Films

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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.

  • Pardo 2020, Swiss selection, The Films After Tomorrow, Locarno Film Festival 2020 
  • 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
  • Upcoming in Swiss theatres in December 2021
  • Upcoming in French theatres in July 2022

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)

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).