Sur (film)

This article is about the 1988 Argentinian film. For other film, see Sur (disambiguation).
Sur
Directed byFernando E. Solanas
Written byFernando E. Solanas
Produced byFernando E. Solanas
Envar El Kadri
StarringSusú Pecoraro
Miguel Ángel Solá
Philippe Léotard
Lito Cruz
CinematographyFélix Monti
Edited byJuan Carlos Macías
Music byÁstor Piazzolla
Distributed byArgentina Sono Film
Release date
  • 5 March 1988 (1988-03-05)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

Sur (South) is a 1988 Argentine drama film written and directed by Fernando E. Solanas. The film features Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard, Lito Cruz, Ulises Dumont among others.[1]

Following its debut at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, Sur collected a host of awards from prestigious international film festivals. Sur garnered its director, Fernando E. Solanas the Best Director at Cannes in 1988 and was nominated for the Palme d'Or in the same year.[2] The film was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 33rd position.[4] In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 40th position.[5]

  1. ^ Sur at IMDb.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Sur". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
  3. ^ "Cannes Classics 2015". Cannes Film Festival. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino". La Mirada Cautiva (3). Buenos Aires: Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: 6–14. 2000. Archived from the original on 21 November 2022. Retrieved 21 November 2022 – via Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive.
  5. ^ "Top 100" (in Spanish). Encuesta de cine argentino 2022. 11 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022.