Papirosen

A quiet, fragmentary family album that drifts across decades and formats, asking you to piece together unspoken wounds from warmth and distance.

Directed by

Gastón Solnicki

Genres

Documentary

Overview

A portrait of Argentine director Gastón Solnicki's family over the course of the second half of the 20th century, Papirosen follows four generations still troubled by a war that’s never spoken of. The film juxtaposes different periods with their native image formats, along with landscapes, characters and international political events, as it focuses on a singular decade of a nouveau riche Argentine Jewish family, and the new generation’s introduction into familiar traumas and vitality.

How it feels

Melancholic, warm, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Family, memory, trauma, identity

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

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