Una temporada en la frontera

CountryArgentina Year2024 Duration142 min. Projection formatDCP LanguageSpanish DirectionIle Dell'Unti WriterIle Dell’Unti y Juan Hendel PhotographyFranco Palazzo Production Lara Decuzzi FestivalsDoc Buenos Aires, IDFA, FICER

Spanish premiere

 

An epistolary documentary that reconstructs the memory of the exile of two sisters, architects, separated by the last Argentine military dictatorship, after Julia escapes to Formosa, in northern Argentina, and Claudia to Lund, in southern Sweden.

Two sisters, Julia and Claudia Meirama, send letters to one another across an ocean. One is in Argentina and the other in Sweden. Their correspondence begins in 1977, when Claudia flees the country after being kidnapped and tortured by the military dictatorship. The film constructs a text, a story if you will, with that series of letters dated between 1977 and 1994. As we progress through the letters, an intimacy is built through the details they contain: there is a harshness in that distance of kilometres and years, but there is also a sweetness. Different sides of their bond are revealed over time, leading to certain questions: How can two people so used to thinking as one face life apart? How is a worldview rebuilt when that community of two is separated by distance? Both sisters were studying architecture together at a time when architecture was changing radically. Concerned by the way in which the spaces of the world are designed, living apart produces a state of disorientation that we witness alongside images of places with opposing characteristics. Forced to communicate in fragments, the film provides a kind of life story/dotted line in which we can fill the gaps: ellipses in time, space and emotions. The spectator is intrigued: Will they ever see one another again? Will Claudia return when democracy returns? What will happen to them, their lives, their jobs, their attachment? Bit by bit, each one builds an image of their country for the other: Sweden in the seventies, full of exiled Latin Americans just trying to fit into the place and the people. Argentina in the seventies, eighties and nineties , with a genocide that gives free reign to criminal economic policy. Una temporada en la frontera ties together those threads of history while also tackling the present. A generation of young people who followed a path full of potholes; almost a survival handbook. The film is also written with two bodies; those of the actresses who read the letters and who appear and disappear in the spaces explored by the film: Concordia, Formosa, Buenos Aires, La Plata, Lund... The architecture of each space, with their public spaces —the river, the university, the square, a library, the door to Pippo (a famous restaurant in central Buenos Aires)— provides a serene image on which to project the movements of those sisters who tried for decades to rebuild for each other an idea of the world they lived in and the world they wanted to live in.

Lucías Salas

Promoted by
Gobierno de Navarra
Organized by
NICDO
With the aid of
Con la financiación del Gobierno de España. Instituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales Acción Cultural Española Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia Financiado por la Unión Europea. NexGenerationEU
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