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A While at the Border
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A While at the Border

A While at the Border

Una temporada en la frontera
Ile Dell Unti
Argentina
2024
143 min
International Premiere
Luminous
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

Argentine sisters Julia and Claudia Meirama were promising architecture students at the University of La Plata until in 1977, under the dictatorship, Claudia was kidnapped and tortured, and forced to flee to Sweden. Julia stayed behind in the north of Argentina. For years, they corresponded in an attempt to bridge the distance.

In A While at the Border, their letters are read aloud, providing an intimate insight into what it is like to rebuild a life after surviving a murderous regime. The images consist solely of everyday cityscapes in the two countries: offices, metro corridors, escalators, parks, restaurants, football fields.

The sisters write to each other candidly, not only about love, their studies and their mother, but also about the position of women, rising unemployment and the political situation in Argentina. As the years pass, the letters reveal more and more acutely how the differences in the two countries have real consequences for the sisters, whose lives, to their own sorrow, are becoming increasingly divergent.

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Tickets & Times
Tue, november 19
20:30 – 23:10
Tuschinski 5

Wed, november 20
14:30 – 17:15
Pathé City 6

Fri, november 22
18:30 – 20:57
Pathé City 1

Sat, november 23
15:30 – 17:57
Het Documentaire Paviljoen: De Spiegel

Sun, november 24
13:00 – 15:27
Pathé City 7
Credits
143 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish, English
Director
    Ile Dell Unti
    Ile Dell Unti
Production
    Lara Decuzzi
    Lara Decuzzi
Executive producer
    Lara Decuzzi
    Lara Decuzzi
Cinematography
    Franco Palazzo
    Franco Palazzo
Editing
    Ile Dell Unti
    Ile Dell Unti
Sound
    Marilina Giménez
    Marilina Giménez
Sound Design
    Ramiro Díaz Agüero
    Ramiro Díaz Agüero
Screenplay
    Ile Dell Unti,
    Juan Hendel
    Ile Dell Unti,
    Juan Hendel
Screening copy
    Ile Dell Unti
    Ile Dell Unti

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