Melisa Liebenthal
Melisa LIEBENTHAL (1991, Argentina) completed her training as a film director at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires. She is currently working as an editor, distributor of short films and director. The Pretty Ones (2016) was her first feature-length documentary and it won IFFR’s Bright Future Competition, among several other prizes. Her films playfully address abstract questions within an essay film tradition.
Filmography
Airportness (2010, short), Alegria del hogar/Home’s Joy (2013, short), Las lindas/The Pretty Ones (2016, doc), Patio/Backyard (2017, short doc), Constanza (2018, short), Aquí y allá/Here and There (2020, short)
Melisa Liebenthal op IFFR
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Las lindas
Melisa Liebenthal | 77' | Argentina | -
Melisa, filmmaker and character in The Pretty Ones is young, intelligent and funny, but also critical and ironic. She interviews her friends, reconstructs herself as a… -
Aquí y allá
Melisa Liebenthal | 21' | Argentina | World premiere
Where is home? In her studio the filmmaker investigates her migration-defined identity and family history using photos, maps and Google Earth. -
Las lindas
Melisa Liebenthal | 77' | Argentina | World premiere
Melisa, filmmaker and character in The Pretty Ones is young, intelligent and funny, but also critical and ironic. She interviews her friends, reconstr