PARABELLUM · 2016. 1. 17. · Parabellum examines this transformation, looking to take the ideals and aspirations of a global culture to an extreme: a power that goes beyond any

a film by

LUKAS V. RINNER

PARABELLUM

NABIS FILMGROUP IN COPRODUCTION WITH UNIVERSIDAD DEL CINE, 2MCINE, CATNAP AND LA POBLADORA CINE PRESENT “PARABELLUM” STARRING PABLO SEIJO - EVA BIANCO - MARTIN SHANLY

WARDROBE ROMINA GUTIERREZ PRODUCTION DESIGN VALENTINA DARIOMERLO CINEMATOGRAPHY ROMAN KASSEROLLERMAKE-UP SOFÍA AIMAR SOUND DESIGN NAHUEL PALENQUE MUSIC DINO SPILUTTINI

ASIST.DIRECTOR LEANDRO KOCH EDITORS ANA GODOY - JAVIER FAVOT EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS LUKAS V. RINNER - ANA GODOY PROD. MANAGER AGUSTÍN IÑIGUEZ LOC.MANAGER NICOLÁS PAYUETA

COPRODUCERS JAVIER FAVOT - JUAN PABLO MARTÍNEZ - ALEX PIPERNO - GüNTHER RINNERSCREENPLAY LUKAS V. RINNER - ESTEBAN PRADO - ANA GODOY PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY LUKAS VALENTA RINNER

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Title: ParabellumGenre: Fiction

Shooting Format: RED 4KScreening Format: DCP

Duration: 77min.Countries: Argentina, Austria, Uruguay

A FILM BY LUKAS VALENTA RINNER

S I N O P S I S

Hernán, a middle-aged geologist working at a public investi-gation center, arrives with a group of strangers to an isolated hotel resort in the Delta area of Tigre, a labyrinth of small islands surrounded by streams and rivers. Amongst house-wives and professionals, Hernán is part of a middle-class community that has left their comfortable lives of suburban Buenos Aires. Together, they train, following strict guidelines for what seems to be the impending arrival of the end of the world.

D I R E C TO R ’ S N OT E

In the last few years, the unease over the forthcoming end of the world came to resonate progressively stronger in the media, perhaps as a result of the devastating effects of global contemporary capitalism, yet at the same time, as a new prod-uct of consumption.

Facing this situation, it is not hard to think that the aim of a community to reconnect with nature or to isolate themselves in the countryside to prepare for the end of the world, is also understood as a touristic alternative that allows a customer to escape from their demoralising routine in the city.

In Parabellum, a group of people consent to receive grueling survival training in the forest, as if it were an extreme sport whose core is danger. In this isolated context, violence takes on a natural functionality that allows for exploring the possi-bilities of man as a predator and to approach one’s attraction for danger without prejudice.

These characters can finally part from the humanist discourse and explore the limits that they themselves are capable of do-ing. Parabellum examines this transformation, looking to take the ideals and aspirations of a global culture to an extreme: a power that goes beyond any state authority and the absolute “freedom” of individuals.

Lukas Valenta Rinner (Salzburg, 1985) studied film direction at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. He directed the short film A Letter to Fukuyama which premiered in competition at Bafi-ci 2010 and Diagonale 2011. In 2012 he founded the Argentinian and Aus-trian based production company Nabis Filmgroup, striving to establish a link be-tween the two countries in order to produce and distribute Latin-american arthouse productions. The projects of Nabis have received the support of festivals and institutions such as the BAL, Berlinale Script station, San Sebastian, Typa, Iber-media, World Cineema Fund among others. Parabellum is his first feature film.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

CO M PA N Y P R O F I L E

Founded in the cities of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Salzburg, Austria, Nabis is a production company that specializes in art house films with a specific focus on Latin American productions.We produce directors’ films that reveal their own unique voice and closely follow the creative process of each film, starting from an initial idea to its interna-tional debut.

F I L M O G R A P H Y

Juana a los 12 (About Twelve)Feature Film 76min. (Director Martin Shanly)4K-Digital -Argentina/Austria- Competition MOSTRA Sao Paulo IFF, La Habana IFF, Sevilla IFF, BAFICI ´16- “Best Feature Film Argentina Prize” Festival La Plata- Work in Progress - Int. Film Festival de Mar del Plata 2013

You look like a carriage that not even the oxen can stopDocumentary (Director Nelson Carlo)HD 84 min Dominican Republic - USA - Argentina- Festival de Cine Global - Republica Dominicana 2012- Distrital Film Festival, Mexico City.- Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival. - Dominican Films Festival of New York City. - Bijou Fest, Los Angeles. - Somos Art House, Berlin. - Tropical Uncanny: Latin American Tropes and Mythologies -Guggenheim.

New York.

Parabellum Feature film 75 min. (Director Lukas V. Rinner)4K-Digital Argentina/Austria/Uruguay- Competition IFF Rotterdam 2015- Competition IFF Göteborg 2015- Work in Progress BAL BAFICI ‘16 - 2014 (FID Marseille Prize, Lahaye post Prize, Estudio Ñandu Prize)- Work in Progress FID Marseille - Work in Progress Unasur Cine

Cocote (in development)Feature film 95 min. (Director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Aries)- Funacion Carolina 2013- IBERMEDIA Development and production funding- Berlinale World Cinema Fund Production Funding 2014

Panambi (in development)Feature film 90 min. (Directors Verena Kuri, Laura Bierbrauer)- 1st Prize Raymundo Gleyzer - INCAA 2012

Window boy would also like to have a submarine (in development)Feature film110 min. (Director Alex Piperno)- Colon TYPA - Binger Price BAL BAFICI 2012- Hubert Bals Fund Development fund- Coproduction Forum Europe - South Ameria; San Sebastian IFF- Talent Campus - Script Station Berlinale 2013- BR LAB Mostra Sao Paulo 2014

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