PANORAMA SPECIAL

El rey del Once | Aka The Tenth Man

Daniel Burman

Ari, who has built a successful career in New York, thinks he has left his past behind. But his distant father Usher who runs a Jewish aid foundation in El Once, the close-knit old Jewish neighborhood of Buenos Aires, summons him back to his native city. What ensues is a comedy of errors, of missed and found people and connections, and a rumination on the extent to which we can ever really leave our past behind.

PANORAMA

La helada negra | The Black Frost

Maximiliano Schonfeld

In a world disconnected from time, ancestors of European immigrants cultivate their land and traditions, but the plantations of the Lell brothers farm are devastated by a frost. And yet when a mysterious young woman appears, the frost stops. Hope emerges among the villagers, who start to worship her like a saint.

GENERATION / SHORT FILM

El inicio de Fabrizio | Fabrizio’s Iniciation

Mariano Biasin

A small town. Summer in all its splendor. Fabrizio is dating Nadia, they are experiencing the beginnings of adolescence and they are ready to have their first time together. The problem is they don’t have a place. Fabrizio looks for help among his friends, of whom many also share his anxieties. Together they come up with a plan: to buy their neighbor’s old car, then take it to an isolated field outside the town, and transform it into a love nest. After great collective effort and organization, the children get the money to buy the car, always doing the impossible so that the adults will never discover their plan.

GENERATION KPLUS

Rara

Pepa San Martín

Being interested in boys, thinking they’re stupid, being really close to your best friend and keeping secrets from her, having trouble in school and having annoying parents: these are the kind of problems a 13-year-old girl is faced with. For Sara, all of that has nothing to do with the fact that her mother lives with another woman. Her father doesn’t see it that way though. daad Short Film Award winner Pepa San Martín (Berlinale Shorts 2011: La Ducha) takes a real-life Chilean custody battle as the inspiration for her feature-film debut.

LOLA AT BERLINALE

Un Tango Más | Our Last Tango

German Kral

Documentarian German Kral chronicles the seven-decade career of Argentine tango legends Juan Carlos Copes and Maria Nieves.