Far from us / FERN VON UNS
Co-directed by Laura Bierbrauer and Verena Kuri, “Far From Us”, which premiered at the Berlinale Forum, chronicles the return of a young woman to her homeland after having fled her home years ago, leaving behind her newborn son.
Ramira returns to the Misiones rainforest from where she ran away after the birth of her son. Her efforts to rebuild the bond with her mother and her son, who does not recognize her as his mother, are complicated. Her family questions her abandonment of the child and fights with her over the deceased father’s inheritance. The child struggles between two mothers, while Ramira seeks to find a sense of reinsertion in the middle of a labyrinth of hybrid languages and customs.
Andrés Aguiló 