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Money Exchange!
Lautaro García Candela
Argentine. 2022. 90 min

Pablo and Florencia work on Florida Street, the economic and tourist epicentre of Buenos Aires. Economic difficulties affect their life together. Pablo, in order to survive, begins to clandestinely smuggle dollars in the street. Taking advantage of the imminence of a currency crisis they will try to strike the blow that will take them out from the street once and for all.

LAUTARO GARCÍA CANDELA

He is a filmmaker, critic and teacher. He studied at the Universidad del Cine. His debut feature, I Love You So Much That I Just Don’t Know, premiered at BAFICI 2018 in the Avant-Garde & Genre Official Competition, participated in Festifreak (where it won the award for Best Argentine Film) and the Málaga Film Festival. It was also screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York and the Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon. Money Exchange!, his second feature film, premiered in the International Competition of the 37th Mar del Plata Film Festival. He is also the director of the film magazine La vida útil, with which he participated in the Talent Press BAFICI in 2017, in panel discussions at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 2018 and 2019, and was selected for Critic’s Choice of IFFR 2020. They have published five issues in print, with wide distribution in Latin America and Spain.

DIRECTOR´S NOTE

Money Exchange! comes from walking downtown Buenos Aires all the time. It’s a place where tourists, currency exchange centers, offices, banks, that is, all the typical wheeling and dealing, converge. Through the eyes of all the passers-by, I can see the dream of “saving” oneself from a devastating economy. That world, typical of economists and experts, appears to be incomprehensible, but the characters in Money Exchange turn it into a concrete space of action, with a certain ease and a sense of community.