![](/media/filmstills/2021/encounters-2021/202102062_1_RWD_1380.jpg)
Fabrizio Rongione, Juan Trench, Stéphanie Cléau
Azor by Andreas Fontana
CHE, FRA, ARG 2021, Encounters
![](/media/filmstills/2021/encounters-2021/202102062_2_RWD_1380.jpg)
Stéphanie Cléau, Ioana Padilla, Carmen Iriondo, Fabrizio Rongione, Raúl Lissarrague
Azor by Andreas Fontana
CHE, FRA, ARG 2021, Encounters
![](/media/filmstills/2021/encounters-2021/202102062_3_RWD_1380.jpg)
Juan Pablo Geretto, Fabrizio Rongione
Azor by Andreas Fontana
CHE, FRA, ARG 2021, Encounters
![](/media/filmstills/2021/encounters-2021/202102062_4_RWD_1380.jpg)
Fabrizio Rongione
Azor by Andreas Fontana
CHE, FRA, ARG 2021, Encounters
![](/media/filmstills/2021/encounters-2021/202102062_5_RWD_1380.jpg)
Marcelo Fernández Mouján, Fabrizio Rongione, Claudio Deschamps
Azor by Andreas Fontana
CHE, FRA, ARG 2021, Encounters
Fontana’s feature debut, which boasts Mariano Llinás as co-writer and a wonderfully balanced cast, is a glacial collection of ghosts devoted to greed, and a moral investigation into the wrong side of history.
With
- Fabrizio Rongione (Yvan De Wiel)
- Stéphanie Cléau (Inés De Wiel)
- Carmen Iriondo (Mrs Lacrosteguy)
- Juan Trench (Augusto Padel-Camon)
- Ignacio Vila (Farrell)
- Pablo Torre (Tatoski)
- Elli Medeiros (Magdalena Padel-Camon)
- Gilles Privat (Decôme)
- Alexandre Trocki (Frydmer)
- Augustina Muñoz (Leopolda)
- Yvain Julliard (Guy Lombier)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Andreas Fontana |
Cinematography | Gabriel Sandru |
Editing | Nicolas Desmaison |
Music | Paul Courlet |
Sound Design | Etienne Curchod |
Sound | Xavier Lavorel |
Production Design | Ana Cambre |
Costumes | Simona Martínez |
Make-Up | Katrine Zingg |
Casting | Maria Laura Berch, Alexandre Nazarian |
Assistant Directors | Marcello Pozzo, Gabriel Azorín |
Production Managers | Simone Bosshart, Mónica Pérez |
Producers | Eugenia Mumenthaler, David Epiney |
Co-Producers | Nicolas Brevière, Violeta Bava, Rosa Martínez Rivero, Françoise Mayor, Izabela Rieben |
Co-Production |
Local Films Paris Ruda Cine Buenos Aires Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) Genf |
World sales
Be For Films
Produced by
Alina film
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_0565_RWD_1380.jpg)
Andreas Fontana
The director shortly before his premiere.
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_0451-2_RWD_1380.jpg)
The film team
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_0331_RWD_1380.jpg)
Sergio Fant, Carlo Chatrian, Mark Peranson
The two programmers with the Artistic Director in their midst are looking ahead to the premiere.
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_0525_RWD_1380.jpg)
Film team with skyline
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_0532_RWD_1380.jpg)
Well aligned: director Andreas Fontana (middle) and his team
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_1095_RWD_1380.jpg)
Andreas Fontana
The director and his audience.
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_1223_RWD_1380.jpg)
Andreas Fontana
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_1142_RWD_1380.jpg)
Carlo Chatrian, Andreas Fontana, Sergio Fant
The Artistic Director, the film's director and the programmer at the film talk before the premiere.
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
![](/media/bilder/2021/foto-boulevard-2021/10062021/100621_dd_1408_RWD_1380.jpg)
The film starts
Azor · Encounters · ARTE Sommerkino Kulturforum · Jun 10, 2021
Andreas Fontana
![](/external/programme/image_person/3351_35674.jpg)
Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1982, he studied comparative literature at the city’s university and then moved to Buenos Aires to work as a production assistant. He attended the ECAL in Lausanne and the HEAD in Geneva and graduated with an MA in film production in 2010. His first short film, Cotonov Vanished, won a prize at Visions du Réel while Pedro M, 1981 was nominated for the Swiss Film Award. He has worked as a production assistant for Jean-Stéphane Bron and Ingrid Wildi and has written screenplays for Zahra Vargas and Maryam Goormaghtigh.
Filmography
2008 Va le chanter a Gardel; short film 2009 Cotonov Vanished; short film 2011 Dans nos campagnes; documentary, co-directors: Marie-Eve Hildbrand, David Maye 2015 Pedro M, 1981; short film 2021 Azor
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2021