10th edtion CIFF – 10-14 April 2024
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Milagros Mumenthaler | Argentina, Switzerland, Qatar | 2016 | color | 82 min | Spanish | c.s.
Inès’s father mysteriously disappeared in 1977. Decades later the 35-year old photographer is busy compiling a monograph on her oeuvre, a project that inexplicably leads her back to her youth during Argentinian dictator Jorge Videla’s regime.
The film opens with her contacting the national forensic lab: can they perhaps help her discover her father’s fate? The last photo of him, taken at the lake near La Angostura, comes to her mind. After that she spent her summers without him in this mountainous region at her family’s vacation home, far from Buenos Aires’ oppressive heat. Cherished memories, such as playing hide and seek, lead to abstract interplays of light in Inès’s imagination. Other flashbacks shed new light on her difficult relationship with her mother.
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 6 April 2017
Time: 16:00
Duration: 1:16
Place: CINEMA 5
Date: 8 April 2017
Time: 19:30
Duration: 1:15
Place: CINEMA 3
Date: 9 April 2017
Time: 12:00
Duration: 1:11
Year in
Festival
2017
Director
Milagros Mumenthaler
Camera
Gabriel Sandru
Cast
Carla Crespo
Rosario Bléfari
Malena Moirón
Juan Bautista Greppi
Juan Barberini
Joaquin Pok
Country
Editor
Gion-Reto Killias
Language
Spanish
Length
82 min
Producer
Violeta Bava
Ruda Cine
Rosa Martínez Rivero
Ruda Cine
David Epiney
Alina Film
Eugenia Mumenthaler
Alina Film
Production Company
Ruda Cine
Alina Film
Production Design
Sebastián Orgambide
Sales
Ruda Cine
Scenario
Milagros Mumenthaler
Sound Design
Etienne Curchod
Year of Production
2016
Milagros MUMENTHALER (1977, Argentina) grew up in Switzerland. At the age of 19 she returned to Buenos Aires, where she was educated in filmmaking at the Universidad del Cine. Her feature film debut, Back to Stay (2011), was awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. The Idea of a Lake (2017) is her second feature film.
Filmography
A que hora llega papá? (2000, short), Cape Cod (2003, short), El patio/The Patio (2004, short), Amancay (2007, short), Abrir puertas y ventanas/Back to Stay (2011), Menuet (2012, short), La idea de un lago/The Idea of a Lake (2017)