Synopsis
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop her new project: a Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Hermia & Helena introduces Buenos Aires to New York, bouncing between hemispheres, translating Spanish to English, and clashing the written words of Shakespeare against the realities of modern life. *Catalan première
Recommended for young audiences
Filmmaker
Matías Piñeiro
Based in New York since 2011. He is a film director and writer with feature and short films premiered in Berlinale, Locarno, Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festival. His films usually spring from a variety of literary sources such as William Shakespeare, Cesare Pavese, Sappho and Domingo F. Sarmiento. He teaches cinema at Pratt Institute, New York and coordinates the filmmaking program at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, San Sebastian. He also has worked in film programming for Anthology Film Archives and Punto de Vista film festival. At present, he is developing two projects: the adaptation of Henry James’s The Lesson of the Master and a narrative-essay based on Francesco Petrarca’s Remedies for Life. you burn me is his latest feature.
Filmography: You Burn Me (2024, D'A 2025), Sycorax (short film, co-directed 2021, D'A 2022), Isabella (2020, D'A 2021), Hermia & Helena (2016, D'A 2017), Is It Raining? (short film, 2016), The Princess of France (2014, D'A 2015), Viola (2012, D'A 2013), Rosalinda (mid-length film, 2011), They All Lie (2009), The Stolen Man (2007), A propósito de Buenos Aires (2006)
