Viva el Cine: Latin American Films
Just One Spring / Una Sola Primavera
Screening Schedule
Screening 1
- 15th December
- 8.15 pm
- audi 4
Screening 2
- 18th December
- 9.30 am
- nila
Joaquín Pedretti
Director's bio
Joaquín Pedretti
Joaquin Pedretti (1985) was born and raised in Corrientes, Argentina. He studied and worked in Buenos Aires, London and Barcelona, where he obtained a degree in cinematography, directing and screenwriting at Catalunya Cinema Studies Center and Bande à Part film school. He also attended writing, drama, dance, photo and music courses and workshops. As a director, he made more than twenty pieces of different genres and formats in between Spain, England and Argentina. He now works as a freelance author, scriptwriter and film language teacher at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste.
Synopsis
Paraguay, 1947. Nina is a 20 year old young woman living in Asunción at the height of the Paraguayan Civil War that ended with the Democratic Spring. She longs to be a singer, but when her revolutionary family flees abruptly she is forced to live in the house of a conservative family as a maid. She offers her services to the revolution and frees various political prisoners, including Raúl, a communist with whom she has an affair and becomes pregnant. She is later forced to flee the country herself after her lover abandons her.
Details of Cast
María José Cabrera as Nina Salma Vera as Chichí Mauricio Paniagua as Raúl Ever Enciso as Heraldo Sonia Tiranti as Paletita
Details of Crew
Cinematography: Guillermo Rovira Editing: Joaquín Pedretti, Verónica Seniquel Production Design: María Onis Costume Design: Lia Gonzales
Producer Details
Lucía Alcain, Gabriela Sabaté, Cynthia García Calvo, Joaquín Pedretti
Writer Details
Joaquín Pedretti, Milda Rivarola, Liz María Haedo
Stills
Categories
- International Competition (14)
- Homage (4)
- World Cinema (63)
- Country Focus (7)
- Indian Cinema Now (7)
- Kaleidoscope (6)
- Malayalam Cinema Today (12)
- Restored Classics (7)
- Jury Films (5)
- Opening Film (1)
- Spirit of Cinema (1)
- Ann Hui: Chronicler of the Outliers (5)
- The Female Gaze (7)
- Signatures In Motion (3)
- Midnight Cinema (3)
- Festival Favourites (13)
- Refracted Realities : The Existential Mindscapes of Hong Sang-soo (4)
- Chiaroscuro : Retrospective of Madhu Ambat (4)
- Celebrating Shabana Azmi (5)
- Centennial Tribute (3)
