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Mubi's retrospective New Argentine Cinema is playing from August 7 - September 28, 2017 in most countries around the world. La CiénagaBeginning in the mid-1990s, young directors, the majority of whom had graduated from one of many film schools in Argentina, began producing low-budget, independent films in a style that earned this group the classification of the New Independent Argentine Cinema.Part of this upsurge had to do with a small grants program that was initiated by the National Film Institute (Incaa) in the mid-1990s. These recent graduates have made short films (cortometrajes), and then have gone on to raise funds through co-production funding (Hubert Bals Fund at the Rotterdam film festival, the Visions Sud Est program from Switzerland, among others). They have relied on their own networks of like-minded young people rather than depend on the traditional film sector structure (the film union, established director’s associations, and the few...

A slick thriller from Argentina’s Pablo Trapero brilliantly juxtaposes domestic life and the kidnapping business

This boisterous thriller, which is based on real events, is the most mainstream film to date from Argentinian director Pablo Trapero (Lion’s Den, El Bonaerense). The story of the well-connected Puccio family, which in the early 1980s used its links with the government to cover up a lucrative kidnapping business, this is told using the slick language of a Hollywood crime movie. Trapero negotiates with verve the uneasy juxtaposition between quotidian family life and something rather darker and more sinister. But the film’s driving force is Guillermo Francella: with his ice-chip eyes and subdued menace, he is chilling as the Puccio family patriarch Archimedes.

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The International Film Festival of India (Iffi) today announced that music maestro A. R. Rahman will be the Chief Guest of closing ceremony of Iffi 2015. The festival also announced Argentina‘s Oscar entry and this year’s biggest Argentinean box office hit-The Clan (El Clan) as the Closing Film of Iffi 2015. Directed by Pablo Trapero, The Clan has set new record for the best opening ever of an Argentinean movie. Directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper, Danish Girl will be the mid fest film.

With each edition, the biggest film festival of India is creating new benchmarks of content, films, and achievements. The 46th edition of the film festival will be held from November 20 to 30 in Goa. The festival will screen a variety of brilliant national and international films in different sections including World Cinema section that will present 187 films from 89 countries and Indian Panorama section, which will bring...

Jane Campion, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Trapero and Nicole Garcia will serve as Presidents of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Juries.

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Jane Campion will serve as President of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Jury, leading a panel of 8 other jury members, including director Sofia Coppola and actor Willem Dafoe.

Campion, a New Zealand filmmaker, is the only woman ever to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, winning for her 1993 film The Piano. Since then, Campion has only had one film in competition at the festival, Bright Star (2009), and has served as President of the Cinéfondation & Short Films Jury.

“It is this world wide inclusiveness and passion for film at the heart of the festival which makes the importance of the Cannes Film Festival indisputable. It is a mythical and exciting festival where amazing things can happen, actors are discovered, films are financed, careers are made, I know this because...

Pablo Trapero, Argentinean director, producer and scriptwriter, has presented three of his films at the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard selection beginning in 2002. Now, in his own words, he is to "take part in another way in the adventure in Cannes." For the 67th edition, he will serve as the president for the jury for Un Certain Regard, Official Selection.  Trapero stated "I am very proud to serve as President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard... [it] is always a very exciting selection. It brings us grand masters, promising young talent, new countries, and new forms of cinema."  Trapero's projects have achieved several successes on the film circuit since his first feature ("Mundo Grua") received the Critic's Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1999. In 2002, his second feature "El Bonaerense" was selected at Cannes (Un Certain Regard), and he returned to Cannes three times thereafter with "Leonera" (2008), "Carancho" (2010) and and "Elefante Blanco" (2012). He.

Argentinean screenwriter, producer and director Pablo Trapero will head the jury for the Un Certain Regard section at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The section will be composed of 20 films, still to be announced on April 17 (the Cannes competition titles will be unveiled that day, too). 42-year-old Trapero is no stranger to prestigious international festivals; his first feature, "Mundo Grua," nabbed the Critics Award at Venice in 1999, while his following features, "El Bonaerense," "Leonera," "Carancho" and "Elefante Blanco" have all played Cannes over the past decade. Last year's Un Certain Regard president was Thomas Vinterberg ("The Hunt").

