Interview With "Belén" Filmmaker & Star Dolores Fonzi

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

"Belén" is an Argentine historical legal drama film directed by and starring Dolores Fonzi from a screenplay she co-wrote with Laura Paredes, Agustina San Martín, and Nicolás Britos. It is based on the non-fiction book Somos Belén by Ana Correa, which follows a lawyer's quest for justice when her client is falsely imprisoned for committing an illegal abortion. The film has been selected as the Argentine entry for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. Fonzi was kind enough to spend time speaking with us about her work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in select theaters and will be available to stream on November 14th on Prime Video. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is Dan Baer's interview with the director, co-writer,
0:06.4	the star of the film Belaide, Dolores Fonzie.
0:09.8	I...
0:10.3	I don't paris...
0:12.8	...thenupe...
0:14.9	...you're going to...
0:16.6	...you get to the hospital to me help them and I termed presa...
0:20.3	...for favor.
0:21.6	Having me enterned that I'd had
0:23.6	had a perdive a barrazo.
0:28.6	And the duelo, me left to do.
0:34.6	Well, I'll tell the people that Soledadadad is the abodada
0:36.5	defender of Bel-E. And the judges'en
0:38.3	Encerrared a person innocent, without proofs.
0:41.3	No, no!
0:42.3	She's a preza for homicidio!
0:46.3	You're obsessed with taking me the cases?
0:48.3	I'd like to have to do me care of the women
0:51.3	that systematically leave her abandonas.
0:53.3	We have to take a Belen be a matter of the women that
1:00.6	have been able to
1:03.8	freedom for
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