Jordi Torrent

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Jordi Torrent is a film writer-producer-director based in New York City. He studied philosophy in Barcelona and film aesthetics in Paris before moving to New York in 1984. He was media curator at EXIT ART (1985-90) and founded the media production company Duende Pictures in 1989. Several of the films that he has produced and line-produced have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (“The Keeper”, “The Golden Boat”, “My Life without Me” among them) before gaining international attention. “East on the Compass”, his first feature film as writer-director was selected by the Lincoln Center Film Society for the program 100 years of Catalan filmmaking. His second feature, “The Redemption of the Fish,” was nominated for Best Director at the Milano International Film Festival.

21-04-1955

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21-04-1955

Birthday

Taurus

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Total Films

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Third Week

Alvin, just out of prison, is searching for a second chance in life. His family is of support but it also impels him to reconnect with a past that might disrupt his hopes for redemption.

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2024

La redempció dels peixos

A young man from Barcelona (Marc) arrives to Venice and confronts his father (Paco), who has not seen since he was two years old. This sudden encounter with his forgotten son both shocks and pleases Paco. Marc, filled with long repressed resentments, discovers in Paco a welcoming individual. The emotions seem to move towards a feeling of connection and understanding between father and son. But Paco's semi-lies, his complex and opaque past, his unclear present, quickly transforms the encounter into a muddy pool of emotional uncertaintie.

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2013

My Life Without Me

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

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2003

Miotte by Ruiz

In the early 2000s filmmaker Raul Ruiz followed painter Jean Miotte to different locations (New York, France, Germany).

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2002