Clementina - Agustín Mendilaharzu

The quarantine hastens the moving in together of Constanza and Agustín’s, an actress and a filmmaker. Away from their jobs and their routines, they decide to shoot a short fiction film inspired on the problems she has to adjust to living in his house. Once that short film is completed, the problems in real life continue: malfunctions in the building force them to admit workers in their house, they are left with no electricity and no running water, they receive the news they have to refurbish another apartment to rent out and, and finally, they are forced to move to her place. Each one of these problems becomes the beginning of a new fiction film: a new comedy with Clementina in the lead role.

Agustín Mendilaharzu (1975, Buenos Aires) is a playwright, cinematographer, theatre director and filmmaker. He is also one of the four members of production company El Pampero Cine (alongside Mariano Llinás, Alejo Moguillansky and Laura Citarella), responsible for innovative filmmaking practices and celebrated films in Argentina. In 2019, he was nominated for best cinematography by the Argentine Film Critics Association for La Flor (2018) in the Silver Condor Awards. Clementina (2022), which he also co-wrote and starred in, is the first feature film he has directed.