Zama

Lucrecia Martel

Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Portugal, United States

- 2017

Diego de Zama is an American official of the Spanish Crown awaiting a letter from the King that will remove him from the border post where he is stuck. His is a fragile situation. He must take care that nothing threatens that opportunity. Ando so he is forced to submissively accept any task assigned to him by the successive governors who come and go while he remains. Several years pass, and the letter never arrives. Having lost everything while waiting, Zama decides to join a group of soldiers in search of a dangerous bandit.

Lucrecia Martel

Argentine filmmaker born in Salta in 1966. She trained at Avellaneda Experimental (AVEX) and the National School of Cinematographic Experimentation (ENERC) in Buenos Aires. Her first feature film, ‘The Swamp’ (2001), won awards at the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, and broke new ground for Argentine cinema. Her next two feature films, ‘The Holy Girl’ (2004) and ‘The Headless Woman’ (2008), competed in the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, while her fourth and most recent feature film (‘Zama’ (2018) premiered in Rotterdam. Her work, which includes short films, collective works, music videos, and the recording of Björk's ‘Cornucopia’ tour, has been exhibited at prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Berkeley, and London's Tate.

DIRECTOR

Lucrecia Martel

SCREENPLAY

Lucrecia Martel

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Rui Poças

EDITOR

Miguel Schverdfingery, Karen Harley

SOUND

Guido Berenblumy, Emmanuel Croset

PRODUCTION

Benjamín Doménech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Vânia Catani, Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García, Marie-Pierre Macia, Claire Gadéa, Juan Pablo Galli, Juan Vera, Alejandro Cacetta, Eva Eisenloeffel, Leontine Petit, Joost Devries, Michel Merkt, Luís Urbano, Georges Schoucair, Joslyn Barnes, Danny Glover, Susan Rockefeller, Juan Perdomo, Natalia Meta

PRODUCTION COMPANY

Rei Cine, Bananeira Filmes, El Deseo, Patagonik, MPM Film, Canana, Lemming Film, KNM, O Som e a Fúria, Louverture Films, Schortcut Films, Telecine, Bertha Foundation, Perdomo Productions, Picnic Producciones, Punta Colorada de Cinema

CAST

Daniel Giménez Cacho, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Lola Dueñas, Rafael Spregelburd, Nahuel Cano, Mariana Nunes, Carlos Defeo

RUNNING TIME

115 min.

TYPE

Largometraje

FORMAT

Color

YEAR OF PRODUCTION

2017

COUNTRY

Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Netherlands, Mexico, Portugal, United States