Winner: A MFF19 Fiction Feature Competition Special Jury Prize went to Hélène Louvart for Cinematography

Ever since the recent death of her sister Rina, Marcela (a fabulous Mercedes Morán) stumbles around her Buenos Aires apartment and her family in a perpetual state of mental haze, gradually losing grip on any sense of reality, lost in elliptical conversations with deceased relatives. Marcela’s trance-like state is beautifully evoked through the fragmented narrative and unexpected sound design as well as the gossamer, light-filtered, cinematography. María Alché’s A FAMILY SUBMERGED is a lush, poetic, and tantalizing debut feature that establishes Alché as a director to watch.

In Spanish with English subtitles.