Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental Art and Cinema
MY MEXICAN PRETZEL
MY MEXICAN PRETZEL
Nuria Gimenez
Spain
2020
Film
Long
My Mexican Pretzel opens with black-and-white clips of pilots during World War II in Switzerland, subtitled with excerpts from Vivian Barrett’s diary. She tells the story of herself and her husband, Léon, who lost part of his hearing in a plane crash and was unable to fly again. The couple’s charming life unfolds through excerpts from the diary and footage taken by Léon, who we also learn developed a successful antidepressant and had an obsession with many different forms of transportation.
general information
edition
4th ECRÃ Festival
venues
online in Brazil
duration in min
71
date and time
20-30 August
premiere
Latin Premiere
indicative classification
12 years
conversation/chat
tags
trailer/teaser/excerpt
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Nuria Gimenez
Nuria Giménez was born in Barcelona in 1976. She studied Journalism, International Relations and Documentary Film. Over the last decade, she has expanded her knowledge through seminars and a Master’s degree with classes from several filmmakers she admires, such as Isaki Lacuesta, Andrés Duque, Virginia García del Pino, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Patricio Guzmán, Wang Bing, Mark Isaacs, Stephen Frears and Frederick Wiseman. Her first short film, Kafeneio, was presented at DocumentaMadrid. My Mexican Pretzel is her first feature film.
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Winner of the Found Footage award at the 2020 Rotterdam Film Festival.