Un Certain Regard " ELEFANTE BLANCO " (WHITE ELEPHANT) Directed by: Pablo TRAPERO Country: ARGENTINA, SPAIN, FRANCE Year: 2012 Duration: 110.00 minutes Credits: Pablo TRAPERO - Director Pablo TRAPERO - Screenplay Alejandro FADEL - Screenplay Martín MAUREGUI - Screenplay Santiago MITRE - Screenplay Guillermo NIETO - Cinematography Juan Pedro DE GASPAR - Set Designer Fernando BRUN - Set Designer Michael NYMAN - Music Nacho RUIZ CAPILLAS - Film Editor Pablo TRAPERO - Film Editor Santiago ESTEVES - Film Editor Carlos LIDON - Sound Actors: Ricardo DARIN - JULIAN Jeremie RENIER - NICOLAS Martina GUSMAN - LUCIANA Synopsis: The "Villa Virgin", a shantytown in the slums of Buenos Aires. Julian and Nicolas, two priests and long-standing friends, work tirelessly to help the local people. Julian uses his political connections to oversee the construction of a hospital. Nicolas joins him following the failure of a project he was leading in the jungle, after paramilitary forces assassinated members of the community. Deeply troubled, he finds a little comfort in Luciana, a young, attractive, atheist social worker. As Nicolas' faith weakens, tension and violence between the slum drug dealing cartels grow. And when work on the hospital is halted by ministerial decree, the fuse is lit... *** Le "bidonville de la Vierge" dans la banlieue de Buenos Aires. Julian et Nicolas, deux prêtres et amis de longue date, œuvrent pour aider la population. Julian se sert de ses relations politiques pour superviser la construction d'un hôpital. Nicolas le rejoint après l'échec d'un projet qu'il menait dans la jungle, où des forces paramilitaires ont assassiné les habitants. Profondément choqué, il trouve un peu de réconfort auprès de Luciana, une jeune assistante sociale, athée et séduisante. Alors que la foi de Nicolas s'ébranle, les tensions et la violence entre les cartels dans le bidonville augmentent. Quand le ministère ordonne l'arrêt des travaux pour l'hôpital, c'est l'étincelle qui met le feu aux poudres... Pablo Trapero began his international career in 1999 with his first feature MUNDO GRÚA. The black and white, 16mm film marked a turning point in Argentinean Cinema, and encouraged numerous young directors into their first features. MUNDO GRÚA had its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival, and went on to reap awards and critical acclaim at film festivals around the globe. In 2002, Trapero’s second feature, EL BONAERENSE premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, and once more the director received widespread critical and audience aclaim. That same year, he formed his own production company, Matanza Cine, in Buenos Aires, through which he has produced ever since, not only his own features but those of other Argentinean and Latin American filmmakers. Further features as director include FAMILIA RODANTE (Rolling Family) (2004) which debuted at the Venice Film Festival, NACIDO Y CRIADO (Born and Bred) (2006 - Toronto Film Festival), LEONERA (Lion’s Den) (2008 - Cannes Film Festival, Official Competition) and CARANCHO (2010 - Cannes Film Festival, Un certain regard. All these films have been commercially released in Argentina and abroad, and also presented in major film festivals around the world. Apart from his features films has made short films such as INTERSECCIONES, SOBRAS, (from «Stories on Human Rights»), NÓMADE (included in «25 Miradas - 200 Minutos») and NAIF (from «Visual Telegrams») His most recent feature WHITE ELEPHANT (ELEFANTE BLANCO) and 7 DAYS IN HAVANA (to which he contributed one of seven short films) are both screening in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. © Wild Bunch 2012.
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