34° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINOFILMLAB

LA ÚLTIMA TIERRA

THE LAST LAND
by Pablo Lamar
Country: Paraguay, Netherlands, Chile, Qatar
Year: 2016
Duration: 77'


A hill, an isolated house, a couple who have been living there for years. The man and the woman live an exclusive relationship, surrounded by nature. Thus, it is even harder to let the beloved person pass away. For the husband, the woman’s last days of life mean ceaseless care giving; and after her death, the difficulty of accepting his loss. But as the man takes care of the beloved body, he finds once more the meaning of a life lived together and what remains of himself. [rm]

Biography

film director

Pablo Lamar

Pablo Lamar (Asunción, Paraguay, 1984) studied film at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has written and directed the short films I Hear Your Scream and Night Inside, both of which premiered at the Semaine de la critique of the Festival de Cannes. Last Land, his first feature film, participated as project in the Taller de análisis de proyectos cinematográficos of the TyPA Fundación (Argentina), Rotterdam Lab (Netherlands) and TorinoFilmLab, section Framework (Italy). It also received a grant from IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund for script development and was awarded the Cinecolor and ARTE France Cinema prizes at the Buenos Aires Lab (BAL) of BAFICI, the Buenos Aires International Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Ahendu nde sapukai (I Hear Your Scream, cm, 2008), Noche adentro (cm, 2009), La última tierra (2016).

Declaration

film director

“The Last Land is a film about the echoes of death resonating within life. I wanted to portray the mood of the main character as he experiences the loss of his companion. Through this process of letting go, he begins to recognize himself without her. We accompany him as he is impacted by a heightened perception of time. Reflecting the presence of everything that surrounds him, the film takes on the tone of an intimate ritual.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, suono/director, screenplay, sound
Pablo Lamar
fotografia/cinematography
Paolo Girón
montaggio/film editing
Felipe Gálvez
scenografia/production design
Carlo Spatuzza
interpreti/cast
Ramón del Río, Vera Valdez Barreto
produttori/producers
Pablo Lamar, Ilse Hughan, Wiebke Toppel
produzione/production
Sapukai Cine, Fortuna Films
coproduttore/coproducer
Dominga Sotomayor
coproduzione/coproduction
Cinestación


contatti/contacts
Fortuna Films
Ilse Hughan
ilsehughan@runbox.com
www.fortunafilms.co
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