The Idea of a Lake
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Inès, a professional photographer, decides to complete a book she is working on before she gives birth to her first child. This photography project, related to the memories of her childhood, always brings her back to the same place: the family home in southern Argentina that shaped her youth and forged her character. It also contains the only photo Inès still has of her with her father, before he disappeared as a victim of the military dictatorship. This photo is the starting point of a jigsaw puzzle of fragmentary memories about the relationships Inès had with her mother and her brother.
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Carla Crespo
Inès
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León
Rosario Bléfari
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Silvia Prieto
Guadalupe Gaona
Milagros Mumenthaler
Violeta Bava
Gion-Reto Killias
Malena Moiron
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Without Leon
David Epiney
Gabriel Sandru
Juan Barberini
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End of the Century
Young Hunter
Eugenia Mumenthaler
Juan Bautista Greppi
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Well Kept Secret
Aire libre
Milagros Mumenthaler Director · Guadalupe Gaona Writer Gabriel Sandru Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $9.7K · First release August 9, 2016 · Produced in Argentina, Qatar, Switzerland
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Worldwide gross
$9,669
Production
Alina Film
Production
Ruda Cine
Production
RTS
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INCAA
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Doha Film Institute
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Hubert Bals Fund
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Loterie Suisse Romande
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Radio Télévision Suisse
Production
Argentina · Qatar · Switzerland
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Original title
La idea de un lago
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Switzerland · August 9, 2016
Premiere · Locarno International Film Festival
No release date listed for United States.
Argentina
November 19, 2016 · Mar del Plata Film Festival
Australia
August 7, 2017 · Melbourne International Film Festival
Brazil
October 11, 2016 · Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
Egypt
November 19, 2016 · Cairo International Film Critics Week
Netherlands
January 27, 2017 · International Film Festival Rotterdam
Peru
August 7, 2017 · Festival de Cine de Lima
Poland
July 17, 2017 · Transatlantyk Film Festival
Portugal
May 4, 2017 · IndieLisboa
South Korea
October 7, 2016 · Busan International Film Festival
Spain
September 16, 2016 · Premiere · San Sebastian Film Festival
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