Olivia, dir. Sofía Petersen, Argentina/UK/Spain 2025, 127 mins, Spanish with English subtitles
Alone in the mountains: Olivia, her Father, and their home. By the foothills, a slaughterhouse, where Father works. She dreams by day and lives by night; they share only dusks and dawns before the rising sun lulls her to sleep. When Father disappears, Olivia descends the mountains in search of him.
Sofía Petersen's 16mm Ektachrome feature debut premiered at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival as part of the Concoso Cineasti del Presente.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, producer and cinematographer, hosted by Niall H.D. Geraghty.
Sofía Petersen's 16mm Ektachrome feature debut premiered at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival as part of the Concoso Cineasti del Presente.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, producer and cinematographer, hosted by Niall H.D. Geraghty.
Niall H.D. Geraghty is Associate Professor in Latin American Cultural Studies at University College London. Niall’s first book was The Polyphonic Machine: Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press: 2019). He has published articles and book chapters on literature and film from Latin America, with a particular interest in memory, urban culture, and religion in the region. He is currently working on a project involving a radical re-examination of the work of Argentine artist León Ferrari (1920–2013) which also explores the interrelations between politics and religion in twentieth-century Argentina, and the potential correlations between contemporary philosophy and liberation theology.
06:20 pm
Wed, 29 Apr 2026
Cinema 2
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