Synopsis
Ricardo Piglia, one of the great contemporary writers, returns to Argentina after having lived many years abroad. He comes back with the purpose of reviewing for the first time the 327 notebooks that constitute his personal diary, the record of his life for more than half a century. As a kind of cinematic diary, the documentary follows the process.
Director's bio
Andrés Di Tella is a filmmaker based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His feature documentaries include “Montoneros, una historia” (1995), “Prohibido” (1997), “La television y yo” (2003), “Fotografías” (2007) and “El país del diablo” (2008), “Hachazos” (2011), “¡Volveremos a las montañas!” (2012). His shorts include the award-winning “Reconstruyen crimen de la modelo” (1990). He also created the Buenos Aires International Festival for Independent Cinema, which he directed in its first editions (1999 and 2000). He is currently director of the Princeton Documentary Festival at Princeton University, where he has also been visiting professor. He is a recipient of the JS Guggenheim Fellowship. Cine Documental en América Latina, edited by Paulo Antonio Paranaguá, places him among the 15 most significant documentary filmmakers in Latin America. Retrospectives of his work have been held at the Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona), Filmoteca Española (Madrid), Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Montevideo), E tudo verdade (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia), Festival dei Popoli (Florence), Festival de Lima.
