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La idea de un lago (The Idea of a Lake) (2017 Feature Film)

Milagros Mumenthaler | Argentina, Switzerland, Qatar | 2016 | color | 82 min | Spanish | c.s.

Milagros Mumenthaler returns with a playful family drama set amongst stunning Argentinian mountains. Photographer Inès is pregnant and wants to find out about her father, who disappeared. She only has a single, old photograph of him. Dreamy fantasy elements are expertly interwoven with her reconnaissance of intimacy and undisclosed history.
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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

Argentina
Switzerland
Qatar

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)