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THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 25 YEARS
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Twenty five years making possible a better world, expanding minds and human rights all over the planet is not a small feast for a festival started by a good few souls in a small NY theater. Every year the festival comes to town like a giant bell, calling out our name. Pay attention! Es contigo!. Is good they do. Then the possibilities that come with it: to become aware of, interested in, committed to making a difference.
This year, twenty three films explore specific stories of courage confronting intolerable abuse, both person to person and state/regime to persons or collectives all over the world.
The festival is organized around five themes: Armed Conflict and the Arab Spring; Human Rights Defenders, Icons and Villains; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights; Migrants’ Rights; and Women’s Rights and Children’s Rights.This year, director Talal Derki and producer Orwa Nyrabia—filmmakers of Return to Homs—will receive the 2014 Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking. Don't miss it.
A fundraising Benefit Night for Human Rights Watch will launch the festival on June 12 featuring Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman’s Sundance award-winner E-TEAM, which follows four intrepid activists from Human Rights Watch’s Emergencies Team as they investigate and document war crimes on the front lines of Syria and Libya.
I got to see some of these films. They have it all: Domestic Violence, Abortion, War, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Nigeria, Cyprus and Nicaragua. Wrongs need to be righted, everywhere. Human Rights need to be protected or claimed. These are some of the themes you can get to stop and ponder starting on June 13 in NYC. Then, Get involved! :)
+ PRIVATE VIOLENCE (Opening Night, June 13 ) Cynthia Hill—US—2013—81m—doc
Exploring the fact that the most dangerous place for a woman is her home, the film tells the stories of Deanna Walters, a woman who seeks justice after being kidnapped and brutalized by her estranged husband, and Kit Gruelle, a domestic violence survivor who now helps women find justice for themselves.
Director Cynthia Hill and executive producer Gloria Steinem will be present on June 13 for the Opening Night screening of this HBO documentary.
Winner of the top prize for World Documentary at Sundance, the film takes viewers to the front lines of the Syrian conflict as two young men who are determined to defend their city abandon peaceful resistance and take up arms. Recipient of the HRWFF's 2014 Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking.
+ A QUIET INQUISITION. Alessandra Zeka and Holen Sabrina Kahn—US—2014—65m—doc
In a public hospital in Nicaragua, Ob/Gyn Dr. Carla Cerrato struggles with her conscience as she is forced to navigate between a new law that bans all abortions and her training in medical protocols that enable her to save lives.
+ NELSON MANDELA: THE MYTH AND ME. Khalo Matabane—South Africa/Germany—2013—86m—doc
A top prize-winner at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, South African filmmaker Khalo Matabane uses conversations with politicians, activists, intellectuals, and artists to question the meaning of freedom and reconciliation, and challenges Mandela’s legacy in today's world.
+ EVAPORATING BORDERS. Iva Radivojevic—US/Cyprus—2014—73m—docAn examination of how tolerance, identity and nationalism collide over migration issues on the island of Cyprus, one of the easiest entry points to Europe.
+ ABOUNADDARA COLLECTIVE SHORTS FROM SYRIA, Various Directors.
+ WATCHERS OF THE SKY. Edet Belzberg—US—2014—114m—doc
Inspired by Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning book “A Problem From Hell,” the film interweaves the stories of four extraordinary humanitarians whose lives and work embody the vision of Rafael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer who created international law on stopping genocide and holding leaders accountable.
+ NELSON MANDELA: THE MYTH AND ME. Khalo Matabane—South Africa/Germany—2013—86m—doc
A top prize-winner at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, South African filmmaker Khalo Matabane uses conversations with politicians, activists, intellectuals, and artists to question the meaning of freedom and reconciliation, and challenges Mandela’s legacy in today's world.
+ EVAPORATING BORDERS. Iva Radivojevic—US/Cyprus—2014—73m—docAn examination of how tolerance, identity and nationalism collide over migration issues on the island of Cyprus, one of the easiest entry points to Europe.
+ ABOUNADDARA COLLECTIVE SHORTS FROM SYRIA, Various Directors.
+ WATCHERS OF THE SKY. Edet Belzberg—US—2014—114m—doc
Inspired by Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning book “A Problem From Hell,” the film interweaves the stories of four extraordinary humanitarians whose lives and work embody the vision of Rafael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer who created international law on stopping genocide and holding leaders accountable.
+ THE SUPREME PRICE
A look at the perilous evolution of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, focusing on Hafsat Abiola, an activist who returns to her embattled home to fight for democracy and women’s rights.
+ Scheherazade’s Diary (Closing Night, June 22)
A tragicomic documentary that follows women inmates through a 10-month drama therapy/theater project set up by director Zeina Daccache at the Baabda Prison in Lebanon. Through “Scheherazade in Baabda,” these “murderers of husbands, adulterers and drug felons” reveal their stories—tales of domestic violence, traumatic childhoods, failed marriages, and forlorn romances.
The Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and The IFC Center will host the event. For more films and info, visit > HRWFF.
GETTING REAL WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL
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Is that time of the year for some of us to smell the coffee. To get real. The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013 is back in New York with 20 provocative films calling for justice and social change.
Are traditional values and human rights on opposite sides? This year, the festival focuses in the struggle to make sense of this uneasy relationship between the individual quest for freedom and progress and the call - the pressure - to remain the same, even when doing so means the perpetuation of a system of prejudice, discrimination and inequality. The festival also centers its attention in the power of an individual to take control and make a difference while dealing with his/her reality.
Outstanding bodies of work such as The Undocumented, a close and revealing look at the human cost of a misguided immigration policy by the US and the failure of both Mexico and the USA to provide their citizens with such basic human rights as the right to live and the right to work.
