Magali

(Magalí)
Juan Pablo di Bitonto | Drama, Fiction, Adventure

2019 | 81 minutes | Argentina

After receiving the news of the death of her mother, Magali must travel to a small village in the Argentinean Andes to find her son.

Synopsis

After receiving the news of the death of her mother, Magali returns to the small town where she grew up in the northern region of Argentina. There she finds her 10-year-old son and a close community in which old traditions still make sense. A puma surrounds the town and appears in Magali’s dreams. The animal is eating all the cattle and the town chooses Magali and her son to perform a ritual to guide the animal back to its world.

Reviews

"Between folklore and magical realism the little story becomes giant thanks to the great performance of Eva Bianco." - Juan Pablo Russo, EscribiendoCine

"When everything seems to be heading toward a realist story, the movie takes an interesting turn and incorporates a certain atmosphere of suspense and fantasy that notably strengthen it." - Alejandro Lingenti, La Nación

"Juan Pablo Di Bitonto manages to make this town of a thousand inhabitants a complex world." - Gaspar Zimerman, Clarín

Citation
Main credits

Di Bitonto, Juan Pable (film director)
Di Bitonto, Juan Pable (screenwriter)
Di Bitonto, Juan Pable (film producer)
Gugliotta, Sandra (film producer)
Seggiaro, Daniela (screenwriter)
Bianco, Eva (actor)
Nieva, Cristian (actor)

Other credits

Cinematography, Lucio Bonelli; editors, Juan Pablo Di Bitonto, Cristina Carrasco Hernández; music, Sebastián Escofet.


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Keywords
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Festivals

Warsaw International Film Festival; Festival Internacional de Cine de las Alturas - Audience Award; São Paulo International Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Juan Pablo di Bitonto

NATIONALITY: Argentina

YEAR: 2019

GENRE: Drama, Fiction, Adventure

LANGUAGE: Spanish

COLOR / B&W: Color

GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School, College, Adults

SUBTITLE/CC: AVAILABLE

AUDIO DESCRIPTION: NOT AVAILABLE

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