The Future Perfect
New Directors/New Films 2017
March 15 - 26, 2017
Best First Feature winner at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival, Wohlatz’s playful, assured debut concerns a Chinese teenager newly arrived in Argentina and enrolled in Spanish classes. As she learns the language’s conditional tense, she imagines a constellation of possible futures. Screens with Three Sentences About Argentina (Nele Wohlatz, 5m).
Winner of the Best First Feature prize at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival, Nele Wohlatz’s assured debut is a playful, exceptionally idea-rich work of fiction with documentary fragments. Seventeen-year-old Xiaobin arrives in Argentina from China unable to speak Spanish. Employed at a Chinese grocery store, she saves up enough money to pay for language classes, and enters into a secret romance with a young Indian man, Vijay. As she begins to grasp the Spanish language’s conditional tense, she imagines a constellation of possible futures.
Screens with:
Three Sentences About Argentina / Tres oraciones sobre la Argentina
Nele Wohlatz, Argentina, 2016, 5m
Spanish and Mandarin with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
Wohlatz transposes archival footage of Argentinian skiers into prompts for language exercises in this short made as part of an omnibus feature for the Buenos Aires Film Museum.
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