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HE HATED PIGEONS

By Ingrid VENINGER

Road movie - Completed 2015

A slow-burning odyssey about love and loss featuring newcomer Pedro Fontaine in the title role of Elias, a young man who travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit, and to fulfill the wish of his mysteriously deceased lover.

Festivals
& Awards

St. John's Intl Women's Film Festival 2015

Whistler Film Festival 2015

Jury Award BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Montreal LGBTQ Image+Nation Film Festival 2016

Special Jury Citation - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Rotterdam IFFR 2016

Visions Programme

FemCine Santiago Film Festival 2016

Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2016

2016

RiverRun Film Festival 2016

2016

Nashville Film Festival 2016

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- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Road movie, Romance, LGBT
- Countries
- CANADA, CHILE
- Languages
- ENGLISH, SPANISH
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Ingrid VENINGER
- Writer(s)
- Ingrid VENINGER
- Cast
- Pedro FONTAINE, Cristobal TAPIA MONTT
- Producer(s)
- Ingrid VENINGER (PUNK FILMS INC.)
- Synopsis
- Every screening of HE HATED PIGEONS is presented with a uniquely improvised, ever-changing live score. Linked with the uncertainty of the protagonist’s journey, the audience is part of something which has its own intrinsic impermanence.
  
  “A one-off bespoke experience which blends cinema and performance.” Wendy Ide, Screen International at IFFR
  
  Simplicity is what yields complexity. Nowhere in recent memory is this more apparent than in the dazzling and heartbreaking He Hated Pigeons. Greg Klymkiw, The Film Corner
  
  “This film is a remarkable experience not soon forgotten.” Jason Gorber, Twitch Film

HE HATED PIGEONS

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