| The Wild Years (70 min) Ethiopia/Spain |
[watch trailer] |
Saturday 10/25, 1:40 PM (Session 24)
Director: Ventura Durall
Producer: Ventura Durall, Marija Capek
Description:
In Addis Abeba, over 270,000 street kids live without their parents and almost forgotten by law and society. Daniel, a boy from the countryside, is nine years old when he arrives in the city. He meets Habtom and Yohannes, both aged twelve, who live in an abandoned car. They first don’t want to accept him in their group they eventually become friends. Together, they share the hard life in the city.
Biography:
Ventura Durall graduated from ESCAC Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya, with a major in script. His latest feature documentary is Wild Years. An established director and producer, Durall’s latest short film, The Hidden Smile, was in Official Selection at the Sundance Film Festival 2012 and has been awarded Best Short Film in more than fifteen international film festivals. In 2009, his feature length documentary The Forgiveness was selected in such festivals as IDFA, DOKLEIPZIG, THESSALONIKA or DOCSDF and awarded Best Documentary at the Belgrade International Documentary Festival, the Audience Award at the Mon-doc International Documentary Festival, and garnered recognition as the Silver Award Winner at World Media Festival. Fiction feature The Two Lives of Andrés Rabadán has won, among other laurels, the Best European Independent Film in 2009 at the ECU Festival in Paris, the Grand Jury Prize at the Annecy Spanish Cinema Biennal in 2010, three Gaudí Awards from the Catalan Film Academy in 2010, and screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Durall produced the above and other projects under the banner NANOUK FILMS, the production company he founded in 2000 with the intention of creating a benchmark artistic platform in the Catalan and European audiovisual scene and of establishing new communication channels between the documentary arena and fiction films. Durall also teaches at the Barcelona film school ESCAC where he is head of the documentary department.
Contact Information:
Taskovski Films
e: festivals@taskovskifilms.com
w: www.nanouk.tv/en/the-wild-years
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