Sophia Ehrnrooth‘s To be somebody in life will premiere at the FIDBA 2025 – International Documentary Film Festival taking place from November 24–30, 2025 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

FIDBA is biggest documentary film festival of Iberoamerica, and the first international documentary film festival in Argentina.

Ehrnrooth’s film will be screened on November 27 at 19:50 at SALA 3 – Atlas Cines Patio Bullrich.

To be somebody in life (2025) asks: Who is permitted to dream? Do we judge aspirations of young people as impossible from the onset?

The work explores fears, hopes and dreams of young people. An adult woman and a man take turns reciting documentary texts, delivering them verbatim while looking directly into the camera, at times in dialogue with one another. They both interpret texts written by people of different genders.

The documentary texts are written by Uruguayan youth as part of an installation in public space carried out in Montevideo in 2023.

Based in Helsinki, Sophia Ehrnrooth is a versatile visual artist workin on painting, photography, media art and film. Her works about football culture have been on view in Sarajevo, Rome, Kioto, Helsinki, and Porvoo. The short film Dream of Championship (2017) has travelled international film festivals and was nominated with a honorary mention at DocPoint 2018.

FIDBA 2025 – International Documentary Film Festival
November 24–30, 2025
Buenos Aires, Argentina

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