''A Year Without Love'' ( es, Un año sin amor) is a 2005
Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
drama film directed by
Anahí Berneri
Anahí Berneri (born 1975) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. Her films have been shown at various film festivals around the world.
Selected filmography
Awards
* Teddy Award (2005)
* Silver Shell for Best Director (2017)
Referen ...
, and written by Berneri and Pablo Pérez, adapting Pérez's autobiographical novel of the same title.
The plot follows Pablo, a writer dealing with loneliness and
AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual m ...
. Yearning for love, he places ads in a gay magazine and finds himself involved in the secretive world of
Buenos Aires gay leather scene.
''A Year Without Love'' played the international and gay and lesbian
film festival circuits, garnering a number of awards including the
Teddy Bear prize for the Best Gay Film at the 2005
Berlin Film Festival
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.
Plot
Pablo is a struggling
poet who is living with
HIV in
Buenos Aires. Over the course of a year he deals with issues relating to his health, his family, his search for love and his developing involvement with
leather fetishism. The year culminates with the publication of his diary in the form of a novel, ''Un Año sin amor.''
Cast
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Juan Minujín
Juan Gervasio Minujín (born May 20, 1975) is an Argentine actor and film director. He is the nephew of plastic artist Marta Minujín.
Career
He trained as an actor with Cristina Banegas, Julio Chávez, Alberto Ure, Pompeyo Audivert and Guil ...
as Pablo Pérez
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Mimí Ardú
Mimí Ardú (born 28 February 1956, Río Cuarto, Cordoba) is an Argentinian actress and former vedette.
Career
At age 15, Ardú began receiving piano lessons from a piano teacher. That same year, she obtained her first job in the Entry In ...
as Pablo's aunt
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as Nicolás
* as Julia
* Javier Van de Couter as Martín
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Osmar Núñez as Commissar Báez
* Ricardo Merkin as Pablo's father
* as the book editor
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Mónica Cabrera
Mónica Cabrera (born 26 April 1958) is an Argentine director, playwright, and actress of film, television, and theater. Among other films, she has appeared in '' Son of the Bride'' (2001), '' Lost Embrace'' (2004), and ''El infinito sin estrella ...
as social worker
* Ricardo Moriello as Juan
* Juan Carlos Ricci as Dr. Rizzo
Awards
Wins
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Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy Award, Best Feature Film; 2005.
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Outfest: Grand Jury Award, Outstanding International Narrative Feature; 2005.
* New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: Best Foreign Narrative Feature; 2005.
Nominations
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Mar del Plata Film Festival
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:
FIPRESCI
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Prize, Anahi Berneri; Best film; 2005.
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Argentine Film Critics Association Awards
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: Silver Condor Award; Best Adapted Screenplay; Best New Actor, Juan Minujín; Best Costume Design, Roberta Pesci; 2006.
References
External links
''A Year Without Love''at
cinenacional.com .
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2005 films
HIV/AIDS in film
Argentine biographical drama films
2005 biographical drama films
Argentine LGBT-related films
2000s Spanish-language films
Films shot in Buenos Aires
LGBT-related drama films
2005 drama films
2005 LGBT-related films
2000s Argentine films
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