33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINO 33

LA PATOTA

PAULINA
by Santiago Mitre
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Year: 2015
Duration: 103'


Paulina, a twenty-eight-year-old from Buenos Aires, has a brilliant career as a lawyer ahead of her. Instead, she decides to return to the place where she was born, on the border between Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, to work as a teacher in an area with great social unrest. No one expected such a radical change, neither her fiancé nor her father, a powerful local judge. And yet Paulina is convinced her choice is the right one. And not even when, one night, she is assaulted by a gang of kids does her determination waver.

Biography

film director

Santiago Mitre

(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1980) studied at the Universidad del cine (FUC). In 2004, he codirected with Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, and Juan Schnitman, Love, part one, feature presented at BAFICI and Venice Film Critics’ Week. In 2006 he started to write for film and television. He wrote three features for Pablo Trapero, such as Leonera, which was in competition in Cannes in 2008. In 2011, he cofounded the production company La unión de los ríos and produced his first feature, El estudiante. The film participated in more than thirty festivals and won numerous awards such as Locarno’s Special Jury Prize at Cineasti del presente. His second feature, La patota, won the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes in 2015 and Best Female Performance for Dolores Fonzi at Torino Film Festival. La cordillera (2017), written with the usual collaborator Mariano Llinás, participated at Un Certain regard in Cannes, while the following Argentina, 1985 (2022), the first South American film produced by Amazon, was in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

El amor (1a parte) (coregia Alejandro Fadel, Martin Mauregui, Juan Schnitman, 2004), El estudiante (2011), Los posibles (coregia Juan Onofri Barbato, mm, 2013), La patota (2015), La cordillera (Il presidente, 2017), Pequeña flor (2022), Argentina, 1985 (id., 2022).

Declaration

film director

“One of the challenges Paulina presents us with is how to respect decisions with which we don’t agree. It’s easy to respect decisions we would also make, but almost impossible to try to understand what we believe to be wrong. Why does Paulina decide what she decides? What is she looking for? What does she want to prove? We asked ourselves these things often at each stage of the film, and we’re still wondering now, as I hope the viewer will.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Santiago Mitre
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Santiago Mitre, Mariano Llinás
fotografia/cinematography
Gustavo Biazzi
montaggio/film editing
Delfina Castagnino, Leandro Aste, Joana Collier
scenografia/production design
Micaela Saiegh
costumi/costume design
Florencia Caligiuri, Carolina Sosa Loyola
musica/music
Nicolás Varchausky
suono/sound
Santiago Fumagalli, Federico Esquerro, Edson Secco
interpreti/cast
Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martinez, Esteban Lamothe, Cristian Salguero, Verónica Llinás, Laura López Moyano, Ezequiel Diaz, Andrea Quattrocchi, Silvina Savater
produttori/producers
Agustina Llambi Campbell, Fernando Brom, Santiago Mitre, Lita Stantic, Didar Domehri, Laurent Baudens, Gaël Nouaille, Axel Kuschevatzky, Walter Salles, Ignacio Viale
produzione/production
La Unión de los Ríos, Full House

contatti/contacts
Versatile
Alexandre Moreau
Tel: +33 (0)1 76 21 61 66
amoreau@versatile-films.com
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