Selection : Feature films 2019

Family Members

Mateo Bendesky

2019
Argentina
1h25
Fiction
Col.

Lucas, a combat sports fan and his mystically inclined older sister Gilda, are trapped by a coach strike in a small coastal town where they have travelled to fulfill their dead mother’s last wishes. Through several meetings the two will have to bid farewell to their adolescence and face the ambiguity of life, death and fitness…

 

Mateo Bendesky graduated from the Universidad del cine in Buenos Aires. He directed the feature Acá adentro (Bafici 2013) and the short films El ser magnético (Cannes Cinéfondation in 2015) and Nosotros solos (Toronto 2017). His second feature Los miembros de la familia premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. He is currently working on his next feature La fiebre.

Cast
Tomás Wicz, Laila Maltz, Alejandro Russek
Screenplay
Mateo Bendesky
Photography
Roman Kasseroller
Sound
Santiago Fumagalli
Music
Santiago Palenque
Art direction
Mirabella hoijman
Editing
Ana Godoy
Production
Volpe Film, Varsovia Films

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