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Visit Films Acquires International Rights to Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato’s Pensive San Sebastián New Director’s Title ‘Surfacing’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The feature length drama screens as part of the fest’s New Director’s strand.
Once again pivoting from established and rigid gender norms, in “Surfacing,” Atán and Pivato manage a simmering account of Sofía (Maricel Álvarez ), a woman torn between the love and loyalty she’s meant to dole out to her misguided son (Angelo Mutti Spinetta) and the happiness she’s found while being apart from him during his incarceration. “With this film, our second, we further explore the questions about motherhood, a role society has expected women to embrace since time immemorial, that we asked in our first joint production, ‘TheDesert Bride,'” Atán and Pivato said in a statement. Filmed at singular Buenos Aires locations, like the antiquated Chacarita Cemetery, the directors pay slight homage to a city also yearning to come to terms with the duality that exists beneath its facade.
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