In 1999, photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti invites her neighbours from the farms next door, the cousins Guillermina, ten, and Belinda, nine, to share their dreams and fantasies. Twenty-five years later she is still filming. As the girls leave childhood behind, their games take on the weight of real desires and responsibilities, and the vast Argentine Pampas around them becomes the setting for work, family, motherhood and futures that slowly diverge. Time itself is the most palpable tension.
In 1999, photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti invited her young neighbours, the cousins Guillermina, ten, and Belinda, nine, to act out their dreams for her camera on two neighbouring farms in the Argentine Pampas. They dress up as brides and gypsies, stage a funeral for an imaginary husband, sing old love songs and give their photographs grand titles such as "The Queen of Garlic". On a trip to Buenos Aires, they gasp at every building. Guillermina dreams of a long white wedding dress and a party full of white decorations. Then, almost without noticing, they grow up. First loves arrive, then babies, then work, marriage and motherhood.
At eighteen, one of them asks the question the film keeps circling: why didn't we just stay little? Twenty-five years on, the cousins lead separate lives and can go a year without seeing each other, until one of their daughters stands in front of the same camera. Sanguinetti's first feature grows out of her celebrated photographic series 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda', and as grainy camcorder footage gives way to digital, the images age alongside the women. Tender, funny and quietly heartbreaking, it is a story of friendship, and of how a summer only looks everlasting from inside it.
At eighteen, one of them asks the question the film keeps circling: why didn't we just stay little? Twenty-five years on, the cousins lead separate lives and can go a year without seeing each other, until one of their daughters stands in front of the same camera. Sanguinetti's first feature grows out of her celebrated photographic series 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda', and as grainy camcorder footage gives way to digital, the images age alongside the women. Tender, funny and quietly heartbreaking, it is a story of friendship, and of how a summer only looks everlasting from inside it.
