Théo Court
Biography
Born from Chilean parents, Théo Court (1980) grew up in Spain and Chile. In 1999, he started an education in photography in Madrid. In 2000, he returned to Chile where he began his film studies at the Arcis University. In 2004, he graduated in Directing at the International School of Film and TV in Cuba. He developed the script of his first feature film, Ocaso (2010), with the support of IFFR's Hubert Bals Fund. The film premiered in Rotterdam. Blanco en blanco (2019) is his second feature film.
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Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Mercenary
In the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, an hostile and violent territory, to immortalise the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face the land, crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of the land indigenous.