La Salada

With an acute eye and an understated sense of humour, La Salada explores the experiences of Korean, Bolivian and Taiwanese immigrants living in Argentina. The film is structured around three intertwining stories that take place in La Salada — the largest unregulated market in Buenos Aires: a Korean father and daughter prepare for an arranged marriage, a young Bolivian man searches for work, and a Taiwanese DVD seller tries to woo a young woman to be his girlfriend. Inspired by real stories, La Salada provides a rare and moving glimpse into the loneliness and limbo of living in a large metropolis that neither embraces its newcomers nor wholly rejects them.

“La Salada avoids the most sordid and dark edges that other filmmakers would die to include in this kind of film and consciously proposes itself as a multi-character portrait that is bittersweet yet hopeful.” Diego Brodersen, cinema scope

Un mosaico de la experiencia del nuevo inmigrante en Argentina, enlazado a través de tres historias que transcurren en la feria de La Salada. Personajes de diferentes razas que luchan contra la soledad y el desarraigo de su tierra: un padre y su hija coreana que se preparan para un casamiento concertado, un joven boliviano que acaba de llegar al país en busca de trabajo y un vendedor de DVDs taiwanés que quiere encontrar una novia que le haga compañía.