and the lingering privileges of Paraguay's elite." The film stars Ana Brun, Margarita Irún, Ana Ivanova, Nilda Gonzalez, María Martins, & Alicia Guerra. See below. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Marcelo Martinessi's The Heiresses, from...
- 11/29/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, Marcelo Martinessi’s debut film The Heiresses went on to win both the Best Actress prize (for Ana Brun’s lead performance) and the Alfred Bauer Prize. Since its Berlinale debut, the drama has enjoyed a lengthy, acclaimed festival run and is Paraguay’s Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film. Courtesy of Distrib Film Us, it will now arrive in the U.S. this January and we’re pleased to premiere the new trailer.
Martinessi’s film follows an upper-class couple in Paraguay who hit financial troubles as they adjust to the hardships of their new situation. Variety said in their review that it’s “a finely-crafted, beautifully realized debut that exquisitely balances character study with shrewd commentary on class, desire, and the lingering privileges of Paraguay’s elite.” Also starring Margarita Irún and Ana Ivanova, see our...
Martinessi’s film follows an upper-class couple in Paraguay who hit financial troubles as they adjust to the hardships of their new situation. Variety said in their review that it’s “a finely-crafted, beautifully realized debut that exquisitely balances character study with shrewd commentary on class, desire, and the lingering privileges of Paraguay’s elite.” Also starring Margarita Irún and Ana Ivanova, see our...
- 11/27/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Love, the only possible salvation for humanity is explored in a different way in the Paraguayan film The Heiresses directed by Marcelo Martinessi. This is his first feature though he has made shorts and TV series.
This story of Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asunción who have been together for over 30 years as their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling off their inherited possessions.
When their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality alone. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection. Chela finally begins to break out of her shell and engage with the world, embarking on her own personal,...
This story of Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asunción who have been together for over 30 years as their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling off their inherited possessions.
When their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality alone. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection. Chela finally begins to break out of her shell and engage with the world, embarking on her own personal,...
- 11/13/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
NewFest kicks off on Wednesday, celebrating the 30th year of New York City’s premier queer film festival. Each year, NewFest presents some of the buzziest titles from all over the world, but it also plays home to brand-new fiction films and documentaries that you can’t see anywhere else.
International titles with strong acclaim are some of the best films in this year’s slate, many making their NYC debuts: the Kenyan lesbian love story Rafiki, which premiered at Cannes, is the festival’s International Centerpiece; Mario from the Locarno Film Festival; and Hard Paint from the Berlin Film Festival. Yen Tan’s critically acclaimed AIDS drama 1985 starring Cory Michael Smith will open the festival, followed by Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased as the U.S. Centerpiece. NewFest closes out with Making Montgomery Clift, directed by the actor’s nephew Robert Anderson Clift and Hillary Demmon.
We selected 10 titles...
International titles with strong acclaim are some of the best films in this year’s slate, many making their NYC debuts: the Kenyan lesbian love story Rafiki, which premiered at Cannes, is the festival’s International Centerpiece; Mario from the Locarno Film Festival; and Hard Paint from the Berlin Film Festival. Yen Tan’s critically acclaimed AIDS drama 1985 starring Cory Michael Smith will open the festival, followed by Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased as the U.S. Centerpiece. NewFest closes out with Making Montgomery Clift, directed by the actor’s nephew Robert Anderson Clift and Hillary Demmon.
We selected 10 titles...
- 10/23/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Other winners included Museo (Museum), In den Gangen (In the Aisles) and Andid Edlilega (And Breathe Normally).
The Heiresses (Las herederas) by Marcelo Martinessi has won the best film award (Golden Athena) at the 24th Athens International Film Festival (September 19-30).
The film, an international coproduction by Paraguay, Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Norway and France, is a socially charged drama placing a loving couple of two mid aged women in a stressful situation of intense imbalance. It is sold worldwide by French outfit Luxbox.
Paraguayan Martinessi’s debut premiered in Berlinale last February where it won the Alfred Bauer award for best first film,...
The Heiresses (Las herederas) by Marcelo Martinessi has won the best film award (Golden Athena) at the 24th Athens International Film Festival (September 19-30).
