Film Info
Habi, la extranjera

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Habi, la extranjera
English Title	Habi, the Foreigner
Director	María Florencia Álvarez
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Year	2013
Format	35 mm
Colour	Color
Duration	92'

Cast:

Martina Juncadella, Martín Slipak, María Luisa Mendonça, Lucía Alfonsín

Credits:

G: María Florencia Álvarez
F: Julián Apezteguía
E: Eliane D. Katz
DA: Graciela Galán
S: Catriel Vildosola
M: Santiago Pedroncini
P: Lita Stantic, Hugo Sigman, Walter Salles
PE: Paula Zyngierman, Matías Mosteirín
CP: Lita Stantic Producciones, K&S Films, Videofilmes Produçoes Artisticas

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Synopsis

The main character in María Florencia Álvarez’s first film –following several short films that were very well received in different editions of the Festival– is a young woman (the great Martina Juncadella) who travels from somewhere in the interior of the country to Buenos Aires, sent by her family to deliver some handicrafts. While doing so she’s faced with a new world: the Muslim one. Suddenly, she sees herself engaged in a series of rituals that are absolutely strange to her and –maybe for that same reason– fascinating. The new objects she acquires and the practices she adopts turn her into someone different, and she herself chooses the name Habi as a way to reinforce her new identity. She’s now independent, employed, and taking Arab classes, when she falls in love with a charming young man (Martín Slipak). But the ground of romance is precisely where her new identity will come in conflict and her whole construction will crumble down. Habi…is a remarkable initiation film in which the director takes her protagonist to some absolutely estranged situations that articulate a deep and sensitive reflection on identity as a social construct. VB