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I'm Not From Here (2016)

Josebe (88) lives in a nursing home in Chile. She’s obsessed with knowing where do the rest of the elder people she lives with, come from. Everyone tell her that they are chilean, not spaniard as she is. Josebe insists on thinking about her youth in the Basque Country. After a full year living in that house, she struggles to remember that she is living in a nursing home. After 70 years in Chile, she still remembers lively her homeland.

Technical Information:

  • Original title: Yo no soy de aquí
  • English title: I’m not from here
  • Film lenght: 25:45 min
  • Country of production: Chile, Lithuania & Denmark
  • Directors & Screenwriters: Maite Alberdi, Giedrė Žickytė 
  • Cinematographer: Pablo Valdés
  • Editor: Juan Eduardo Murillo
  • Sound: Boris Herrera
  • Producers: Pato R. Gajardo, Maite Alberdi 
  • Financing institutions: FFA-Chile, The Danish Film Institute, Lithuanian Film Centre
  • This is a film that was made within the CPH:DOX LAB and exhibited in NEW YORK TIMES OP-DOCS.
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International Press

"Yo no soy de aquí", la conciencia del pasado y el olvido del presente
EFE ​
Interview to Maite Alberdi for her festival winning short film I'm not from here ​
Cinema Chile
El documental ‘Yo no soy de aquí’ explora el impacto del alzhéimer en la identidad ​
The New York Times
INTERVIEW - "I'm not from here" Directors Maite Alberdi and Giedre Zickyte ​
CineEuropa
Un documental chileno sobre el Alzheimer: "Yo no soy de aquí"(de Chile)... soy de Rentería ​
About Basque Country
Interview with Maite Alberti and Giedrė Žickytė, directors of the EFA-nominated short film “I am not from here ​
Lithuanian Film Centre

National Press

Maite Alberdi presentará cinta sobre la tercera edad en Sanfic ​
CNN Chile
Entrevista a Maite Alberdi por "Yo No Soy de Aquí ​
VIA X
Maite Alberdi llega a Sanfic con aclamado cortometraje sobre los recuerdos en la tercera edad
El Mostrador
Maite Alberdi ahondó en cortometraje "Yo no soy de aquí"
T13 Radio
Cortometraje de Maite Alberdi gana premio del público en festival en Madrid
El Mercurio Online
El olvido de la memoria desde una residencia chilena
El País

AWARDS

  • Winner of the Sesterce D’or Goblet, for Best International Shortfilm Academy Awards qualification Visions du Réel–Festival international de cinéma . Nyon, Switzerland , 2016

  • Winner of the Audience Award, for the Best Short Film,  DocumentaMadrid International Documentary Film Festival. Spain 2016

  • EFA nomination for Best European Short Film award Krakow International Film Festival. Poland 2016

  • Winner, for Best International Short Film Academy Awards qualification Sheffield Doc/Fest. England 2016

  • Winner of the José Manuel Porquet Special Award Huesca International Film Festival. Spain  2016

  • Premio Speciale della Giuria Concorto Film Festival. Italy  2016

  • Let us be short: Best Short Film Award Budapest International Documentary Festival. Hungary 2016

  • Best documentary short film Award IFF Message to man Film Festival. Russia 2016

  • Jury’s special mention Festival de Biarritz Amerique Latine. France 2016

  • Best short film Award Rukapillan Festival. Chile 2016

  • Best Documentary Short Film Award Certamen Internacional Cortos Soria. Spain 2016

  • Best Short Film Award Doc en Courts. France 2017

FESTIVALS

  • Visions du Réel ,  Festival international de cinema. Nyon, Switzerland  2016. World Premiere.

  • DocumentaMadrid , Madrid International Documentary Film Festival, Spain 2016

  • Hot Docs – Canadian International Documentary Festival, Canada 2016. North american Premiere.

  • Krakow International Film Festival, Poland 2016

  • Sheffield Doc/Fest, England 2016 

  • Huesca International Film Festival, Spain 2016 

  • SANFIC Santiago International Film Festival, Chile 2016. Chilean Premiere.

  • Concorto Film Festival,  Italy 2016

  • Budapest International Documentary Festival, Hungary 2016

  • IFF Message to man Film Festival, Russia  2016

  • Festival de Biarritz Amerique Latine, France 2016

  • Rukapillan Festival, Chile 2016

  • European Film Forum “Scanorama”, Lithuania 2016. Lithuanian Premiere.

  • 10th Cinema Verite Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Iran 2016

  • Certamen Internacional Cortos Soria, Spain 2016

  • Vilnius International Short Film Festival, Lithuania 2017

  • Doc en Courts, France 2017

  • Int. Women Film Festival of Creteil, France 2017

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