Gaston Ibarroule

Diana wakes up in her beach house when her ventilator fails. In an imaginary conversation with her father, Astor Piazzolla, she reveals what she could never tell him in life, until her final words reveal that she, too, has died.

Amalia arrives at Olga’s house to celebrate her birthday. At the party, they discuss taboo subjects: one’s daughter is dating a bisexual boy, while the other’s granddaughter sells erotic content online. Uncomfortable, Amalia seizes an opportunity to leave. Back home, she reveals her best kept secret.

A story slowly reveals itself: a spattering of campfires and makeshift tents is actually a caravan heading to the US border in search of safety and a new life. Silent images and fragments of touching conversations calmly direct the viewer’s attention to individual destinies. What seems so abstract and far away, suddenly becomes close and alive.

Hazira survived Srebrenica. She saw the war, it corroded her life. She has been stuck in a refugee camp in her own country for 29 years, working hard and unceasingly to make ends meet and keep the trauma at bay.

Director Annika Mayer's mother mentioned to her one day that she wanted to dispose of the family's old Super8 film footage. Just in time, Annika is able to save the material from the 1950s and 1960s. The footage shows a model family of the post-war period in the FRG. This irritates her, since she knew about her grandmother's unhappy marriage. Upon closer questioning of her father and grandparents, she realizes the extent of the violence in her grandparents' marriage and her father's childhood.

3 friends merge their paths on a cloudy day in Berlin. As they walk along the sunset each one will turn a page on their life. Some will be left behind, others will fly away but only one will stay keeping Berlin still possible for all. —Juan Carlos Lo Sasso

The first sequence of About Swimming is significant. Immersed in a pool, Dominique, an open water swimmer, performs an automatic routine that is nevertheless executed with care, elegance, and discipline. Her career is on the rise: she just qualified for the Olympic Games. As she prepares to fulfill one of her lifelong and every professional athlete’s dreams, she receives the news that she is pregnant. The present, which was supposed to be prosperous, has become an uncertainty for the swimmer. Only water - whether in the intensity of the sea, a swimming pool or in her bathtub at home - seems to guarantee Dominique a moment of serenity. The strength of the film directed by Manuela Aguilar and Berenice Vigna lies in the affectionate and calm view on the protagonist, who is seen in a limit situation where her family and sense of duty seem to prevail over her own desires.

A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.