World premiere

98 Seconds Without Shadow

Local title
98 sekundit ilma varjuta
Original title
98 Segundos Sin Sombra
Director
Juan Pablo Richter
Country
Bolivia, France
Year
2021
Programme
Youth Competition
Genre
drama
Subject
friendship, first love, soul-searching

Genoveva, 16, lives in a small Bolivian shithole of a town in the 80´s. Her obsession is time. For how long it takes an ant to cross a leaf from one side to the other or the time it takes for a glass of water to fill. In the loneliness of her adolescent days, her adolescent hours, her adolescent minutes, Geno tries to survive the nuns at school, her hostile classmates, her hopeless parents, and men with guns. “What rules “The Shithole” are the drugs and the mediocrity”, she repeats constantly. Everything is registered in her diary and in her memory until she meets Hernán, her mother´s spiritual leader, a young foreigner who has recently arrived in town. For Geno, it is something that leaves her breathless, shakes her, steals her thoughts and gives her pleasure; but not like the pleasure of spending her afternoons with her ailing but bewitching grandmother, Clara Luz, or that of changing the diapers of her cherished baby brother Nacho, but rather like something she had never felt or imagined before in her life. In the 473,040,000 seconds that had elapsed since the day she was born: Love?

Director
Juan Pablo Richter
Screenwriter
Juan Pablo Richter, Giovanna Rivero
Cast
Iran Zeitun, Géraldine Chaplin, Quim del Rio, Nakai Mirtenbaum, Patricia García
Producer
Paola Gosalvez
DoP
Luis Otero
Art director
Camilo Barreto
Editor
Eliane Katz
Composer
Gabriel Lema
Production
Pucara Films
Distributor
Pucara Films
World sales
Pucara Films
Runtime
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
Estonian, English
Director
Juan Pablo Richter

Sündinud 9. veebruaril 1982. aastal Boliivias Trinidadis. Juan Pablo Richter on lavastanud rohkem kui 10 lühifilmi ja töötanud veel 25 lühifilmi kallal kinematografisti, produtsendi, stsenaristi ja toimetajana. Ta lavastas lühifilmi "Viimane samm" ("El último paso"/"The Last Step", 2012), mis valiti 2013. aasta Cannes'i filmifestivali Lühifilmide Nurka (Short Film Corner) ja võitis parima Boliivia lühifilmi auhinna Fenavidi rahvusvahelisel filmifestivalil Santa Cruzis, Boliivias. "Viimane samm" võitis ka teise koha auhinna parimate lühifilmide seas Eduardo Abaroa auhinnajagamisel (Eduardo Abaroa Plurinational Award) Cochabambas Boliivias ja parima kinematograafia auhinna kolmandal rahvusvahelisel lühifilmide nädalal Cochabambas Boliivias. Tema esimene mängufilm "Casting" (2010) oli Argentinas toimuva rahvusvahelise filmifestivali Buenos Aires Red Blood (Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre) ametlikus valikus.

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Screenings

2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening031102 / 98 sekundit ilma varjuta
SubtitlesEstonian
Q&A guestsPaola Gosalvez - Producer, Juan Pablo Richter Paz - Director
Screening duration
3rd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening071203 / 98 sekundit ilma varjuta
SubtitlesEstonian
Q&A guestsPaola Gosalvez - Producer, Juan Pablo Richter Paz - Director
Screening duration
3rd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening101203 / 98 sekundit ilma varjuta
SubtitlesEstonian
Screening duration
3rd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening121205 / 98 sekundit ilma varjuta
SubtitlesEstonian
Screening duration
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