Director: Pablo Agüero
Frankrig/Argentina 2009, 74 min.

Dreamy low-budget poetry from the fringes of reality

A chain-smoking elderly chatterbox from Argentina crashes over at his highly pregnant daughter-in-law in a small bohemian apartment in Paris. She is alone and waiting for her boyfriend, who one day went out to get some cigarettes and never came back. Together, the two of them embark on a quest to find the lost boyfriend/son/father-to-be, whose only presence is a whispering and sad voice. '77 Doronship' tests the theory that a film can become a documentary if only the budget is low enough - and ends up proving that this kind of distinction doesn't apply to a film that exhibits such an eminent sense of presence and unpredictability in its pictorial language. The sad reality turns into the raw material of fantasy and poetry, which the Argentinian director Pablo Agüero uses to sculpt his dreams.