20.11.2023
Our Sales Manager Daniel Vadocky
will attend Ventana Sur 2023
from 27 November to 1 December.
Table 24 // Avenida de Negocios
WhatsApp: +420 777 697 543
Scroll down to discover our
VENTANA SUR 2023 LINE-UP.
SISTER & SISTER (LAS HIJAS)
by Kattia G. Zúñiga
Teenage Drama, Sisterhood, Friendship
80 min, 2023
Panama, Chile
MARKET SCREENING
29 Nov 14:15 Cinemark / Puerto Madero / Sala 2
Synopsis
Summer vacation. Two sisters, Marina (17) and Luna (14), travel from Costa Rica to Panama to look for their absent father. While dealing with frictions that arise between them, they find space to explore their desires, new friendships, lovers, and skateboarding, on a journey toward emancipation where they discover the joy of the simple act of hanging out. An intimate and tender tale of sisterhood in the urban tropics, with a deep portrayal of colorful teenage life.
FOREVER-FOREVER
by Anna Buryachkova
Drama, Crime, Romance
107 min, 2023
Ukraine, The Netherlands
Synopsis
After transferring from a downtown high school, Tonia joins a new badass gang of youngsters, trying to find protection and a place she truly belongs. They spend time together, roaming around Kyiv's post-socialist suburbs, having fun and getting in trouble. Soon, Tonia falls in love with Zhurik, whilst also longing for Sania and finds herself tangled up in an alluring secret love triangle. But Tonia's abusive past still haunts her, challenging this newfound friendship and romance. Will she be able to find her own pass or lose herself in this new controversial relationship?
EMPTY NETS
by Behrooz Karamizade
Drama, Crime, Romance
101 min, 2023
Germany, Iran
Synopsis
Twenty somethings Amir and Narges have found what feels like true love in their hometown by the coast of the Caspian sea. But in today’s Iran that’s far from enough to build a life together, and they are forced to keep the relationship secret. To win over Narges’ upper class family and pay an appropriate dowry, Amir needs money, and he needs it fast. With his back against the wall, Amir finds work at a local fishery, where he is drawn into the dangerous but lucrative business of black market caviar smuggling. As Amir’s values are compromised by the illegal underworld, Narges stalls for time and tries to delay the arranged marriage her parents are planning for her. Can their love, hopes and dreams survive the tightly knit web of tradition, corruption, and social hierarchy that continues to rule over the lives of a new generation in Iran?
ELAHA
by Milena Aboyan
Drama, Emancipation, Family
110 min, 2023
Germany
Synopsis
Elaha is a young Kurdish-German woman torn between the unconditional love for her family and her own aspirations in life. Although she cares most about having a good time with her girlfriends and taking care of her younger brother, she has to fight patriarchy while being the perfect daughter. Ultimately, she has to make a decision: To tell the truth or live a life in grand delusion. A psychological journey about emancipation that reveals that only by facing reality, we can be true to ourselves.
TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME
by Jow Zhi Wei
Boyhood, Adventure, Survival
105 min, 2023
Singapore, Taiwan, France, Portugal
Synopsis
Life is not the most fulfilling for sixteen-year-old Meng: Lounging at home with his grieving father on a daily basis, being excluded from his family’s past, and forced into bullying other kids at school. Everything changes when he is thrown into a life-altering adventure that propels him into an exciting unfamiliar landscape.
100 SEASONS
by Giovanni Bucchieri
Melodrama, Romance, Art
104 min, 2023
Sweden
Synopsis
Inspired by real video diaries of his first love, which he filmed around 30 years ago, director Giovanni Bucchieri unfolds an emotional love story starring two artists and soulmates. Their relationship is challenged by bipolar disorder, ambition in life and longing for acceptance. 100 SEASONS offers a colorful mix of passion, tenderness, and romance. An inspiring and heartfelt film about dreams, failure and love that can never die.
RISPET
by Cecilia Bozza Wolf
Polenta Western, Honor, Shame
105 min, 2023
Italy
Synopsis
Corvaz is a simple and instinctive 30-year-old that works hard in his father’s vineyard and loves going around with his dog Toni. The village life is all centered around the local bar and for the men, the days
go by drinking and kidding one another until one night, the statues that decorate the village square get vandalized. The blame goes on Corvaz. While the grudge from the community rises, a punishing expedition eventually forces Corvaz to face the villagers and leave. For the others, there may be no such an alternative. The code of “rispet” that has kept them all together is now broken.
VAMOS A LA PLAYA
by Bettina Blümner
Travelling, Cuba, Millennials
90 min, 2022
Germany, Cuba
Synopsis
When backpacker millennials Benjamin, Judith and Katharina travel to Cuba to find Katharina’s missing brother Wanja, they become more and more entrapped within a maze of delusions, sincere feelings and sexual desires: It begins as an exciting adventure and turns into a passionate love triangle.
