THE FUTURE PERFECT

Synopsis

Xiaobin recently arrived in Argentina from China. She tries on names in Spanish as if she were trying on costumes, to see which suits her. She tries out new gestures to give her new role a body. She speaks the language although she doesn’t master it until she has convinced herself about her speech. Meanwhile, she uses the film as a rehearsal room to try out her future in Buenos Aires.

Director Biography

Nele Wohlatz, born in 1982 in Hannover, Germany. She studied scenography at the University of Applied Arts Karlsruhe and film at the University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. In 2016, she was selected for the Berlinale Talents Docstation. She directed several short films and videos for theatre productions. She teaches documentary film and curates a program of German cinema at Goethe Institute Buenos Aires.