Country: Argentina
Year: 1998
Duration: 110'
Four stories about contemporary Buenos Aires.
La querencia (The wish): a provincial takes on the big city. Vida y obra (Life and works): a stonemason from Paraguay is disturbed by an unusual encounter. Esta todo mal (Everything is going badly): everything, even love, is alien to an adolescent. Companeros (Comrads): despite himself, a man ends up involved in a political intrigue.
"Buenos Aires today. A time of fighting and frustrations. An alien, inaccessible, end-of-the-century world. Bad times?" (N. Saad, M. De Rosa, S. Roselli, R. Moreno).
Biography
film director
Nicolás Saad
Nicolás Saad (Buenos Aires, 1970) received his degree in Cinematographic Directing from the Universidad del Cine, where he now teaches.
FILMOGRAFIA
Un ojo en la ruta (cm, 1993), La piel de la gallina (cm, 1994).
Mariano De Rosa
Mariano De Rosa (La Plata, 1970) received his degree in Cinematographic Directing from the Universidad del Cine, where he now teaches. He also works as a film editor.
FILMOGRAFIA
Identi kit (cm, 1994), Zabeca (anim., cm, 1995), Pelicula bruta (cm., 1996), Vida.
Salvador Roselli
Salvador Roselli (Junin, 1970) received his degree in Cinematographic Directing from the Universidad del Cine. He is a screenplay writer.
FILMOGRAFIA
Oro (cm, 1995).
Rodrigo Moreno
(Buenos Aires, 1972 received his degree in Cinematographic Directing from the Universidad del Cine, where he now teaches. He made his debut in 1993 with the short film Nosotros. and in 1998, he directed one of the four episodes of Bad Times, which competed at the Torino Film Festival. He made his feature film debut in 2002 with El descanso, co-directed with Ulises Rosell and André Tambornino and presented at the Buenos Aires International Festival od Independent Cinema. In 2006, his film The Custodian won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale and the award for the Best South American Screenplay at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2011, he directed A Mysterious World, which was also presented at the Berlinale. After founding his production company, Compañía Amateur, he directed Reimon in 2014, screened at various festivals, including Rotterdam and Hamburg, and in 2017, he made the documentary Provincial City. In 2023, The Delinquents was presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. He also works as a television screenwriter.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nosotros (cm, 1993), Compañeros (Compagni, ep di Mala época [Tempi bui], 1998), El descanso (2002), El custiodio (2006), Le señal (tv, 2007), Un mundo misterioso (2011), Reimon (2014), Una ciudad de provincia (2017), Our Nighttime Stories (2018), Los delincuentes (2023).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Nicolás Saad, Mariano De Rosa, Salvador Roselli, Rodrigo Moreno.
Director of photography: Javier Juliá, Lucas Schiaffi.
Art director: Saula Benavente, Alfonso De Lázzari, Andrés Tambornino.
Sound: Adriano Salgado, Federico D'Auría, Jesica Suárez, Catriel Vildosola.
Music: Mono Cieza.
Editor: Alejandro Brodersohn, Guillermo Grillo, Pablo Trapero.
Cast and characters: Pablo Vega (Oscar), Daniel Valenzuela (Omar), Nicolás Leivas (Santiago), Diego Peretti (Antonio). Produzione e
Foreign sales agent: Universidad del Cine, Pje. J.M. Giuffra 330, (1064) Buenos Aires, Argentina, tel. +54-1-3001407/1413/1581, fax +54-1-3000674, e-mail fuc@ucine.edu.ar, http://www.ucine.edu.ar.
Director of photography: Javier Juliá, Lucas Schiaffi.
Art director: Saula Benavente, Alfonso De Lázzari, Andrés Tambornino.
Sound: Adriano Salgado, Federico D'Auría, Jesica Suárez, Catriel Vildosola.
Music: Mono Cieza.
Editor: Alejandro Brodersohn, Guillermo Grillo, Pablo Trapero.
Cast and characters: Pablo Vega (Oscar), Daniel Valenzuela (Omar), Nicolás Leivas (Santiago), Diego Peretti (Antonio). Produzione e
Foreign sales agent: Universidad del Cine, Pje. J.M. Giuffra 330, (1064) Buenos Aires, Argentina, tel. +54-1-3001407/1413/1581, fax +54-1-3000674, e-mail fuc@ucine.edu.ar, http://www.ucine.edu.ar.