María Manero

Patchwork is Loly’s story, it’s a village tale, charmingly told through embellished old photographs, embroidery and paint. Her tale is told by an anonymous donor who gave their liver to save the life of a 60 year woman. It begs the question, how much of ourselves needs to be replaced before we start becoming someone else?

A journey into the subconscious of a protagonist who is searching for herself in the foam of the coffee in which she is absorbed.

Marga, who’s in the middle of a marital crisis with her husband Daniel, decides to spend a few days alone in her old, family home. Once there, she starts to sense some strange and terrifying phenomena happening around her: an invisible entity seems to know a lot about her, among other things, that she’s having an affair with Carlos, an old friend from college. Marga has fallen pregnant by Carlos and on the day she’s going to have a secret abortion, the entity won’t let her leave the house. On the verge of madness, Marga discovers a portal in the house that leads to another reality. In this reality lives her other self and she’s actually trying to warn herself that something terrible is about to happen to her, unless she makes a decision…

During his final days at Buenos Aires’ Hospital de Clínicas, writer Horacio Quiroga confronts his terminal illness as memories, visions, and echoes of his own stories begin to merge with reality. Inspired by his life and literary universe, CALM is an animated journey through death, nature, madness, and the supernatural.