Maite Alberdi
TFI Support
TFI Documentary Fund 2014
About
Maite Alberdi is part of the new voices of the Latin American documentary world. She has developed a very particular style that achieves an intimate portrayal of the characters she works with, through everyday stories in small-scale worlds. Films: The Lifeguard (2011), Tea Time (2014), The Grown-Ups (2017)
The Mole Agent
Against his will, Oscar (82) must give up his past life after his family decides to send him to an elderly retirement home. Although he hates his new imposed life, inside the asylum he becomes the love of all women and the adviser of all men, shifting his expectations as he gradually becomes one more resident in it.
Los Reyes
Chola and Fútbol are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.
The Mole Agent
Rómulo is a private investigator hired to study an elderly retirement home where residents might be victims of abuse. He trains Oscar (82) to live as a Mole Agent inside the home. Once infiltrated, Oscar struggles to assume his detective role, as he gradually becomes one more resident in it.
Tea Time
Five elderly women have religiously gathered for tea once a month for the past sixty years. In these meetings they share their last years while forgetting completely the short time they have left.
The Grown Ups
TFI Bloomberg Fellow - Chile)
A group of friends with Down’s syndrome must face a new stage in life. They still go to school but they are not children anymore. They are growing old and nobody prepared them. Parents die, they are left alone, and they suffer diseases of the elderly, as Alzheimer’s.