The New Day

director: Gustavo Fontán

original title: El día nuevo

year: 2016

running time: 62 min.

synopsis

A mixture of documentary and fiction as seen through the eyes of a non-participant observer, this drama presents the life of the fisherman Maldonado. After his wife Celia leaves him, we watch his lonely life in a series of cyclical everyday activities as we listen to Celia’s voiceover. Although it tends to repeat itself, it reveals something new every day. We always observe a different part of the daily work of a fisherman, or see it from a different angle. This sense of conflict is heightened by contradictory motifs on-screen and in the voiceover. Words clash with images, the everyday with the extraordinary, space with time.

“Maldonado is a fisherman of the Paraná River. Modern times leave him on a threshold: a way of inhabiting that no longer finds its possibilities. That frailty that cracks into his world is what we intent to film.”

biography

Argentinian film and theater director, author, and screenwriter Gustavo Fontán (1960) likes to mix fiction with reality and film with literature. He wrote and directed The Face (2013), which won a BAFICI Award for best director. His most recent film is The Royal Lemon Tree (2016). In addition to making movies, he also teaches. He is a laureate of the Premio Konex award for his contribution to the field of documentary film.

more about film

director:	Gustavo Fontán
cast:	Héctor Maldonado, David Leonardo Palacio
producer:	Gustavo Schiaffino
script:	Gustavo Fontán
photography:	Luís Cámara
editing:	Mario Bocchicchio
sound:	Lucho Corti

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