Mercedes Frutos

A man who witnesses the casual disappearances of coworkers from a factory starts making investigations.

The director’s fortuitous meeting with filmmaker Mercedes Frutos prompts an inquiry into the challenges she faced in her only feature film, New Hope. Shot in 1984 and inspired by a Bioy Casares short story, the film went through a 12-year journey until its commercial release.

Over coffee at La Biela, an Argentine filmmaker evokes her relationship with cinema: the now-vanished theaters that marked her youth, the adaptation of an Adolfo Bioy Casares short story, and the epistolary relationship she maintained with François Truffaut.