The film, an international coproduction by Paraguay, Uruguay, Germany, Brazil, Norway and France, is a socially charged drama placing a loving couple of two mid aged women in a stressful situation of intense imbalance. It is sold worldwide by French outfit Luxbox.
Paraguayan Martinessi’s debut premiered in Berlinale last February where it won the Alfred Bauer award for best first film,...
- 10/1/2018
- by Alexis Grivas
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/11/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Screen’s regularly updated list of foreign language Oscar submissions.
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards are not until Tuesday January 22, but the first submissions for best foreign-language film are now being announced.
Last year saw a record 92 submissions for the award, which were narrowed down to a shortlist of nine. This was cut to five nominees, with Sebastián Lelio’s transgender drama A Fantastic Woman ultimately taking home the gold statue.
Screen’s interview with Mark Johnson, chair of the Academy’s foreign-language film committee, explains the shortlisting process from submission to voting.
Submitted films must be released theatrically...
- 9/11/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Russia, Hungary and Paraguay have selected their Foreign Language Oscar hopefuls.
Hungary has chosen Venice Film Festival Competition drama Sunset from director Laszlo Nemes who won the Foreign Language Oscar in 2016 for Son Of Saul. Sony Classics handles Sunset, which is set in Budapest on the brink of World War I.
Juli Jakab (Son Of Saul) stars as a young woman orphaned at an early age, who arrives in the city looking for work at a successful hat store that used to belong to her parents. Repelled by the new owner, she becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding her long-lost brother.
Meanwhile, Russia has selected Sobibor as its choice in the category. Konstantin Khabensky’s World War II film is based on the true story of an uprising in the Sobibor Nazi extermination camp in 1943, led by Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. The pic was released in Russia in May, taking...
Hungary has chosen Venice Film Festival Competition drama Sunset from director Laszlo Nemes who won the Foreign Language Oscar in 2016 for Son Of Saul. Sony Classics handles Sunset, which is set in Budapest on the brink of World War I.
Juli Jakab (Son Of Saul) stars as a young woman orphaned at an early age, who arrives in the city looking for work at a successful hat store that used to belong to her parents. Repelled by the new owner, she becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding her long-lost brother.
Meanwhile, Russia has selected Sobibor as its choice in the category. Konstantin Khabensky’s World War II film is based on the true story of an uprising in the Sobibor Nazi extermination camp in 1943, led by Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. The pic was released in Russia in May, taking...
- 9/11/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Paraguayan Academy of Film Arts and Sciences has chosen Marcelo Martinessi's The Heiresses to compete in the foreign-language film category at the 2019 Oscars, as well as for the Spanish Goya and Mexico's Ariel awards.
Martinessi's debut film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, tells the story of Chela (Ana Brun), a withdrawn, middle-aged gay woman who is forced to navigate a life separated from her partner of 30 years.
The Hollywood Reporter's review described the drama as one that "builds emotional involvement by infinitesimal degrees through its acute observation of characters and ...
Martinessi's debut film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, tells the story of Chela (Ana Brun), a withdrawn, middle-aged gay woman who is forced to navigate a life separated from her partner of 30 years.
The Hollywood Reporter's review described the drama as one that "builds emotional involvement by infinitesimal degrees through its acute observation of characters and ...
- 9/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Paraguayan Academy of Film Arts and Sciences has chosen Marcelo Martinessi's The Heiresses to compete in the foreign-language film category at the 2019 Oscars, as well as for the Spanish Goya and Mexico's Ariel awards.
Martinessi's debut film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, tells the story of Chela (Ana Brun), a withdrawn, middle-aged gay woman who is forced to navigate a life separated from her partner of 30 years.
The Hollywood Reporter's review described the drama as one that "builds emotional involvement by infinitesimal degrees through its acute observation of characters and ...
Martinessi's debut film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, tells the story of Chela (Ana Brun), a withdrawn, middle-aged gay woman who is forced to navigate a life separated from her partner of 30 years.
The Hollywood Reporter's review described the drama as one that "builds emotional involvement by infinitesimal degrees through its acute observation of characters and ...
