Martín Shanly : 2014
About Twelve
Twelve-year-old Juana goes to a British school in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where she fails both socially and academically. A week away from the exams that will determine her future in the institution, she is surrounded by the same routine, going to class and trying to pull her social life back together. She is unreachable for the teachers, disconcerting to her mother, indifferent to her schoolmates, and a steady patient of psychologists and other health specialists. Juana is a mystery for those around her. Her almost permanent disconnection from the world is not due to a psychological problem but a conscious choice. The film draws certain parallels with the historical figure of Juana I de Castilla, who in 1500 was falsely diagnosed as insane. Unable to disobey the orders of the dictatorial regime of her father and brother, the young heiress lost the best years of her life imprisoned in loneliness, heartbreak and tremendous injustice. Now, embodied as a pre-teenage victim of an oppressive educational system, Juana is a girl about to start the arduous road to adulthood, facing a hostile world with censorship at every moment. Martín Shanly's feature debut premiered in competition at Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2014, and was winner of the Argentine Feature Competition at Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de La Plata 2014.
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