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Argentine banners Gaman Cine and Fiørd Studio are partnering with Spain’s Lorolo on documentary “La Otra Voz” (“The Other Voice”), about legendary Argentine folk-protest singer Mercedes Sosa.
Producers Emiliano Torres and Nicolás Gil Lavedra lead “The Other Voice” for Gaman Cine, alongside Pérez Rial and Felicitas Raffo for Lorolo, with Fiørd Studio handling European coordination.
Gaman Cine was founded by Torres and Gil Lavedra, themselves distinguished filmmakers whose credits include Torres’ 2016 San Sebastian Special Jury Prize winner “The Winter” and Lavedra’s “Como el mar” and “Traslados,” a highlight of the 2024 San Sebastián Festival.
Directed by Agustina Pérez Rial (“Danubio”) and made in association with the Mercedes Sosa Foundation, the film will chronicle the artist’s years of exile through her unpublished letters and photographs, blending personal memory and political history.
“The Other Voice” is one of the 12 projects selected for pitching at the upcoming edition of Proyecta, the co-production platform held at Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires this December, jointly organized with Cannes’ Marché du Film and the San Sebastián Film Festival.
In development, the film has received key international backing, including support from the IDFA Bertha Fund, Mecenazgo and the Metropolitan City Fund of Buenos Aires, the INCAA Digital Feature Documentary Award, and Orillas Nuevas / Nouveaux Rivages from the French Embassy in Argentina.
Shooting is planned for Argentina and Spain in mid-2026 and France in early 2027.
Written and directed by Pérez Rial, the film reconstructs the exile of Sosa, who was arrested during a 1978 concert in La Plata and later forced to flee Argentina’s dictatorship. From Paris and Madrid, hotels and airplanes, she wrote hundreds of letters to her confidant Hugo, reflecting on art, exile and identity.
Built from a newly uncovered archive of more than 100 letters and thousands of photographs taken by Sosa herself, the film offers an epistolary portrait of the woman behind the icon, guided by the narration of her granddaughter Araceli Matus, who also appears on screen.
“The project was born from access to an unpublished, personal archive that Mercedes Sosa’s granddaughter entrusted to me over the last two years,” said Pérez Rial. “Combined with my experience in archival documentary cinema, it offers a singular, intimate and political portrait of the woman behind the icon.”
Several documentaries have already explored Sosa’s years in exile, among them Stefan Paul’s “Será posible el sur: Mercedes Sosa,” chronicling her return-from-exile tour in the mid-80s, and “Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America” (2013), premiering at DOC NYC.
Gaman Cine has evolved into one of Argentina’s leading auteur production houses, with credits including Paz Encina’s Rotterdam Tiger Award winner “Eami,” Herman Szwarcbart’s “LS83,” winner of the Ciudad de Buenos Aires award at BAFICI 2025, and “La Tierra Prometida,” selected at the Berlinale Co-Pro Series in 2022.
“We aim to produce auteur cinema with a singular vision, combining aesthetic rigor with engagement with our times,” Gaman’s Torres said. “Our model blends public funding, strategic alliances and co-production schemes that preserve creative control while expanding reach and scale.”
Spain-based Lorolo is a film production company created in 2017, after Felicitas Raffo’s experience in production in CEPA Cine, the indie production house she co-founded in 2005 alongside Andrés Longares.
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John Hopewell
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