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Silence Is a Falling Body Agustina Comedi World Premiere Filmmaker Agustina Comedi delves into her father Jaime’s past. For many years he was in a relationship with a man, before he ended up marrying her mother. Homosexuality was still taboo in 1980s Argentina, so of course Jaime’s true nature was a family secret. Using the large collection of home videos her father made as a hobby, as well as interviews with his old friends, the film gives a beautiful impression of the time before Agustina’s birth. It was a time characterized by political activism and awakening gay emancipation, but also the arrival of AIDS. Long after Jaime’s death, this discovery of his secret also places Agustina’s own life in an entirely new light. The old VHS and 8mm footage of vacations and birthday parties creates a nostalgic, poetic atmosphere, in which the filmmaker compassionately attempts to understand how it must have been for her father to live a lie.
Argentina, 2017 DCP, color, 75 min
Agustina Comedi: directing debut
Director: Agustina Comedi Cinematography: Agustina Comedi,
Benjamin Ellembergher , Ezequiel Salinas
Editing: Valeria Racioppi Sound Design: Guido Deniro Music: Virus Production: Juan Carlos Maristany
& Matías Herrera Córdoba for El Calefon, Ana Maria Apontes Screening Copy: El Calefon
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The Stranger
En fremmed flytter ind Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
International Premiere
In 2011, a single mother named Amanda meets Caspar on Facebook, and there’s an immediate spark between them. As their relationship develops, Amanda discovers through his rather odd messages and phone calls that her new love leads a very complicated life. Nevertheless, Amanda and her daughter think he’s wonderful. He soon moves in, and the three of them live together as a happy family. But then cracks begin to appear in his story, and at last Amanda starts to open her eyes. Just who is this man? Amanda and most of the other characters play themselves in this reconstruction of events—Casper, understandably, is played by an actor. Between the reenacted scenes, Amanda answers questions from filmmaker Nicole Nielsen Horanyi. How did they first meet? What was her life like at the time? And why didn’t Amanda suspect sooner that Caspar wasn’t what he seemed?
Denmark, 2017 DCP, color, 104 min Director: Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Cinematography: Henrik Bohn Ipsen Editing: Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen
Sound/Sound Design: Thomas Arent Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen Narration: Amanda Midtgaard Kastrup,
Krister Moltzen, Nicole Nielsen Horanyi
Production: Helle Faber for
Made in Copenhagen
World Sales: Level K Screening Copy: Danish Film Institute
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Nicole Nielsen Horanyi: The Devilles (2009) Au Pair (2012) Naked (2014) Motley’s Law (2015)