Synopsis
Spanish with English subtitles
With Alfonsina Carrocio, Gabriela Freire, Cecilia Caballero Jeske, Santiago Musetti, Valentina Pereyra, Joel Fazzi
Nina and Emma are two young friends who embark on their first summer vacation alone. The beach, party nights, music, and personal quests: the seaside town becomes the perfect setting for this transition into a new phase of their lives. When Emma begins dating someone she meets during one of those nights, the bond between the two friends is shaken, perhaps forever.
Directed by Mercedes Cosco, Nina & Emma is a tender and compelling coming-of-age drama that examines the emotional complexity of female friendship. With quiet sensitivity, the film uncovers the subtle ways intimacy shifts and reshapes the bond between two young women.
Press
“Through the story of these two friends... we see each one's internal struggle to find their place in the world, which makes them feel alive and happy.” – El Telégrafo
Notes on the Film
“I seek the moment where concrete reality gives way to the subtly magical. I delight in observing with intention, squeezing the events through an obsessive attention to gestures, focusing on finding meaning in the meaningless, and crafting seemingly insignificant scenes to express them as closely as possible to raw emotion. Nina & Emma captures, from a first-person perspective, the dramatic and turbulent sensations that arise in the first encounters with the unknown. My aim was to create an immersive experience of Nina’s emotional world: the sensation of first love, the search for sexual identity, anxiety, the longing for experimentation, fear, and pain. This film became an opportunity to unfold a symbolic, sensitive, and delicate universe, where vital themes—the experience of growing up as a woman, sexuality, mental health, and identity formation—are explored through Nina’s own subjective lens.”
– Mercedes Cosco, Director
