A SORT OF FAMILY
- Feature
- 2017
- 95 Minutes
- Argentina, Brazil, Poland, France
- Language: Spanish
Malena is a middle-class doctor in Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives a call from Dr Costas, telling her she must leave immediately for the north of the country: the baby she was expecting is about to be born. Suddenly and almost without a thought, Malena decides to set out on an uncertain voyage, packed with crossroads at which she has to deal with all sorts of legal and moral obstacles to the extent that she constantly asks herself to what limits she is prepared to go to get the thing she wants most.
Director: Diego Lerman
Screenwriter: Diego Lerman, María Meira
Production Company: .: El Campo Cine, 27 Films Production, Bellota Films, Bossa Nova Films, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA) (with the support of), Productora MG, Red Rental, Snowglobe Films, Staron Film, Televisión Federal (Telefe)
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Awards
2017: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of ArgentinaChicago International Film Festival won best feature film/ CPH PIX
Philadelphia Film Festival
San Sebastián International Film Festival won Jury Prize for Best Screenplay
2018: Miami Film Festival
Cast and Crew
Screenwriter: Diego Lerman, María Meira
DOP / Camera: Wojciech Staron
Editor: Alejandro Brodersohn
Music: Caio Mariano
Sound: Benjamin Laurent, Bernardo Uzeda, Tomas Alem
Producer: Nicolás Avruj, Diego Lerman
Cast: Bárbara Lennie, Daniel Aráoz, Claudio Tolcachir, Yanina Ávila, Paula Cohen
Director
Diego Lerman
Diego Lerman debuted in 2002 with the feature film Tan de repente (Suddenly, 2002), Silver Leopard winner at the Locarno Festival, among other awards. Next came Mientras tanto (Meanwhile, 2006), a participant in the Official Selection at the Venice Festival. In 2007 he directed the documentary Servicios prestados, presented in Locarno. His two following films, La mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye, 2010) and Refugiado (2014), were screened in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Festival. He also directed the TV series La casa (2015).