Zama (film)
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| Directed by | Lucrecia Martel |
| Screenplay by | Lucrecia Martel |
| Based on | Zama by Antonio di Benedetto |
| Produced by | Vania Catani Benjamin Domenech Santiago Gallelli Matias Roveda |
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| Cinematography | Rui Poças |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Countries | Argentina Spain |
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| Box office | $475,910 |
Zama [ˈsama] is a 2017 period drama film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel, based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Antonio di Benedetto. It premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. It was also screened in the Masters section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. On 29 September 2017, the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences chose the film as the national entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards and Best Iberoamerican Film at the 32nd Goya Awards.
In 2022, it was selected as the 19th greatest film of Argentine cinema in a poll organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.