Lila, a young Korean – Argentinean girl, navigates the contradictions of her identity and tries to find her place in the world. Her father, Antonio, arrives in Latin America 18 years earlier, and decides to bet everything on the promise of a young immigrant’s dream.
CECILIA KANG
Cecilia Kang is from Buenos Aires. With Hijo Mayor (Elder Son), her first fiction feature film, she won the Best Emerg ing Director award at the Concorso Cineasti del Presente at the Locarno International Film Festival (2025). She makes projects that question the cultural duality she herself experiences as an Argentine – Korean, such as the documentaries “Mi último fracaso” (My Last Failure – BAFICI 2016) and “Partió de mí un barco llevándome” (A Boat Departed From Me Taking Me Away, 2023), winner of the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival