A portrait of an artist as a middle-aged man: A famous painter, to whom everyone refers by his last name, is comfortable in dealing with human figures and their desires on his canvas. However, in everyday life he struggles with accepting that his ex-wife is expecting someone else’s baby, as well as reaching the heart of his cherished, melancholic young daughter. An existential study – adorned with brushstrokes of absurdism – on the hollow, yet overpowering loneliness of the creative spirit, which crashes with reality.
Belmonte
Belmonte
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Federico Veiroj
- Script: Federico Veiroj
- Cinematography: Analía Pollio, Arauco Hernández Holz
- Editing: Manuel Rilla, Fernando Franco
- Sound: Daniel Yafalián
- Music: Leo Masliah, Gervasio Tarragona & Javier Bezzato, Rafael Bonavita, Diane Denoir & Eduardo Mateo, Pedro Dalton & Buenos Muchachos, Carlos Gardel & Alfredo Lepera, Orquesta Juvenil del Sodre
- Actors: Gonzalo Delgado, Olivia Molinaro Eijo, Tomås Wahmann, Jeannette Sauktesliskis, María Noel Gutiérrez, Ramiro Pallares, Alejandro Castiglioni, Pedro Dalton, Marcelo Fernández, Enrique Aguerre, Giselle Motta, Rodolfo Vidal, Gabriela Pelenur, Toe Gillman, Martín Reyes, Cecilia Jeske
- Production: Cinekdoque, Nadador Cine
- Producers: Federico Veiroj, Juan José López
- Co-production: Corazón Films, Ferdydurke Films
- Co-producers: Sandro Halphen, Eckerhard Von Damm, Fernando Franco, Charles Barthe
- Art Direction: Nicole Davrieux, Alejandro Castiglioni
- Costumes: Valentina Luque
- Executive producer: Federico Veiroj, Juan José López, Sandro Halphen, Pedro Barcia, Eckerhard Von Damm, Carla Farrell, Elisa Salinas
- Sets: Nicolás Pequera
- Make Up: Rocío Mattos
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Uruguay, Spain, Mexico
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 75΄
- Contact: Meikincine Entertainment, info@meikincine.com
Federico Veiroj
Federico Veiroj is an Uruguayan-Spanish film director, writer, and producer, born in 1976. His first feature, Acne, premiered at the 2008 Directors Fortnight at Cannes and his second film, A Useful Life, premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. Both films received many awards worldwide and were released in many countries. The Apostate, his third feature and first film shot in Spain, received the Jury’s Special Mention and FIPRESCI award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Retrospectives of his work have been shown at the 2015 Viennale Film Festival, the Harvard Film Archive in 2016; and the Swedish Film Institute in 2017.
Filmography
2004 Bregman, el siguiente | As Follows (short)
2008 Acné
2010 La vida útil | A Useful Life
2015 El apóstata | The Apostate
2018 Belmonte
2019 Así habló el cambista | The Moneychanger
2008 Acné
2010 La vida útil | A Useful Life
2015 El apóstata | The Apostate
2018 Belmonte
2019 Así habló el cambista | The Moneychanger
