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Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine

2020 | 95 minutes | Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Netherlands, Philippines
Director: Alex Piperno
Writer: Alex Piperno
Languages: Filipino, Spanish
Subtitles: English

Nominated, Best First Feature, 2020 Berlin International Film Festival
Nominated, Grand Prize in the International Competition, 2020 Jeonju Film Festival
Nominated, Best Latin-American film, 2020 Mar del Plata Film Festival

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On a cruise ship somewhere off the Patagonian coast at the southernmost tip of South America, a young crew member accidentally discovers a door in a dark corridor that magically transports him into a woman's apartment in the city of Montevideo. At the same time, far across the Pacific Ocean in the Philippines, villagers discover a mysterious concrete hut near their town and begin to sense that it might possess supernatural powers. What do these strange phenomena mean? Are these portals to some kind of parallel universe? Piperno’s absorbing, enigmatic magic realist drama offers few answers, but plenty of suspense when the woman discovers her maritime visitor,  while those intrepid villagers decide to try to enter that puzzling concrete structure, as baffling a presence as the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. What transpires will startle and surprise in this intriguing, unsettling tale perched between reality and fantasy. Winner of the Tagesspiegel Readers' Award at the Forum section at the Berlin International Film Festival, Piperno’s film was also selected for the prestigious New Directors/New Films program at the Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.

- Tom McSorley


Screening

WednesDAY, MARCH 17 - ThursDAY, MARCH 18

 

Screening contents:

Regret (short film)

Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine