DEATH HAS NO MASTER / LA MUERTE NO TIENE DUEÑO / У СМЕРТІ НЕМАЄ ХАЗЯЇНА

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2026 / 106' / feature / Venezuela, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg

Caro travels to Venezuela to sell her late father’s cacao plantation, only to find the family mansion occupied by its former staff, who are determined to remain at all costs. As Caro takes justice into her own hands to claim the inheritance she believes is hers, she sets off a struggle that unearths the violence buried in the land and its memory.

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DIRECTOR - JORGE THIELEN ARMAND

Biography

Jorge Thielen Armand (Caracas, 1990) is a writer, director, and producer. He studied communication and cinema in Montreal.

He is a founding partner of the Venezuelan-Canadian production company LA FAENA.

His films have been presented in both art venues and film festivals, such as the Venice Biennale, Sundance, IFF Rotterdam, Busan IFF, London Institute of Contemporary Arts, New York Museum of the Moving Image, the Istanbul Biennial, Visions du Réel, BAFICI, Cartagena IFF, Cairo IFF, Filmfest München, Cineteca Matadero Madrid, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Goa IFF, Havana IFF, the American Museum of Natural History, Texas Bullock Museum, Centro de Arte Los Galpones in Caracas, among others.

His work has been acquired by ARTE La Lucarne, MUBI, HBO Europe, Filmin, Kinoscope, AppleTV, Amazon, and other platforms. His films have had cinema releases in the UK, Venezuela, and Colombia. Jorge has been granted several fellowships, such as the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rockefeller Foundation–Bellagio Center, Résidence Chalet Mauriac, Südkulturfunds 100 Artists Prize, Cine Qua Non Lab, and the Venice Biennale College. He is an alumnus of ScriptLab, Torino Film Lab, TIFF Studio, Berlinale Script Station, and BAFICI Buenos Aires Lab.

His first film, La Soledad (2016), was presented at the 73rd Venice Film Festival. His second feature, La Fortaleza (2020), was presented in Competition at the 49th International Film Festival of Rotterdam. In 2025 Sundance Film Festival presented his short film Pasta Negra. Death Has No Master, starring Asia Argento, is his third feature film, presented at the 58th edition of Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes Film Festival.