Let the wind mess up your hair
3–12 December 2021
This year's programme was especially varied — not only because it gathered fiction, documentary and hybrid forms, women and men directors, co-productions between Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain, Germany, Brazil and Norway, but because the subjects, aesthetics and ways of telling were so different.
They share one thing: they are brave films that dare to leave the known paths in theme and form, to surprise us and show that there are other landscapes to discover. All films screened in the original language with English or German subtitles.
The films
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EsquirlasNatalia Garayalde, 2020, 70 Min.
In 1995 the munitions factory in Río Tercero exploded. The director, then twelve, was filming with her father's camera. Twenty-five years on she edits that footage into a chronicle of what was passed off as an accident.
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Familia SumergidaMaría Alché, 2018, 90 Min.
After her sister's death, Marcela moves through an apartment full of objects and memories. The line between the present and the absent grows porous.
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LópezUlises Rosell, 2021, 92 Min.
A portrait of Marcos López, one of the defining figures of Latin American photography — close up, unvarnished, amid work and family.
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Los niños de DiosMartín Farina, 2021, 69 Min.
Francisco and Sol grew up outside the system, in a religious community called “La Familia Internacional”. In telling their story they reclaim their voices and name what had been denied.
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Los TiburonesLucía Garibaldi, 2019, 80 Min.
Rosina, fourteen, claims to have seen a shark in the lagoon. Whether it is true stays open — the summer on the Uruguayan coast changes her either way.
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Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojosLuis Torres, 2019, 90 Min.
Two women withdraw to southern Chile because one of them is terminally ill. A film made of water, forest and the time that remains.
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Los VisionadoresNéstor Frenkel, 2021, 52 Min.
Two friends fall for Argentine crime movies on VHS at the video store. A weekly habit turns into an addiction — and into an affectionate, mocking monument to second-tier cinema.