Felicidades
On a hot and muggy Christmas Eve in Buenos Aires, everyone is hectically preparing for the holidays. In a series of wry coincidences, an overworked stand-up comic, a successful writer, a young father and a handsome doctor cross paths as they try to make it through a night of most peculiar circumstances. In his feature film debut, Bender carefully balances a fast-paced story with sensitive character portraits, revealing a style and sensibility that evoke Robert Altman’s genius for interweaving plot lines and characters and Jim Jarmusch’s depiction of surviving alienation and disillusionment.  Argentinean stars Gasto?n Pauls (Nine Queens) and Silke (Km. 0) head a talented ensemble cast, creating a Christmas classic with a Latin flair.