ZAHORÍ
by Marí Alessandrini
105 min./ fiction feature film / 2021
In the middle of the Patagonian steppe, Mora is in revolt against school and asserts himself against his parents, Western alternatives whose dream of freedom is turning into a nightmare. Mora is forced to cross the steppe to go to boarding school with her little brother Himeko. But one day, she refuses to go there to help her only friend, Nazareno, an old Mapuche gaucho who has lost his horse in the meanders of the steppe.
AWARDS
– Silver Peacock best first feature film of a director, International Film Festival of India, Goa, 2021
– Honorable mention/ Best film, Sharjah Film Festival Platform 4, United Emirates, 2021
– Best cinematography, FAB Bariloche, Argentina, 2022
FESTIVALS
– Locarno 74, Concorso Cineasti del presente, 2021
– 45th São Paulo International Film Festival, 2021
– 66th Valladolid International Film Festival, 2021
– Cineuropa35, Santiago de Compostela, 2021
– 35th Leeds International Film Festival, 2021
– SFP4, Sharjah Film Platform, 2021
– 52nd, International Film Festival of India, Goa, 2021
– 13th Pantalla Latina Film Festival, 2021
– 23rd Festival Filmar en América Latina, Geneva, 2021
– 39th Festival Cinematografico Internacional del Uruguay, Montevideo, 2021
– Blue Danube International Film Festival, Hungary, 2021
– 57th Solothurner Film Tage 2022, Opera Prima Competition
– Wow Film Festival, Wales, 2022
– Cinélatino, 35th Rencontres de Toulouse, France, 2022
– 17th Images Hispano-Américaines, Annecy, France, 2022
– Ojo Loco, 10th Festival de cinéma ibérique et latino américain, Grenoble, France, 2022
– Sphinx Cinema, Gent, Belgium, 2022
– Ulju Mountain Film Festival, Ulsan, Korea, 2022
– 38th Chicago Latino Film Festival, USA, 2022
– 31th Innsbruck International Film Festival, Austria, 2022
– Al Este, 13e International Film Festival, Lima, Peru,2022
– 17th Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival, Korea, 2022
– 18th SANFIC, Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine, Chile, 2022
– 6th Fünf Seen Film Festival, Germany, 2022
– Festival Audiovisual Bariloche, Argentina, 2022
– Nara International Film festival, Japan, 2022
– Al Este, Festival de cine de Europa central y oriental, Colombia, 2022
PRESS (selection)
– Libération (fr) – Superbe récit d’errance et d’initiation…
– Le Temps (fr) – Portrait de Marí Alessandrini
– Le Courrier (fr) –Un conte sensoriel, animiste, chamanique et lumineux…
– Cineuropa – Marì Alessandrini’s debut feature film sings the praises of the weaknesses which define us all…
– Les fiches du cinéma (fr) – Zahorí – Drame initiatique
MOVIE RELEASE
– Upcoming in Swiss theatres in December 2021
– Upcoming in French theatres in July 2022
WITH
Lara Tortosa (Mora)
Santos Curapil (Nazareno)
Cirilo Wesley (Himeko)
Sabine Timoteo (Mitia)
Pablo Limarzi (Tomasso)
Federico Luque (Uncle Steph)
Colo Susini (Eddy)
Carol Jones (Selva)
Francisca Castillo (Perla)
FILM CREW
Director, scriptwriter : Marí Alessandrini
Director of photography : Joakim Chardonnens
Set decorator : Ana Carolina Vergara
Costume designer : Sol Muñoz
Picture editor : Myriam Rachmuth, Marí Alessandrini
Sound editor & Sound designer : Adrien Kessler
Sound mix : Mikaël Barre
Composer : Fabián Cardozo
Executive producer, Nadejda Magnenat, Le Laboratoire Central (Switzerland).
In coproduction with Juan Maristany, El Calefón cine (Argentina), José Maria Naranjo,
Cinestación (Chili), Valentina Novati, Norte (France). Associated production, Selva Fría.
Screenplay selected at the Résidence de la Cinéfondation of the Cannes Film Festival.
With the support of Société Suisse des Auteurs SSA, Suissimage, Cinéforom, Office Fédéral de la Culture (OFC), Migros pour-cent culturel, INCAA, City of Carouge, Fondation Anne-Marie Schindler, Fondation Engelberts pour les arts et la culture and Fonds d’encouragement à l’emploi des intermittent•e•s genevois•es (FEEIG).
