26° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINO 26: FEATURE FILMS COMPETITION
QUEMAR LAS NAVES
by Francisco Franco-Alba
Country: Angola
Year: 2007
Duration: 90'
Sebastián and Helena are two adolescent siblings who live with “Seen from the outside, adolescent emotiveness seems excessive
their dying mother in a colonial city in the provinces, locked up in
a big house that is falling to pieces. Their symbiotic relationship and
their dependence on each other is all that keeps them going.
The death of their mother and the arrival of Juan, a poor adolescent
who lives by the sea, unleashes a painful confrontation between the
brother and sister, who feel they must take a risk and define their
attitude toward love, sex, friendship, betrayal and life in general.
because its recklessness contains something suicidal within itself.
This is where the narrative interest is hidden, and it comes out
in the richness of the nuances, in the dizzying pace of the action and
the constant swings between drama and comedy. Quemar las naves
doesn’t offer a nostalgic or romantic view of this difficult moment of
transition; rather, it narrates in the present tense a story of emotions
and feelings that doesn’t limit itself to moral judgment.”
Biography
film director
Francisco Franco-Alba
Francisco Franco-Alba (Aguascalientes, Mexico) graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CUEC). His career covers theatre, filmmaking and television. He has directed plays such as Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, and Terrence McNally’s Master Class. He has done five soap operas and a big amount of unitary broadcasts. His Julieta Venegas’ music video Cómo sé won an MTV Award. He has been an assistant for directors such as Luis Estrada and María Novaro. Quemar las naves is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mujer, casos de la vida real (TV, 1985), Yo no creo en los hombres (TV, 1988), Retrato de familia (TV, 1995), Gente bien (TV, 1997), Como sé (videoclip, TV, 1998), Quemar las naves (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Francisco Franco-Alba
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Maria Reneé Prudencio, Francisco Franco-Alba
fotografia/cinematography Erika Licea
montaggio/film editing Sebastián Garza
costumi/costume design Bertha Romero
musica/music Alejandro Giacomán
suono/sound Pablo Tamez
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters
Irene Azuela (Helena), Ángel Onésimo Nevares (Sebastián), Claudette Maillé (Eugenia), Bernardo Benítez (Juan), Ramón Valdez (Ismael), Jessica Segura (Aurora), Juan Carlos Barreto (Efraín), Aída López (Chayo), Diana Bracho (Catalina), Alberto Estrella (Emilio), Ricardo Blume (Padre Miguel)
produttori/producers Laura Imperiale, Maria Novaro, Francisco Franco-Alba
produzione/production Las Naves Producciones S.A.C.V., Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A.
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Maria Reneé Prudencio, Francisco Franco-Alba
fotografia/cinematography Erika Licea
montaggio/film editing Sebastián Garza
costumi/costume design Bertha Romero
musica/music Alejandro Giacomán
suono/sound Pablo Tamez
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters
Irene Azuela (Helena), Ángel Onésimo Nevares (Sebastián), Claudette Maillé (Eugenia), Bernardo Benítez (Juan), Ramón Valdez (Ismael), Jessica Segura (Aurora), Juan Carlos Barreto (Efraín), Aída López (Chayo), Diana Bracho (Catalina), Alberto Estrella (Emilio), Ricardo Blume (Padre Miguel)
produttori/producers Laura Imperiale, Maria Novaro, Francisco Franco-Alba
produzione/production Las Naves Producciones S.A.C.V., Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A.
TFF
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