Following its premiere at the Gaumont, Nuestra cosa perdida (Our Lost Thing), the debut film by filmmaker and poet Martina Cruz, continues its run with screenings at Sala Lúcida on April 10 and 17, and at Cine Empire on April 28. This intimate documentary proposes an emotional journey toward the figure of her father, Daniel Cruz, an amateur filmmaker whose unfinished dream becomes the driving force of this story.
An Emotional Noir
The film stems from an almost literary posthumous mandate. Three days before passing away, Daniel told his daughter: “I can’t die because I haven’t made a film”. Based on that phrase, Martina Cruz explores family archives, home movies, and blurred scripts to reconstruct a portrait that avoids idealization. The film delves into Daniel’s contradictions: the artist and loving father versus the man who lived with violence, involuntarily repeating a conflict-ridden childhood.
“I understand the world through films… between frames, overcoming a bit of death.” — Martina Cruz, Director.
Technical Sheet
- Direction and Screenplay: Martina Cruz.
- Executive Production: Sarah Fernández Oks.
- Running Time: 69 minutes.
- Genre: Documentary.
- Original Music: Máximo Cantón, Bruno Pagano, and María Florencia de Oto Gilotaux.
- Editing: Dante Perini.
- Cinematography: Leonardo Litta.
About the Director
Martina Cruz (Temperley, 1997) is a screenwriter and poet who graduated from ENERC. She has worked on projects such as the documentary series “Arde: la llama de los feminismos bonaerenses” and various short films including “Lavandería Las Rosas” and “Insistir,” before embarking on this, her first feature film.
Distribution: Noche Americana. Press Contact: Analía Sánchez.