- 9/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Heiresses San Sebastian Film festival has announced the 12 Latin American films that will compete for its Horizontes Latinos Award this September, including films from Carlos Reygadas, Ana Katz and Beatriz Seigner.
Marcelo Martinessi's The Heiresses (Las Herederas) - which opens in UK cinemas today - will be the opening night film for the section. He and some of his cast will be in the Spanish town with the film that tells the story of a woman, who finds herself blossoming after her long-time lover is incarcerated (read what he told us about the film here.
Other films in the line-up include Katz's Sueño Florianópolis, which recently won the Fipresci prize in Karlovy Vary, Reygadas' In Our Time, which will receive its world premiere in competition in Venice, and Seigner's magic realism-inflected Los Silencios.
Twelve films...
Marcelo Martinessi's The Heiresses (Las Herederas) - which opens in UK cinemas today - will be the opening night film for the section. He and some of his cast will be in the Spanish town with the film that tells the story of a woman, who finds herself blossoming after her long-time lover is incarcerated (read what he told us about the film here.
Other films in the line-up include Katz's Sueño Florianópolis, which recently won the Fipresci prize in Karlovy Vary, Reygadas' In Our Time, which will receive its world premiere in competition in Venice, and Seigner's magic realism-inflected Los Silencios.
Twelve films...
- 8/10/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The relationship between two wealthy older women is threatened when one of them is jailed and the other begins an unexpected flirtation
We’ve all seen films about old people who experience a poignant and bittersweet late-life flowering. But not that many about a well-off, elderly lady in Paraguay whose love life starts to come into its own only after her gay lover is sent to jail. This excellent debut movie from writer-director Marcelo Martinessi, an award-winner at this year’s Berlin film festival, is a secret love story set among the complacent wealthy gerontocracy of the nation’s capital, Asunción. It reminded me weirdly of Hollywood movies such as Driving Miss Daisy or Harold and Maude or The Trip to Bountiful, but with its own singular flavour. There is also a little bit of Dickens in the sharp social satire, the chattery world of card-playing and the chaos of the debtors’ prison.
We’ve all seen films about old people who experience a poignant and bittersweet late-life flowering. But not that many about a well-off, elderly lady in Paraguay whose love life starts to come into its own only after her gay lover is sent to jail. This excellent debut movie from writer-director Marcelo Martinessi, an award-winner at this year’s Berlin film festival, is a secret love story set among the complacent wealthy gerontocracy of the nation’s capital, Asunción. It reminded me weirdly of Hollywood movies such as Driving Miss Daisy or Harold and Maude or The Trip to Bountiful, but with its own singular flavour. There is also a little bit of Dickens in the sharp social satire, the chattery world of card-playing and the chaos of the debtors’ prison.
- 8/9/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Thunderbird Releasing has dropped the trailer and official poster for Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses.
Read our review of the film here
Written and directed by Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, the film premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival winning Silver Bear for Best Actress and the Alfred Bauer (Silver Bear) and Fipresci prizes for Best Film.
The film stars Ana Brun, Margarita Irun and Ana Ivanova.
Also in trailers – First trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass debuts
The film hits cinemas August 10.
The Heiresses Official Synopsis
Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asunción, Paraguay, have been together for 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened, and they begin to sell off their inherited possessions. When their debts lead fo Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality as she begins to break out of her shell...
Read our review of the film here
Written and directed by Paraguayan filmmaker Marcelo Martinessi, the film premiered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival winning Silver Bear for Best Actress and the Alfred Bauer (Silver Bear) and Fipresci prizes for Best Film.
The film stars Ana Brun, Margarita Irun and Ana Ivanova.
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The film hits cinemas August 10.
The Heiresses Official Synopsis
Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asunción, Paraguay, have been together for 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened, and they begin to sell off their inherited possessions. When their debts lead fo Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality as she begins to break out of her shell...
- 7/23/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Director Marcelo Martinessi commands an all-female cast for his debut film The Heiresses, which stars Ana Brun and Margarita Irún as homosexual partners Chela and Chiquita. After living off the wealth of both their ancestors, they start to struggle financially and have no other choice but to sell their inherited possessions. From then on, things only seem to go downhill as Chiquita gets sent to prison on fraud charges.
