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A Year Without Love
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Wikipedia article
'A Year Without Love' is a 2005 Argentine drama film directed by Anah Berneri, and written by Berneri and Pablo Prez, adapting Prez's autobiographical novel of the same title.
The plot follows Pablo, a writer dealing with loneliness and AIDS. Yearning for love, he places ads in a gay magazine and finds himself involved in the secretive world of Buenos Aires gay leather scene.
'A Year Without Love' played the international and gay and lesbian film festival circuits, garnering a number of awards including the Teddy Bear prize for the Best Gay Film at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival.
Plot
Pablo is a struggling poet who is living with HIV in Buenos Aires. Over the course of a year he deals with issues relating to his health, his family, his search for love and his developing involvement with leather fetishism. The year culminates with the publication of his diary in the form of a novel, 'Un Ao sin amor.'
Cast
* Juan Minujn as Pablo Prez
* Mim Ard as Pablo's aunt
* Carlos Echevarra as Nicols
* as Julia
* Javier Van de Couter as Martn
* Osmar Nez as Commissar Bez
* Ricardo Merkin as Pablo's father
* as the book editor
* Mnica Cabrera as social worker
* Ricardo Moriello as Juan
* Juan Carlos Ricci as Dr. Rizzo
Awards
Wins
* Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy Award, Best Feature Film; 2005.* Outfest: Grand Jury Award, Outstanding International Narrative Feature; 2005.
* New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: Best Foreign Narrative Feature; 2005.
Nominations
* Mar del Plata Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, Anahi Berneri; Best film; 2005.* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor Award; Best Adapted Screenplay; Best New Actor, Juan Minujn; Best Costume Design, Roberta Pesci; 2006.
References
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