FILM

The Future Perfect (Argentina) | (65 min; 2016; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Nele Wohlatz

Multiple award winner including New Auteurs Grand Jury Prize, AFI Fest 2016;Grand Prix & ZINEBI First Film Award, Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films 2016; Best First Feature, Locarno International Film Festival 2016; among others

German director Nele Wohlatz’s The Future Perfect addresses the increasingly complicated challenges of intercultural communication. Divided into three parts with each meant to correlate with the linguistic structure of past, present, and future, the film chronicles Xiaobin, a Chinese teenager trying to learn enough Spanish to hold a job in Buenos Aires.