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Completed - ENGLISH, SPANISH - Road movie, Romance, LGBT - 80 minutes

Log Line

A slow-burning odyssey about love and loss featuring newcomer Pedro Fontaine in the title role of Elias, a young man who travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit, and to fulfill the wish of his mysteriously deceased lover.




Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Ingrid VENINGER
 Writer(s) : Ingrid VENINGER
 Cast : Pedro FONTAINE, Cristobal TAPIA MONTT

 Producer(s) : Ingrid VENINGER (PUNK FILMS INC.)

Synopsis

Every screening of HE HATED PIGEONS is presented with a uniquely improvised, ever-changing live score. Linked with the uncertainty of the protagonist’s journey, the audience is part of something which has its own intrinsic impermanence.

“A one-off bespoke experience which blends cinema and performance.” Wendy Ide, Screen International at IFFR

Simplicity is what yields complexity. Nowhere in recent memory is this more apparent than in the dazzling and heartbreaking He Hated Pigeons. Greg Klymkiw, The Film Corner

“This film is a remarkable experience not soon forgotten.” Jason Gorber, Twitch Film

Production

Country(ies) : CANADA, CHILE

Festivals and Awards

Whistler Film Festival 2015 (Jury Award BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY)
St. John's Intl Women's Film Festival 2015
FemCine Santiago Film Festival 2016
RiverRun Film Festival 2016 (2016)
NewFEST New York 2016
maryland film festival 2016
Outfest Los Angeles 2016
Montreal LGBTQ Image+Nation Film Festival 2016 (Special Jury Citation - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY)
Rotterdam IFFR 2016 (Visions Programme)
Nashville Film Festival 2016
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2016 (2016)


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