Film
A History of Love and War
Santiago Mohar Volkow • MX 2024 • 111min
Una Historia de Amor y Guerra • esOF+enUT • DCP • Austrian premiere
02.04.2025, 20:00 Leokino Festival Opening • Reservations possible from March 19, 2025
Pepe Sánchez Campo is in the prime of his life. His corrupt real estate business is booming, and he’s about to marry the love of his life, the aristocratic Constanza. However, Pepe’s good fortune is about to end due to the outbreak of war. His construction site is taken over by a peasant guerrilla group demanding justice. Loosely based on the misfortune that befell the former emperors Maximilian and Carlota of Habsburg in Mexico, the film dramatizes the imagined downfall of centuries of colonialism, embodied in a lovestruck criminal businessman whose fate is altered by the eruption of political violence and human passions. (Mar del Plata International Film Festival)
Trailer
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Director, Writer Santiago Mohar Volkow Producer Jonathan Davis, Santiago Mohar Volkow Cinematography Adrian Cores Edit Didac Palou Cast Lucía Gómez-Robledo, Patricia Bernal, Mónica Del Carmen, Hernan Del Riego, Santiago Espejo Music Diego Lozano
Santiago Mohar Volkow (*1989, Mexico) is a director, screenwriter and producer. His directorial debut Los Muertos (2014) was screened internationally and received the top prize at Riviera Maya Film Festival. His film Sysiphus (2019) was awarded the Best Documentary Prize at Shanghai International Film Festival. A History of Love and War (2024) had its world premiere at IFFR 2024. (IFFR)