Man Facing Southeast (1986)

Original title

Hombre mirando al sudeste

Directed by

Eliseo Subiela

Genre

drama film, science fiction film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

U

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 86 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A psychiatrist treats a patient who claims to be an alien from another planet. The patient's behavior and beliefs challenge the doctor's understanding of reality and sanity.

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What happens

Man Facing Southeast (Spanish: Hombre mirando al sudeste) is a 1986 Argentine science fiction drama film written and directed by Eliseo Subiela, starring Lorenzo Quinteros and Hugo Soto. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The 2001 American film K-PAX bears a strong resemblance to Man Facing Southeast and its filmmakers were the subject of a plagiarism lawsuit by Subiela. In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 10th position. In a new version of the survey organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film reached the 40th position. Also in 2022, the film was included in Spanish magazine Fotogramas's list of the 20 best Argentine films of all time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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