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ZAMA
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, POLAND
Release date : Aug 31, 2018
 
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Completed - SPANISH - Drama - 115 minutes

Log Line

Zama, residing on the outskirts of a Spanish colony. He is constantly waiting to be promoted, transferred or simply noticed, for an opportunity to prove himself to far-off authorities. In looking out for the future, he doesn't see value in the present, in what's right next to him.

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Lucrecia MARTEL
Cast : Gimenez Cacho DANIEL, Lola DUENAS, Matheus NACHTERGAELE

Producer(s) : Agustín ALMODÓVAR, Pedro ALMODÓVAR, Joslyn BARNES, Alejandro CACETTA, Vânia CATANI, Juan manuel COLLADO, Pablo CRUZ, Benjamín DOMÉNECH, Eva EISENLOEFFEL, Claire GADEA, Santiago GALLELLI, Juan pablo GALLI, Gael garcía BERNAL, Esther GARCÍA, Danny GLOVER, Guillermo KUITCA, Marie-pierre MACIA, Michel MERKT, Marta NÚÑEZ PUERTO, Juan PERDOMO, Leontine PETIT, Susan ROCKEFELLER, Matias ROVEDA, Georges SCHOUCAIR, Julia SOLOMONOFF, Angelisa STEIN, Fabiana TISCORNIA, Luís URBANO, Juan VERA

Synopsis

The latest film by Lucrecia Martel (La Ciénaga, The Holy Girl, The Headless Woman), based on a novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, is dedicated to, as the eminent Argentinean writer and journalist Martin Caparrós (the author of Hunger) expressed it, "the victims of expectations." Zama is a prisoner of the office he holds, constantly tethered to rituals and forms, defining himself by his social position. The tropical heat and moisture quickly dissolve those forms, however, ridiculing the supposed robustness of the colonial powers, exposing the emptiness of rituals brought from Europe, which are simply grotesque there. The more desperately the protagonist clings to his rigid identities as an official, a colonizer, a proud white man, the more frustration and humiliation he encounters: his transfer request is refused, he's rejected by a woman, his salary is misplaced, getting stuck somewhere in transit. By setting her story in a cultural borderland, where the representatives of the Spanish crown are forced into uncertain coexistence with the indigenous people from those lands, Martel gives Zama a chance for transformation and liberation- chance that comes with a fall.

Production

Country(ies) : ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, SPAIN, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, MEXICO, SWITZERLAND, USA, PORTUGAL, LEBANON

AUSTRIA FILMGARTEN
BRAZIL Mar 29, 2018 VITRINE FILMES
GREECE WEIRD WAVE
MEXICO Dec 29, 2017 CANANA
NETHERLAND DE FILMFREAK
NEW ZEALAN LIMELIGHT DISTR
POLAND Aug 31, 2018 NEW HORIZONS IN
PUERTO RIC ALUCINE PR, INC
SPAIN Jan 26, 2018 BTEAM PICTURES
SWITZERLAN TRIGON-FILM
UNITED KIN NEW WAVE FILMS
USA Apr 13, 2018 STRAND RELEASIN

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Festivals and Awards

Havana FF 2017 (Best Film)
Seville European FF 2017 (Special Jury Award)
Rotterdam IFFR 2018 (KNF Award)


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