Animalia Paradoxa

2024

Fiction feature, 83 minutes

Niles Atallah: Writer, Director, Co-Editor, Image Post-Production Artist and Co-Colorist with Diego Seye. Producer: Catalina Vergara. Production: Globo Rojo Films and Diluvio (Chile). Co-Editor: Mayra Morán. Cinematographer: Matías Illanes. Production Designer: Natalia Geisse. Original Music: Sebastián Jatz Rawicz. Principal Cast: Andrea Gómez.

Awards

2024 FicViña — Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar, Chile — Best National Feature Film.

2024 FicViña, Chile — Héctor Ríos Award for Best Cinematography — Matías Illanes.

Festivals and screenings

2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands — Harbour; world premiere.

2024 Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago — Chilean theatrical-release programme.

2024 DOK Leipzig, Germany — International Competition Animated Film.

2024 EnergaCAMERIMAGE, Toruń, Poland — Artistic Experiments: Explorers of Form and Image.

2024 Fantasia International Film Festival, Montréal, Canada — North American premiere.

2024 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, Cuba — Festival selection.

2024 FICValdivia, Valdivia, Chile — Chilean premiere.

2024 FicViña, Viña del Mar, Chile — National Feature Competition.

2024 International Film Festival of India, Goa, India — Experimental programme; Asian premiere.

2024 Leeds International Film Festival, United Kingdom — Fanomenon Features Competition; UK premiere.

2024 Lima Alterna, Peru — Ibero-American Competition.

2024 Murf/Murw, Tilburg, Netherlands — Festival screening.

2024 New York Counter Film Festival, United States — US premiere.

2024 TrAP cinematheque tour, Norway — Presentations at the cinematheques in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Tromsø.

2024 Centro Arte Alameda, Santiago, Chile — December release programme within the Diluvio Directors-of-the-month focus; opening screening with Filmmaker discussion.

2025 Festival Audiovisual Bariloche, Argentina — Latin American Feature Competition.

2025 Festival de Cine UC, Santiago, Chile — Screening and cine-forum.

2025 Festival Internacional de Cine de Chiloé (FICH), Chile — Retrospective.

2025 KASKcinema, Ghent, Belgium — Cinema screening.

2025 Offscreen Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium — Festival presentation.

2026 Cineteca Nacional de México, Mexico City — Cinematheque programme.

Funding and support

By 2021 Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual, Chile — Production support. Developed initially as a short-film project before completion as the 2024 feature.