Both Chela and Chiquita, who have been together for over 30 years, rely solely on each other for support and stability but when that gets taken away from them, Chela is forced to cope on her own as she faces a brand-new reality. From having each other in their lives constantly for 30 years to seeing each other once a week, it’s rare to see a couple fit so easily into their new lives away from each other. It’s almost as...
Both Chela and Chiquita, who have been together for over 30 years, rely solely on each other for support and stability but when that gets taken away from them, Chela is forced to cope on her own as she faces a brand-new reality. From having each other in their lives constantly for 30 years to seeing each other once a week, it’s rare to see a couple fit so easily into their new lives away from each other. It’s almost as...
- 6/27/2018
- by Alex Clement
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The visiting women — and it is always women — appraise the neatly laid out ornaments, cutlery and linens in a large colonial drawing room with impatient disinterest. They’re like already sated carrion birds idly picking at a carcass. Or that’s how they must look to Chela (Berlin Best Actress Ana Brun), the timorous mistress of this once-plush Paraguayan home, who watches its gradual dismantling with startled, dismayed eyes from shadowy hallways through doors that creak ajar.
Continue reading Quiet, Powerful, Award-Winning Slow Burn ‘The Heiresses’ [Transilvania Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Quiet, Powerful, Award-Winning Slow Burn ‘The Heiresses’ [Transilvania Review] at The Playlist.
- 6/10/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Paraguayan co-directors talk about their local box office smash.
Paraguay is not known for its theatrical output, which is why Juan Carols Maneglia and Tana Schembori, in Panama to present adventure The Gold Seekers (Los Buscadores), have earned a special place in their country’s sparse cinematic history.
When their feature debut and crime thriller 7 Boxes opened in 2012 it went on to become the highest grossing local film of all time. Five years later, the co-directors, friends and business partners returned with The Gold Seekers (Los Buscadores), which became the second highest grossing local film when it opened in their...
Paraguay is not known for its theatrical output, which is why Juan Carols Maneglia and Tana Schembori, in Panama to present adventure The Gold Seekers (Los Buscadores), have earned a special place in their country’s sparse cinematic history.
When their feature debut and crime thriller 7 Boxes opened in 2012 it went on to become the highest grossing local film of all time. Five years later, the co-directors, friends and business partners returned with The Gold Seekers (Los Buscadores), which became the second highest grossing local film when it opened in their...
- 4/10/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Touch Me Not Photo: © Manekino Film, Rohfilm, Pink, Agitprop, Les Films de l'Etranger Touch Me Not has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. The Romanian drama by Adina Pintilie, which takes a very personal approach to issues of intimacy, was a controversial dark horse in the line-up which included the likes of Gus Van Sant's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot, David and Nathan Zellner's Damsel - both of which had already played at Sundance - and the critically touted Dovlatov, directed by Aleksey German. The Russian film did take home a Silver Bear for Elena Okopnaya for artistic contribution and has sold to Netflix. Touch Me Not was also named Best First Feature, while Wes Anderson won the Silver Bear for best director for his animation Isle Of Dogs.
The jury was headed by German director Tom Tykwer. They gave the acting...
The jury was headed by German director Tom Tykwer. They gave the acting...
- 2/24/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Berlin Film Festival has come to a close, and Adina Pintilie’s “Touch Me Not” has emerged with the film world’s nicest looking award: the Golden Bear for Best Film. Wes Anderson was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director by the six-person jury, which was led by Tom Tykwer and seems to have been as wowed by “Isle of Dogs” as critics have been.
“Touch Me Not” also won the prize for Best First Feature, marking an auspicious debut for Pintilie; “The Heiress” is also a double winner, having been awarded both the Alfred Bauer Prize and Best Actress laurels for Ana Brun. Here’s the full list of winners:
Golden Bear for Best Film: “Touch Me Not,” Adina Pintilie
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: “Twarz” (“Mug”), Małgorzata Szumowska
Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize: “The Heiress,” Marcelo Martinessi
Silver Bear for Best Director: Wes Anderson, “Isle of Dogs...
