
© Marina Palacio





AZOR
a feature film by Andreas Fontana, 2021, 100', DCP color
With Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, Elli Medeiros, Juan Trench, Pablo Torre Nilson, Gilles Privat, Juan Pablo Gerreto, Alexandre Trocki
Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to an Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.
FESTIVALS:
WORLD PREMIERE AT BERLINALE - Encounters Competition
Selection Films After Tomorrow - Locarno Festival 2020
New Directors / New Films Festival, Lincoln Center New York
Moscow IFF
Midnight sun FF (Finlande)
Melbourne IFF
Taipei FF
Jerusalem FF
Tofifest FF (Pologne)
BFI London FF
Zurich FF
San Sebastian film festival - Horizontes Latinos
Athens FF
BRIFF - Bruxelles IFF
RIFF - Reykjavík FF
Vancouver FF
Bogota IFF
Cinecitta IFF - Tilburg
WaHFF - Waterloo Historical FF
EUROCINE (Équateur)
Stockholm IFF
Ljubljana IFF
Panorama du cinéma Européen du Caire
Gijón film festival
Cineuropa Santiago de Compostela
Mar del Plata film festival - Argentina
Márgenes Cine - Madrid
Leeds International Film Festival
Mostra Internacional del Cinema de Sao Paulo
FIC Gáldar - Best actor Prize for Fabrizio Rongione
Festival FILMAR - Genève
Festival del Uruguay - Montevideo

© Marina Palacio
Andreas Fontana was born in Geneva in 1982. After completing his MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva, he moved to Buenos Aires where he trained as production assistant. In 2010 he graduated with a MA in film production from the ECAL in Lausanne and the HEAD in Geneva. His first short film COTONOV VANISHED (2009) won the First Steps prize at Vision du Réel in Nyon in 2010. It also won the the prize of the best short film at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence in 2010. His last movie, PEDRO M, 1981, has been nominated for the Swiss Film Award 2016 in the short films cathegory.
On January 2016, Andreas Fontana and Zahra Vargas have been received the Upcoming Lab Prize (Soleure) with a new documentary project, NOTHINGWOOD. He has worked as a production assistant for Jean-Stéphane Bron, Ingrid Wildi, David Maye and Mathias Staub.
He also worked as a script writer for Zahra Vargas (La Fin d’Homère, selected in Berlin and Clermont Fer- rand 2016) and Maryam Goormaghtigh(Vol au Panthéon, 2011). He is actually living and working in Geneva.
From 2017, he’s teaching at the High School of Photography in Vevey, CH.
Bourse SSA 2016 for first feature-length feature film
Bourse MIGROS 2016 for Film Idea
Selected at Forum International de coproduction Europe-Latin America of Festival de San Sebastian 2016
Producers Pooling Programm (PPP), organized by Focal
With the support of Office Fédéral de la Culture, the participation of Cinéforom, and the support of Loterie Romande, Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), INCAA, Suissimage, Media Desk Suisse, Fonction: cinéma.
DISTRIBUTION
Switzerland: Xenix Filmdistribution
UK / USA: MUBI
Italy, Turkey and India: MUBI
Spain: Vitrine Filmes
Portugal: Legendmain Filmes
Greece: Cinobo
Russia, Georgia (CIS): Capella Film
China: Huanxi Media Group
Brazil: Vitrine Filmes
HBO Eastern Europe
Mexico: Septimo distribución
Production: Alina film (Switzerland)
In co-production with Ruda cine (Argentina), Local Films (France), and Radio Télévision Suisse RTS.
International sales: Be for Films
Script and direction: Andreas Fontana
Written in collaboration with: Mariano Llinas
Producers: Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney
Co-producers: Nicolas Brevière, Violeta Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero
Director of photography Gabriel Sandru
Casting: Maria Laura Berch, Alexandre Nazarian
Unit production manager: Mónica Pérez
Unit Manager: Simone Bosshart
Sound: Xavier Lavorel
Art director: Ana Cambre
1st assistant director: Marcello Pozzo
Consigliere: Gabriel Azorín
Costumes: Simona Martínez
Hair and Make up: Katrine Zingg
Gaffer: Fafa Fierz
Key Grip: Peti Donato
Editing: Nicolas Desmaison
Original score: Paul Courlet
Sound edit and mix: Etienne Curchod
Colorgrading: Jürgen Kupka
PRESS
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Golden globes
The New York Times - 09/09/21
The New York Times - 10/09/21
INTERVIEWS
Vertigo
