Synopsis
Mariel (María Villar) wants to play the role of Isabella in a local theater troupe’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She thinks of asking her brother for financial help, but is worried about being too direct. Her solution is to ask her brother’s girlfriend, Luciana (Agustina Muñoz), also an actress and a more self-assured one, to convince her brother to give her the money. Luciana agrees on the condition that Mariel will not abandon her acting and continue to prepare for the part of Isabella.
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)
Awards and festivals
Encounters Award Special Mention
MAR DEL PLATA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Best Direction
Best Actress
GIJÓN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Albar Section Distribution Award
Poster
