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In 2001, three teenagers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all fall in love with Diego. Natalia has always had the most chemistry with him, but when it seems inevitable that their friendship will turn into something more, the older and more experienced Silvia appears and soon captures Diego’s attention.
With stylish visual precision, director Laura Casabé brings Benjamin Naishtat’s evocative script to life, marking the first on-screen adaptation of celebrated author Mariana Enríquez’s unsettling short stories. Casabé immerses us in the tense socio-economic reality of an Argentina facing an unprecedented crisis — one that seeps into everyday life and interactions in ever more disturbing and surprising ways. In this surreal and uncertain moment, Dolores Oliverio depicts Natalia’s coming of age with grit, nailing the contradictions inherent to this phase of life as she gradually comes to realize and embrace her sexuality and the sinister world around her.
Brilliantly luxuriating in a steamy summer where everyone is on edge, The Virgin of the Quarry Lake draws on a fusion of dark folklore and adolescent angst that pushes simmering self-empowerment to its boiling point.—Ana Souza
Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 30–February 2) and credentialed press and industry (January 29–February 2).
This film contains strobe effects.
- Year2025
- Runtime93 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountryArgentina/Spain/Mexico
- DirectorLaura Casabé
- ScreenwriterBenjamin Naishtat
- ProducersTomas Eloy Muñoz, Valeria Bistagnino, Alejandro Israel, David Matamoros, Angeles Hernandez, Diego Martinez Ulanosky, Livi Herrera
- Director of PhotographyDiego Tenorio Hernández
- Art DirectorMarina Raggio
- Costume DesignerGustavo Alderete
- MakeupElizabet Gora
- Principal CastDolores Oliverio, Luisa Merelas, Fernanda Echevarría, Dady Brieva, Agustín Sosa
In 2001, three teenagers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all fall in love with Diego. Natalia has always had the most chemistry with him, but when it seems inevitable that their friendship will turn into something more, the older and more experienced Silvia appears and soon captures Diego’s attention.
With stylish visual precision, director Laura Casabé brings Benjamin Naishtat’s evocative script to life, marking the first on-screen adaptation of celebrated author Mariana Enríquez’s unsettling short stories. Casabé immerses us in the tense socio-economic reality of an Argentina facing an unprecedented crisis — one that seeps into everyday life and interactions in ever more disturbing and surprising ways. In this surreal and uncertain moment, Dolores Oliverio depicts Natalia’s coming of age with grit, nailing the contradictions inherent to this phase of life as she gradually comes to realize and embrace her sexuality and the sinister world around her.
Brilliantly luxuriating in a steamy summer where everyone is on edge, The Virgin of the Quarry Lake draws on a fusion of dark folklore and adolescent angst that pushes simmering self-empowerment to its boiling point.—Ana Souza
Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 30–February 2) and credentialed press and industry (January 29–February 2).
This film contains strobe effects.
- Year2025
- Runtime93 minutes
- LanguageSpanish
- CountryArgentina/Spain/Mexico
- DirectorLaura Casabé
- ScreenwriterBenjamin Naishtat
- ProducersTomas Eloy Muñoz, Valeria Bistagnino, Alejandro Israel, David Matamoros, Angeles Hernandez, Diego Martinez Ulanosky, Livi Herrera
- Director of PhotographyDiego Tenorio Hernández
- Art DirectorMarina Raggio
- Costume DesignerGustavo Alderete
- MakeupElizabet Gora
- Principal CastDolores Oliverio, Luisa Merelas, Fernanda Echevarría, Dady Brieva, Agustín Sosa