Anita

Summary

A SPECIAL FUNDRAISING SCREENING FOR THE 2011 FILM FESTIVAL AND FOR THE JCC FESTIVAL HA'RIKUD: ANITA

Anita lives with her devoted mother above the shop her late father buit in a commercial district of Buenos Aires. Into their sweetly sedate domestic life the outside world intrudes with unexpected fury with the bombing of the Jewish Agency Offices. As Anita wanders the city lost, she finds compassion in unlikely quarters through the simple force of her ingenuous personality and open heart. Anita deeply touches the lives of all those she encounters . Wrenching, lovely, suffused with life, "Anita" is a hopeful study of human innocence, compassion and resilience in a fragile, troubled world.

RATED: PG (coarse language)

Year: 2009
Genre: Narrative
Countries: Argentina
Languages: Spanish with English subtitles
Subject: Drama
Run time: 105 min.
Format: N/A

Director: Marcos Carnevale
Cast: Norma Aleandro, Alejandra Manzo, Peto Menahem, Leonor Manso, Luis Luque