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ND/NF 2007
Program Overview
7 Years
The Art of Crying
Audience of One
Congorama
Cowboy Angels
Day Night...
El Custodio
Euphoria
Glue
Gradually...
The Great World...
The Inner Life
Love for Sale
Meanwhile
Once
The Only One
The Other Half
Padre Nuestro
Red Road
Reprise
Rome Rather...
Salty Air
Shelter
Stealth
War/Dance
What the Sun...
HBO Films Roundtable
ND/NF Classics
Kick-Off Party
Ticket Info
About
Submissions
Past ND/NF Festivals
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The remarkable character actor Julio Chavez (A Red Bear, ND/NF 2002) disappears into the nearly silent role of a middle-aged bodyguard for an important politician, and the cleverly paced, slow-burning tale is a mesmerizing portrait of a man whose all-consuming job is that of an invisible human shield. The measured movements of Chavez’s alienated Ruben are destined to reach a breaking point, when this shadow can no longer deny his own repressed feelings. Director Rodrigo Moreno develops his masterfully wrought psychological thriller in the celebrated minimalist style that has put recent Argentine cinema on the international map.
Rodrigo Moreno studied film direction at the Universidad
del Cine in Argentina, before teaching screenwriting and
directing at the same school.
El Custodio, which won the
Alfred Bauer Award at the
Berlin Film Festival in 2006,
is his first feature film.
A young student and his older friend, the local farmhand, share joyful moments of camaraderie, bonding over work and play, before their worlds separate forever.
Samuel Collardey studied cinematography
at La Femis in Paris and has worked in that
capacity on several short films. Sun in Winter, his diploma film, won the SACD Short Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.
Thu Mar 22: 6:00pm at The Museum of Modern Art
Sat Mar 24: 8:45pm at the Walter Reade Theater
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Thu Mar 22: 6 (MoMA)
Sat Mar 24: 8:45 (WRT)
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