BRIGHT FUTURE MAIN PROGRAMME
Pacífico
Pacific Fernanda Romandía
WORLD PREMIERE
Mexico, 2016 | colour, DCP, 72 min, Spanish Prod: Jaime Romandía | Prod Comp: Mantarraya Producciones | Sc: Fernanda Romandía, Daniela Schneider | Cam: Fernanda Romandía, Pedro González Rubio | Ed: Fernanda Romandía | Prod Des: Daniela Schneider | Sound Des: Fernanda Romandía, Martín Delgado | Music: Martín Delgado | With: Coral Flores, Ricardo Cruz Velázquez, Irma Cruz, Diego Flores, Paulina Torres, Severino Ríos, Osmar Ríos | Print/ Sales: Mantarraya Producciones
On the beach of Puerto Escondido in Mexico, a sleepy community where very little seems to happen, people are working hard on constructing a house designed by the famous Japanese architect Ando Tadao. The tranquil coastline is a strange place for such a huge concrete construction, to put it mildly, and it’s not clear who commissioned the work, but the villagers and workmen don’t seem to mind. Through the construction work, we get to know three people, all with their own problems, dreams and fears. Seven-year-old Coral goes to the building site every day after school to visit her godfather Diego, a bricklayer addicted to his telephone. There she also meets the carpenter Oriente, a poet muttering profundities who she hopes will become her godfather, but who himself yearns to return to his family. A calm and serene fictional debut, intelligently disguised as a documentary.
Fado
Jonas Rothlaender
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Germany/Portugal, 2016 | colour, DCP, 100 min, German Prod: Luis Singer, Dennis Schanz, Joana Gusmão, Tara Biere | Prod Comp: StickUp Filmproduktion, Primeira Idade | Sc: Sebastian Bleyl, Jonas Rothlaender | Cam: Alexander Hasskerl | Ed: Dietmar Kraus | Prod Des: Celeste Alves, Raquel da Silva | Sound Des: Julian Cropp | With: Golo Euler, Luise Heyer, Albano Jeronimo, Pirjo Lonka, Rui Morrison, Isabel Abreu | Print/ Sales: StickUp Filmproduktion | www.jonasrothlaender.com
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Can you get a second chance in a relationship once it has gone wrong? Fabian thinks you can. He hopes you can. When a woman who looks strikingly like his former girlfriend Doro dies on his operating table, the young doctor decides to do everything he can to repair what had been broken. He travels after his ex-girlfriend to Lisbon, where she has accepted a job at an architect’s office. He finds a job, starts taking Portuguese lessons, sets himself up in an apartment and courts her. After some hesitation, Doro succumbs and love blossoms again. But Fabian soon reverts to his old pattern of suspicion, paranoia and accusation. Fado is a study in pathological jealousy, obsessive dependence and poisoned love. The urge to possess slowly but surely suffocates any form of affection and inevitably turns into blind aggression. The consequences are severe.
45TH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM