PROGRAM
Canción para Valentina
Song for Valentina
International Feature Film Competition
It all begins with the discovery of a cassette recorded 25 years ago. Director Valentina Riedel finds a tape of a song composed by her father’s friend to celebrate her birth. This discovery prompts her to explore the life of that man, “the Pole” -musician, rugby coach- who died a decade ago. Thus begins a retrospective journey of healing and reconnection, in an intimate documentary nourished by interviews, family archives, and the filmmaker’s own testimony. Beyond the preservation of memory, the aim is to understand what remains of a person after their passing. To know “who he was, beyond how I knew him as a father,” says the woman for whom the song was written.

Valentina Riedel
Valentina Riedel is a photographer and audiovisual filmmaker. She graduated in Audiovisual Design (UBA) and completed a diploma in Social Photography (UBA). She directed the short film Mover-Ser (2020) and produced the video-essay Aire (2019), which was selected at various digital art festivals. Song for Valentina is her first feature film.
Technical Data Sheet:
D/G: Valentina Riedel
F/DA: Ana Bilos
E: Josefina Martin
S: Manuela Recupito Meikle
M: Adrián Ducard
P: Catalina Imbrosciano
I: Valentina Riedel, Adrián Ducard, Federico Gil Solá, Clara Riedel, Claudia Fernandes de Brito
Contact:
Valentina Riedel
E: valenriedel1@gmail.com
W: cancionparavalentina.wixsite.com/cancionparavalentina
IG: @cancionparavalentina, @valenriedel