DOS OTOÑOS EN PARIS

TWO AUTUMNS IN PARIS

By Gibelys CORONADO

CNAC - CENTRO NACIONAL AUTONOMO DE CINEMATOGRAFIA - as SALES / DISTR

First film - Completed 2019

A young political refugee escapes to Paris, persecuted by the Paraguayan dictatorship; she falls in love with a young law student, but must decide her future, without forgetting her struggle for freedom.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2019
New Delhi Film Festival 2019
Official Nomination Feature Film
Festival de Cine de Bogota (Bogocine36) 2019
Selección Oficial
Festival de Cine de Derechos Humanos: Miradas Diversas 2019
Selección Oficial
Mediteranean Film Festival Cannes 2020
Best Feature, Best Director, Best Actress
Providence Latin American Film Festival 2020
Selección Oficial
Toronto Latin American Film Festival 2020
Selección Oficial
Festival de Cine Global Dominicano 2020
Selección Oficial
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • VENEZUELA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH-VENEZUELAN, FRENCH, GUARANI
    • Duration
    • 103 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Gibelys CORONADO
    • Writer(s)
    • Gustavo MICHELENA, Francisco VILLARROEL
    • Producer(s)
    • Francisco VILLARROEL (MOB Producciones), Marcos DE ARMAS (MOB Producciones), Ruben FONSECA (MOB Producciones), Alejandro LEON (MOB Producciones)
    • Synopsis
    • “Dos otoños en Paris” tells the love story of Maria Teresa and Antonio when they were young. Many years later the love story happen, it's autumn and Antonio arrived in Paris, at this moment he faces the memories of an unforgettable love that scared him forever and changed the course of his life. He arrived in Paris invited to give a conference about human rights and in the journey that leads from the airport to the event hall, reconstructs moment to moment, the history of love that he lived when he was young with the beautiful Maria Teresa, young Paraguayan, refugee politician who escaped from her country to save herself from the criminal repression of the dictatorship of the bloodthirsty general Alfredo Stroessner. In Paraguay, Maria Teresa was a member of a university student political group, opposed to the dictatorship, whose leader was her boyfriend Ramon. One night, when they were involved in a clandestine activity, they were detained by the regime's military police and locked in a prison. Maria Teresa and Antonio fell in love and even get the idea of having a child, but at the time of greater commitment and dedication, the past becomes present changing all. They decided to live together, and Antonio changed his way to see everything, María Teresa transformed him, but at the end, she has to decide between her present love and her past.