The screening on 6 June will be followed by a Q&A with director Carlos Sorín.
Influenced by travel accounts of his time, Frenchman Orélie Antoine de Tounens set off for southern Argentina around 1860. Once there, he had himself proclaimed king of Araucania and Patagonia, which led to his expulsion from the country by the Argentinian government. More than one hundred years later, obsessive filmmaker David Vas attempts to make an epic film about de Tounens, meeting obstacles at every turn, involving striking actors, the police, and financial collapse.
Carlos Sorín's film within a film is a surreal and absurd tale of a unyielding director in the face of exceptional circumstancial adversity.
Outlandish with laugh out loud moments, La Película del Rey reflects on the cyclical and chaotic nature of history, with the film's doomed and frantic production mirroring the failures of the wider economic landscape.
The film won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1986.
