Sons and Daughters
Figli/Hijos
Italy, Argentina
2001
92 Min
Color
Italian, Spanish
Synopsis
A woman gives birth, as two men wait outside to take her child from her. The woman has twins, the midwife manages to hide the baby girl in a bag.
In Milan twenty years later, Javier, the male twin, lives totally unaware of past events. Pampered by his comfortable life as part of a wealthy family, he lives a normal life without a care in the world. One day his sister Rosa arrives in Italy. After desperately searching for him all her life, she finally tracked him down via e-mail and now wants to tell him the truth. Javier refuses to believe her, yet the seed of doubt tortures him and his life will never be the same again. The brother and sister set off on a trip to Barcelona, a journey that for Javier becomes an interior journey towards the painful discovery of the truth. —italica.rai.it
Director
Marco Bechis
The son of a Chilean woman of Swiss-French origins and an Italian father, he grew up in Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires. At the age of twenty he was expelled from Argentina for political reasons: he landed in Milan and there he lived throughout the 1980s, while also spending lots of time in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. He has been a school teacher in Buenos Aires, a Polaroid photographer and a video-artist in New York. He got to directing after going to the Albedo film school in Milano in 1981. His first movie, Alambrado (1991), was screened in festivals in Locarno, Madrid and Brussels. Bechis went on to direct Garage Olimpo (1999), a film that has been screened in a wide range of international festivals including Cannes. —IMDb
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