Nadar solo

Swimming Alone

Argentina 2003 (35mm, 102', col.)

  21° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL    Concorso Internazionale Lungometraggi 2003

Regia/Director: Ezequiel Acuña
Soggetto, sceneggiatura/Story, screenplay: Ezequiel Acuña, Alberto Rojas Apel
Fotografia/Director of photography: Octavio Lovisolo
Scenografia/Set design: Josefina Azulay
Montaggio/Film editor: Sergio Flamminio
Musica/Music: Jaime Sin Tierra, Marcelo Ezquiaga
Suono/Sound: Javier Farina, Santiago Morone
Interpreti/Cast: Nicolás Mateo (Martín), Santiago Pedredo (Guille), Antonella Costa (Luciana), Tomás Fonzi (Tomás), Mónica Galán (Lucia), Manuel Callán (Roberto)
Produttore/Producer: Diego Dubcovski, Daniel Burman, Ezequiel Acuña
Produzione, vendita all'estero/Production, foreign sales agent: BD CINE

Martin is 17 years old. He lives in a nice neighborhood in Buenos Aires with his father, his mother and his sister. Communication is almost nonexistent in his family and Martin spends his days between his bedroom and the classroom, often by himself and far from his usual friends. When he gets news about his elder brother, who he hasn't seen in two years, he throws himself into a search that gives him the illusion of escaping from the monotony of his life. As he travels to Mar de Plata, Martin meets Luciana, an adolescent girl who is as alone and lost as he is. The two begin a voyage inspired by the adolescent travails of Holden Caulfield and Antoine Doinel, and by a question asked by someone on the radio who confused the title of a book by Juan Forn, Nadar de Noche ("swimming at night") with the name of a local rock band.

"What does "Nadar solo" mean? Fanzine, blue graffiti along the curve of a road? An upcoming radio program? The name of a rock festival? Today, it is a film ready to be projected. In fact, I realize that, to me, Nadar Solo is something more than just a film, even if formally it is nothing more that a projection on the screen." (E. Acuña)

Ezequiel Acuña

Ezequiel Acuña (Buenos Aires, 1976) studied at the Escuela Superior de Cinematografia and made his first three fiction short films while still a student, Tokio (1998), Raro (1999) and Rocío (1999), which and was chosen to participate at the festivals of Toulouse, Indiekino (South Korea) and Ajijic de Jalisco (Mexico). After finishing his studies in 2000, he wrote and directed his first full-length film, Nadar Solo, which participated at the Buenos Aires Film Festival in 2003.

FILMOGRAPHY
(Updated to the last partecipation to TFF)
Tokio (cm, 1998), Raro (cm, 1999), Rocío (cm, 1999), Nadar solo (2003).