Gastón Solnicki

Gastón Solnicki
Gastón Solnicki
Born	1978 (age 45–46); Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	Argentinian
Occupation	Film director
Years active	2007–

Gastón Solnicki was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. He studied at the International Center of Photography and at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he received his BFA in Film.

Süden (2008), his debut feature, had its world premiere at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, where it received a Special Mention by the Official Jury and was awarded Best Film by the Argentine Film Press Commission. It was later awarded with a Condor de Plata for Artistic Innovation.

Papirosen (2011), his second feature film, world premiered in the 'filmmakers of the present' competition at Festival del Film Locarno, and then continued a successful international festival run. It was awarded Best Film in the Argentine competition at BAFICI 2012, and won the Lia Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2012. It also received a special mention at the Edinburgh Int'l FF 2012.

His real breakthrough, however, came with Kékszakállú (2016), his first narrative feature, which depicted the coming-of-age of a circle of adolescent girls in Buenos Aires.^[1] The film was screened in the Orizzonti section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival where it received both the FIPRESCI and BISATO d’Oro awards. It then screened at many festivals such as Toronto, New York Film Festival, Viennale, Rotterdam and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Silver Lady Harimaguada award).

It was selected among Artforum’s top ten as well as Film Comment’s and Indiewire’s best undistributed films of 2016. Despite its scale and challenging narrative, it has been released theatrically in many countries such as the United States, Spain, Mexico and Argentina.

"International Film Festival Rotterdam: Bread and Mirrors," Senses of Cinema, March 2017.

Daniel Walber, "Bluebeard Revisited: Gastón Solnicki’s Kékszakállú," Brooklyn Rail, 1 November 2016.

Jonathan Murray, "The Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Web Exclusive)," Cineaste XLII, no. 2 (2017).</ref>