Las Acacias

Las Acacias (CAMERA d’OR 2011 CANNES) will be opening at QUADCINEMA (34 West 13th Street, NYC) on September 7th http://www.lasacaciasfilm.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-fK1fKMEA4

Plot outline

TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-fK1fKMEA4

Awards

WINNER
CAMERA d’OR
2011 CANNES

2012 Silver Condor Argentine Film Critics Association

Best Latin American film
2012 SAN SEBASTIAN

OFFICIAL SELECTION
2012 New Directors/ New Films
2011 Toronto Intl. Film Festival

Description

Giorgelli’s first feature is a gentle, absorbing road movie about Rubén (Germán de Silva), a middle-aged Argentine truck driver, who transports Jacinta (Hebe Duarte), a young Paraguayan woman, and her infant daughter from Asunción to Buenos Aires where Jacinta hopes to reunite with relatives and find work. Long divorced, Ruben’s a loner with a son he hasn’t seen in years. Jacinta’s a single mother whose daughter, Anahi, as far as she’s concerned, “doesn’t have a father.” Over the course of their journey, Rubén begins to glimpse the possibility of a new life opening up before him. The characters are shy and not given to displays of feeling; the narrative moves at a calm, meditative pace without sudden reversals or dramatic revelations—simply the gradual stirring of long-suppressed hopes and desires. Thoroughly engaging and emotionally accessible from start to finish, this award-winning debut is testimony to Giorgelli’s quiet brilliance as a director and the faith he places in his marvelous actors.