RELEASE DATE
RELEASED: FEBRUARY 2014
PRODUCT DETAILS
- FORMAT: DVD
- SKU: CO1
- UPC: 854555004507
- ISBN: 978-1-939196-17-0
- NUMBER OF DISCS: 1
- COUNTRY: Argentina
- RATING: Not Rated
- YEAR: 2013
- LENGTH: 102 Minutes
- AUDIO: 2.0 Stereo
- ASPECT RATIO: 1.78:1
- COLOR: Color
FESTIVALS
- 2013 BAFICI – Buenos Aires Film Festival
- 2013 Philadelphia QFest
- 2013 Punchon International Fantastic Film Festival
- 2013 MIX Copenhagen
GALLERY
SYNOPSIS
Sexual tension spills off the screen in this sweaty, titilating bromance from award-winning director Marco Berger (Absent, Plan B, Sexual Tension: Volatile). Hawaii follows Martin and Eugenio (Manuel Vignau and Mateo Chiarino), two former childhood friends who reunite during a hot summer in the Argentinean countryside. As they work together to restore Eugenio’s summer home, a game of power and desire ensues – forcing the two buddies to grapple with their sexual attraction and reconsider their relationship. With gorgeous cinematography, a lush setting and compelling lead performances, Hawaii is an intimate character study that pushes past social boundaries.
CREDITS
Director: Marco Berger
Running time: 102 minutes
Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Screenwriter: Marco Berger
Cast: Manuel Vignau, Mateo Chiarino, Luz Palazón, Manuel Martinez Sobrado, Antonia De Michelis
Producers: Marco Berger
Cinematography: Tomás Perez Silva
TRAILER
NEWS & INTERVIEWS
QUEERTY.COM: ARGENTINIAN FILMMAKER MARCO BERGER HEADS TO ‘HAWAII’
Argentinian writer/director Marco Berger has proven his talent with 2009′s Plan B, a romantic drama about a man who determines the best way to win back his ex-girlfriend is to seduce her new man.
Now Berger and collaborator Pedro Irusta urgently wants to bring audiences to Hawaii, a new film-in-progress about Martin, a hapless man who reunites with his childhood friend, Eugenio. When Eugenio realizes Martin is in dire straits, he hires him on for the summer. Desire simmers as a strange relationship grows, but their class differences create possibly insurmountable obstacles. [Read the entire article here!]
FILM REVIEWS
CELLULOID PARADISO: HAWAII REVIEW
It’s difficult to imagine Marco Berger making a winter movie.
From the beautiful sunset of one of his first short films, The Watch, to the evergreen bubble of lush gardens in rural Argentina that is a constant metaphor for the budding relationship in Hawaii, his films have always been optimistic about the possibility of finding love, or at least of finding someone. That possibility, however, is not without its ups and downs, and one should never make assumptions about anyone else’s interests or intentions. [Read the entire article here!]
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Marco Berger was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. Studied at the University of cinema. His short film The Watch (2008) competed in Cannes and Sundance. His first feature film Plan B (2009) premiered in the official competition of the Rome Film Festival and participated in many other prestigious festivals. Absent (2011), his second feature film, premieres at the Berlinale where it won the prestigious Teddy Award (previously won by filmarkers such as Pedro Almodóvar, Francois Ozon, Derek Jarman, Todd Haynes, James Franco and John Cameron Mitchell). The film also recently won the Silver Condor (Cóndor de plata), the most prestigious award in Argentina for artistic inovation. Both films are released commercially in France, Germany, England and America. Other highlights include: The short film A Last Will (2007), the short Platero, episode 2 of the film Five (2010) and the three short films Cousin, Broken Arms and Training; The feature-length short compilation Sexual Tension: Volatile (2012). Hawaii is his first project as a producer as well as a director.