On a cruise ship somewhere off the Patagonian coast at the southernmost tip of South America, a young crew member accidentally discovers a door in a dark corridor that magically transports him into a woman's apartment in the city of Montevideo. At the same time, far across the Pacific Ocean in the Philippines, villagers discover a mysterious concrete hut near their town and begin to sense that it might possess supernatural powers. What do these strange phenomena mean? Are these portals to some kind of parallel universe? Piperno’s absorbing, enigmatic magic realist drama offers few answers, but plenty of suspense when the woman discovers her maritime visitor,  while those intrepid villagers decide to try to enter that puzzling concrete structure, as baffling a presence as the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. What transpires will startle and surprise in this intriguing, unsettling tale perched between reality and fantasy. Winner of the Tagesspiegel Readers' Award at the Forum section at the Berlin International Film Festival, Piperno’s film was also selected for the prestigious New Directors/New Films program at the Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.

- Tom McSorley

Screening

WednesDAY, MARCH 17 - ThursDAY, MARCH 18