Mariposa

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A butterfly, a creature symbolising rebirth and a new beginning, epitomises Romina’s and Javier’s world, a world that consists of two parallel realities. In one of them they grow up as siblings who desire each other and try to give shape to their love without sexual fulfilment; in the other they are a young man and woman who form an awkward friendship instead of succumbing to their feelings for each other. Javier finds himself in a discordant relationship with Mariela. Mariela’s brother is interested in Bruno. Bruno is with Romina, but wants to be with Javier. Playfully alternating between these two realities, the lovers find themselves drawn into ever new couplings in order to explore their intuitive feelings – cautiously, but at the same time prepared to lose everything. Marco Berger, who won the 2011 Teddy Award, takes a fascinating film idea and turns it into an impressive universe of endlessly diverse approaches to friendship and love. This is an unusually dynamic space in which emotional insecurity, sexual confusion, incest, self-deception, intuition and spiritual bonding all find their place.

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  • Runtime

    102 min
  • Country

    Argentina
  • Year of Presentation

    2015
  • Year of Production

    2015
  • Director

    Marco Berger
  • Cast

    Ailín Salas, Javier De Pietro, Julián Infantino, Malena Villa
  • Production Company

    Oh My Gómez Films
  • Berlinale Section

    Panorama
  • Berlinale Category

    Feature Film

Biography Marco Berger

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977, he studied film in Norway and at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires before directing his first short film, UNA ÚLTIMA VOLUNTAD in 2007. His second feature film, ABSENT, screened in the Berlinale Forum in 2011. His film project HAWAII was financed by crowdfunding.

Filmography Marco Berger

2007 Una Última Voluntad | 2008 El Reloj | 2009 Plan B | 2013 Hawaii