The Day I Was Not Born (Das Lied in mir)
Sunday, October 23 at 8:45pm
Castro Theatre, San Francisco
US West Coast Premiere
During a stopover in Buenos Aires, Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Though she does not speak a word of Spanish, she remembers the lyrics vividly. Two days later, her father Anton shows up at her hotel, confessing that: Maria spent her first three years of life in Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship of the 70s. She was adopted and brought to Germany. Father and daughter begin a journey in search of Maria’s biological parents — with Anton doing all he can to regain his daughter’s trust.
Germany, Argentina (2010), 35mm, 95 min. in German, Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Florian Cossen
Screenwriters: Florian Micoud Cossen, Elena von Saucken
Producers: Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach
Cinematographer: Matthias Fleischer
Editor: Philipp Thomas
Music: Matthias Klein
Cast: Jessica Schwarz, Michael Gwisdek, Rafeal Ferro, Beatriz Spelzini
Production: TeamWorx TV & Film
World Sales: Beta Cinema
Awards & Festivals: Montreal ( Audience Award, FIPRESCI Prize, Ecumenical Prize), 2 German Film Awards (incl. Best Supporting Actress), Santiago (Best Film)
Director Florian Cossen was born in Tel Aviv in 1979 and spent his childhood in Israel, Canada, Spain and Costa Rica before finishing high school in Germany. He studied Film Directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy from 2002-2009, and made several short films. The Day I Was Not Born is his directorial debut feature.
- Preceded by short film, Raju, directed by Max Zähle
- Co-presented by: Cine+Mas SF / San Francisco Latino Film Festival
