Russia-set documentary “Tolyatti Adrift,” which premieres in competition at the Malaga Festival, has debuted its trailer with Variety. The first feature-length work by Spanish director Laura Sisteró is being sold internationally by Prague-based Filmotor (excluding Spain and France).
“Tolyatti Adrift” examines life in the Russian city of Tolyatti, once the symbol of socialist pride and home of the famed Lada automobile (currently manufactured by Renault-owned AvtoVAZ), but now known as Russia’s Detroit. Sisteró explores the lives of three teenagers, Slava, Misha and Lera, as they struggle to survive in the city while facing the challenges of adulthood and the prospects of a dystopian future.
In this desperate atmosphere, a movement known as Boyevaya Klassika arises, bringing together young people who rescue the old iconic Lada cars from the local factory and turn them into an expression of high-octane rebellion.
While the invasion of Ukraine has complicated its release in Russia,...
“Tolyatti Adrift” examines life in the Russian city of Tolyatti, once the symbol of socialist pride and home of the famed Lada automobile (currently manufactured by Renault-owned AvtoVAZ), but now known as Russia’s Detroit. Sisteró explores the lives of three teenagers, Slava, Misha and Lera, as they struggle to survive in the city while facing the challenges of adulthood and the prospects of a dystopian future.
In this desperate atmosphere, a movement known as Boyevaya Klassika arises, bringing together young people who rescue the old iconic Lada cars from the local factory and turn them into an expression of high-octane rebellion.
While the invasion of Ukraine has complicated its release in Russia,...
- 3/17/2022
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based Les Films d’Ici, producer of Denis Do’s “Funan,” has teamed with Barcelona-based Boogaloo Films, whose credits include Miguel Ángel Blanca’s “Magaluf Ghost Town,” to co-produce documentary feature “Tolyatti Adrift.”
Directed by Laura Sisteró – an on-the-rise Catalan talent – “Tolyatti Adrift” is being presented at the Wip’s showcase of this week’s Malaga Festival Spanish Screenings.
The film depicts a collection of young characters desperately searching for first opportunities and life dreams in an emblematic setting: the old Russian city of Tolyatti, formerly a symbol of progress and source of Soviet pride due to its car industry (the legendary Lada). It’s now the poorest city in Russia.
“I felt shocked by the images’ energy and aesthetic power. I couldn’t help but wonder what a young Spanish woman looked for in these car stories, in the depths of Russia,” Valérianne Boué at Les Films d’Ici said to Variety,...
Directed by Laura Sisteró – an on-the-rise Catalan talent – “Tolyatti Adrift” is being presented at the Wip’s showcase of this week’s Malaga Festival Spanish Screenings.
The film depicts a collection of young characters desperately searching for first opportunities and life dreams in an emblematic setting: the old Russian city of Tolyatti, formerly a symbol of progress and source of Soviet pride due to its car industry (the legendary Lada). It’s now the poorest city in Russia.
“I felt shocked by the images’ energy and aesthetic power. I couldn’t help but wonder what a young Spanish woman looked for in these car stories, in the depths of Russia,” Valérianne Boué at Les Films d’Ici said to Variety,...
- 10/20/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Britain’s Taskovski Films has taken international rights to Miguel Ángel Blanca’s “Magaluf Ghost Town,” an auteurist documentary delving into the disorders that touristic excesses have generated in the erstwhile idyllic location of Magaluf in the Balearic islands.
Produced by Barcelona’s Boogaloo Films, “Magaluf Ghost Town” is a portrait of a people who “no longer own their destiny,” in the director’s words, during the high tourist season as well as the low season.
“‘Magaluf Ghost Town’ captivated us from minute one. Its setting, darkness, energy, and characters take us to the phenomenon of mass tourism that we were familiar with, but which Miguel Ángel Blanca depicts in a unique and risky way, with a singular language,” said Marina Díaz-Cabrera, acquisitions manager at Taskovski.
She added: “We live in times when tourism is almost non-existent and cities like Magaluf will have felt ‘relief’ because of the pandemic, but...
Produced by Barcelona’s Boogaloo Films, “Magaluf Ghost Town” is a portrait of a people who “no longer own their destiny,” in the director’s words, during the high tourist season as well as the low season.
“‘Magaluf Ghost Town’ captivated us from minute one. Its setting, darkness, energy, and characters take us to the phenomenon of mass tourism that we were familiar with, but which Miguel Ángel Blanca depicts in a unique and risky way, with a singular language,” said Marina Díaz-Cabrera, acquisitions manager at Taskovski.
She added: “We live in times when tourism is almost non-existent and cities like Magaluf will have felt ‘relief’ because of the pandemic, but...
- 3/4/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Colombia’s Black Factory Cinema and Brazil’s Machado Filmes are set to co-produce “Estela,” a tale of two women’s building, across-the-tracks friendship, lead-produced by Bernat Manzano’s Boogaloo Films, one of Barcelona’s up-and-coming movie production houses.
Boogaloo’s most recent credits include “Hayati: My Life,” produced with “Waltz with Bashir’s” Les Films d’Ici in Paris, which world premiered at this year’s Malaga Festival.
Directed by Colombian Liliana Díaz Castillo, owner of Black Factory, “Estela” was one highlight of last week’s Small is Biutiful forum in Paris, where it was pitched by Díaz Castillo and Manzano to French distributors and sales agents.
Written by Díaz Castillo, the novelty of “Estela” resides in its story of the building friendship and solidarity between Estela, a 38-year-old Colombian immigrant and Monserrat, once a Republican in Spain’s Civil War, now an old and frail widow. When Monserrat...
Boogaloo’s most recent credits include “Hayati: My Life,” produced with “Waltz with Bashir’s” Les Films d’Ici in Paris, which world premiered at this year’s Malaga Festival.
Directed by Colombian Liliana Díaz Castillo, owner of Black Factory, “Estela” was one highlight of last week’s Small is Biutiful forum in Paris, where it was pitched by Díaz Castillo and Manzano to French distributors and sales agents.
Written by Díaz Castillo, the novelty of “Estela” resides in its story of the building friendship and solidarity between Estela, a 38-year-old Colombian immigrant and Monserrat, once a Republican in Spain’s Civil War, now an old and frail widow. When Monserrat...
- 7/3/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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