SCREENINGS
Saturday, April 13 , 5 pm.
Saturday, April 20, 3 and 6 pm.

Tickets only available online or  in puntos de venta del BAFICI.

For the third year, Proa hosts the BAFICI Film Festival -Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival- with the screening of “Three Sisters” (2012, 153 min.), the latest film by Wang Bing, one of the most prominent documentary maker of the contemporary cinema.

Synopsis
Winner of the award for Best Film at the Venice Biennale and DocLisboa in 2012 and the Fribourg International Film Fest in 2013, Three Sisters shows the life of a small and very poor family in the mountain valley of Yunnan, a remote region of rural China. There, three sisters of 10, 6 and 4 years living practically alone, accompanied only by a grandparent, an aunt and a father who has to be away for months on business. Despite the cold and absolute scarcity, the three built a silent brotherly bond that will provide shelter to a childhood plagued by loneliness and poverty.

Dijo la crítica
“Un triunfo del cine de observación, Three Sisters abre una ventana a un mundo desconocido, y transforma lo cotidiano en algo extrañamente mágico”.
Giovanna Fulvi – Toronto International Film Festival

“La obra de Wang Bing tiene una importancia capital”.
Roger Koza – Festival Internacional de Cine de la UNAM

“Three Sisters ofrece una mirada esclarecedora y profundamente humana sobre una familia pobre cuyas rudimentarias condiciones de vida son una réplica punzante a la ilusión del boom económico chino”.
Variety

“Wang Bing juega entre dos polos, la visión de una China antropológica y las texturas de los recuerdos, las imágenes del día a día de estos niños, un material totalmente cinematográfico”.
Alberto Moreno – Contrapicado

Three Sisters
China/France, 2012, 153 min.
Direction: Wang Bing
Direction of photography: Wang Bing, Huang Wenhai, Li Peifeng
Edition: Wang Bing, Adam Kerby
Sound: Fu Kang
Production: Mao Hui, Sylvie Faguer
Produced by Chinese Shadows, ALBUM Productions

About the director
Wang Bing was born in Shaanxi Province in China. He studied at the LuXun Art Academy in Shenyang  and the Beijing Film Academy. His first experience as a documentarist was “Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks” (2003), a nine hours feature film presented at the Toronto Film Festival and  internationaly acclaimed. His other achievements were “He Fengming: A Chinese Memoir” (2007), “A Journal of Crude Oil” (2008), “The Ditch” (2010) and “Three Sisters” (2012), his last film.