Pasto Cine Boards “Puan,” Helmer María Alché’s “I Love You and Today Everything Looks Beautiful” (Exclusive)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Pasto Cinema Argentina presented María Alché’s upcoming film, titled “I Love You and Today Everything Looks Beautiful.” The film is produced by the Brazilian Banner Bubbles project alongside Elastica Films of Spain, Pandora Film of Germany and Monkey Film of France. “I Love You and Today Everything Looks Beautiful” is set in the 1950s.

The film reunites the acclaimed Argentinian director with Brazil's Bubbles project, which is produced alongside Spain's Elastica Films, Germany's Pandora Films and France's Monkey Films.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Argentina's Cinema Pasto turned on Maria Alche's upcoming film I Love You and Everything Looks Beautiful Today. The film is produced by Brazil's Banner Bubbles project along with Spain's Elastica Films, Germany's Pandora Films and France's Monkey Films.

"I Love You and Today Everything Looks Beautiful" is set between the 1950s and 1960s and follows the lives of Josefina and Jorge after the death of their parents. The orphaned children are taken in by their irreverent Aunt Bertha and start a new life in the big city in a house frequented by intellectuals and all kinds of political conspiracies. Alche said in his director's statement that the film is "based on the creation of a group of strong, complex and magnetic characters who survive thanks to a mystical and everyday quality: faith in life and the ability to laugh at tragedy." Related Stories 'Evita' on Broadway: West End stars Diego Rodriguez, James Olivas to star alongside Rachel Zigler (Exclusive) Rachel Zigler recalls auditioning for 'Evita' while playing 'Romeo + Juliet' on Broadway: 'I read 40 pages of material'

Josefina feels an unlikely empathy for her in her personal orphanhood. The director added: "In today's Argentina, which is overshadowed by the rise of the extreme right wing that shamelessly evokes the days of military rule, the historical orphans who adopted her mother, Eva Perón, I am interested in recovering the past, when the country still had a productive matrix and there was hope for the future." Popular in Variety

Actor, screenwriter and director Alcheh wrote and directed "Poan" with Benjamin Neistat ("Glaxo"). The film won the Silver Shell for Actor and Screenplay at the San Sebastián Film Festival, was nominated for the Goya Awards, and was a box office success in Argentina.

He co-wrote "Nuestra tierra" by Lucrecia Martel and wrote and directed the feature film "A Sunken Family" which won the Horizontes Latinos Award in San Sebastián, the Ingmar Bergman Award for Best First Film at the Gothenburg Film Festival, Best Screenplay at the Lima Film Festival and Best Director at Ficunam.

Alché's latest film is currently in the financing stages and is slated to shoot in the second half of 2027. Renowned French cinematographer Hélène Louvart ("La Chimera", "The Lost Daughter") has also joined the project, as well as "Divine Love" editor Livia Serpa and "I'm sound" director Zuraman. This is the third collaboration between this Argentinian player and director Tatiana Leite's Bubbles project, and the fourth collaboration between Bubbles and Barbara Francisco's Pasto cinema.

"My collaboration with Pasto Cinema's Barbara Francisco, who I met at the EAVE Puentes workshop in 2013, and with director Maria Alche, goes back over a decade," Leite tells Variety. Maria makes unique films and I am fascinated by her direction of actors and the dreamlike dimension that permeates reality in her work.

"When I was sent the script for 'I Love You and Everything Looks Beautiful Today,' I discovered something even more valuable in my reading, something that moved me from beginning to end," he adds. "I Love You" is a period movie, yet it is very relevant to the world we live in today.

Francisco notes how a large part of the film's team, including Louvart and Serpa, "have a close and enduring bond since working together on 'A Sunken Family.'" "This bond is rooted in a shared vision of the world and a shared approach to filmmaking. For Maria Alche's new film, I am once again delighted to welcome Cristiniel, and Friantia) from Elastica Films in Spain and Maneki Films in France.

Project Bubbles is one of the leading forces in Brazilian co-production, having recently contributed to notable projects such as Abinash Bikram Shah's "Elephants in the Fog" and Pedro Pinho's "I Only Rest in the Storm." They recently finished filming Miguel Gómez's Selvajaria, which was shot in Bahia, and are in production on Benzinho director Gustavo Pizzi's God Pay You Back, Pedro Ferreira's Malo director Dora and Vera, and Valentina Hume's feature debut Under de Bano.