LA ANATOMÍA DE LOS CABALLOS (2024) - Post Production
In 1781, Ángel Pumacahua, a defeated revolutionary, flees to his home in the remote heights of the Peruvian Andes. From space, a meteorite embarks on the same journey, creating a massive crater in his village. When time catches up, the 21st century welcomes him, and his revolution no longer matters. Eustaquia, a young llama herder, is searching for her missing sister, whom everyone in the village believes was crushed by the meteorite. As Ángel helps Eustaquia mobilize the authorities to start the search, both will question what revolution means in today’s world.
Director: Daniel Vidal
Produced: Playa Chica (ESP), Elamedia (ESP), Pioneros (PE)
DP: Angello Faccini
Color: Nadia Khairat
Waiting for the World Premiere
Alexa Mini LF + Leica R
LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO (2024) - Post Production
1984. In a desert mining town, 12-year-old Lidia is raised by her 23-year-old brother Alexo. Every day, they are visited by Alexo’s 37-year-old boyfriend Flamingo, a cheerful transvestite. They share their time together in the lagoon and in The Cage, a canteen where Flamingo and other transvestites live under the care of Boa, owner of the place and their putative mother. Lidia’s world starts to break down after she and Alexo find out about Flamingo’s death, affected by a mysterious disease. Men in town are terrified of this plague that is rumored to be transmitted when a man falls in love with another through his gaze. Alexo is suspected to have the disease and is forced to be along the transvestites in town. To save her brother, Lidia is fighting back ignorance and homophobia and dismantles the rumour, encouraged by fantastic manifestations of Flamingo’s soul. Alexo’s life is approaching its end. The two siblings understand it is time to say goodbye, so Alexo can reencounter Flamingo and Lidia can start a new life.
Director: Diego Céspedes
Produced: Quijote Cine (Chile) & Les Valseurs (France)
Waiting for the World Premiere
Alexa 35 + 16mm Zeiss Super Speed
On the border between Colombia and Venezuela, inside an old pick up truck, indigenous Wayúu people, Arabs, Venezuelans and Colombians cross the desert sharing an entrancing journey. Amongst them travels the soul of Josefa, a Wayúu woman in her sixties, returning to her homeland after years of exile due to a paramilitary masacre. Her memories mix with the present, resurrecting the dead from different historical periods and diluting the idea of physical and temporal borders.
Directors: Juan Pablo Polanco & Cesar Jaimes
Produced: Los Niños Films (Colombia) & PONG Films (Germany)
Colorist: Martí Somoza
World Premiere Visions du Réel Film Festival 2024
Lima International Film Festival 2024
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2024
Cartagena International Film Festival 2024
Alexa Mini + Sigma Cine Primes
LOS (CASI) ÍDOLOS DE BAHÍA COLORADA (2023)
Two half-brothers, Romeo and Preciado, meet again in Bahía Colorada, Sinaloa, after years of estrangement, both to honor the memory of Valentín, their father, who died with the dream of winning an automobile and music contest.
Director: Ricardo Castro Velázquez
Produced: Neftlix (MX), Alebrije Producciones
Alexa Mini LF + Zeiss Supreme Primes
LANAWARU (2024)
When a local community member disappears, a boy faces an early memory, seeking comfort in the indigenous traditions, healing rituals, and guidance from his grandfather.
Directed and photographed: Angello Faccini
Executive Producer: Conservation International (US)
Production Company: Violeta Films (MX)
Alexa Mini + Zeiss Standard Speed
WHERE THE SILENCE PASSES (Post Production)
In the interior of Andalusia, Antonio returns to his town after a long time. It's Holy Week in a working-class neighborhood and Antonio is reunited with his family and with his twin brother, Javier, who suffers from a malformation in his back. Javier is getting worse and is not handling his physical deterioration well. His attitude is putting his family to the limit. Now, Antonio will have to handle this situation and face a difficult decision: stay and help his family or leave again and continue looking for his place far from there.
Director: Sandra Romero
Produced: MAMMUT, Playa Chica & Icónica.
Funds: TVE, Canal Sur, Filmin, ICAA.
Alexa Mini + Zeiss Super Speed 1.3 MKII + Zoom Angenieux 24-290
As soon as veteran driver Ghalib’s truck touches the 500,000 kilometers mark—a record at his company—he is struck by a sudden pain in his back. He decides to go home, where he finds a letter at his doorstep. Ghalib visits his village to defend a compensation claim made by his late wife’s family. When the village council rules against him, he is given 30 days to determine an appropriate compensation. As Ghalib struggles to recover from his back injury, he is asked to train a young new driver, at which point Ghalib begins to fear that his job and life are slipping out of his hands. Like any milestone, Ghalib’s record too has come at a price.
