Production on Argentine-born, Swiss-educated filmmaker Marí Alessandrini’s debut feature “Zahorí” ground to a halt in the middle of post-production. With the same amount of already limited budget a…
Production on Argentine-born, Swiss-educated filmmaker Marí Alessandrini’s debut feature “Zahorí” ground to a halt in the middle of post-production. With the same amount of already limited budget and an estimated extra year before the film can premiere, she has been forced to finish editing on her own.
Like much of her work, “Zahorí” takes place in her native Argentina, on the Patagonia Steppe. There, 13-year-old Mora, misunderstood by her parents and the school she attends, and her friend Nazareno, an elderly Mapuche man who understands her better than most, embark together on the path toward the elder’s death, in a coming-of-age journey for the young girl.’s website, Alessandrini describes the film as “a re-appropriation of the Western.
You worked in the visual arts for years in Argentina, then moved to Switzerland when you started filmmaking. What motivated that decision? In the Locarno presentation, the film is described as semi-autobiographical, based on your own childhood. How did your own experiences influence “Zahorí”?
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