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Goes to Cannes
Projects
A House With Two Dogs
Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Matías Ferreyra
Produced by: Inés María Barrionuevo, Martín Paolorossi, Sofía Castells | Gualicho Cine
Country of production: Argentina
Original title: Una casa con dos perros
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 92'
Completed in: 2024
Argentina, 2001. In the midst of the economic crisis, Manuel and his family have to move to his maternal grandmother’s house. Caught in the middle of a strange war over the occupation of spaces, Manuel finds, in complicity with his grandmother, a particular and unexpected way of resisting.
My Grandfather is a Nihonjin
Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Celia Catunda
Produced by: Kiko Mistrorigo, Ricardo Rozzino | Pinguim Content
Country of production: Brazil
Original title: Meu Avô é um Nihonjin
Language: Portuguese
Runtime: 80'
Completed in: 2025
Noboru is a 10 year old who turns to his grandfather Hideo as he starts investigating his family’s history. As Noboru digs into his family’s past, he finds out he has an uncle he never met and, even worse, he didn’t even know about.
Lovers farewell with a glance
Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Rigoberto Perezcano
Produced by: Cristina Velasco L. & Jorge Hernandez Aldana | PALOMA NEGRA FILMS
Country of production: Mexico
Original title: Los Amantes se despiden con la mirada
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 84'
Completed in: 2024
Elida, a young woman who lives in the Oaxaca valley, is forced into an arranged marriage with Damián, an older and haughty man. She refuses to follow these old customs because of the love she feels for Olivo, a young man who constantly invokes his deceased father.
The Virgin of the Quarry Lake
Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Laura Casabé
Produced by: Alejandro Israel | Ajimolido Films, Tomás Eloy Muñoz, Valeria Bistagnino | Mostra Cine, Diego Martínez Ulanosky, Livi Herrera | Caponeto, Ángeles Hernández, David Matamoros | Mr. Miyagi Films
Country of production: Argentina, España, México
Original title: The Virgin of the Quarry Lake
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 100'
Completed in: 2024
On the eve of the 2001 outbreak, Natalia falls madly in love with her lifelong friend Diego. The romance is interrupted when he meets the more experienced Silvia. With the help of her grandma Rita, Natalia decides to call on incantations and curses to jinx Diego and Silvia’s blossoming relationship.
The Drownings
Category: Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Juanse Jácome & Mares (Co-Director)
Produced by: Oderay Game and Irina Caballero | AbacaFilms S.A.
Country of production: Ecuador / Uruguay
Original title: Los ahogados
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 87'
Completed in: 2024
A novelist’s sense of reality and illusion becomes blurred when her family confronts a mysterious drowning in the pool of their home.