"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."

Nation, Country, Culture, Identity

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"I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised."

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"We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself."

Literature

"So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country."

Family

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Act

"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."

Film

"That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think."

Fiction

"It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end."

Support

"So when I was very young, I longed for Brazil."

Desire

"So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens."

Ambition

"Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa."

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"I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films."

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