“More people die on Sundays”: Iair Said’s film will participate in the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

“More people die on Sundays”, Iair Said’s first fiction film (after his documentary “Flora is not a hymn to life”) was selected to participate in the ACID section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.After its passage through the 71st edition of the San Sebastian Festival held in 2023, where it participated in the WIPLatam section (Work in progress, for Latin American feature films in post-production), it was announced that it would be chosen as part of another of the world’s most emblematic festivals.” More people die on Sundays”: Iair Said’s film | Photo: Instagram @losdomingosfilmEn the film Iair – director, author and star of the film – plays David, “a young middle-class Jew, corpulent, homosexual and afraid of flying, returns to Buenos Aires from Europe due to the death of his uncle”, as described in the synopsis. When he returns, David “learns that his mother has decided to disconnect his father’s ventilator, the only thing that has kept him alive for years. David will oscillate between an intimate coexistence with his mother, alienated by the pain of the imminent loss of her husband, and a voracity to fill her existential anguish, occupying her hours learning to drive, going to specialists cheaper than in Europe, and trying to have sex with any man who shows her a little attention. sets out the plot of this existential comedy.” More people die on Sundays”: Iair Said’s film will participate in the 2024 Cannes Film Festival | Official poster: courtesy of the press. There, the actor, who comes from his time in the series “División Palermo”, is accompanied by the performances of Rita Cortese (“Wild Tales”, “Blondi”), the artist Juliana Gattas (“Miranda!” and “Made up in bed”) and the special participation of the Chilean actress Antonia Zeger (who recently presented “El Conde”), one of the most outstanding of Pablo Larraín’s filmography. “More people die on Sundays”, completes the director’s career after his first short film “9 vaccines” (2012), winner of the BAFICI 2013 and the “Black Pearl Award” for best short film at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2012, having participated in more than 30 festivals. He then released in 2015, his second short film, “Imperfect Present”, which was selected in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival. And since we mentioned again the cinema plant in the French city, it should be noted that along with Iair’s film, another Argentine film will be heading there. This is “Simon of the Mountain”, starring Lorenzo “Toto” Ferro in his return to theaters after “The Angel”, was selected to be screened in the Cannes Critics’ Week.

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