Double bill, to present Argentinean director Manuel Abramovich’s (Buenos Aires, 1987) films.
La Reina is the portrait of a girl who is taking part in a beauty queen contest. One of those films that had a successful run through festivals across the world, winning over 30 international awards (among them Best Documentary at DocumentaMadrid).
Solar is a journey to the stars. In 1991, Flavio Cabobianco published his book “Vengo del sol” (“I’ve Just Come From The Sun”), in which, at the age of only ten, he was already philosophizing about God and different Universes. The book was a best seller in Argentina and was translated into several languages. Flavio rapidly became a New Age phenomenon. Twenty years later, he decided to re-edit his book and accepted the offer to film a documentary on the history of his family. But the project ran into difficulty and developed into a power struggle between director and lead actor.
Director’s note: “Solar is, in a way, a failed film. The story of a film-shoot I could never carry out. Not the way I’d planned it at any rate. It’s the story of a kid considered special twenty years ago, but it’s probably also the story of my failure as a director during the shooting of my first film. What is certainly true though is that thanks to Flavio and his vision of the world, I came to understand that making documentaries is, precisely, coming to see how things can constantly slip out of your hands and control. I understood then that Solar is a kind of prologue for other films I may make in the future.
Double bill, to present Argentinean director Manuel Abramovich’s (Buenos Aires, 1987) films.