Encarnación

`I´m an actress` is how Erni Levier likes to see herself, with all the

assertiveness and self-assurance of the present tense. Of course she hears the `Wasn´t-she-the-one-who...` and `Didn´t-she-once-appear-in...` whispered behind her back. And she knows that her best years are behind her. Yet she continues to hope - for roles in films or commercials, for a comeback, for the spotlight. In her Buenos Aires apartment plastered with posters of the B movies she starred in as the sex bomb du jour, she leads a surprisingly normal life, enjoying an easygoing relationship with a middle-aged man, setting up a website to keep herself in the public eye... But when she gets an invitation to her niece Ana´s 15th birthday party, Erni decides to return to her hometown. Ana, who adores her aunt, is overjoyed. Finally, a touch of glamour in the pampas, the scent of expensive perfume, the cut and feel of beautiful dresses... For Ana, it´s a time of discovery - of her own femininity, of infatuation, jealousy, of growing up. For Erni, it´s a difficult return to her roots, a rough landing amidst the family and neighbors who know her as Encarnación, the girl who fled to the big city to sell her body in immoral films...

Born in Martinez, in the provice of Buenos Aires, in 1975. She is a graduate of the ORT Institute Audivisual Production School, and also of the Institute National de l’audiovisuel in Paris. Since 1997 she has worked in several areas of the film industry. She was a casting director, an assistant director, a production manager and an editing assistant. She worked with Daniel Burman, Martín Rejtman, Marco Bechis, Nercedes García Guevara and Santiago García. In 1997 she wrote and directed the award-winning documentary short film Modelo Para Amar. In 2002 she directed the television show Maximo. Her first feature film A Year Without Love was awarded with the Teddy Award at the Berlinale in 2005 and with the FIPRESCI award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Her second feature Encarnación premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and in Official Competition in San Sebastian in 2007.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA