Gastón Solnicki (born 1978) is an Argentine film director. Coming from an immigrant Jewish family, he studied photography at

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, as well as film directing at

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in New York.Bérénice Reynaud,
Vancouver 2016: The Daughters Generation
" '' Senses of Cinema'' (82), March 2017. His first short was ''Liliana.Rebecca'' (2007), a short film made with only two actors. He later made the documentaries ''Süden'' (2008) and ''Papirosen'' (2011), both of which were critically acclaimed. His real breakthrough, however, came with '' Kékszakállú'' (2016), his first narrative feature, which depicted the coming-of-age of a circle of adolescent girls in Buenos Aires. The film was screened in the

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section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, yet did not win any awards. It was later shown at festivals in

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, New York,

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and

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.Carmen Gray,
International Film Festival Rotterdam: Bread and Mirrors
" ''Senses of Cinema'', March 2017. : Daniel Walber,
Bluebeard Revisited: Gastón Solnicki’s ''Kékszakállú''
" ''

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'', 1 November 2016. : Jonathan Murray,
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Web Exclusive)
" '' Cineaste'' XLII, no. 2 (2017).

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Gastón Solnicki
at cinenational.com 1978 births Argentine film directors Living people People from Buenos Aires {{Argentina-film-director-stub