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International Competition

WINDOW BOY WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HAVE A SUBMARINE
CHICO VENTANA TAMBIÉN QUISIERA TENER UN SUBMARINO

• Director: Alex Piperno
• URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, THE NETHERLANDS, THE PHILIPPINES  / 2020 / Colour / 80’ / Spanish, Tuwali; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Alex Piperno
• Director of Photography: Manuel Rebella
• Editing: Alex Piperno, Alejo Santos, Karen Akerman
• Cast: Daniel Quiroga, Inés Bortagaray, Noli Tobol
• Producer: Alex Piperno
• Production Co.: La pobladora cine
• World Sales: Square Eyes

- 2020 Istanbul Special Jury Prize

This debut feature is a fantasy film that premiered at Berlinale’s Forum section. A crew member at a cruise ship off the Patagonian coast discovers a magic door that opens to the apartment of a woman somewhere in South America. At the same time, in a jungle in the Philippines, a concrete shack appears, which some of the natives revere and some are scared of. The two distinct narratives that rarely intersect flow like a ship floating silently in the dark in a cinematographic labyrinth. Through intriguing imagery and mysterious characters, Uruguayan director Alex Piperno subtly tells us that in order to travel towards others, we sometimes need to let ourselves go.

*Some scenes depicting sexuality/violence in this film might disturb certain viewers.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.