Locarno Pro’s work-in-progress section First Look – set to celebrate its 15th edition this year – has unveiled six new titles.
This year’s spotlight falls on Uruguay, and is prepared in partnership with Uruguayan film institute ACAU.
The selection includes “Maltrato animal” by José Dell’Acqua Postiglione, about a down-on-his-luck veterinarian who suddenly enters a network of illegal breeding operations and pharmaceutical trafficking. In “Our Little Band of Justice,” Guillermo Casanova Arósteguy goes back to the 1980s, when little Lucía’s best friend’s family has to flee under suspicious circumstances, taking her away with them.
Gabriela Guillermo and Irina Raffo direct “Spring Story,” where an accidental encounter ignites a lasting love affair, and Lorenzo Tocco brings “El surubí,” showing an industrial town on the verge of disappearing. That is, until miraculous apparitions turn it into a place to be.
On the documentary front, Maximiliano Martínez directs “The Other Side of the Net” – and finally confronts his own father. It’s not the only family story, though. In “Perkal,” Paola Perkal focuses on her grandmother, an immigrant and war survivor, igniting a dialogue between three generations.
