CYCLE: DIRECTOR

From 03.10. To 10.10.2021.

14. Subversive Festival

Ana Katz

02.11.1975, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Director

She is an actress, screenwriter, director, as well as film and theater producer. After studying directing and acting, she began
her career as a filmmaker with numerous feature films such as The Game of the Chair (2002 - Special Mention at San Sebastian IFF), Una Novia Errante (2007 - Un Certain Regard - Cannes Festival), Los Marziano (2011 - San Sebastian IFF Official
Selection), My Friend from the Park (2015 - Script Award at Sundance IFF) and Sueño Florianópolis (2018 - Special Jury Prize, Best Actress and Fipresci Prize at Karlovy Vary FF). Her new film is The Dog who wouldn’t Be Quiet (2021 - Sundance IFF, IFF Rotterdam).

Filmography


Films by this director

The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet

(El perro que no calla, Argentina, 2021)

Directed by: Ana Katz
PHOTOGRAPHY: Fernando Blanc, Marcelo Lavintman
Synopsis:

Sebastian is an ordinary man in his thirties devoted to his loyal dog and working in a slew of temporary jobs. As he moves fitfully through adulthood, he navigates love, loss and fatherhood - until the world is rocked by a sudden catastrophe, upending his already turbulent life. Photographed in stark black-and-white imagery, and awash in ruminative metaphor, writer-director Ana Katz captures Sebastian’s midlife coming of age in slices of life both specific and universal as he struggles to adjust...

b/w, DCP, 73’
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