Animal | Humano
Human | Animal (Directors' Week)
Alessandro Pugno
In a small town in Italy, a boy, Matteo, lives surrounded by coffins and illness. Faced with this daily nonsense, he dreams of dying like a hero in the ring. Thousands of kilometres away, a calf, Fandango, grows up ignoring the purpose for which it was born: to become a fighting bull and fight to death in front of thousands of people.
â The 30 june screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Alessandro Pugno, Brontis Jodorowski
STARRING
Guillermo Bedward
Donovan Raham
Antonio Estrada
Antonio Dechent
Silvia Degrandi
Juan Quiñones
Ian Caffo
WRITER
Natacha Kucic, Alessandro Pugno
DIRECTOR
Alessandro Pugno
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Alberto D. Centeno
SOUND
Carlos De la Madrid
EDITING
Enrico Giovannone
PRODUCTION
Pecado Films, First Draft, Redibis Film, Una Comunion
Alessandro Pugno

Alessandro Pugno is an Italian director, photographer and poet, based in Spain and closely linked in his work to the Ibero-American world.
Among his works we should highlight In the shadow of the cross (2013), a documentary about the singing children who still live today in Valle de los CaĂdos, former Mausoleum of Francisco Franco, which was selected in renowned festivals such as Mar del Plata, Guadalajara, Sao Paulo, Lima, Festival dei Popoli and MĂĄlaga, where it won the award for Best Documentary. Animal | Humano is his first fiction feature film.
FILMOGRAPHY
2008: The eagles’ cradle
2011: The three distances
2012: Under the shadow of the cross
2017: Playgrounds of lead