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One man is followed over the course of a seemingly ordinary day in this experimental drama from filmmaker Pablo Stoll. Twentysomething Juan (Juan Andres Stoll) wakes up at his parents' house and during the next hour and a quarter, we watch as he goes through the motions of a typical day -- he helps his folks around the house; he heads downtown to see his girlfriend; he catches a train to the outskirts of town and later stops at a friend's place for some soccer, a cookout, hanging out, and making time with several attractive women. Juan closes out the evening at a club where a rock band is playing, and he breaks the silence he's maintained throughout the film when he jumps up on-stage and bursts into song. Hiroshima was Stoll's first solo directorial assignment, after several collaborations with his late partner Juan Pablo Rebella; the film received its North American debut at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival.