Isidora Marras : 2014
I am not Lorena
Actress Olivia is visiting her mentally ailing mother when she gets a peculiar telephone call: a collection agency is looking for one "Lorena Ruiz", insisting that she pay her sizeable, and significantly overdue, phone bill. Olivia maintains that they have the wrong number, and quickly hangs up. But when she begins to receive calls from other collection agencies, Olivia can do nothing to convince them that she is not Lorena Ruiz. A visit to one of the agencies only makes things worse, and the mysterious Lorena's problems start to bleed strangely into Olivia's financial and personal life, until even her family and friends grow suspicious of her. When a stranger calls her cellphone demanding a meeting with Lorena, Olivia determines to take matters into her own hands and track Lorena down, a decision that brings her into contact with the seedier side of Santiago culture. Based on the director's real-life experiences, who for almost two years received calls trying to collect another woman's debts, Olivia's identity is eventually put to question by her surroundings as well as by herself, in this Kafkaesque tale of the horrors of bureaucracy. Isidora Marras's feature debut premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2014, and had its European premiere at Stockholm Film Festival 2014.
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