Manuel Abramovich's SOLDADO nominated for a Berlinale Glashütte Original Documentary Award.

 Manuel Abramovich's second documentary feature SOLDADO is one of the 16 films to be nominated for a Glashütte Original Documentary Award. The film will have its world premiere in the Generation 14plus section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (9 - 19 February 2017). 
 

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The new award for the best documentary film will be endowed with€ 50,000, funded by Glashütte Original. A total of about 16 documentary entries from the current programmes of the Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation, Berlinale Special and Perspektive Deutsches Kino sections as well as the Culinary Cinemaspecial series will be nominated for the Glashütte Original Documentary Award. A three-member jury will pick the winner - the prize money will be split between the film’s director and producer. The prize will be presented during the official Award Ceremony in the Berlinale Palast on February 18. In addition to the prize money, Glashütte Original will also provide the trophy, which will be finely crafted in the company’s manufactory in Saxony. The jury consists out of Daniela Michel (film critic and founding director of the Mexican Morelia International Film Festival), American artist, filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras and Swiss/Iraqi director & producer Samir. 

Soldado (Soldier) by Manuel Abramovich
Following orders, rehearsing snappy marches and running through more drills than you can shake a drum stick at. A young man decides to join the army and becomes a drummer in a military band. What does the Argentinian Army do these days, after more than thirty years of dictatorship? What does it mean to be a soldier in a country without wars?

Soldado is a measured but poignant study of the collision between young individuality and military uniformity, which expands on the contradictions and uncertainties of entering into adulthood within the constraints of a rigid hierarchy. A coming-of-age story set in a “total institution”.

SOLDADO was written, directed & shot by Manuel Abramovich and produced by Gema Juárez Allen & Alejandra Grinschpun for the Argentinian based production company Gema Films.