International Feature Competition

MAGIC FARM

Swiss Premiere
Amalia Ulman
Argentina, United States
2025, 93'
Genre
Recommended Age
16 years
VO. English, Spanish
ST. English, French
With
Joe  Apollonio, Simon Rex, Chloë Sevigny
BORAT X LOST IN LA MANCHA

The zany, grotesque tale of a film crew traveling to South America to make a documentary about new musical fashions... but in the wrong country.
An American film crew travels to the far reaches of the Argentine countryside to film a report on a local musician. Unfortunately, they're not in the right village, or even the right country! With the villagers' help, the crew set out to create a new musical trend they could use in a documentary. This joyfully colorful and offbeat fiasco marks the return of director and actress Amalia Ulman to GIFF, after presenting her previous feature, El Planeta, in 2021. The artist has surrounded herself with well-known faces from American cinema – Chloë Sevigny, Alex Wolff and Simon Rex – to tell the story of an absurdly charming journey with an equally singular visual identity, set to a score by underground musician Burke Battelle, aka Chicken.

Damien Brodard
Direction
Amalia Ulman
Image
Carlos Rigo Bellver
Editing
Arturo Sosa
Music
Burke Batelle p/k/a Chicken
Sound
Leandro De Loredo
Production
Spacemaker Productions, REI Pictures, Tango Entertainment, Mubi, Alex Hughes, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Riccardo Maddalosso
With
Joe  Apollonio, Simon Rex, Chloë Sevigny, Camila del Campo, Alex  Wolff
World sales
The Match Factory (Valentina Bronzini)
Distribution
The Match Factory
Amalia Ulman
1989, Argentina
Previous works
2022, Hotel Splendid (Short, Actress, Director)
2021, El Planeta (Feature, Actress, Director, Producer, Writer)
2019, Shanghai Fire (Short, Actress, Director, Writer)
2019, Buyer Walker Rover Aka. Then There (Yiwu) (Short, Actress, Director, Editor, Writer)
2016, The Future Ahead (Short, Director, Editor, Producer, Writer)
Saturday 1 Nov. 22:00
Théâtre Pitoëff

Wednesday 5 Nov. 17:30
Cinérama Empire