For 10-year-old Amanda (Amanda Minujin) the experience of growing up in Buenos Aires in the early 1990s is anything but typical. Juggling the usual concerns of being a fifth-grader with caring for her three younger siblings in the wake of her parents’ divorce, she finds herself also having to parent her sweet but clueless slacker of a dad. But when Amanda’s mom decides to move the family to Paraguay to give her children a better life, Amanda is suddenly torn between the appeal of having a safe, predictable upbringing and saying goodbye to the freewheeling father she loves so dearly. Quickly cooking up a scheme to stay, the precocious preteen slowly awakens to the bittersweet realization that we must accept the ones we love, faults and all, in this scrappy, intimate and deeply touching autobiographical first feature from writer/director Ana García Blaya.

In competition for the New Voices New Visions Award and the Ibero-American Award

Director Ana García Blaya and producer Joaquin Marqués are expected to be in attendance on January 4, 5, and 6.