International Competition : 2016 Feature Films

La Noche polar

Polar Night

Florencia Romano

2016
Argentina
1h01
Fiction
Col.

La Noche polar reaches for an announced eclipse, for a collective event which will undoubtedly take place, and which will be observed by eyes acting as though they were possessed by the disappearance of the moon. But the film constitutes first and foremost the intimate, secret drifting of a young man, whose opaque search is followed. This search develops somewhere between a series of more or less esoteric books, the entire cosmos, and the uncanny shelves of the library in which the protagonist works. The latter seems constantly shadowed by the potential, sudden appearance of a spectre. Indeed, the protagonist’s trajectory is marked by a melancholic wavering, a solipsism that demonstrates the loosening ties between beings and things: more of a movement towards erasure and disappearance than towards the search for a way of being in the world. (Arnaud Hée)

Florencia Romano graduated from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires.
Courts métrages
Construcciones (2012)

La Noche polar is her first feature film.

Cast
Martín Shanly, Inés Urdinez, Sol Busnelli, Gael Policano Rossi, Gonzalo Pastrana.
Screenplay
Florencia Romano
Photography
Fidel González Armatta
Sound
Nahuel López
Art direction
Denise Margules
Editing
Juan Mora, Florencia Romano
Production
Belén Bianco, Universidad del Cine Buenos Aires

World Premiere

CONTACT :

Maria Marta Antin (Universidad del Cine)

mmantin@ucine.edu.ar

2016 Competition