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Iceberg (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min + 300 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Alternative Footage
Anamorphic Widescreen
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Gabriel Velázquez

Written By:
Gabriel Velázquez
Blanca Torres

Actors:
Víctor García ..... Jota
Carolina Morocho ..... Rebeca
Jesús Nieto ..... Mauri
Juanma Sevillano ..... Simón

Synopsis:

Mauri (Jesus Nieto) is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed his parents; he now wanders disconsolately along the wintry riverbanks where the accident occurred. A German Shepherd sniffing along the wreckage swallows a ring belonging to one of Mauri's parents and runs away, and Mauri's struggle to recover the ring structures and gives meaning to his existence from that point on. Rebeca (Carolina Morocho, a compelling presence) is a quiet, shy student at a girls' boarding school who sneaks out one night to go to a disco. Awakening by the river the following morning, she finds blood on her inner thigh and weirdly starts to think she's pregnant. Simon (Juanma Sevillano) and Jota (a vibrant Victor Garcia), also playing hooky, are living out a teen fantasy of freedom in an abandoned boathouse, catching fish to eat and being generally destructive. A somewhat unlikely twist brings all three strands together.

The weirdly dislocated lives of four troubled teens are the focus of Gabriel Velazquez's challenging but extremely rewarding 'Iceberg.' Set mostly on the river that runs through the helmer's hometown of Salamanca, Spain, this minimalist yet moving film sees Velazquez allying himself with such experimentalists of Spanish cinema as Jaime Rosales and Jose Maria de Orbe, evoking with memorable power and compassion the enormous trauma that hides beneath the surface of his young protag's lives. 'Iceberg' has made a decent showing at Euro fests, its distinctiveness and formal bravery suggesting that further collisions with festivals are likely.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 31 May, 2013.