Directors: Ivan Ayr
DP: Angello Faccini
Color: Sam Gilling
World Premiere Venice Film Festival 2020
Asian Premiere Busan Film Festival 2020
Indian Premiere Mumbai FIlm Festival 2020
On a windy night in the Colombian desert, a young wayúu woman named Doris sleeps in her hammock and has a dream that she reunites with a deceased cousin. When she awakens and shares the encounter with her grandmother, they agree that her vision suggests the beginning of an ancient ritual, one central to their culture’s relationship with death, dreams, and memory. According to custom, Doris must travel to her cousin’s grave and exhume the body from its coffin. Only after she cleanses her cousin’s bones will the physical and spiritual barriers of death crumble.
Directors: Juan Pablo Polanco & Cesar Jaimes
DP: Angello Faccini
Color: Sofie Borup / Company 3
World Premiere Sundance Film Festival 2019
European Premiere Berlinale Film Festival 2019
Best Cinematography at the Boston Film Festival 2019
Winner Prize "What The Doc" at Docs Barcelona 2019
Winner Best Documentary at Documenta Madrid 2019
Official Selection Moscow Film Festival 2019
Official Selection Sao Pablo Film Festival 2019
Official Selection Cartagena Film Festival 2019
In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest the piangua shellfish with the other women in the village
Producers: Conservation International and JIP
Directors: Guille Isa & Angello Faccini
Cinematographer: Angello Faccini
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019
Official Selection TIFF 2018
Official Selection IDFA 2018
Winner Best Documentary Palms Springs 2018
Winner Best Short Tampere Films Festival 2019
Winner Best Short Doc - Shorts Shorts Tokyo 2019
Winner Prize SIGNIS Cinelatino Film Festival 2019
Official Selection Vienna Shorts 2019
Official Selection Cinema Jove 2019
Official Selection DOC NYC 2018
Official Selection Camden International Film Festival 2018
Official Selection Hamptons Film Festival 2018
Official Selection AFI Fest 2018
Official Selection AFI Docs 2019
*Vimeo Staff Pick
It takes Sajjad and Alishah four hours to climb the Bamyan peaks behind their village carrying their skis, and just four minutes to glide to the bottom again, as their families and neighbours look on incredulously. Yet when they get a chance to compete to qualify for the Winter Olympics in South Korea, the first time Afghanistan is represented in the sport, in their wake they leave hope for a brighter future, as local children strap wood to their feet and tumble down the snowy banks in imitation. Filmed over four years, Where the Light Shines paints an uplifting and refreshing portrait of Afghanistan as you haven't seen it before, as the two sportsmen face up to the difficulties of creating opportunities in a country that for generations has only seen war.
Director: Daniel Etter
DP: Angello Faccini
RED Dragon + Leica Summilux-R
A couple who refused to leave their abandoned village have been alone for 45 years
Producers: Oliver Hartman & Darrell Hartman
Directors: David Beltrán i Marí & Angello Faccini
DP: Angello Faccini
Alexa Classic + Lomo Spherical
“Lina” is the story a fifteen-year old girl born into a high society family who lives in a very rigid environment. She is a very special girl but does not seem to be able to communicate with her family or to socialize with her peers. Lina becomes attracted to her swimming teacher, a young man who will make her feel special. Charmed by his sympathetic and attractive nature, she will end up idolizing him, thinking he is her prince charming who will save her from her constant profound feeling of loneliness and abandonment. But, it will not take her long to grasp the cruel reality and therefore fall into an emotional abyss.
Production Company: ESCAC Films
Director: Nur Casadevall
DP: Angello Faccini
Winner Best Direction Malaga Film Festival, 2016
Española-SGAE, 2017
BCN Sports Film Festival, 2016
Zagreb Film Festival, 2016
Lviv International Shortfilm Festival – Wiz Art, 2016
Concurso Iberoamericano de Cortometrajes Version
Festival Europeo de cortometrajes, 2016
Festival Cinema Jove, 2016
CINESPAÑA Festival du Film Espagnol de Toulouse, 2016
Festival de Cine de Madrid PNR, 2016
First Step Film Festival, 2016
Zubroffka International Short Film Festival, 2016
Festival de Cine de Santander, 2016.
