Las olas (en)

Las olas

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International title: 

The Waves

Director: 

Adrián Biniez

Country: 

  • Argentina
  • Uruguay

Year: 

2017

Length: 

91 m.

Scriptwriter: 

Adrián Biniez

Editor: 

Pablo Riera, Fernando Epstein

Composer: 

Adrián Biniez

Director of photography: 

Nicolás Soto

Actors: 

Alfonso Tort, Fabiana Charlo, Julieta Zylberberg

Synopsis : 

Exhausted on leaving work, Alfonso (38) goes to the beach and dives into the sea. Coming to the surface, he finds himself on another beach, in another time. His parents are waiting for him, calling to him from the water’s edge. Alfonso sees and understands everything from his adult’s body, even if they treat him like an 11 year old. This is the beginning of a fantastic voyage through the different holidays in his life, where the situations come one after the other with no chronological order, interrupting with a tone of intimacy and entertaining nostalgia his meetings with girlfriends, teenage and childhood pals, his daughter and his loneliness.

Director's biography: 

Adrián Biniez was born in Remedios de Escalada, Argentina, in 1974, and lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 2005 he made his first short, 8 hours, winner of first prize at the BAFICI, 2006. In 2009 he released his first feature film, Gigante. The work received several international awards, including Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival. In 2015 El 5 de Talleres, his second feature, premiered at the 11th edition of the Venice Festival’s Giornate degli Autori-Venice Days, proceeding to tour several festivals including Rotterdam, Mar del Plata and Tribeca.

Filmography: 

2014 - El 5 de Talleres
2009 - Gigante
2008 - Total disponibilidad (Short)
2006 - 8 horas (Short)

Production: 

Mutante Cine S.R.L (Uruguay)

Coproduction: 

Campo Cine S.R.L (Argentina)