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Franco de Peña

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Franco de Peña

Born March 25, 1966 · Caracas, Venezuela (age 60)

Franco de Peña (born 25 March 1966) is a Polish-Venezuelan film director. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1981 de Peña began studying economics at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, but after two years left Venezuela for Montreal, where he settled. He has been an Invited Artist of the Cannes Film Festival Residence in Paris and the Berlin Kunstler Programme and Nipkow Program in Berli…

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Your Name is JustineYour Name is Justine · 2005
Your Name is Justine
★ 6.02005
MovieThriller
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
Welcome to São PauloWelcome to São Paulo · 2004
Welcome to São Paulo
★ 6.02004
MovieDramaDocumentary
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.
My Sweet HomeMy Sweet Home · 2001
My Sweet Home
★ 6.02001
MovieRomance
Berlin, A Polterabend (i.e. a party on the eve of a marriage) is taking place in a café. An American has persuaded his German friend to marry him, after just one month of knowing each other. But while Anke has decided to create a family for her and her baby, Bruce has reservations. The party's member consist of various immigrants that happened to be there, each with his own problems and Anke's mother who objects to the marriage and is expelled by her own daughter.
InfluenceInfluence · 2015
Influence
★ 3.62015
MovieFantasyThriller
A story about the key events of the Wielkopolska Uprising - a dramatic arrival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań, and the people who prepared the uprising, fought in it and won.
Love in ConcreteLove in Concrete · 2004
Love in Concrete
★ 4.62004
MovieDramaRomance
Franco de Peña's movie deals with three very different love stories, all taking place on the Avenida Libertador, the main avenue of Caracas.
Hotel 52Hotel 52 · 2010
Hotel 52
★ 3.52010
SeriesDrama

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