''Fausto'' is a Canadian docufiction film, directed by

Andrea Bussmann Andrea Bussmann (born 1980) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter, most noted for her 2018 film '' Fausto''. The film was longlisted for the Directors Guild of Canada's Discovery Award in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Cr ...

and released in 2018. Set in Oaxaca, Mexico, the film blurs the lines between reality and fantasy by exploring the community's mythologies and folklore.Peter Goldberg
"Review: In Andrea Bussmann’s Fausto, Seeing Is a Matter of Supreme Knowing"
''Slant'', April 3, 2019. The film was shot on video, and then transferred to 16mm film. The film premiered at the 2018

Locarno Film Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, s ...

, where it received an honourable mention from the Filmmakers of the Present competition jury. It had its Canadian premiere in the Wavelengths program at the

2018 Toronto International Film Festival The 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6 to 16, 2018. In June 2018, the TIFF organizers announced a program to ensure that at least 20 percent of all film critics and journalists given press accreditation to ...

Critical response

Peter Goldberg of ''Slant'' gave the film a three-star rating, writing that "''Fausto'' abounds with piecemeal stories from locals and fantastic characters that evoke the writings of Borges and Bruno Schulz. These fragments of narration resist the devilish drive to see everything, to encompass everything with understanding. The partial and the limited are championed over the continuous and completed—a short circuit in the desire to continue the story to infinity. For '' Now'', Kevin Ritchie rated the film three N's, writing that "Bussmann’s camera frequently lingers on swaths of black night and shadow as if more interested in negative space than conventional action. The storytellers aren’t always as captivating as the filmmaker’s eye, but this version of Faust is also at the nexus of a lot self-relfection and questioning happening more broadly in cinema right now."

Awards

The film won the Directors Guild of Canada's

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in 2018. It was shortlisted for the Vancouver Film Critics Circle's award for Best Canadian Film, and Bussmann was shortlisted for Best Director of a Canadian Film, at the

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2018 The nominations for the 19th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2018, were announced on December 12, 2018. ''The Favourite'' led with six nominations. The winners were announced on December 17, 2018. ''Roma'' w ...

.Etan Vlessing
"'The Favourite' Leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards Nominations"
'' The Hollywood Reporter'', December 14, 2018.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 8794944 2018 films Canadian docufiction films Films shot in Mexico Films set in Mexico Ethnofiction films Films directed by Andrea Bussmann 2010s Canadian films