Rojo

Rojo
Director
Benjamin Naishtat
Country
Argentina, France, Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland
Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Benjamin Naishtat
Cast
Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego Cremonesi
Production
Viking Film (NL), Ecce Films (FR), Sutor Kolonko (DE), Pucara Cine (Argentina), Desvia (Brazil),
http://vikingfilm.nl/en/portfolio/rojo/

Storyline

As unprecedented political violence unleashes through the mid 70s in Argentina, some people find just the perfect setting for hiding very bad deeds.

Argentina during the mid 1970s: a wave of unprecedented political violence begins to unfold. But this would seem, at least on the surface, to have little effect on the arid, dull, small town where Dario, a fifty-year-old well-known lawyer, is leading a placid life with his family. 
The ordinary course of things is interrupted by fate when one night Dario gets into an argument with a bald man. Dario resumes his daily routine. Until one day, a private detective in search of the bald man appears in the small town.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2018
Official Section
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography
Silver Shell for Best Actor to Dario Grandinetti
Silver Shell for Best Director to Benjamín Naishat
Toronto International Film Festival 2018
Platform
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2019
Mayahuel Award for Best Actor (Dario Grandinetti)
Bcn Film Fest 2019
Official Section - Out of Competition

Call for proposals International Coproduction Funds
Media support 55.000€

HBF
Timing: 2015-2017
European producers: Viking Film (NL), Ecce Films (FR), Sutor Kolonko (DE)
Non EU producers: Pucara Cine (Argentina), Desvia (Brazil)