Rayen Curtoni

Manifiesto Fiesta is a short documentary that explores and deconstructs the dominant notion of celebration. Through voice-over narration, archival footage, and recordings of electronic, Christian, and patriotic parties, it reveals festivity as an ancestral pulse of the human experience. What once seemed like an escape is unveiled as a return — a journey back to the shared origin of our species.

The Salerno family is celebrating. It's Grandma Adela's birthday. However, in a conversation between women, Adela reveals a familiar truth that had never come to light.

Nicolás is locked in the room of a Buenos Aires boarding house, far from the stars of his hometown, where memory seems to amalgamate with reality. A violent argument with Mario, the owner of the boarding house, is what will prompt him to reconstruct and rearrange the tragic memory of Miguel, his younger brother, in order to understand the reason for his disappointments.

Verónica Levy, popularly called La Rusa, the first woman to qualify as futsal technical director in Argentina, tells through different anecdotes and situations of personal improvement how she found her place in the world, the Atlanta Club.

An acting teacher is evaluating his student in a rehearsal, both with hidden intentions.