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Your Tomorrow Will Be My Song
Directed by Fernando Saldivia Yáñez
Produced by Fernando Saldivia Yáñez and Ignacio Cavieres Maragaño
After years of living in Chicago, a Quechua couple envisions their return to their homeland in the Andes. Memory, tradition, and tenderness converge as they reenact a conversation in which they share their hopes for what awaits them.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
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Fernando Saldivia Yáñez is a filmmaker based between Puerto Williams, Chile, and Chicago, USA. His practice explores the politics and poetics of daily life through an intimate observational style. His work has been shown at different festivals and spaces such as the Chicago International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Prismatic Ground, L'Alternativa Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Santiago International Film Festival, the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, and the Gene Siskel Film Center. His latest feature film, Brief Space of a Time, received the Vox Populi award at the 62 Ann Arbor Film Festival.
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Tue, Aug. 25
Wed, Aug. 26
Fri, Aug. 28
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CHICAGO CONNECTION
The film narrates a story of immigration in the context of Chicago.
STATEMENT FROM THE FILMMAKER
Your Tomorrow Will Be My Song is a portrait of my friends Suni and Alondra, an indigenous Quechua couple living in the United States. Centered around the reenactment of an intimate conversation, the piece acknowledges the feelings of longing experienced by those who leave their land, as well as the excitement that accompanies the possibility of returning home. With this film, I reflect on the poetics embedded in ephemeral moments and spaces, and how these transcend through the dreams and hopes of the immigrant experience. Moreover, by having people perform their lives on their own terms, I invite audiences to question notions of representation and "the real", especially when it pertains to groups underrepresented in media.
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