Berlin International Film Festival 2010
 

 Synopsis
 Julieta does what any other mother would: try to stand firmly on her parental ground in an attempt to send the boys to bed without causing further upset. But the little ones have a mind of their own and stubbornly block out their poor mother’s pleas for peace and quiet. Julieta, under intense pressure to finish a report for work, is already beyond the point of exhaustion. Suddenly, everything comes to an absolute standstill when screams from Julieta’s younger son Teo pierce through the house. Something is clearly wrong: the boy needs medical attention and needs to be whisked to the closest hospital. What exactly happened is unclear.

 Program Note
 In Buenos Aires, Julieta is struggling with her two young boys. It is not easy to raise two very mischievous boys. Her husband won’t be home on time as his plane is delayed. She is also behind in her work. Suddenly, her younger son Teo falls off the bed. Julieta rushes him to the hospital with his brother, only to be confronted with unexpected circumstances.
 It’s Your Fault starts with close-ups of daily life with noisy kids and no extraordinary occurrences and follows through with close-ups of strictly realistic and routine events and images.
 Director Anahí Berneri, however, makes an unexpected situation protrude from a strictly realisty world and therefore demonstrates in an eerie way that women, or mothers, can be driven to a disadvantageous situation without warning at any time in society. In a patriachal social system and language structure, the language and gestures of maternity are signified as overemotional or immature, and It’s Your Fault reveals through accurate as well as amazing visual and emotional means that such ‘deficiency’ or ‘inappropriateness’ can only be fulfilled by the social guarantee of a husband/father’ sense of duty or symbolic language. (KWON Eun-sun)