Sometimes a space of barely one kilometer can hide a universe of interoceanic adventures and family sagas. In the two blocks of Arribeños street between Juramento and Olazábal, sits what is known as Chinatown, a place that hides the possibility of several parallel universes between its two borders, the ones of the generations of Taiwanese and Chinese people who came to Argentina –those who barely speak Spanish, those who work hard to learn Mandarin, those who feel porteños to the core, and those who still dream of returning to their homeland, 40 years later. Marcos Rodríguez is generous and intelligent enough to avoid struggling against this amount of stories and information, and basically gives away his images to the testimonies of those who live their everyday life in Arribeños. And he does so through a seemingly (and only seemingly) simple structure and an amazing eye that is able to capture the everyday mornings of the neighborhood, a nation sitting between two blocks poet Song Lin evokes in his moving Barrio Chino. FG
Section: Competencia Oficial ArgentinaD, G: Marcos Rodríguez
F: Ada Frontini
E: Federico Mercuri, Matías Mercuri
S: Gerardo Kalmar
PE: Rosalía Ortíz de Zárate
CP: Rebecca Films
I: Antonio Chang, Ana Kuo, Maximo Lee, Gustavo Ng, Carlitos Lin
Rebecca Films. Marcos Rodríguez
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E marcos.g.rodriguez@hotmail.com - rosaliaortizdezarate@gmail.com
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Born in 1982, he studied Literature at Universidad del Salvador and worked as a Spanish language and German Literature professor. He works as an English, Italian and German translator. He studied Film Criticism in El Amante/Escuela. The film La educación gastronómica (2012) was his directorial debut.
05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
