Women directors predominate in today’s national premieres

Amplia majority of women directors show this week’s cinematographic premieres, both in fiction and in documentaries. To highlight, “The arrival of the son” and “Good luck of pines”.

With “The arrival of the son” They come back Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivatothe directors of that delight that was “The desert girlfriend”filmed in San Juan, with the Chilean Paulina García Living an intrigue that was pleasant for the public (and finally also for the woman’s character, at first distrustful of what that big truck driver could do and too attentive embodied by Claudio Rissi).

Now, in “The arrival of the son”there is more than one intrigue, but almost all painful. The boy who years ago arrived in the world, so innocent, now comes to the house on probation, convicted of homicide aboard a vehicle. Duel, disappointment, resentment, anguish, even anger, is perceived in the mother. Also love, but broken. In those circumstances, will there be room for maternal forgiveness? That largely depends on the child. Intense performance of Maricel Alvarezseconded by Angelo Mutti Spinetta, Cristina Banegas and Greta Fernández. Good step ahead of the directors in the management of the tools of cinema, language, emotion and silences.

Salduero, 1954, a Soriano town. In view of all, pretending to avenge an alleged infidelity, a man kills his wife and mother -in -law. This is how “Good luck of pines” Lorena Muñozgreat -granddaughter and granddaughter of these poor women, and confirmed the legal proceedings laboriously achieved, while the last witnesses, 70 years long from that fact, are covered by dismembered. Almost no one collaborates with that intruder that comes from so far to remove blame from the past. But she still advances, and reveals the evils that still persist since ancient times, not only in lost villages. This is not a fiction, it is a documentary, of the same director of “María Soledad. The end of silence”.

Changing tone, going for barilocense zone, appears “Summer Trippin”of the debutant Morena Fernández Quinterosa work that begins in a youthful and colorful comedy tone, and goes to the thriller when the protagonist girls, believing that nothing will happen to them, decide to finance selling marijuana. Narcos do not admit competition, and corrupt police do not plan to help them. Designed for adolescents and twenty -year -olds, the film entertains, warns and in parts fun. Zoe Hochbaum and Miranda de la Serna They make a good pair, Lali Espósito It makes bad, Ariel Staltari, Manu Fanego, Valentin Wein and Juan Grandinetti They complete the cast.

It is appropriate to include in this review a fresh branches of double merit: “Path Indian”of Daniela Seggiarohumbly released a few days ago. Humile also the director, always attentive to the indigenous issue, which this time, instead of a semi -infection like its previous “Nosilatiaj” and “Husek”wraps, comments and makes the work of another visible, rescuing the images recorded in 1991 by Miguel Angel Lorenzomember of a Wichi community of the Salteño Chaco. Of course, as Martín Fierro said, “that was not a job, rather it was a function”, because we see the wichis in a good mood, chatting, collecting medicinal plants, celebrating school acts, in short, the own thing of anyone who takes advantage of a video camera to record good times. The detail is that these images were part of a series of testimonies delivered to Justice, within a fighting of decades to achieve the title of ownership of the land where they had always lived. The good thing is that in the end they were right.

Of the Jujeña Puna, and a little also from other parts of Jujuy, it is Wara Calpachaya very enthusiastic and unlisved little girl who both shepherds and acts in public playing the violin and reciting glosses of invocation to the Pachamama, the native culture and the care of the environment. His music is fusion, abbreviated among the European violin roots, the Andean roots of their ancestors and also other sources of these times. I could well play in Cosquin as in a Lollapalooza or the Colón Theater. Miguel Kohan He knew her when she went to film “THE DECEWOR” And, good documentary filmmaker, he decided to follow her in her daily life and put her thoughts and love with grandmothers. The result, made in beautiful black and white with occasional moments of color, is simply titled “Animu”.

To the end, a jewel that, for now, will only be seen next Sunday, in single function in the Gaumont: “Painted the island”of Eduardo Sierra. Few still know that, to impulses from Gerardo Montes de Ocahigh school professor, the walls of Maciel Island are filled with murals, first painted by their students, then by artists of varied fame, even international fame, and by neighbors. The gray of the island is also changing, perhaps the bad reputation of other times.
“The arrival of the son” (Argentina-Spain, 2024); Dir.; Cecilia Atan and Valeria Pivato; Int.: Maricel Alvarez, Angelo Mutti Spinetta, Cristina Banegas, Greta Fernández.

“Good luck of pines” (Argentina-Spain, 2024); Dir.: Lorena Muñoz; documentary.

“Summer Trippin” (Argentina, 2025); Dir.: Morena Fernández Quinteros; Int.: Miranda de la Serna, Zoe Hochbaum, Lali Espósito, Ariel Staltari, Manu Fanego, Valentin Wein, Juan Grandinetti.

“Path Indian” (Argentina, 2024); Dir.: Daniela Seggiaro; documentary.

“Animu” (Argentina, 2024); Dir.: Miguel Kohan, documentary.

“Painted the island” (Argentina, 2025); Dir.: Eduardo Sierra; documentary.