10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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Mariano Nante | Argentina, Belgium | 2015 | Documentary | color | DCP | 90 min | Spanish, English, French | e.s.
“You don’t just suddenly decide to be a pianist. Just like you don’t suddenly decide to be human.” At 14-year-old Natasha Lechner’s kitchen table the conversation rarely strays from the topic of music. She is the scion of a famed Argentinian family of pianists – the success started with her great-grandparents – and so expectations are high for ‘the next big thing in the Rue Bosquet’. Natasha’s teacher, mentor and advisor is her mother Karin Lechner who also broke through at an early age.
In his first long documentary, filmmaker Mariano Nante shows viewers an exceptional concert played together by various members of the family, but at the core of the film are the many intimate conversations between mother and daughter. Before, after and during the innumerable practice sessions they discuss what it’s like being famous so young, the importance of originality and – above all – what it means to be a pianist.
Place: CINEMA 6
Date: 6 April 2017
Time: 16:45
Duration: 1:05
Place: CINEMA 6
Date: 7 April 2017
Time: 22:15
Duration: 1:12
Place: CINEMA 6
Date: 8 April 2017
Time: 13:30
Duration: 1:10
Year in
Festival
2017
Director
Mariano Nante
Camera
Juan Aguirre
Country
Argentina
Belgium
Editor
Alejo Santos
Language
Spanish
English
French
Length
90 min
Music
Martha Argerich
Natasha Binder
Alan Kwiek
Karin Lechner
Sergio Tiempo
Producer
Mariano Nante
Sandra de la Fuente
Daniel Rosenfeld
Gaspar Scheuer
Luciana Corti
Production Company
Daniel Rosenfeld Films
Sales
Daniel Rosenfeld Films
Scenario
Sandra de la Fuente
Mariano Nante
Sound Design
Gaspar Scheuer
Year of Production
2015
Website
Mariano NANTE (1988, Argentina) studied film directing at the Universidad del Cine and philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. His debut La calle de los pianistas/Pianists Street (2015) was awarded the prize for the best documentary by the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de la Argentina.
Filmography
Tortura (2009, short), La nieve y tantas cosas/The Snow and So Many Things (2009, short), Esquiva (2009, short), Pringles (2012, short), Exposición/Exhibition (2012, short) La calle de los pianistas/Pianists Street (2015, doc)