ROJO
DFI Cinema
Benjamín Naishtat / Feature Narrative / Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, France, Switzerland / 2018 / Colour
In Spanish / Arabic, English subtitles
Interests: Drama, Thriller
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Rated: Mature subject matter. Not suitable for minors. Individuals under the age of 18 are not admitted into cinemas.
Screenings
Synopsis
In the mid-seventies, a strange man arrives in a quiet provincial city. In a restaurant, without any apparent reason, he starts insulting Claudio, a renowned lawyer. The community supports the lawyer, and the stranger is humiliated and thrown out of the place. Later that night the stranger, who is determined to wreak a terrible vengeance, intercepts Claudio and his wife, Susana. The lawyer then takes a path of no return involving death, secrets and silences.
About the Director
Born in 1986 in Buenos Aires, Benjamin Naishtat started studying cinema at Buenos Aires University and pursued his studies at le Fresnoy – National Contemporary Art Studio, in France. His work includes fictions: El Juego (short-film, 2010) selected at Cannes Cinefondation - as well as experimental works: Historia del mal (2011), screened in Rotterdam and in several international exhibitions. His first feature film, Historia del miedo was in Competition in Berlin in 2014.
Credits
- Director
- Benjamín Naishtat
- Screenwriter
- Benjamin Naishtat
- Producer
- Emmanuel Chaumet, Federico Eibuszyc, Rachel Daisy Ellis, Barbara Sarasola-Day, Marleen Slot, Ingmar Trost, Dan Wechsler, Jamal Zeinal Zade
- Editor
- Andrés Quaranta
- Cinematographer
- Pedro Sotero