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08.03, Monday - 21:00, Cinema House
Director:  Santiago Loza
Cinematography:  Willi Behnisch
Screenplay:  Santiago Loza
Producer:  Francesca Feder
Cast:  Julio Chavez , Valeria Bertucelli , Raquel Albeniz
Production:  Viada Producciones/Aeternam Films
World Screen
City of God
Crimson Gold
Ken Park
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring
Springtime in a Small Town
Strange
The Barbarian Invasions
The Barbecue People
The Crime of Father Amaro
The Sea Watches
Warriors of Heaven and Earth

   
STRANGE
ESTRANO
, 2003, 81 min, color
Awards:  Rotterdam 2003 - "Grand Prix" – Tiger Award; Buenos Aires '03 – New Cinema Award (tied); Havana '03 – Best cinematography (mention)

Yet another major new talent from that surprising hot house for cinema: Argentina. A proudly 'intimiste' and small-scale work with great resonance with marvellous acting and fine direction. An older unemployed man meets a younger, pregnant woman. They tentatively move in together but nothing seems firm. New Argentine cinema may be suffering from a lack of money and related misery as a result of the economic crisis, but there is anything but a lack of ideas and talent. Extrano is intimate cinema at its very best. The protagonist is Axel, aged about 40, a doctor who no longer practices his craft, but we never really find out why. He is living temporarily with his sister and her children. He doesn't do much, just exists a little between the living and their things. One day, he meets a young, pregnant woman. A relationship develops, a kind of love, and they get to live together. But Axel's moves are hesitant. He goes to visit an old lover…

   
SANTIAGO LOZA
SANTIAGO LOZA
Argentinian director, born in Cordoba in 1970. His first feature film Extrano won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2003 an the award for Best Newcomer at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival.

2003  Strange
2005  4 Women, Barefoot
 
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