Marcela Guerty

Argentina, 1970s. A desperate young woman goes to a clinic to have a clandestine abortion. As her pregnancy is already through the fourth month, the doctor refuses. Instead, she proposes to sell the baby to one of her clients and offers to provide shelter in her house until the child is born. Their disturbed personalities will become intertwined in a strange and dangerous relationship.

Winner of Best Short Film at the Berlinale, Francisco Lezama’s idiosyncratic comedy sees life for what it is: absurd and mundane, with sporadic moments of serendipity. Twisting together diverse modern phenomena—dating apps, global finance—An Odd Turn is alive to the present in all its surprises.

The feature film debut from writer-director Natalia Smirnoff, former assistant director to Argentinean New Wave directors Lucretia Martel and Pablo Trapero, PUZZLE is the delicate and bittersweet tale of Maria del Carmen (Maria Onetto), a forty-something housewife from the suburbs of Buenos Aires, who gradually comes into her own when she discovers her extraordinary gift at assembling puzzles. Her new passion leads her to secretly train with a magnetic millionaire bachelor for Argentina’s national championship, which, if she wins, would take her to Germany and the World Puzzle Championship. Uninterested in puzzles, Maria's husband and sons are not aware of her new passion. But before long her puzzle obsession becomes a serious testing ground, and Maria must decide how much she can expect from her men.