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EL JOCKEY

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September 14 @ 6:30 pm - 8:10 pm

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Director: Luis Ortega | Argentina | 2025 | Spanish with English subtitles | 96 min

Starring Argentine star Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, the enfant terrible of the contemporary world author cinema.

Remo Manfredini is a legendary jockey, but his self-destructive behaviour is beginning to outshine his talent and threaten his relationship with his girlfriend Abril. On the day of the most important race of his career that will clear him of his debts from his mobster boss Sirena, he has a severe accident, disappears from the hospital and wanders the streets of Buenos Aires. Free from his identity, he starts to discover who he is truly meant to be. But Sirena wants him found, dead or alive.

Film Festivals, Venice Film Festival (World Premiere), San Sebastian, Toronto.

”An outrageously funny, off-kilter and refreshingly unpredictable dark comedy with shades of Kaurismäki and Buñuel” Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru.

 

The Cinematheque

1131 Howe Street Vancouver
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2L7 Canada

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Luis Ortega

Luis Ortega grew up in the United States until the age of eleven; he then lived in the province of Tucumán until 1995. At 19, he directed his first film, Caja Negra, which premiered at the Mar del Plata Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. His subsequent films have toured extensively at international festivals and premiered in various countries. His most recent film was El Ángel, from 2018, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, he wrote, directed, and composed the theme music for the television series Historia de un Clan. He also directed the first two episodes of the series El Marginal and, in 2020, directed two episodes of the series Narcos. He is currently working on his next film, El Jockey, produced by Rei Cine and El Despacho, the production company he founded in 2020.
Luis Ortega.