Autlook has signed on as global sales agent for the documentary “The Illusion of an Eternal Summer,” which will have its world premiere in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at the Locarno Film Festival. Variety premieres a clip from the film here.

The film was partially financed by Mubi, which retains rights for the United Kingdom, Ireland and North America.

“The Illusion of an Eternal Summer” is the first feature film by photographer Alessandra Sanguinetti and was filmed over 25 years. It follows Guillermina and Belinda, two inseparable cousins ​​who grow up on neighboring farms in the Pampas of Argentina.

Beginning in 1999, when the girls were only nine years old, Sanguinetti captures the fantasy games of their childhood slowly giving way to the weight of adulthood: work, family, motherhood, and divergent paths. Set in the rural landscape of the Argentine Pampas, the film offers “an intimate and feminine counterpoint to the region’s male-dominated gaucho mythology, becoming a profound meditation on time, friendship and what endures,” according to a statement.

The film is produced by Julia Solomonoff and co-produced by Mubi and Impact Partners.

Sanguinetti is a Guggenheim Fellow and has received a Hasselblad Fellowship, a Sundance Fellowship, and a Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award. His monographs include “The Sixth Day,” “The Adventures of Guille and Belinda” (volumes 1 and 2), “Some Say Ice,” and “Sorry, Welcome.”

His work has been collected and exhibited by MoMA, SFMOMA, MFA Houston, Museo de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires and Fondation Cartier-Bresson. He has been a member of Magnum since 2007.

Solomonoff is a former president of New York University’s Tisch Graduate School of Film, where she continues to teach. He wrote and directed the feature films “Sisters” (Toronto and San Sebastián), “The Last Summer of La Boyita” (Cannes ACID winner) and “Nobody’s Watching” (Tribeca), the limited series “15 to the Hour” for Paramount+, and the documentary series “Paraná, biography of a river” and “Aerocene Pacha: A sustainable utopia.”

As a producer, Solomonoff focuses on emerging talent from Latin America. Her credits include “Cocalero” by Alejandro Landes (Sundance), “Found Memories” by Julia Murat (Venice, Toronto, San Sebastián), “Pendular” by Júlia Murat (Berlin), “A memoria que me contan” by Lucia Murat, “Everybody Has a Plan” by Ana Piterbarg (starring Viggo Mortensen), “The Third Shore of the River” by Celina Murga (Berlin) and Lucretia. “Zama” by Martel (Venice, Toronto, NYFF).