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MALINTZIN 17

By Mara POLGOVSKY, Eugenio POLGOVSKY

PIANO - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, MEXICO / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2022

The director and his five-year-old daughter film a nesting bird from a window. The girl’s curiosity is provoked, sparking conversations about the relationship between humans and nature and the very meaning of filmmaking.

Festivals
& Awards

BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2022
Rotterdam IFFR 2022
Tiger Competition
Visions du Réel 2022
Latitudes
Thessaloniki IFF 2022
Newcomers Competition
Cinéma du réel 2022
Special screenings
ficunam 2022
International Competition - Special Mention
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    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • MEXICO
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 64 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mara POLGOVSKY, Eugenio POLGOVSKY
    • Writer(s)
    • Mara POLGOVSKY
    • Producer(s)
    • Julio CHAVEZMONTES (PIANO), Mara POLGOVSKY (Tecolote Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Minimalist in resources and filmed from the unusual vantage-point of a second-floor apartment window, Malintzin 17 portrays two parallel expressions of parental care. For seven days and nights filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky and his five-year-old daughter, Milena, contemplate a nurturing dove nesting her chick on a hazardous entanglement of electric cables situated right outside their balcony. The dove endures the cold and torrential rain, while Milena makes puzzled inquiries to her father about the bird’s location, its stillness, the meaning – and perils – of filming it, its true nature (is it a robot?), and potential ways to assist it (does she need food? Will the chick learn to fly?). Wielding a handheld camera from this elevated point of view, which parallels the bird’s, the film constructs a microscopic yet powerful environmental critique of nature’s entrapment within the aggressive infrastructures of modernity.
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