Axel Bertha's Debut Feature 'Against Nature' to Premiere at Karlovy Vary Film Festival
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Georg Szalai
Summary
Mexican filmmaker Axel Bertha's debut feature 'Against Nature' is set to world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's Proxima competition. The film follows Jonás, a silent protagonist returning to the countryside to work as a stonemason, exploring the boundary between physical and spiritual worlds. The film asks whether human progress is taking us away from nature or bringing us closer to it.
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· 2 pulledThe silent protagonist is as mysterious as the movie that wanders along the cinematic edge between the physical and the spiritual worlds.
Is human progress taking us away from nature and the world or bringing us closer to it?
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