Thursday, February 4
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Join us for a special conversation with director Paula Hernández, director of The Sleepwalkers / Los sonámbulos, Argentina’s official candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, moderated by filmmaker Julia Solomonoff (Nobody’s Watching).

A poignant and engaging drama about a family in crisis framed by the fraught relationship between a mother and her daughter, The Sleepwalkers boasts a terrific cast featuring Érica Rivas (Wild Tales), Luis Ziembrowski (The Boss, Anatomy of a Crime), Daniel Hendler (The Moneychanger), and the fantastic newcomer Ornella D'Elía—who was nominated for Breakthrough Actress in both of Argentina’s main film awards, the Silver Condor and Sur awards.  

The film follows Luisa, who is spending her New Year’s holiday with her husband and her 14-year-old daughter—Ana, a sleepwalker during a critical point of adolescence—at her mother-in-law’s country house with other family members. But what was hoped to be a leisurely summer vacation explodes as Luisa and Ana contend with pressures pushing them to their limits.

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Paula Hernández. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Paula Hernández graduated from the Instituto Vocacional de Arte in 1988 and from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires in 1996. Her many directorial credits include the short films 22 Kilometer (1997), Eva (2003), and Mala sangre (2010), and the feature films Inheritance (2001), Rain (2008), Un amor (2011), and The Sleepwalkers (2019). The Siamese Bond (2020), which had its world premiere at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, is her latest film. She has built a solid filmography telling stories in which characters from different worlds are brought together.

Julia Solomonoff is a graduate of the Centro de Experimentación y Realización Cinematográfica in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a Fulbright graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program. Her feature films include Hermanas (Toronto 2005, Sundance Lab and Berlinale Talent Campus), The Last Summer of la Boyita (San Sebastian 2009, produced by Almodovar, winner of over 20 international awards) and Nobody’s Watching, winner of Best Actor Award at Tribeca Film Festival 2017 and was a New York Times and Village Voice Critic’s Pick when it opened at Film Forum. Her producing credits include: Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, Everybody has a Plan, Celina Murga’s The Third Bank of the River, Julia Murat’s Pendular and Found Memories and Alejandro Landes’ Cocalero. She’s currently Head of Directing of Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College.