A Week Alone

Teenagers and children adrift in the territory delimited by a closed neighborhood, a model scale citadel: houses with gardens, a school, a party hall, a pool. A round trip from leisure to tedium, with no fathers or mothers close, the orphaned-for-a-week kids circulate to create their own chaos regime in the commodity of an accepted prison: no one even tries to run away from there. In that everyday state of conformity, a stranger joins them – the one from the outside who irrupts – but not even at that point does the traditional conflict come up. Rather, everything dissolves in an intermittent game of tenderness and cruelty.

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Script: Celina Murga, Juan Villegas

Cinematography: Marcelo Lavintman

Editing: Eliane Katz

Sound: Federico Billordo

Music: Ines Gamarci, Martin Salas, Marcelo Perez

Actors: Natalia Gomez Alarcon (Esther), Manuel Aparicio (Tomas), Mateo Braun (Timmy), Eleonora Capobianco (Sofia), Magdalena Capobianco (Maria), Lucas Del Bo (Facundo), Ignacio Gimenez (Juan), Gaston Luparo (

Production: Tresmilmundos Cine

Producers: Juan Villegas, Ines Gamarci

Art Direction: Julieta Wagner

Costumes: Jimena Acevedo

Format: 35mm Color

Production Country: Argentina

Production Year: 2008

Duration: 109

Contact: Tresmilmundos Cine, ArgentinaT.-F. +54 11 4775 1614juanmaville@gmail.comwww.unasemanasolos.com.ar

Celina Murga

She was born in 1973 in Parana, Entre Rios. She studied at the Universidad del Cine, in Buenos Aires, and wrote and directed several short films. "Ana and the Others", her first feature film, won prizes at Venice, Buenos Aires, Thessaloniki, and Vienna. It was selected as Best Latin American Film of the Year by Fipresci International. She has been selected by Martin Scorsese to spend a year of mentoring with him by the Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative 2008.