''Paulina'' ( es, La patota) is a 2015 internationally co-produced

thriller film Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...

directed by

Santiago Mitre Santiago Mitre (born 4 December 1980) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. He was named as a member of the jury of the International Critics' Week section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, Mitre won the Havana Star Prize f ...

. It was screened in the

International Critics' Week The International Critics' Week (french: Semaine de la Critique) was founded in 1962 and is organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. It was created following the showing of '' The Connection'' directed by Shirley Clarke which had been ...

section at the

2015 Cannes Film Festival The 68th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 2015. Joel and Ethan Coen were the Presidents of the Jury for the main competition. It was the first time that two people chaired the jury. Since the Coen brothers each received a separate ...

where it won the Nespresso Grand Prize and the

FIPRESCI Prize The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...

. It is inspired by the 1960 film '' La patota''.

Cast

Dolores Fonzi Dolores María Fonzi (born 19 July 1978) is an Argentine TV, theatre and film actress. Several of her films have received critical acclaim such as '' Burnt Money'', '' Waiting for the Messiah'', '' Bottom of the Sea'' and '' The Aura''. Her brot ...

as Paulina * Oscar Martínez as Fernando *

Esteban Lamothe Raúl Esteban Sánchez Lamothe (born 30 April 1977) is an Argentine actor. Biography Esteban Lamothe was born on April 30, 1977, in Florentino Ameghino, Buenos Aires, Argentina. At 17, in 1994, he moved to Federal Capital. He worked until a ...

as Alberto

Awards and accolades

Aside from winning the Critics Week and FIPRESCI prizes at Cannes, ''Paulina'' won some awards at other festivals including San Sebastián and the

Havana Film Festival New York The Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is a film festival, based in New York City, that screens cinema from across Latin America with a special focus on Cuba and its film industry. It is a project of The American Friends of the Ludwig Found ...

. Dolores Fonzi won the prize for best actress at the 2015 Premio Iberoamericano de Cine Fénix, and also at the 2015

Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences Awards The Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences Awards are given by the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences ( es, Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de la Argentina) to honor achievement in Argentine cin ...

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