Malintzin 17

The talented Mexican documentary maker, Eugenio Polgovsky, died in 2017. Shortly before his death, he had filmed his 5-year-old daughter, Milena, while she was taking care of a bird that had nested by his apartment window. The filmmaker’s sister, Mara, found the material shortly after his tragic death and edited it, in what was an evident and heartfelt tribute to Eugenio’s vision. Malintzin 17 is a beautiful family testimony to the bond between a father with an insatiable curiosity and a girl sharing her child’s view of the world. In addition, it was filmed under conditions of confinement which were a premonition of what we have all had to live through recently. (SdB)

Spanish Premiere