Puan

Box Office Around The World

Film-Still des argentinischen Films „Puan“ (2023) – Film-Still des argentinischen Films „Puan“ (2023)

On three weekends in August, the Schlüter Courtyard becomes a meeting place for film enthusiasts from all over the world with summery drinks and snacks. The open-air festival invites you to talk to international film stars and presents six current cinema productions that are box office hits in their countries of origin but have not yet been shown on the big screen in Germany.

Puan - María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat / Argentina 2023 / 109 Min. / Dramedy / Spanish with English subtitles

In this comedy, a cosmopolitan braggart and a shaggy underdog battle it out for the top job at the Puan Faculty of Philosophy in Buenos Aires. A roundelay of different ladies around them are not passive spectators. With biting humor, the film paints a portrait of Argentina’s intellectual elite on the edge of the abyss.

Puan is not only the name of the metro station where the Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires is, it’s also a ‘cult’. At least that’s how the widow of a philosophy professor who died while jogging refers to the it and that’s where two unlikely heroes compete to succeed him.

Marcelo, the underdog, and Rafael, the cosmopolitan poser, engage in a deeply sad yet hilarious duel for the chief chair in the midst of a society that has gone off the rails. They are flanked by impoverished academics and their entourage, society ladies, feminist activists and a film star. Who will win?

The biting humour of this social comedy which has been extremely successful in Argentina, has local colour of a special and rare quality that also works beyond its place of origin. The directing couple María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat last made waves with their film Rojo.

Programme

7:30 pm: Talk with Leonardo Sbaraglia (main actor) and Dorothee Wenner and Julieta Zarankin (moderator), in English and Spanish

8:30 pm: Film

 

- 8 EUR, red. 4 EUR

- FSK 12

- Entrance: Portal 5.

- Note: A severe thunderstorm may lead to the cancellation of the event.

- English, Spanish

- Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard

- Belongs to: Box Office Around The World

Next date:

• Date Friday, 30/August/2024 19:30
• Venue Humboldt Forum: Schlüterhof (Berliner Schloss)
• Address Schloßplatz 5, 10178 Berlin-Mitte