Country: Colombia, France, Netherlands, Germany
Year: 2022
Duration: 82'
Carlos lives in a youth shelter in the center of Bogotá, a refuge meant to help mitigate the harshness of life. It's Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his family. As he leaves the shelter for the holidays, Carlos is confronted with the brutality of his neighborhood, ruled by the law of the strongest, the alpha male. Carlos must also prove he can be one of them, while deep inside him, these expressions of masculinity clash with the decisions he must make in order to survive.
Biography
film director
Fabian Hernández
(Bogotá, Colombia) in 2015 he founded his company Níquel Films with which he has written, directed and produced his first short films. In addition to his career as a director he has worked in the area of education as a teacher of screenwriting and cinema in public schools in Bogotá, and has also worked as an assistant director in film productions in Colombia. Un varón is his first feature film; it premiered in Cannes, at the Director’s Fortnight. He is currently developing his new feature film, The Birds.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mala Maña (cm, 2015), Tras la Montaña (cm, 2016), Golpe y Censura (cm, 2020), Un varón (2022).
Declaration
film director
“The film is inspired by events from my adolescence, my personal experience. I grew up in a patriarchal society with its machismo and in the company of ‘real men’. Vulnerability and fear were considered as feminine, as a lack of virility and a flaw. Therefore, I rejected to express my feelings and sensations and to explore my sexual desires. I also started to hate the poetry and art I was original drawn to. I despised sensitivity in general. Un varón tells about this conflict: the vulnerabile side in men challenged by a pressure to adopt a concept of stereotypical masculinity white hides the individual’s nature. I intended to show that there are ways out of this, even in a rough environment like the streets of Bogotá. It is possible to change, to break free from an identity imposed on you and yet, to survive. In fact, it is the rebellion against machismo that lets the main character grow strong.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Fabian Hernández. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sofia Oggioni. FILM EDITING: Esteban Muñoz. COSTUME DESIGN: Catherine Rodríguez. CAST: Felipe Ramirez. PRODUCERS: Louise Bellicaud, Claire Charles-Gervais, Christoph Hahnheiser, Josune Hahnheiser, Ilse Hughan, Manuel Ruiz Montealegre, Hector Ulloque Franco. PRODUCTION: Black Forest Films, Fortuna Films, In Vivo Films, Medio de Contención Producciones, RTVC Play.
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