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Milagros Mumenthaler was born in Argentina in 1977. She lived with her family in Swtzerland until she was 19 before returning to her native country to study cinema at the Universidad del cine de Buenos Aires, where she made her first short, ¿ Cuando llega Papà ? Her first professional short, Amancay, was selected for Premiers Plans in 2007. Abrir puertas y ventanas is her first feature, the scenario of which was selected for the Ateliers d'Angers in 2006. "When I was three my family and I left Argentina for political reasons and fled to Europe. After leaving Geneva at the age of 19 I decided to return to Argentina. To start with, I lived with my grandmother in Mar del Plata for two years, before moving in with friends in Buenos Aires. A lot of the scenes in the film are inspired by this period. Abrir puertas y ventanas is the story of how relationships between brothers and sisters irrevocably change after adolescence. The film portrays three sisters for whom this natural progression is disturbed by the death of their grandmother. Abrir puertas y ventanas, my first film, reflects my desire to talk about part of my life and my experience. It is inspired by certain evens that I lived through in Argentina, and also the lives of my sisters. Sometimes I like to think that even if destiny enabled us to leave, our lives could have been different and resembled those of the protagonists in the film."