Closing Night: La Contadora de Películas

The Movie Teller

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The 1960s. María Margarita is the youngest of four siblings from a family living in a mining town in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Their most special time of the week is Sunday, when they all go to the cinema to enjoy stories that transport them to other worlds. The girl's parents soon realise that the young girl has a very special gift, an almost uncanny ability to retell films. The girl's extraordinary talent will spread throughout the village, changing the fate of her family at the same time that the country is being transformed forever. With standout performances from Academy Award® nominee Bérénice Bejo, BAFTA nominee Daniel Brühl, and multiple-time Goya Award winner Antonio de la Torre, The Movie Teller is a celebration of our capacity to defy even the harshest circumstances, to find love, community, inspiration, and hope where there seems to be none.

DIRECTOR(S)Lone Scherfig

DIRECTOR(S) BIOGRAPHYBorn in 1959 in Copenhagen, Danish film director Lone Scherfig graduated from The National Film School of Denmark in 1984. Her feature directorial debut was “The Birthday Trip” (1990). In 2000, Scherfig made her international breakthrough with the romantic comedy “Italian for Beginners” (2000). Scherfig followed up with her first English-language film, “Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself” (2002). She went on to direct “An Education” (2009), based on a screenplay by Nick Hornby and starring Cary Mulligan. The film received a nomination for British Film of the Year from the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, as well as three Academy Award nominations in 2010. Since then, she has directed the romantic drama “One Day” (2011) starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, the drama “The Riot Club” (2014), the World War II-set dramedy “Their Finest” (2017), and “The Kindness of Strangers” (2019) starring Zoe Cazan and Bill Nighy.

Competition award winners will be announced before the screening!