karnawalfeature film debut of the Argentine John Paul Felixwon today Platinum Award for the best Ibero-American fiction debut.
“When one makes a first film, one does not expect it,” said an emotional Félix, who recalled that his film is a co-production of many countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Bolivia and Norway). “You have to defend culture, because this is where we filmmakers come from.”
karnawal competed in this section with Freedom (Spain-Belgium), by Clara Roquet, and with a co-production with Mexico directed by Fernanda Valadez, No particular signs; Costa Rican Nathalie Álvarez Mesén also opted for the beautiful and spiritual Clara Alone.
karnawal is a film to which its director has given airs of western Y road movieswhile telling an emotional and sentimental story between a father and a son.
But above all “it talks about the passion of some boys to defend the legendary arts of their peoples, traditions and dances that are devastated, devoured by reggaeton, by globalization,” one of its protagonists, the Chilean Alfredo Castrowho took home the first award for the film, as Best Supporting Actor.
In karnawalCastro is the father of Cabra (Martín López Lacci), a convict who has not seen his family for seven years and that just on the weekend that the boy is going to compete in the final of a Malambo festival – a gaucho dance of pre-Columbian origin that simulates the trot of horses-, appears to take him and his mother (Mónica Lairana), who lives with another couple, on a trip.
Félix makes his debut with this film that takes place on the border between Bolivia and Argentina where the camera looks for the images almost as if it were a documentary, following the kid who deals to get some boots to dance with, and the bus ticket that crosses the border. A film that will be released in the second half of the year in Spain, Chile, Brazil and Mexico.
Source: Eluniverso
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