El lugar de la otra by Maite Alberdi
The San Sebastian Film Festival unveiled today the lineup for the Golden Shell official competition for its 72nd edition, which includes two Latin American titles: the world premieres of the latest films by Chilean Academy Award-nominated director Maite Alberdi and Argentine filmmaker Diego Lerman.
Alberdi (The Mole Agent, The Eternal Memory) will make her first bid for the Golden Shell with her debut fiction film, El lugar de la otra, an adaptation of a case featured in Alia Trabucco Zerán’s essay Las homicidas. The film, starring Elisa Zulueta, Francisca Lewin, Marcial Tagle, Pablo Macaya, and Gabriel Urzúa, tells the true story of popular writer María Carolina Geel, who shot her lover dead in 1955.
The case captivates Mercedes, the shy secretary of the judge in charge. After visiting the writer's apartment, Mercedes begins to question her life, identity, and the role of women in society as she finds an oasis of freedom in that home.
Lerman returns to San Sebastian’s official competition for the third time with The Man Who Loved UFOs / El hombre que amaba los platos voladores, a film about Argentine television’s best-known audiovisual recording of alien presence. Set in 1986, the film stars Leonardo Sbaraglia, Sergio Prina, Osmar Nuñez, and Renata Lerman, and follows journalist José de Zer and his cameraman Chango as they investigate an unusual proposal from two shady characters.
Arriving in a small town with little to see except a scorched field surrounded by hills, what happened next was a genius work of exaggeration that created the most famous audiovisual recording of alien presence in Argentine television history.
The 72nd edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will take place from September 20-28 in Spain.
