Pablo Lozano and Dušan Husár on „Manaki Brothers“: Miracles can happen anywhere
Pablo Lozano and Dušan Husár, are the cinematographers of the films „Chronicles of a Wandering Saint“ from the official selection Camera 300 and „Solitude“, which was screened last night in the European Lo-Cap program. In one Argentinian town, a pious but ambitious woman, realizes that if she invents a miracle, she can be proclaimed to be a saint. But before announcing that the miracle
had happened, a shocking event showed her the hidden magic of her world, forcing her to reconsider everything she had taken for granted.
„I`m happy that I came across such a script, it was very interesting to think and process all that“, said Lozano, who said that he and the director had known each other since school days and that they had also made short films together. Everyone in the village was excited while the film was being shot, the church was very interesting and there were not many churches like that.
„Miracles can happen anywhere, also in very small villages not only in Argentina, but anywhere in the world. We were lucky to find that abandoned train station to shoot there, and the statue that disappears in the film is really gone for a long time, it`s not fiction“, Lozano said and added that the film is already being screened for six weeks in cinemas in Argentina.
Within the new selection of European films from countries with low production capacity, which will compete for the Golden European Camera Award at 45th ICFF „Manaki Brothers“ today Dusan Husar, the cinematographer of the film „Solitude“ talked about his experience while filming the film.
„Iceland was a wonderful location, we could shoot everywhere around us, which was fascinating for us, and for them it was something usual, so it was a challenge for me to find calm and peaceful places that would be real for them and for us, without
focusing only on the most beautiful places“, Husar said.
The film „Solitude“ tells the story of how the state forces a farmer living a peaceful life in the countryside to sell his home, leave everything behind and move to the capital, where he befriends a 10-year-old newspaper delivery boy.