May 3rd @ 7pm & 9.30pm – Bandoneon player Rodolfo Marcelo Zanetti post-screening Q&A with Director Germán Kral moderated by Mariela Franganillo
May 4th @ 7pm & 9.30pm – Tango dancing from Florencia & Marcos Borgnia post-screening Q&A with Director Germán Kral moderated by Mariela Franganillo and Dagny Arizona
May 5th @ 7pm – Tango dancing from Çiko and Adam post-screening Q&A with Director Germán Kral moderated by Roger Costa
Buenos Aires, November 2001. Argentina is embroiled in crisis, with the peso plunging deeper and deeper. Julio Färber, the charismatic bandoneon player of the “Vecinos de Pompeya,” a five-piece working-class tango band, is trying to keep his head above water, but every month he is earning less and less from their gigs as well as from the traditional shoe shop he inherited from his father. At the very moment, he takes the decision to leave his beloved Buenos Aires forever, it clearly appears that life is conspiring against him: overnight, the government freezes all bank accounts in the whole country, preventing Julio from purchasing the flight tickets and sparking violent protests throughout the town. And Mariela, a witty young woman, and feisty cab driver, bumps into his car at full speed, damaging Julio’s last possession of value before stealing his heart…