“Touch Me Not” also won the prize for Best First Feature, marking an auspicious debut for Pintilie; “The Heiress” is also a double winner, having been awarded both the Alfred Bauer Prize and Best Actress laurels for Ana Brun. Here’s the full list of winners:
Golden Bear for Best Film: “Touch Me Not,” Adina Pintilie
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: “Twarz” (“Mug”), Małgorzata Szumowska
Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize: “The Heiress,” Marcelo Martinessi
Silver Bear for Best Director: Wes Anderson, “Isle of Dogs...
- 2/24/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Director Adina Pintilie’s “Touch Me Not,” a daring and highly personal exploration of intimacy, has won the Golden Bear award as the best film at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. Silver Bear acting awards went to Anthony Bajon for “The Prayer” and Ana Brun for “The Heiresses,” while the prize for the festival’s best director went to Wes Anderson for his animated film “Isle of Dogs.” Accepting on behalf of Anderson, Bill Murray said, “I never thought I would go to work as a dog and come home with a Bear.” “Mug” and “The Heiresses” also won Silver Bear awards. The awards were...
- 2/24/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Wes Anderson named festival’s best director for Isle Of Dogs.
The awards of the 68th Berlin Film Festival were handed out on Saturday evening (February 24), with the Golden Bear for best film going to Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not, which also scooped best first feature.
Scroll down for a list of winners
There were 24 films in this year’s competition section, 19 of which were eligible for the Golden Bear.
Wes Anderson won the festival’s Silver Bear best director prize for his competition opener Isle Of Dogs. Anderson regular Bill Murray accepted the award on the director’s behalf.
This year’s international competition jury was headed up by German director Tom Tykwer, who was joined by Cécile de France, Chema Prado, Moonlight producer Adele Romanski, Ryūichi Sakamoto, and film critic Stephanie Zacharek.
The jurors took a different view to Screen International’s jury of critics and awarded the Golden Bear to Touch Me Not, which...
The awards of the 68th Berlin Film Festival were handed out on Saturday evening (February 24), with the Golden Bear for best film going to Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not, which also scooped best first feature.
Scroll down for a list of winners
There were 24 films in this year’s competition section, 19 of which were eligible for the Golden Bear.
Wes Anderson won the festival’s Silver Bear best director prize for his competition opener Isle Of Dogs. Anderson regular Bill Murray accepted the award on the director’s behalf.
This year’s international competition jury was headed up by German director Tom Tykwer, who was joined by Cécile de France, Chema Prado, Moonlight producer Adele Romanski, Ryūichi Sakamoto, and film critic Stephanie Zacharek.
The jurors took a different view to Screen International’s jury of critics and awarded the Golden Bear to Touch Me Not, which...
- 2/24/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The HeiressesThe first few days of the Berlin International Film Festival have provided the kind of bounty of compelling premieres—whether just intriguingly idiosyncratic or genuinely good—that makes a festival an experience of rejuvenation, even amid grim or difficult subjects. A great example of the latter is Kazuhiro Soda's Inland Sea, a bountifully patient portrait of the dying margins of the old Japanese fishing town of Ushimado. It paints a humane but forlorn portrait of a town seemingly populated almost exclusively by the elderly and a cast of beautiful stray cats. The filmmaker and his wife interject themselves into the proceedings of this compassionate documentary often, so the presence of the camera soon becomes not ambivalent and analytic but rather a sweet-natured, deeply-interested observer. Invited along with his characters as they go about their often-lonely work of diminishing returns or show him the local sights, Soda creates a transitory...
- 2/18/2018
- MUBI
No one has been immune to the economic uncertainties that have rocked the globe, and in the upcoming “The Heiresses,” that fiscal fallout is the spark for an intriguing drama. Making its World Premiere in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, we’re excited to debut the exclusive trailer and poster for the picture today.
Directed by Marcelo Martinessi, and starring Ana Brun, Margarita Irún, and Ana Ivanova, the story follows Chela and Chiquita, who have lived together for three decades, but are forced into a new life following a fiscal fallout.
Directed by Marcelo Martinessi, and starring Ana Brun, Margarita Irún, and Ana Ivanova, the story follows Chela and Chiquita, who have lived together for three decades, but are forced into a new life following a fiscal fallout.
- 2/14/2018
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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