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THE HIDDEN GESTURE. WAR AND MELODRAMA IN HOLLYWOOD`S 30´S AND 40´S
THE HIDDEN GESTURE. WAR AND MELODRAMA IN HOLLYWOOD`S 30´S AND 40´S

ARGENTINA | 2023 | DCP | B/W | ENGLISH | 5 MIN | DANA NAJLIS

Director / Director: Dana Najlis

Guión / Screenplay: -

Productor / Producer: Dana Najlis

Fotografía / Cinematography: -

Edición / Editing: Dana Najlis

Sonido / Sound: Dana Najlis

Musica / Music: -

Compañía Productora / Production Company: Fedora Films

Reparto / Cast: -

Sinopsis / Synopsis:

A fictional journey constructed from a body language portrayed in melodramas and war movies of the 30s and 40s in Hollywood cinema, beginning and ending with intimate gestures of life being at once destroyed and transformed. The absence of faces records a fragmented, mutilated and reconstructed history, erasing the identity of the actor/character in a continuum of daily actions, fleeting contacts, loving offerings and deathly silences.

Biografía / Biography:

Dana Najlis was born in 1986 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She studied Musical Composition, Film Direction and has a Master's degree in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She is a producer, film critic and researcher, and publishes regularly in the Argentine magazine “La Vida Útil”, as well as in several foreign magazines and international academic publications. Her research work is focused on Classical Hollywood cinema and the short film “The Hidden Gesture. War and melodrama in Hollywood’s 30s and 40s”, world premiered at IFFR 2023, is her debut as a director.

Festivales / Festivals:

International Film Festival Rotterdam - Cinema Regained Competition - Netherlands, 2023
Jeonju International Film Festival - Expanded Cinema Competition - South Korea, 2023
Black Canvas FCC - Beyond the Canvas competition - Mexico, 2023

Contacto / Contact:

Dana Najlis
dana.najlis@gmail.com

Emisión:

SÁBADO 30 | CCD ESTELA DE LUZ | 18:00 HRS | 70 MIN DOMINGO 1 | CASA DEL LAGO | 14:00 HRS | 70 MIN