Animale | Umano
09 May 2024 | 21:30
Sala Hera — Cinema Astra
National premiere
Director Alessandro Pugno, actress Silvia Degrandi and producer Daniele Segre will be present
In a small town in northern Italy, a child, Matteo, grows up surrounded by coffins and with his seriously ill mother. He dreams of going away and dying as a hero in an arena. On the grasslands of Andalusia, a calf, Fandango, is raised to become a bullfighting bull. Matteo and Fandango grow up in distant, parallel worlds, but one day they must meet and face each other, in front of thousands of people.
Production: Pecado Films, First Draft, Redibis Film, Una Comunión
Cast: Guillermo Bedward, Ian Caffo, Silvia Degrandi, Paola Sotgiu, Antonio Estrada, Antonio Dechent, Brontis Jodorowsky, Donovan Cortes, Juan Quiñones
Regia di Alessandro Pugno
92'
Spain, Italy, Mexico
2023
Italian director, photographer and poet, closely linked in his work to the Spanish-speaking world. Among his documentaries is All’ombra della croce (2013) about the children of the choir of the former Mausoleum of Francisco Franco, which was selected in several international festivals, including Mar del Plata, Guadalajara, São Paulo, Lima, Festival of Peoples and Malaga, where it won the best documentary award. Animale | Umano is his first fiction feature film.