Cannes Film Festival 2017 – Critic’s Week
Status : Completed
A film by : Marcela Said
Written by : Marcela Said
2nd feature-film
94 min – drama
Spanish speaking
Original title : Los Perros
French title : Mariana
Starring : Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Sieveking, Rafael Spregelburd
Shooting : Autumn 2016
Synopsis : Mariana (42) is part of that Chilean upper class that takes privilege for granted. Despised by both her father and her husband, she feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan (60), a former colonel suspected of human rights abuses during the dictatorship. But their offending affair cracks through the invisible walls that protect her family from the past.
Producers : Sophie Erbs & Tom Dercourt / Cinéma Defacto (France), Augusto Matte / Jirafa Films (Chile)
In coproduction with : Santiago Gallelli & Benjamin Domenech / Rei Cine (Argentina), Joao Matos / Terratreme Filmes (Portugal), Jonas Katzenstein & Maximilian Leo / augenschein Filmproduktion (Germany)
In association with : Dan Wechsler & Jamal Zeinal Zade / Bord Cadre films (Switzerland)
International Sales : Films Boutique
Distribution France : Nour Films
Release dates : France / December 2017
With the participation of : CNC – Aides aux Cinemas du Monde / Institut Français, CNC – French-Portuguese Coproduction Support, FFA Fondo Audovisual, INCAA, World Cinema Fund Europe, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Ibermedia, Arte International Prize
Festivals : Critics’ Week – Cannes Film Festival 2017, Cine en Construccion – Toulouse 2017
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