“Gerard Borràs, the editor of YOU BURN ME, said at the end of our work together, ‘This film could continue being edited forever: let’s finish it.’ He was right and so we found its balance. Still, there was one idea I was not able to include in the feature. Around its premiere at the 2024 Berlinale, I said, ‘I could make a preface to the film around this missing point – after all, Pavese wrote a preface to the book ‘Dialogues with Leucò’ and also one preface to each of its 20 chapters, including ‘Sea Foam’, the chapter we adapted. So, one year after finishing YOU BURN ME, and with all new footage specially shot and edited for the occasion, here is our little preface…” –Matías Piñeiro
