- When we get to the last few days, there are few movies left to première. We've seen one by one the directors, producers and actors who have gone through the room and the stage, which brings us a little closer to the creative and creative process. Listening to the authors' live voices is, in itself, the most interesting thing about festivals. There are projects that have had to be interrupted by the pandemic, reformulated by other events, with much improvisation or with some special anecdote that began the creative process. Moreover, those who, after years of work, are showing what they have done may not say so in the film.
In the new directors section today premieres the film Mara Pescio, Argentina's That Weekend. After leaving her daughter and her husband behind for a scam, Julia returns to the long-abandoned neighborhood. The daughter lives there, but her father goes to Paraguay for work and wants to take her there. But he doesn't want to go and he doesn't want his mother to sign her travel permit. The mother, after all, comes to look for the money she has scammed. The film is narrated in parts, as if doses of information were offered gradually. The relationship between mother and daughter is remote, but attempts to outline complicity. However, the character of the mother is special, who does not care for her daughter, and who comes to meet the needs of personal well-being. Although we're more accustomed to these kinds of male characters, the same doesn't happen to female characters, which contrasts, making us unbelievable. Maybe we should think about what that astonishment has in the background. The couple of the daughter, who by chance is a girl, appears as a cross-section. It is beautiful how, without having the epicenter of drama, girls' affective sexual intercourse is sewn normally and without any other purpose (or clear and particular purpose) in history.
Aurora de Paz Fábrega has been in charge of premiering the film that premiered this afternoon in the section Horizontes latinos. The director of Costa Rica participated in the Cinema in Construction programme in Toulouse and has already participated in the San Sebastian Film Festival as director and film producer. On this occasion she has drawn a meeting between a 17-year-old pregnant girl and a 40-year-old woman who will suddenly approach her, deepening her as a mother and her relationship with society. At first, by the will of the young man, only they will know the secret. However, when the evil of hiding occurs, the weight of society as a whole will fall on the unborn child and on the mother who has not yet done so. The director represents with great capacity that unreal moment in which the two women make special decisions; with surrealism at the border, awakening with the outside becomes an unexpected blow. Improvisation has been very present in the creative process of the hand of Paz Fábrega and one of the main actors, Rebeca Woodbridge. When you understand by documentary how much fiction has, its limits slip away.