France’s Still Moving, Uruguay’s Monarca Board Pablo Lamar’s San Sebastian Co-Production Forum Project ‘Remanso’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEmiliano De Pablos France’s Still Moving and Uruguay’s Monarca Films have joined Pablo Lamar’s Paraguayan socio-political drama project “Remanso” as co-producers.
The film will feature at the upcoming San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum. Produced by Gabriela Sabaté (“Paraguayan Hammock”) at Asunción-based Sabaté Films and Pablo Lamar at Sapukai Cine, the project’s broad co-production alliance also includes San Telmo Filmes in Brazil and Tarea Fina in Argentina.
Lamar won the Special Jury Award in the Tiger Competition at the 2016 Rotterdam Film Festival edition for his debut, “La última tierra.” Written by Sara Pinheiro and based on real-life events, “Remanso” takes place in Paraguay in the ’70s, during one of the most violent periods of Alfredo Stroessner’s dictatorship (1954–1989).
It follows Carmen, a woman who, upon moving to a new neighborhood, discovers the body of a dead girl in the nearby house of a colonel.
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