Aldana y León

Argentina

Categoría: Ficción/Narrative

Temática: Relaciones, Violencia de género

Duración: 20'

Sinopsis por Julia Amigo

Mientras vende ropa en un mercado callejero, Aldana pierde a su hijo León, que jugaba en unos columpios frente a ella. Al dirigirse a la comisaría con una amiga para interponer una denuncia, la policía ningunea su historia y ella decide emprender su propio camino para recuperar a su hijo. Esta decisión la hará enfrentarse a su pasado: aquello que la hizo huir de casa llevándose con ella al niño.

Victoria Andino

Con una protagonista de una expresividad cruda y veraz, el corto plantea muchas cuestiones que trae consigo la violencia de género: el desamparo tras la huida, el maltrato de las instituciones y la falta de apoyos legales y sociales. El final, sin embargo, abrirá una senda para la resistencia y el escape demostrando que existen salidas al maltrato machista.

While selling clothes in a street market, Aldana loses her son León, who was playing on the swings in front of her. When she goes to the police station with a friend to file a complaint, the police ignore her story and she decides to go her own way to get her son back. This decision will make her face her past and the reason she run away from home, taking the child with her.

With a protagonist of a crude and truthful expressiveness, the short raises many questions that gender violence brings with it: the helplessness after the run away, the mistreatment of the institutions and the lack of legal and social support. The end, however, will open a path for resistance and escape, showing that there are ways out of sexist abuse.

Victoria Andino is a Film Director graduated from ENERC (National Film School of Argentina) and a Bachelor of Audiovisual Education (UnSAM). She is also an Actress graduated from the Provincial Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Buenos Aires. She works in films and advertising as Casting Director and Assistant Director. She is Director of Studies and teacher at the Vicente Viola de La Plata School of Photography. His graduation thesis, the short film “El Secreto de la Sangre” (2006), was internationally awarded at the Biarritz festivals LFF, Uncipar, Müchen, IoIsabella, Viart was selected in the Official Competition of San Sebastián IFF, Guadalajara IFF, Argecine, Bogotá, among others. "A Woman Knows (A Woman Knows)" is her debut feature and is in the process of development. It is a co-production between AHCINE and Bikini Films from Argentina, CYAN from Chile, Black Forest Films from Germany and Dolce Vita from France.