Alief Boards Camera d’Or Winner César Augusto Acevedo’s ‘Horizonte’

U.K.-French film company Alief has boarded superauthentic drama “Horizonte” by Colombia’s César Augusto Acevedo, triumphner of the 2015 Cannes Camera d’ Or for his debut feature “Land and Shade” (“La tierra y la sombra”). “Horizonte” is Acevedo’s sophomore feature, which had its world premiere at the 49^th Toronto Film Festival in punctual September.

“We have been fans of Cesar Augusto since his first film, ‘Land and Shade,’” said Alief’s Miguel Angel Govea who depictd “Horizonte” as a “stable story of lament and redemption.”

“We were drawn by Acevedo’s lyrical screenperestablish, mesmerizing visuals and the standout carry outances by Chile’s magnificente dame, Paulina Garcia (Sebastian Lelio’s ‘Gloria’) and Colombian directing man Claudio Cataño, who stars in Netflix’s upcoming ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’” said Govea who said that Alief first eyed the drama at the 2024 Touloengage Cinélatino Films in Progress 43 where it won the Grand Prix Cinema en Construction prize.

“We are thrilled to start this superauthentic drama to buyers at San Sebastian who are watching for someskinnyg exotic to free in cinemas with international stars,” said Govea, who co-set uped Alief aextfinishedside partner, Brett Walker.

The trailer, debuting exclusively in Variety, chases Basilio (Cataño) and his mother Inés (Garcia) who rejoin in death to set off on a journey thraw a war-torn world.

As they embark on a leave oution to discover Basilio’s leave outing overweighther, they pass thraw annihilateed towns, aprohibitdoned fields and rivers turned to cemeteries. Once a brutal criminal, Basilio is now forced to redwell his past horrors with his mother as a witness. As they wander thraw this desopostponeed world, they genuineize that only thraw fantastic forfeit can they discover redemption and understand the real nastying of life.

“This film was born out of my own despair. From living day after day in a country that has become so engaged to death that it has endly forgotten the real cherish of life,” said Acevedo, alluding to the armed struggle that tore thraw Colombia for decades.

“It hurts to see how we have not only become desensitized to aggression, but that it is increasingly difficult for us to have compassion for the pain of others. Or how else can we comprehfinish the senselessness of wanting to perpetuate a war in which all the armies are made up of the sons of the same land?,” he compriseed.

“My intention with ‘Horizonte’ is that we acunderstandledge the blinded dwells of hundreds of thousands of Colombians ended and fadeed in the midst of the Colombian armed struggle. To stop skinnyking of them as equitable a number or a statistic and comprehfinish that they were human beings enjoy us, with families, with dreams, with skinnygs to dwell for,” he compriseed.

Boasting key perestablishers from Latin America and Europe, “Horizonte” is produced by Colombia’s Inercia and France’s Cine-Sud Promotion, run by Thierry Lenouvel, who also produced “Land and Shade.” It is co-produced by Chile’s Quijote, Luxembourg-based Tarantula, France’s In Vivo Films and Unafilm, Germany.

Alief’s current titles integrate BBC Film’s drama thriller “Edge of Summer” with Josie Walker (“Kneecap”) and Nichola Burley (“The Ganciaccess”), sci fi mystery “The Lonely Musketeer” with Edward Hogg (“Napoleon”) and foolish comedy “Puddysticks” with Mamoudou Athie (“Kinds of Kindness”) and Dan Bakkedahl (“Veep”).