Synopsis
Constanza, a domestic worker with meticulous and almost obsessive methods, works for Irene, a 65-year-old woman in a wheelchair. A snapshot of the meeting between two solitudes.
Director's bio
Melisa Liebenthal is a film director graduated from Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. She specialized in essay-film at Escuela Internacional de
Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. Between 2017 and 2019, she was a resident at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in France,
where she was mentored by Béla Tarr and Patrick Jouin and from where she graduated with honors, being granted a residency at Villa Medicis in Rome.
Her first feature film, Las lindas / The pretty ones (2016), won the Bright Future Award at IFFR, Best Argentinian Director at BAFICI and Best Film at Asterisco IFF in Buenos Aires; and was screened in dozens of festivals around the world, such as Torino, Edinburgh, Mar del Plata and Seattle.
Her short film Constanza (2018) was awarded Best Short Film of the In my shorts Competition at Queer Lisboa.
Her short film Aquí y allá / Here and there (2019) won Les Amis du Fresnoy Prize for Best Film of Panorama 21 at Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing, France, and had its World Premiere at the Tiger Short Competition of IFFR 2020.
