Alessandro Pugno
Directing
Biography
Alessandro Pugno (Italia, 1983) is a director, photographer and poet based in Spain. The highlight of his work is Under the Shadow of the Cross (2013, 28th Festival), a documentary about the child singer who, even now, live at the Valley of the Fallen, Francisco Franco’s old mausoleum. Human | Animal is his first fiction feature.
Known For
An Italian boy dreams of becoming a bullfighter. In the sunny Andalusian pasture, a calf is born destined to be a fighting bull. Humans and animals grow up in totally different worlds, but their lives reflect each other. Only in the end will they meet.
Animal | Human
Not far from Madrid there is the Valle de los Caidos, a memorial conceived by dictator Francisco Franco in the Fifties. This site is still today the symbol of an unresolved conflict within Spanish society. Under the cross lie 35,000 victims of the Spanish Civil War.
All'ombra della croce
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Jamón, a Story of Essence
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Donde sueñan las llamas
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