A CONCRETE CINEMA
World Premiere
Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Original Title: Un Cine en Concreto
Running Time: 72min
Film Year: 2017
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement Award
Cinema is the art closest to dreaming. It’s also the product of dreaming, both in production and exhibition.
Omar is a soft-spoken, sinewy, middle-aged bricklayer. He has a passion for movies and cannot forget the magic of beholding them in a theatre as a child. Through sweat and willpower, he opens a cinema with ancient equipment in his small Argentine town. Then his brothers sell the land. And then Omar endeavors to construct his cinema all over again, brick by brick.
Omar’s quixotic vision quest is the subject of Luz Ruciello’s beguiling feature documentary debut. A Concrete Cinema is an homage, a character study, a prayer. In short, it is a work of, and about, sheer devotion.
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credits
Director: Luz Ruciello
Producer: Maria Soledad Laici
Screenwriter: Luz Ruciello
Executive Producer: Maria Soledad Laici
Music: Maxi Prietto
Cinematographer: Luis Miras Vega
Editor: Carlos Maria Cambariere