A Year Without Love

A Year Without Love
Directed by	Anahi Berneri
Produced by	Executive Producer: Sebastián Ponce Producers: Daniel Burman Diego Dubcovsky
Written by	Anahi Berneri Pablo Pérez
Starring	Juan Minujín Mimí Ardú
Music by	Martín Bauer, Leo García
Cinematography	Lucio Bonelli
Edited by	Alex Zito
Distributed by	Distribution Company BD Cine
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Argentina
Language	Spanish

A Year Without Love (Spanish: Un año sin amor) is a 2205 Argentine drama film directed by Anahi Berneri, and written by Berneri and Pablo Pérez, adapting Pérez's autobiographical novel of the same title.

The plot follows Pablo, a writer dealing with loneliness and AIDS. Yearning for love, he places adds in a gay magazine and finds himself involved in the secretive world of Buenos Aires gay leather scene.

A Year Without Love played the international and gay and lesbian film festival circuits, garnering a number of awards including the Teddy Bear prize for the Best Gay Film at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival.

Plot

Pablo is a struggling poet who is living with HIV in Buenos Aires.

Over the course of a year he deals with issues relating to his health, his family, his search for love and his developing involvement with leather fetishism.

The year culminates with the publication of his diary in the form of a novel, Un Año sin amor.

Cast

• Juan Minujín as Pablo Pérez
• Mimí Ardu as Pablo's aunt
• Carlos Echevarría as Nicolás
• Bárbara Lombardoas Julia
• Javier Van de Couteras Martín
• Osmar Núñez as Commissar Báez
• Ricardo Merkin as Pablo's father
• Carlos Portaluppi as the book editor
• Mónica Cabrera as social worker
• Ricardo Moriello as Juan
• Juan Carlos Ricci as Dr. Rizzo

Awards

Wins

• Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy Award, Best Feature Film; 2005.
• Outfest: Grand Jury Award, Outstanding International Narrative Feature; 2005.
• New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: Best Foreign Narrative Feature; 2005.

Nominations

• Mar del Plata Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, Anahi Berneri; Best film; 2005.
• Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor Award; Best Adapted Screenplay; Best New Actor, Juan Minujín; Best Costume Design, Roberta Pesci; 2006.

External links

• A Year Without Love at cinenacional.com (Spanish).
• A Year Without Love at IMDb
• A Year Without Love at AllMovie