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Hermia & Helena is the latest beguiling work from Argentinian filmmaker Matas Pieiro (ThePrincess of France) , brilliantly adapting Shakespeare to the modern age. Camila (AgustinaMuoz) , a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York for anartist residency to work on a new Spanish translation of Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night sDream. Upon her arrival, she quickly realizes that her work isn t compensating for the loss ofher friends and the lover she left behind. When she begins to receive a series of mysteriouspostcards from Danile (Mati Diop, Claire Denis s 35 Shots of Rum) , a former participantin the same residency, Camila second-guesses her artistic endeavors and begins to seekanswers about her past. It is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating amorousdetours across hemispheres and languages, in which the words of Shakespeare clash withthe entanglements of modern, digital life.

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