Papirosen

Synopsis

A portrait of Argentine director Gastón Solnicki’s family over the course of the second half of the 20th century, Papirosen follows four generations still troubled by a war that’s never spoken of. The film juxtaposes different periods with their native image formats, along with landscapes, characters and international political events, as it focuses on a singular decade of a nouveau riche Argentine Jewish family, and the new generation’s introduction into familiar traumas and vitality.

Director Biography

Born in Buenos Aires in 1978. He studied Film Direction at Universidad del Cine, cinematography at the International Centre for Photography and filmmaking at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His first feature Süden (Bafici ‘08) won the ACCA Award.