THE DAY I WAS NOT BORN

During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn\'t speak a word of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown off-course, she decides to interrupt her journey and wanders through the unfamiliar city. On the phone with her father Anton living in Germany, she speaks about her experience and the peculiar fascination the unfamiliar city has had for her. Two days later, Anton suddenly turns up at Maria\'s hotel with something to confess: Maria spent the first years of her life in Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship at the end of the 1970s. The people she had always thought were her parents had adopted her and brought her to Germany. Father and daughter begin a journey in search of Maria\'s biological parents. Anton does everything he can not to lose his daughter.

Germany / Argentina. 2010. Dir.: Florian Cossen. Digital projection. 92 min.
With: Jessica Schwartz, Michael Gwisdek, Raphael Ferro
Original German and Spanish version with English subtitles