After years with films in competition at Cannes, Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Trapero will be judging the works of others. The festival announced on Tuesday that the 44-year-old writer-director will head the jury of the Un Certain Regard section, taking the spot held by Thomas Vinterberg last year. In 2002, Trapero's “El Bonaerense,” his second film, was selected for Un Certain Regard, as were his films “Carancho” (2010) and “Elefante Blanco” (2012). His 2008 film “Leonera” screened in Competition at the fest. Also read: 5 Burning Questions Before the Cannes Lineup Is Revealed All in all, his experience at the French confab made him...

Argentinean director of Carancho and White Elephant to preside over the jury for Un Certain Regard.

Pablo Trapero, the Argentinean scriptwriter, producer and director of Carancho and White Elephant, will preside over the jury for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).

The strand will compose 20 films to be announced, along with the films in Competition, at an upcoming press conference on April 17.

Trapero is no stranger to the Croisette, with his prison film Lion’s Den (Leonera) playing in Competition in 2008 and three of his features selected for Un Certain Regard: El Bonaerense (2002); Carancho (2010) and White Elephant (Elefante blanco) (2012).

He said: “I am very proud to take part in another way in the adventure of Cannes. Un Certain Regard, where I have presented three of my films, is always a very exciting selection. It brings us grand masters, promising young talent, new countries and new forms of cinema.”

Pablo Trapero was born...

Argentinean director of Carancho and White Elephant to preside over the jury for Un Certain Regard.

Pablo Trapero, the Argentinean scriptwriter, producer and director of Carancho and White Elephant, will preside over the jury for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).

The strand will compose 20 films to be announced, along with the films in Competition, at an upcoming press conference on April 17.

Trapero is no stranger to the Croisette, with his prison film Lion’s Den (Leonera) playing in Competition in 2008 and three of his features selected for Un Certain Regard: El Bonaerense (2002); Carancho (2010) and White Elephant (Elefante blanco) (2012).

He said: “I am very proud to take part in another way in the adventure of Cannes. Un Certain Regard, where I have presented three of my films, is always a very exciting selection. It brings us grand masters, promising young talent, new countries and new forms of cinema.”

Pablo Trapero was born...

This Argentinian film noir about an ambulance -chasing lawyer supplies Bonnie and Clyde thrills

Some movies are described as explosive: this is positively eardrum-perforating. It's a brutal but very smart contemporary noir from the Argentinian director Pablo Trapero, and it could be his best film to date, the clearest and most effective fusion of his dual gifts for realism and thrills. Something in its inspired cynicism took me back to Trapero's early feature El Bonaerense (2002), about the robber who takes cover by applying to become a cop.

Ricardo Darín, with his ruined and leonine handsomeness, is perfectly cast as Sosa, known as the "Carancho", or vulture. He's a disgraced lawyer now working as an ambulance-chaser, showing up at horrific car wrecks and encouraging the survivors to sue. More than this, he has a crooked scam going, encouraging desperate souls to walk in front of cars to get the compensation; he...

“Carancho”; with Ricardo Darin and Martina Gusman; directed by Pablo Trapero.

By Ali Naderzad - January 27, 2011

Grit, tears and perspiration. Argentine--must be a Pablo Trapero movie. With his camera often trained on the working-class rung of his country, Trapero calmly deconstructs in an hour and a half or so how people put up with the “general cussedness of things.” Make a buck, sometimes quickly, break a rule or two, breathe in—and out. Some professions are better-paid than others.

In “Carancho” (which means ambulance-chaser in Argentine spanish slang) Trapero tells us about the lucrative black market that strives from the personal tragedies littering the streets of Buenos Aires—traffic accidents are the number one cause of death in Argentina.

