Films by Manuel Abramovich

Germany, Argentinia 2019, 19 min
by Manuel Abramovich

What are you up to tonight? Do you want me? We could have fun together...Seven Romanian male-to-male sex workers in Berlin have their portraits taken as they listen and react to recordings of their own experiences. By turning the process of exploitation into a spectacle, the camera becomes a client highlighting the inevitable performativity of such power relations.

Germany, Spain, Argentinia 2018, 82 min
by Lola Arias

Teatro de Guerra is a delirious essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict.Berlinale catalogue:The Falklands War lasted from April to June of 1982 and took the lives of 655 Argentinian and 255 British soldiers. It ended in Argentina’s military defeat and in territorial claims on both sides that remain contentious to this day.Thirty-five