Leonora Kievsky presents her new documentary film “Superpowered Girls”

Leonora Kievsky presents her new film, “Superpowered Girls”, which can be seen from this Thursday at the Gaumont Cinema. The film had its world premiere at the Seoul International Women’s Festival and participated in the Biarritz Latin Film Festival. What is it about? The Carlos Pellegrini, a traditional school in the city of Buenos Aires, is shaken by a new prominence of the students. Milena is a student counselor; Ana is the president of the Student Center; and Lorena, a young performance artist. During their last months of high school, they actively participate in student life: debates, assemblies, marches, and recitals. They introduce us to their intense student life and their transition to adulthood. The protagonists belong to a generation of girls who spearheaded the emergence of “the feminist tide” with a profound review of the links between genders, power relations and their own identities. The film takes its name from the space “Pibas superpoderosas” that the students created at the school to accompany each other and make visible situations of abuse and machismo in those years. “During my time in high school, I lived through the end of the dictatorship and the beginning of democracy. From uniform and discipline we move on to the freedom to express ourselves. The change was resounding and marked that passage. Many years passed, the world and his senses changed. With my teenage sons, I wondered what bridges we can build between these experiences. What new perspectives can be shaped through them. That was the starting point for this documentary,” the director said in a press release. Along the way, I met the young protagonists of the film who were going through a very mobilizing process that took place in the adolescents of our country with the irruption of feminism, with a profound review of the links between genders, power relations and their own identities. I decided to go with them. Focus on them. I was interested in making a film about passage in that context of high mobilization,” he continued. The documentary stages the end of a stage for Ana, Lore and Milena – the 3 protagonists – it brings us closer to their desire to confront reality, to change things, to discuss who they are and who they want to be, to discover their own desires, at the same time that they are growing up and experiencing all that vertigo for the first time”, Closed. Photo: Courtesy of the press

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