An 88-year-old Basque native, Josebe, lives in a nursing home in Chile. She’s obsessed with finding out where the rest of the elder people she lives with comes from. Everyone tells her that they are Chilean, not Spanish as she is. Josebe insists on thinking about her youth in the Basque Country. After a full year living in that house, she struggles to remember that she is living in a nursing home. After 70 years in Chile, she still lively remembers her homeland.

Direction: Giedrė Žickytė, Maite Alberdi

Script: Giedrė Žickytė

Production: Patricio Gajardo, Maite Alberdi, Giedrė Žickytė, Patricio Gajardo

Cinematography: Pablo Valdés

Editing: Juan Eduardo Murillo

Production Design: Maite Alberdi

Original Title: YO NO SOY DE AQUÍ

Original Languages: Basque, Spanish

Film Production Countries: Chile, Denmark, Lithuania

Social Media: www.facebook.com/imnotfromherefilm

Statement of the Director/s
We wanted to explore how the past can determine ourselves, even when we are not able to remember what happened yesterday. Alzheimer's disease erases the present, but often our life's milestones remain alive in our minds.
This is an exploration of how the past co-exists with the present until creating a new reality, making from the observation of the quotidian a different portrait of mental illness, with lucidity, humour and joy, on every memory we cherish.

Biography of the Director/s
Giedrė Žickytė
Born in 1980, Giedrė Žickytė is a Lithuanian film director and producer. She graduated with an MA in Visual Arts from the Vilnius Art Academy in 2007 and has been working in the international documentary film market since 2010. Her films have been screened at many international film festivals including IDFA, DokLeipzig, Vision du Reel, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Rotterdam IFF, Goteborg IFF, Warsaw IFF, Krakow IFF, Hot Docs and others, have received various awards and been distributed theatrically. Her latest documentary film MASTER AND TATYANA (2015) won four main Lithuanian National Film Awards “Silver Crane” - for the Best Director, Best Documentary, Best Camera and Best Editing.
At the moment Giedre is in production of the feature-length documentary THE JUMP.

Maite Alberdi
Maite Alberdi is a Chilean director and producer. She studied Film and Aesthetics at the Universidad Católica de Chile. As a director she has developed a highly particular style that achieves an intimate portrayal of the characters she works with through everyday stories in small-scale worlds. In 2011 she premiered at IDFA her first feature film THE LIFEGUARD. Her film TEA TIME also premiered at IDFA (2014), was broadcast during POV (point of view) season 2015 and received various awards, among them Best Female-Directed Documentary at IDFA and Best Documentary at the festivals in Miami, Barcelona, Cartagena, Guadalajara, and Santiago. She is currently working on her third documentary, THE GROWN-UPS, about a group of adults with Down Syndrome who have grown tired of attending the same school for 45 years. She works as a teacher at several universities in Santiago, and is co-writer of the book “Teorías del cine documental en Chile: 1957‐1973”.

Filmography of the Director/s
Maite Alberdi:
2014 - TEA TIME, doc
2011 - THE LIFEGUARD
2007 - THE HAIRDRESSERS, short

Giedrė Žickytė:
2014 - MASTER AND TATYANA
2011 - HOW WE PLAYED THE REVOLUTION
2009 - BARAS

Awards Won
Krakow FF: Best European Short Film & EFA Nomination

Visions Du Réel: Sesterce d'or Goblet for Best International Short Film
Sheffield Doc/Fest: Best International Short Film
DocumentaMadrid: Best Short Film Audience Award
Huesca IFF: José Manuel Porquet Special Award for the Best Ibero-American Short Film

World Sales:
Micromundo Producciones
Patricio Gajardo
Huelén 285, apt. 10, Providencia
Santiago, 7500658, Chile
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +56 951 204 862

Press:
Kouzi Productions
Dimitra Kouzi
4, Melinas Merkouri
Athens, 115 21, Greece
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +30 694 6060 862