Sosa (Ricardo Darín, who was recently seen in “The Secret in their eyes”) is an ambulance-chasing personal injury attorney with questionable ethics (redundant? Probably). Having recently lost his law license, he...

“Carancho”; with Ricardo Darin and Martina Gusman; directed by Pablo Trapero.

By Ali Naderzad - January 21, 2011

Grit, tears and perspiration. Argentine--must be a Pablo Trapero movie. With his camera often trained on the working-class rung of his country, Trapero calmly deconstructs in an hour and a half or so how people put up with the “general cussedness of things.” Make a buck, sometimes quickly, break a rule or two, breathe in—and out. Some professions are better-paid than others.

In “Carancho” (which means ambulance-chaser in Argentine spanish slang) Trapero tells us about the lucrative black market that strives from the personal tragedies littering the streets of Buenos Aires—traffic accidents are the number one cause of death in Argentina.

Sosa (Ricardo Darín, who was recently seen in “The Secret in their eyes”) is an ambulance-chasing personal injury attorney with questionable ethics (redundant? Probably). Having recently lost his law license, he...

Pablo Trapero was born in San Justo, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1971. He wrote, directed and edited the short films Mocoso Malcriado (1993) and Negocios (1995) before directing his feature debut, the award-winning Crane World (1999), a black and white 16mm film that proved to be a breaking point in Argentine cinema and that encouraged dozens of young directors into their first features. Crane World was released internationally at Venice, harvesting awards and critical acclaim at film festivals around the world.

In 2002, his second feature El Bonaerense premiered at Un Certain Regard in the Cannes Film Festival, again to critical and audience acclaim. That same year he opened his own production company Matanza Cine in Buenos Aires, from which he has produced ever since not only his own features but also those of other Argentine and Latin American filmmakers, including Lisandro Alonso, Enrique Bellande and Raúl Perrone. "Matanza", Trapero informed me when we met...

Pablo Trapero was born in San Justo, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1971. He wrote, directed and edited the short films Mocoso Malcriado (1993) and Negocios (1995) before directing his feature debut, the award-winning Crane World (1999), a black and white 16mm film that proved to be a breaking point in Argentine cinema and that encouraged dozens of young directors into their first features. Crane World was released internationally at Venice, harvesting awards and critical acclaim at film festivals around the world.

In 2002, his second feature El Bonaerense premiered at Un Certain Regard in the Cannes Film Festival, again to critical and audience acclaim. That same year he opened his own production company Matanza Cine in Buenos Aires, from which he has produced ever since not only his own features but also those of other Argentine and Latin American filmmakers, including Lisandro Alonso, Enrique Bellande and Raúl Perrone. "Matanza", Trapero informed me, is the name...

"When young director Pablo Trapero shot El Bonaerense in 2002, he pushed the frontiers of socially realistic cinema in Argentina," writes Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter. "[W]ith Carancho, he returns to the same nitty-gritty terrain (the film is even shot in the same neighborhood) where police corruption is a given and survival depends on beating your rivals to a pulp before they hit on you. Inspired by the sultry smooth atmosphere of Hollywood film noir, Carancho spills the beans about corrupt hospitals that allow unscrupulous lawyers to make a mint on other people's calamities."...

Acclaimed Argentinian director Pablo Trapero offers the emotional story of a jailed mother who's child is taken away – but it lacks the brilliance of his earlier work, writes Peter Bradshaw

Pablo Trapero has made a powerful movie about a pregnant woman who is convicted for murder, perhaps wrongfully, and sent to a brutal prison, where she must give birth as a prisoner and then endure the second agony of seeing her child taken away. It is a gritty and heartfelt film, but Trapero admirers may be wondering at the relative absence of the subtlety and shades of meaning that characterised films like Born and Bred, Rolling Family and El Bonaerense. There is a brilliant opening sequence in which Julia, played by Martina Gusman, blearily gets up and goes to college, in a state of semi-conscious denial about the horrifically violent events of the previous evening. But the main events of the film – the jail,...