BUENOS AIRES – Buenos Aires-based Meikincine Entertainment, one of the most active sales agents in Ventana Sur this year, closed out the US and Canada with the release of Cinephobia’s “Sublime,” produced by Buenos Aires-based Tarea Fina and Ventana Sur’s headliner. 2021 Copia Final pix-in-post contest.
“Sublime” went on to world premiere in Berlin on the Generation 14-Plus strand this past February.
In parallel, Meikincine has secured global sales rights outside Argentina for Tarja Fina’s latest film, “Alemania,” directed by Maria Zanetti (“Furia”), which wraps up shooting on December 2.
A coming-of-age story “Sublime” marks the debut of Argentine Mariano Biasin, who received the Crystal Bear Award for Best Short Film at the 2016 Berlinale Generation KPlus for El inicio de Fabrizio.
“Sublime” turns on Manuel, 16, as he struggles with desire, tangled relationships, and the identity of assimilation in a seaside Argentine town.
According to diverse.
“Sublime is a tender and engaging coming-of-age film that is wonderfully representative of today’s vibrant Argentine cinematic landscape. We’re excited to bring the film to North American audiences.” said distribution veteran Raymond Murray, founder of TLA Releasing and Artsploitation Films and now president of Cinephobia Releasing, his new distribution company.
Zanetti’s feature debut, a commercial, video filmmaker, and teen drama about coming of age in a town near Buenos Aires, “Alemania” was presented at the 2021 San Sebastian Co-Production Forum where it won the Artekino International Prize.
Produced by Juan Pablo Miller in Taría Viña with Jose Alenda at the Spanish film company Solita, the drama is about Lola, 16, a struggling high school student who is suddenly given the opportunity to take a semester in Germany. But her parents can’t afford her trip, having gone deep into debt to pay for the psychiatric treatment of Ella’s older sister, once intelligent, who now suffers from bipolar depression.
As her parents struggle to heal their daughter, Lola is left to her own devices, struggles to find a sense of identity, and agonizes over the increasing distance from her sister and the end of her childhood.
Based on Zanetti’s personal experience, she wrote “Germany” as a process of catharsis, with “reality transformed by memory,” captured using vintage lenses, in Bresson’s style, she says in a director’s statement.
“Alemania” stars Maite Aguilar, Miranda de la Serna, Maria Osedo, Walter Jacob and Andy Bruce.
Miller Tarja Vena produced Pablo Giorgili’s “Las Acacias,” which was awarded the Camera d’Or of Cannes for Best First Film by a jury chaired by “Parasite’s” Bong Joon Ho.
Furthermore, the Tarea Fina Awards won Best Film at the Berlinale 2015 Generation KPlus (“Natural Science” by Matthias Lucchesi); TCM Youth Award at the 2019 San Sebastian Festival (“Good Intentions” by Ana García Playa); and Best Film at the 2019 Havana Film Festival (The Sleepwalkers).
Tarja Vena Productions also produced Ariel Rutter’s “Incident Light,” which won the Argentine Academy Awards in 2016, winning Best Picture, Director and Artistic Director.
Courtesy of Meikincine Entertainment
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