The director is excited to present her debut feature at the festival.
You can see Germany in the Argentine competition at the 38th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, directed by María Zanetti. We talked to her about the project, which is a beautiful story about a young woman living at home and trying to cope with crisis and illness.
—What difference did it make for you to show the film in Mar del Plata?
– This is for the people you wrote this movie and imagined sitting there. I had friends come to a screening one day. I was shocked at how moving the movie, love and emotions were.
——Are you ready to say what you want to say?
– Whatever comes up now, I will do it because I started to prepare but it didn’t come out and especially today it was the happiest premiere of the people around me and it makes me nervous because people are close to me Says it will be seen. I’m glad even though you exposed yourself and had a similar moment.
——How did the idea for this movie come about?
– It was clear to me that I was going to start writing a script about this disease to tell this story. I was in the middle of a pandemic and I was watching a lot of coming-of-age movies when I found a perspective that told this story. The point of view of adolescence is when everything starts to flow. I started thinking about what I wanted to say, in what tone, from what angle, and I knew I didn’t want to make a pessimistic film, I was also sad, and I didn’t want everything to be colored. And the imagination goes to a more vulnerable, lighter place to balance. Grief seems like a very solemn state to me, but I feel like it comes with a lot of other things.
– This was a moment of transition and a moment of Germany’s search for freedom, but you’re talking about a precise time, what was it like to reconstruct that moment?
– When I choose my time, I start investigating what we see, screens, how we relate to less screens, I have a suitcase full of memories, and announcements, so many things, that I dedicate to Art, I suddenly found myself in the main character’s room with my stuff. There’s a sense of nostalgia that appeals to me, even more so during the pandemic, when we’re finding photos, developing videotapes, and starting to build universes that are part allegory.