Synopsis
A year after his father’s death, Victor returns to Buenos Aires in order to reconquer the life he was forced to abandon. He brings a new project with him for his former theatre company: a radio-play of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, a play they had all worked on together before he left. Waiting for him to start rehearsing are five actresses who know him all too well: his girlfriend, Paula, who swore him faithfulness; Ana, his lover, who doubts his love; his ex, Natalia, who believes he still loves her; her friend, Lorena, who hopes he will make a move on her; and Carla, a total stranger, who could be his next true love. Abandoning his part in the Princess of France, Victor doesn’t know that time to work will soon become a time to think again about lost loves.
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)
