Country: Argentina, Peru
Year: 2025
Duration: 69'
Marlene lives in the house of the elderly woman she cares for. Her job is full-time, but when she learns that a friend of hers has disappeared, she sneaks out at night and begins an investigation. The clues lead her to nighttime jobs where Marlene meets other women who, like her, have developed their gifts into superpowers.
Biography
film director
Luciana Plantanida
(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977) studied Cinematography and has developed her career as a director, screenwriter, and producer. Since 2015, she has been part of the production company Pensar con las manos. She was a producer for La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis (2016) by Francisco Márquez and Andrea Testa, and for Niña Mamá (2019) by Andrea Testa, among others. She directed and wrote short films and documentary series for local television. Her first feature film, Los Ausentes, won the Work in Progress section of Bafici and Sanfic and premiered in 2014. Todas las fuerzas is her second feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Hernán ¿estás? (1998), Los Ausentes (2014), Todas las fuerzas (2025).
Declaration
film director
“I live a few blocks from the Plaza that is overflown at the beginning of the film. Here, Argentinian, Bolivian, Paraguayan, Venezuelan, and Peruvian women come together. The coexistence is tense and unequal, and when I want to start writing a film whose protagonist is a Bolivian woman my age, I realize that I have no idea who my neighbors are. […] Making this film is an attempt to get closer to my neighbors, to try to find out who they are. The result is this: a police film with no policemen, and instead of a private detective, it has a migrant woman who escapes from her work to follow the clues. The film also wants to be a fantasy genre piece, but ultimately it is about addressing a social issue from the most human perspective possible.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER: Luciana Piantanida. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gustavo Schiaffino. EDITING: Lorena Moriconi. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Sebastián Rosés. COSTUME DESIGN: Paola Delgado. MUSIC: Karin Zielinski. SOUND: Omar Mustafá. CAST: Celia Santos, Silvina Sabater, Andrea Garrote, Sandra Chavez Ordoñez, Sadhit Cruzado Crispin, Gabriela Trejo Farfan, Marina Espejo Choque, Victoria Choque Callata, Nieves Torres Colque, Fulvia Almirón Oviedo, Marcelo Estebecorena. PRODUCTION: Andrea Testa, Francisco Márquez, Luciana Piantanida for Pensar con las Manos, La Dupla.
CONTACT: Luciana Piantanida pensarconlasmanos@gmail.com
