El futuro perfecto, Nele Wohlatz, Argentina, 2016, 65', OV in Spanish, DCP
Xiobin is 17-year-old Chinese girl who has just arrived in Buenos Aires and does not speak a word of Spanish. But only a few days later she has a new name, Beatriz, gets a job in a Chinese supermarket and secretly starts saving money to enrol at a language school. Her family, in the meantime, live and work in a launderette, in a hermetic world completely alienated from Argentinean life.
This second feature by German-Argentine director Nele Wohlatz is a subtle portrait of everyday life and the solitude of immigration. It is also one of the films of the year and has won awards at festival after festival: Best First Film, Youth Jury Special Award and Boccalino Independent Critics' Award at the Locarno 2016 Festival, for example, or Best First Feature at the Zinebi Festival, Bilbao.
'El futuro perfecto' is the second feature by German-Argentine director Nele Wohlatz is a subtle portrait of everyday life and the solitude of immigration. It is also one of the films of the year and has won awards at festival after festival.