Francisco Marise
Directing
Biography
Francisco Marise (1985, Argentina). Is currently writing and developing CAMIONERO, his second feature film, which was awarded, among others, as the Best Project Award at the 10th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum at the 69th Donostia Zinemaldia San Sebastian International Film Festival (2021). He is the director, screenwriter, DoP, film editor and producer on PARA LA GUERRA (To War), his debut feature film, premiered at the 66th Donostia Zinemaldia San Sebastian International Film Festival (2018). He has a Master's Degree in Documentary Film from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (E.I.C.TV.), San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He also studied Image and Sound Design at the Universidad of Buenos Aires (U.B.A.), where he graduated in 2014. He has taught film and documentary classes, courses and workshops at LENS, Escuela de Artes Visuales and NIC, Instituto del Cine de Madrid. Among other filmmakers and artists, he has collaborated and worked with Matías Piñeiro, Sergio Oksman, Lois Patiño, José María Sicilia and Javier Rebollo.
Known For
During the summer holidays, a documentary-maker and his 12 year-old son stay at an abandoned hotel in Lisbon: an empty hotel like the one in the film The Shining.
A Scary Movie
This documentary explores the memory and loneliness of a former Cuban internationalist soldier by observing his body and his (extra)ordinary gestures. This is a war film with no shooting, but with a wound: that of this special forces veteran who tries to find the colleagues of his commando who survived their last mission 30 years ago.
To War
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Tres cruces
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Camionero
In the torpor of a summer afternoon crushed by sunlight, falsely deserted spaces are revealed. From one close-up to the next, these sketches seem to haunt the city as much as to inhabit the dreams of the character who lives at the heart of the film: Mr. Tang, in his small neighborhood shop.
A Suburban Mythology
A group of friends, the windows of buildings at night, Chacarita's cemetery, a road trip and tree tops are mixed together with sleepless city lights.
Amancay
In an island on the south of Spain, a lone man collects olives from a landscape made of water and dry branches.