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The Future Perfect
Official Selection - 2017 New Directors/New Films
Official Selection - 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam
WINNER, New Auteurs Grand Jury Award - AFI Fest 2016

COLORADO PREMIERE

Winner of the Best First Feature prize at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival, Nele Wohlatz’s film is a thematically rich, formally playful documentary/narrative hybrid where language barriers and cultural divides inform the lives of its characters but also the structure of the film itself. Seventeen-year old Xiaobin has arrived in Argentina, unable to speak a word of Spanish. She takes a job at a supermarket to pay for language courses. At work she meets a young Indian man Vijay, whom she starts dating despite their linguistic divide. The classes, the job, and the boyfriend she keeps secret from her family who operate a laundromat in the same country but seem worlds away. What Xiaobin learns in her language class she puts into practice on the outside. The more adept at the language she becomes, the more she is able to interfere with the narrative of the film. When she practices the conditional tense, she imagines what is possible.

Director    Nele Wohlatz
Country    Argentina
Year    2016
Runtime    65 min
Starring    Xiaobin Zhang, Saroj Kumar Malik, Mian Jiang
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  • Home
  • About / Contact
  • Submit Your Film
  • Previous Programs
    • 2023 Program >
      • 2023 Community Conversations >
        • 3/11 - Celebrating the Stories of our LGBTQ+ Asian American Pacific Islander Community
        • 3/12 - Celebrating the Stories of our Multiracial AAPI Community
      • 2023 Short Films Showcase >
        • Amache Rose
        • Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Findings
        • Dirty Rotten Tofu and the Gohan Girls
        • One Fine Day
        • Paddles on the Water
        • Soon
        • Thread
      • 2023 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • 1992
        • Daruma
        • Esperanza
        • it's in the cards, fatherhood
        • My Grandpa Says He's an Alien
        • The Pomegranate Tree
        • The Waterspout
        • Yesterday I Was the Moon
    • 2022 Program >
      • 2022 Community Conversations >
        • 3/5 - CAPU
        • 3/6 - AGI
      • 2022 Short Films Showcase >
        • #AsianAmResilience Microdocs
        • good enough
        • In Wake of the Crashing Dawn
        • Projections
        • Charlie
        • Desert Lotus
        • Ara, Untamed
        • My Name is not Amy
      • 2022 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Sino Ako
        • All Mine
        • Winter Glass Glare
        • Core
        • Maa
        • Heart Sutra
    • 2021 Program >
      • 2021 Short Film Showcase >
        • #AsianAMCovidStories
        • Duo Pandemia
        • Mastery I & II
        • Ib Tsug 13 Hnub
        • Ntuj Tsim Txom
        • Mechamorphosis
        • The 3 Day Nun
        • The Loyal Betrayal
        • Voices
      • 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Check Box: Other
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter >
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S2
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S1
        • Safe
        • In the Spotlight
    • 2020 Program >
      • Digital Program Book
      • 2020 Creative Conversations >
        • 2/21 - Best Tasting Wild Foods of Colorado​
        • 2/22 - Health & Mental Health
        • 2/22 - Mushroom Foraging 101
      • 2020 Asian American Documentaries >
        • Palliative
        • Love Boat: Taiwan
      • 2020 Colorado Showcase >
        • The Rock Within
        • Ma
        • For Tashi
        • people (of water)
        • Not Pictured
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
      • Ang Larawan (The Portrait)
      • Asian American Artist Showcase
    • 2019 Program >
      • 2019 Film Shorts >
        • Runner
        • Tears of the Sky
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
        • My Escape
      • 2019 CU Denver Showcase >
        • Three Worlds One Stage
        • Virtual Mandala
      • 2019 Festival Talkbacks >
        • Creative Leadership Talkback
        • CU Filmmaker Q&A
        • Film Industry Talkback
    • 2018 Program
    • 2017 Program >
      • Taipei Story
      • The Last Princess
      • Mid-Length Films Block
      • Ten Years
      • What's in the Darkness
      • Millennium Actress
      • The Future Perfect
      • Youth of the Beast
      • Being Good
      • Heart Attack
      • Bloody Dairy
      • Bruce Takes Dragon Town
      • Cowboy and Indian
      • Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story
      • Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
      • Mango Sticky Rice
      • Night-Fly
      • Sumo Road - The Musical
      • Threads - The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
      • Twenty Years
    • 2016 Program >
      • Wolf Children
      • Uzumasa Limelight
      • Changing Season
      • Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Awesome Asian Bad Guys
      • Off the Menu: Asian America
      • Winning Girl
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