73rd San Sebastian Festival - 19/27 September 2025
73SSIFF - 19/27 September 2025
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‘7:35 AM,’ ‘HOGAR,’ ‘MALAMBO KING’
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
In a triple triumph for Argentina, Javier Van De Couter’s 7:35 am, Maura Delpero’s Hogar and Juan Pablo Felix’s Malambo King won the top plaudits at the San Sebastian Festival’s 5th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.
Produced and co-written by Anahi Berneri, (Aire Libre), 7:35 am marks the second feature from Van De Couter, a co-scribe on Aire Libre.
Set up at Varsovia Films, the fi lm company Berneri heads up with Diego Dubcovsky, 7:35 am refers to the time on Sept. 28, 2004 when a 15-year-old walked into a classroom in Carmen de Patagones, some 600 miles south of Buenos Aires, drew a handgun and shot dead four classmates, wounding fi ve more. Set 12 years later, 7:35 am follows two of the school massacre survivors, one with scars, another with a bullet in one lung, as they attempt to track down the attacker.
“ The film is a journey which may bring some relief, and asks the questions: Why did he do it? Why them? Why him?” Van De Couter commented.
Lead-produced by Nico Avruj and Diego Lerman’s Buenos Aires-based Campo Cine, producer of all Lerman’s movies, Hogar won two awards, the Arte International Prize, adjudicated by Arte France Cinema, its French co-production arm and off ering €5,000 ($5,500) to the project’s lead producer; and a special mention from the Co-Production Best Project Award jury.
Co-produced by Italy’s Vivo Film (Le Quattro Volte) and Dispàrte. Hogar has already tapped coin from an Argentina-Italy bilateral development fund. Set at Hogar, a Buenos Aires home for teen mothers, Delpero’s fi lm explores various forms of female desire: One inmate’s longing for a boy outside the home, and the birth of maternal instinct in a young Italian nun who looks after the this teen mother’s baby when she escapes to see her boyfriend.
“ The intensity of adolescence plus motherhood all in the same body, this is a problem,” Delpero said when presenting the project Monday at the Co-production Forum.
The first feature of Argentina’s Juan Pablo Felix, Malambo King took home a new prize: the Efads-Caci Europe-Latin America Co-Production Grant, worth $22,000 and given by the powerful associations of European and Latin American public fi lm agencies respectively.
Set up at Argentina’s Bikini Films, the movie underscored how even a debut can now command strong co-production support, Malambo King hitting San Sebastian with strong partners: Veronica Cura’s Utopia Group in Argentina, Santiago Segura’s Bowfinger Intl. Pictures in Spain, and France’s Melocoton Film.
Part road-movie, part father-daughter family drama, Malambo King turns on a con who gains a permit to leave jail for a few days to visit his daughters, but uses it to stage a highway hold-up.
His daughters, however young, are far better without him, they finally decide, positioning Malambo King as a fi lm which talks about the generation disconnect between parents and their children – a major focus of movies this year at San Sebastian, whether projects or completed films.
JOHN HOPEWELL
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