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THE DESERT BRIDE (LA NOVIA DEL DESIERTO)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, TURKEY
 
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Development - SPANISH - Drama, First film - 90 minutes

Log Line

Teresa’s life (48 yr old) takes an unexpected turn when she decides to go back to her hometown after 20 years, before her only sister passes away. On the way there, she meets el Gringo, a man very different from the one she ran away when she was young and who will help her face the challenge of unea

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Cecilia ATAN, Valeria PIVATO
Writer(s) : Cecilia ATAN, Valeria PIVATO
Cast : Paulina GARCIA

Producer(s) : Gabriel PASTORE (CARROUSEL FILMS), Sebastian CALDI (CARROUSEL FILMS)

Synopsis

“Only by crossing the desert can we know ourselves”
Teresa is forty-eight and has worked as a housemaid with an upper middle class family in Buenos Aires. She was born in Cuyo and traveled to the Capital looking for a better future.
The story begins when Julieta, a girl she cared for since she was a baby gets married and gives her a special gift: A ticket to her hometown to see her dying sister. Julieta’s naïve gesture creates a dilemma for Teresa, going back to her hometown means confronting her own past which she had chose to forget, but her sister’s inminent death pushes her to retrace the trip she made 26 years ago from San Juan to the Capital.
An ordinary trip becomes singular when she is at the Difunta Correa shrine and accidentally meets el Gringo, a door-to-door salesman who offers to take her to San Juan.
Paradoxically, the trip will give Teresa the family she never had and will help her rediscover her own faith, which she lost the moment she left the village

Production

Country(ies) : ARGENTINA

Financing plan : CARROUSEL FILMS
AJAF CINEMA
EL PERRO Y LA LUNA

Start of shooting : August 2015

BELGIUM Dec 20, 2017 CINÉART BELGIUM
BRAZIL Apr 20, 2018 IMOVISION
FRANCE Dec 13, 2017 MEMENTO FILMS D
GERMANY Nov 30, 2017 ARSENAL FILMVER
NETHERLAND Nov 23, 2017 CINÉART NETHERL
SPAIN GOLEM DISTRIBUC
SWITZERLAN Dec 27, 2017 FILMCOOPI ZURIC
TURKEY FILMARTI FILM
USA Apr 20, 2018 STRAND RELEASIN


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