Zama

Masters

""…bold use of arresting landscapes and equally striking faces""

Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Lucrecia Martel
  • Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, USA, Netherlands, 2017
  • 115 minutes
  • Spanish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Tired of waiting for the King to transfer him to a more liberating location, Don Diego de Zama, a South American officer of the Spanish Crown, embarks on a perilous journey towards freedom.

The new film by Lucrecia Martel is a perfect coupling of literary source material and cinematic sensibility. Martel adapts Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 classic of Latin American modernism and transports us to a remote corner of 18th-century South America, where a servant of the Spanish crown slowly loses his grip on reality.

Filmography: The Headless Woman (2008), The Holy Girl (2004), La Ciénaga (2001).


  • Director Lucrecia Martel
  • Production Benjamin Doménech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Vania Catani
  • Script Lucrecia Martel, from the novel by Antonio di Benedetto
  • Cinematography Rui Poças
  • Editing Miguel Schverdfinger, Karen Harley
  • Festivals Venice, Toronto, New York, London
  • Actors Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
  • Source The Match Factory, Cologne