cinema Fontevraud-l'Abbaye

Florentina Gonzalez/

Film director

Florentina Gonzalez was born in Buenos Aires, 1991.

She studied Visual Arts at the National University (UNA) and Animation at the Da Vinci School, where she currently teaches. She made 2 short films that went to different national and international festivals, among them BAFICI, Mar del Plata, Sitges and Clermont Ferrand. His most recent work, El After del Mundo, was produced by Autour de Minuit and premiered in 2022. It won a Special Jury Prize in Zagreb, the Grand Prize at Tricky Woman-Tricky Realities (Austria), a Special Mention at BIAF (Korea), the First Prize in the Latin American Competition at the Argentinean festival Bit Bang Fest, among other awards. In 2020 she was awarded the Arte France Prize at the Annecy Festival, which made it possible to start with the pre-production of the short film. In 2021, thanks to ShortWay, an animation lab located in Guadalajara, she was able to go to the CICLIC Residency in Val de Loire, France, to continue with the development of the project. In 2023 she had her first solo show at the invitation of the Andreani Foundation: Huesos de Azúcar (Sugar Bones). In it she combined an animated video installation with large-format drawings on paper. She is currently developing her third short film: El Enjambre (The Swarm), which was selected this year to participate in the Short Form Station lab at Berlinale Talent.

Residency project:

"EL Enhambre"

SYNOPSIS In a new Argentine post-pampa geography, transformed by floods and high temperatures, El Enjambre (The Swarm) is born: a big plague of insects that scares the inhabitants of the region. Although the situation is a bit alarming, three friends in their thirties decide to ignore the environmental catastrophe. Reckless, they leave everything behind to embark on a trip to the coast of Buenos Aires to spend what may be their last vacation together. A car accident interrupts their plans, leaving them stranded halfway along the way. They will have to improvise a camp with a beach tent with broken walls and an arsenal of green spirals as their only protection against the unknown nature. The time spent on the side of an inhospitable road, waiting for the rescue of the relief truck, will serve to review tensions in their relationship. The friction, the glances and the heat of the flooded pampas will be the vital accelerator of the plague and of something else between them.