HORTENSIA

By Alvaro URTIZBEREA, Diego LUBLINSKY

VISTA SUR FILMS - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2015

Hortensia's father is electrocuted with the refrigerator, she is fired from work and her boyfriend cheats on her with her best friend. Desperate, follows her adolescent goals: "to marry a blond boy and to design the most beautiful shoe." Things will get worse while she don’t listen to her true self.

Festivals
& Awards

Mar Del Plata IFF 2015
Competencia Argentina
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Comedy, Romance
    • Countries
    • ARGENTINA
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alvaro URTIZBEREA, Diego LUBLINSKY
    • Writer(s)
    • Alicia GIMENEZ GUSPI
    • Producer(s)
    • Alvaro URTIZBEREA (VISTA SUR SRL)
    • Synopsis
    • It’s December, Hortensia’s (22) father is electrocuted when he opens the refrigerator door. On the last day of the year she is fired from work. That same night, she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend. Alone and anxious, she finds a letter she wrote when she was fourteen. It reads: “Goals for Happiness: to marry a boy who is blond like my father and to design the most beautiful shoe in the world.” Her life suddenly regains meaning and she immediately makes decisions to fulfill her objectives. Unable to find solutions, things will only get worse while she fails to listen to her true self.