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Landscape

Leandro and Eugenia, 8 months pregnant, return from their family vacation impulsively. On the way, their car fails and they are stranded in the middle of the mountain. The cold, the near night and Eugenia's contractions push them to seek help and shelter. Decision that does not seems to be lucky.

  • Matías Rojo
    Director
  • Longo
    Writer
  • Sergio Mazza
    Producer
  • Paula Mastellone
    Producer
  • Miguel Mazza
    Producer
  • Juan Luppi
    Key Cast
  • Ailín Salas
    Key Cast
  • Dady Brieva
    Key Cast
  • María Ucedo
    Key Cast
  • Máximo Becci
    Cinematography
  • Maxi Gorriti
    Sound
  • Sofía Merle
    Editing
  • Nicolás Moro
    Music
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Paisaje
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 33 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:85
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • commercial release in theaters

    Argentina
    February 15, 2024
    World Premiere
  • Ischia IFF
    Ischia
    Italy
    June 26, 2024
    International Premiere
    Confini Competition
Distribution Information
  • Punctum Sales
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Matías Rojo

Matías Rojo (1980, Mendoza) is a film director and screenwriter who also has a Masters degree in Sociology. Wrote and directed his first feature film, "Some Days Without Music", selected by festivals such as Mar del Plata IFF, Huelva, Havana, Gramado, Münich and Fribourg. Won First-Film Prize at Puerto Madryn's MAFICI festival, and Rojo was named among the Young Filmmakers of Latin America by Sundance Channel. "Landscape" is his second feature. He also directed ads and the film series Mamut (2017) and Mudanza (2019).

FILMOGRAPHY (only features)
2013 - Algunos días sin música - 78'
2024 - Paisaje - 93'

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Director Statement

This film is directly related with my initiation into fatherhood. We as men know very little on the matter; at most, we participate in some other masculinity rites, but the place we are destined for during breeding is for us a mystery.
The film explores that passage, on a tone closer to the nightmares of uncertainty than to sentimentalism; with plenty of questions and no precision whatsoever. That moment of birth and transformation conveys the fragility of Life and the stalking of Death. Identity is put into crisis: Leandro is still a son trapped in a tense relationship with his own father, taking erratic decisions from a place of impotence. All the while, Eugenia is fighting to be herself in a context of control and mandates, finding in her own vulnerability the power to face her fears. They're lost, with the landscape as a matte painting. In places at first sight full of beauty, but which can also turn into hostile terrain.
I believe that cinema is the only way to face this ever-changing emotions. It gives me permission to travel through genres as textures and ample borders of fiction; to reflect from the charaters' privacy, with ambiguities, contradictions, honesty. I make movies to understand who I am, what is happening to me, turn chaos into some kind of order; and I hope that "Landscape" can connect with those questions we make to ourselves from the uncertainty of staying along the arrival of a new child.