Siesta
La hora de la siesta- ARGENTINA / 2009 / Spanish / B&W / 75 min (Original: 35mm)
Director, Script: Sofía Mora
Photography: Diego Poleri, Matías Iaccarino
Editing: Sofía Mora, Néstor Frenkel
Sound: Diego Gat
Music: Javier Ntaca
Art Director: Micaela Mirabile
Cast: Belén Poviña, Elías Maidanik, Francisco Arena
Producer: Néstor Frenkel (vamosviendo cine)
Mourners bustle into the home of children who have just lost their father. Struggling to accept reality, the siblings slip away to wander into town. The streets are eerily silent, emptied of people. Only time passes—fleeting and fragile. This is the only fiction film in the program.
To Insist
Insistir- ARGENTINA / 2023 / Spanish / Color / 11 min
Director: Luna Mato Chague
Script: Martina Cruz
Photography: Camila Zanotti Galarza
Editing: Lucía Olazábal
Sound: Clementina Mourier
Production Design: Nayra Insua
Producer: María Belén Boschele
Production Companies: Escuela Nacional de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica (ENERC), Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)
A faded black-and-white photograph shows a woman named Azucena Villaflor, found dead on a beach in December 1977. Why did she have to die? From this single remaining image, the film pieces together a hidden chapter of Argentina’s history—reconstructed through fragments of memory.
The House Within
- NEW ZEALAND / 2024 / English / Color / 71 min
Director: Joshua Prendeville
Photography: Bill Bycroft
Editing: Cushla Dillon, Richard Shaw
Sound Design: Tom Scott-Toft
Composer: Xavier Mañetto
Producers: Kerry Prendeville, Victoire Maderou, Joshua Prendeville
Writer Fiona Kidman recounts her life story. The documentary draws solely on Fiona’s subjective memory, as it presents light and shadow from her life, and captures fluctuations and nuances of emotion. As she reads from her own work, the subtle yet striking language takes your breath away.