In the sly new finance movie “Azor,” a Swiss banker named Yvan de Wiel is visiting Argentina in 1980 on business, but the military dictatorship’s “dirty war” against its political opponents keeps ...

Andreas Fontana’s feature debut captures the chilling effects of authoritarianism. “Show, don’t tell,” says conventional wisdom. “Conceal, conceal, conceal” responds director Andreas Fontana, whose ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

International sales agent Be For Films has given Variety exclusive access to the international trailer for Andreas Fontana’s first feature “Azor,” selected for this year’s Encounters section at the ...

The first thing one notices about “Azor” is how real it feels: the entitlement, the encyclopedic knowledge of “good” families, the multilingual fluency, the bonhomie of power. The main characters are ...

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When we're young, it's easy to imagine ourselves as always being on the right side of history. We like to think that, if we were trapped in cruel or barbaric societies, we would be the brave ones ...

Swiss banker Yvan and his wife Ines are new to military-ravaged Argentina in the midst of The Dirty War. Set to replace his colleague René who has suddenly disappeared, Yvan begins to discover ...