TORO

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An unequal friendship. Toro (25) is as disciplined as he is withdrawn. In contrast Victor (29) is a light-headed dreamer who careers more or less heedlessly through life. Both work as prostitutes. Toro services women, Victor men. Toro, whose real name is Piotr, came
to Germany ten years ago. He knows exactly what he is working for: he wants to establish a boxing school back in Poland. And soon he will have enough money to do so. The only thing he wants to take with him from Germany is Victor so they can dare to embark upon a new life together. Victor knows all about Toro’s plans but cannot take them seriously because he is far too busy keeping his dealers, to whom he owes money, at bay. TORO is the story of two highly contrasting characters who take hugely different approaches to trying to fight their way out of an ignoble life on the margins. They could be each other’s last chance to save themselves from plunging off the precipice and into the abyss of the apocalypse which would consume everything else along with them and cast the world into eternal sin.

details

  • Runtime

    84 min
  • Country

    Germany
  • Year of Presentation

    2016
  • Year of Production

    2015
  • Director

    Martin Hawie
  • Cast

    Miguel Dagger, Leni Speidel, Kelvin Kilonzo
  • Production Company

    KHM Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
  • Berlinale Section

    perspective german cinema
  • Berlinale Category

Biography Martin Hawie


Born in Lima, Peru in 1975, he studied audiovisual communications in Peru between 1996 and 2000 and then film directing in Barcelona from 2001 to 2003. He took up a postgraduate degree in screenwriting and feature film directing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2011. His intermediate diploma project CAMILLE was nominated for the German Cinema New Talent Award at the 2013 Hof International Film Festival and won Best Student Film at the Mexico International Film Festival. TORO is his graduation film. He currently lives and works in Cologne.

Filmography Martin Hawie

2011 Auf der Suche nach anderen Farben | 2012 Am Ende einer Nacht