2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #36. Alejandro Fernández Almendras – Hra

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Sundance love their Chilean cinema and have had a great rapport with Alejandro Fernández Almendras in the past showcasing his 2014 Grand Jury Prize World Cinema – Dramatic winner (Matar a un hombre) and 2016’s Aquí No Ha Pasado Nada. A Chile, France, Czech Republic, South Korea co-production, Hra was shot in black and white film and set in the Czech Republic, and recently at the 2018 Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) Works in Progress he offered some insight in where he was with the process.

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Gist: This tells the tale of a small-town Czech playwright, Peter (Jiří Mádl), who makes a series of inadvisable decisions in his private life that begin to impose on the work being done in the theater.

Production Co./Producers: TBD

Prediction: World Dramatic Competition.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international).

 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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