Synopsis:
From one moment to the next, Marina’s face changed. As in a Kafkaesque nightmare, one day around her thirtieth birthday her face ceased to be what it was. Who is Marina now? Through her story, the film plunges into an enquiry into the meaning of the face, the core of our identity and how we encounter others, whether human or non-human.
Can we be someone beyond our face, beyond our image?
Nationality: Argentina
Year: 2022
Running time: 75 min
Director: Melisa Liebenthal
Produced by Gentil & Zona Audiovisual
Executive producer: Eugenia Campos Guevara, Agustín Gagliardi
Screenplay: Agustín Godoy, Melisa Liebenthal
Editing: Florencia Gómez García
Sound: Mercedes Gaviria Jaramillo
Costume design: Florencia Caligiuri
Make up: Lucía Rastelli
Director assistant: Felipe Solari Yrigoyen
Production manager: Camila Albertocchi
Location manager: Rogelio Navarro
Music: Inés Copertino
Cast:
Rocío Stellato
Vladimir Durán
Camila Toker
Roberto Liebenthal
Irene Bosch
Federico Sack
Alicia Labraga.
Biography
Melisa Liebenthal (1991, Buenos Aires) is a film director and editor. Her work reflects on the theme of identity and its relation to the construction of an image, in playful essay films that combine different registers, from documentary to fiction and visual experimentations.
She has won awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, BAFICI, Queer Lisboa and Punto de Vista, and screened at the New York Film Festival, Edinburgh IFF and Oberhausen Internationale Kurzfilmtage, among others.
She holds a degree in film from the Universidad del Cine in Argentina and from Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. She obtained a specialisation in Editing and Dramatic Structure with Professor Miguel Pérez in Argentina, and in Film Essay at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents (2021) and FID Campus (2018).
2022. El Rostro de la Medusa (75’)
2019. Aquí y allá (21′)
2018. Constanza (27′)
2016, Las lindas (77′)
