Planta
Pedro blows out the candles on a birthday cake surrounded by friends
INCAA · Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes AudiovisualesANCINE · Agência Nacional do CinemaHubert Bals Fund · Europa Creativa MEDIAMecenazgo Cultural · Buenos Aires CiudadMinisterio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio · Gobierno de ChileMarché du Film · Festival de CannesMECAS · Mercado del Cine Casi HechoBiarritz LabForo de Coproducción Europa-América Latina · San Sebastián

La escuela
pesada

Directed by Hernán Rosselli · Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Chile · Fiction feature · Development

A man gets out of prison, discovers he is now responsible for a former partner’s daughter, and begins planning one last heist. Through a gang of real retired thieves who play themselves, La escuela pesada portrays the rebuilding of a family.

Where it has been

Markets
MECAS (Gran Canaria) · CNC co-production meetings, Marché du Film (Cannes 2024) · Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum (San Sebastián)
Lab
Biarritz Lab (France)
Funds
Hubert Bals Fund (Creative Europe MEDIA) · INCAA (Argentina) · ANCINE (Brazil) · Fondo de Fortalecimiento, Chilean Audiovisual Fund (MINCAP) · Buenos Aires Cultural Patronage

Details

Director
Hernán Rosselli
Screenplay
Hernán Rosselli
Music
Marc Verdaguer
Cast
Pedro Palomar, Sabino Soria, Gala, Daniel Antivilo, Hugo Medina
Format
Fiction feature
Production companies
Un Puma · Potenza Producciones · Multiverso · Planta
Stage
Development

Director

Hernán Rosselli
Portrait of Hernán Rosselli

Hernán Rosselli

Hernán Rosselli is an Argentine director, screenwriter and editor. His first feature, Mauro (2014), won Best Film in the Argentine competition at BAFICI and travelled to festivals including Locarno. His second film, Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed (2024), premiered in the Quinzaine des Cinéastes at the Cannes Film Festival.