F I C TIO N
The Lesson
The Tale Of Antonia
La leçon Tristan Aymon
El cuento de Antonia Jorge Cadena
Switzerland | Fiction | 2016 | 15 min. Original language: French
Switzerland | Fiction | 2016 | 30 min. Original language: Spanish
World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2016 Cast: Cléa Eden / Arnaud Huguenin / Bruno Joly Production: Terrain Vague, Lausanne World Sales: Salaud Morisset, Berlin | T +49 152 25 19 23 36 festival@salaudmorisset.com | www.salaudmorisset.com
World premiere: Int’l Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2016 International premiere: Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam 2017 (Tiger Short Films Competition) Cast: Mitchailet Lemus Ortíz / Flor Martínez Rojas / Edwin Padilla / Eudes Rosado / Margarita Velilla / Camilo Mundólogo / Dina Luz Caceres / Noemí Maury / Diofante Tapias / Weimar Avila Cortez Production and World Rights: Haute école d’art et de design – Geneva | T +41 22 388 58 89 cinema.head@hesge.ch | head.hesge.ch/cinema
Ludovic, a weekend biker, has planned out the afternoon in a wooden shed with Axelle.
Battered by incessant winds, this community welcomes Antonia with a ritual of stripping bare the stories she embodies. Being recalcitrant to established orders and endowed with a beauty that defies the widespread poverty, she is the protagonist of a visionary tale for today's Colombia. 13