Marco Williams puts 'el dedo en la llaga' with this honest and deeply felt documentary. Now that immigration reform is rolling in the Senate, watching The Undocumented will make sure we keep the focus on the important issue: a fellow human. Migration is about a son looking for his father; a father looking to go back to his family, an abuela with her nieto looking for a daugter and a mother, a sister and his little brother looking for their mother. Everyone looking to contribute and make it all better. Many of them never make it and died in the middle of nowhere. Hundreds of bodies are recovered: The Recovered Migrants. Many more are still waiting somewhere in the Sonora Desert as are their families on both sides of the border. We can help to stop this nonsense by demanding an honest and comprehensive Immigration Reform!. Please act now.
Outstanding Anita, that centers the discussion on what have been achieved so far and the ongoing fight against gender inequality. Anita Hill's ordeal is still changing the country for good.
More women in congress make it possible to question that kind of behavior as witnessed recently when the senate called upon the top brass of our military to address rape and sexual violence in the military. Nevertheless, one just have to remember how, not long ago, another senate panel composed exclusively of old white men was convened to discuss women reproductive rights, to understand that the job continues.
Tall as a Baobab Tree is another remarkable doc where the power of the individual propels change and where education is at the center of the conflict: Educarme o no Educarme; Cambiar o seguir siendo el mismo; Ser o No Ser?.
One thing is for sure, and Tall as a Baobab Tree is a beautiful remainder of it: Education is one of the most important agents of change we have. And we must keep it a the center of it all.
My Afghanistan – Life in the Forbidden Zone and Camp 14 – Total Control Zone bring us into hidden worlds. Hidden to us but a reality to many of our fellow humans: Life for ordinary people recorded by themselves in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Lives caught in between one side and the other; children, women and men trapped by the chaos and the social morons and still, keeping a gleamer of hope for a better future.
How can a regime like the one in North Korea be accepted among us?
Why some human beings will do this to their fellow humans? Camp 14 – Total Control Zone will make you sick with disgust, for sure. Hopefully, you will redouble your commitment to stop these atrocities for happening again. Marc Wiese, its director, is the recipient of the festival’s annual Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking for his film.
Whats wrong with Humanitarian Aid and Aid Assistance around the world? It is not a secret that humanitarian aid has become the focus of attention and criticism mainly because the way is implemented and its lack of transparency. In Africa, Asia and the Americas, NGO, governments and the global capital seem to be pursuing their own agendas which do not relate to the needs of the people they are suppose to be aiding.
Fatal Assistance will drive the point home. The Reconstruction of Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake has become a sad example of improvisation and a showcase for all that is wrong with the way we use Humanitarian Aid. Hasta cuando?.
And these are only the films I already watched!. There is more, of course. Look for the doc about the 99% and OWS, and Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer, Salma, Born This Way, The New Black, The Parade, deepsouth, to mention a few others.
These are the four themes for this year’s festival: Traditional values and human rights— incorporating women’s rights, disability rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights; Crises and Migration; Focus on Asia; and Human Rights in the United States.
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival runs June 13-23 at Lincoln Center and at IFC Center. For more information, visit http://ff.hrw.org/
Here is a rundown of the main films:
The festival will launch on June 13 with a fundraising Benefit Night for Human Rights Watch featuring the HBO documentary Which Way Is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington. The film is Sebastian Junger’s moving tribute to his lost friend and Restrepo co-director, the photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington, who was killed while covering the Libyan civil war in 2011.
The main program starts on June 14 with the Opening Night presentation of Oscar-winning filmmaker Freida Mock’s ANITA, in which Anita Hill looks back at the powerful testimony she gave against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas and its impact on the broader discussion of gender inequality in America. The Closing Night screening on June 23 will be Jeremy Teicher’s award-winning drama Tall As the Baobab Tree, the touching story of a teenage girl who tries to rescue her younger sister from an arranged marriage in rural Senegal.
* Traditional Values and Human Rights: Women’s Rights
Traditional values are often cited as an excuse to undermine human rights. In addition to Tall As the Baobab Tree, five documentaries in this year’s festival consider the impact on women. Veteran documentarian Kim Longinotto’s Salma is the remarkable story of a South Indian Muslim woman who endured a 25-year confinement and forced marriage by her own family before achieving national renown as the most famous female poet in the Tamil language. Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief’s Rafea: Solar Mama profiles an illiterate Bedouin woman from Jordan who gets the chance to be educated in solar engineering but has to overcome her husband's resistance. In Karima Zoubir’s intimately observed Camera/Woman, a Moroccan divorcée supports her family by documenting wedding parties while navigating her own series of heartaches. It will be shown with Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s Going Up the Stairs, a charming portrait of a traditional Iranian grandmother who discovers her love of painting late in life and is invited to exhibit her work in Paris. Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s candid HBO documentary Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer centers on the women of the radical-feminist punk group, two of whom are currently serving time in a Russian prison for their acts of defiance against the government.
* Traditional Values and Human Rights: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights
Three films in the program remind viewers that, despite recent strides toward equality, LGBT communities around the world still struggle for acceptance. Shaun Kadlec and Deb Tullmann’s Born This Way is an intimate look at the lives of four young gay men and lesbians in Cameroon, where there are more arrests for homosexuality than in any other country in the world. Yoruba Richen’s The New Black uncovers the complicated and often combative intersection of the African-American and LGBT civil rights movements, with a particular focus on homophobia in the black church. In Srdjan Dragojevic’s drama The Parade, a fight by activists to stage a Gay Pride parade in Belgrade leads to an unlikely alliance in a black-humored look at contemporary Serbia.
* Traditional Values and Human Rights: Disability Rights
Harry Freeland’s In the Shadow of the Sun is an unforgettable study in courage, telling the story of two albino men who attempt to follow their dreams in the face of prejudice and fear in Tanzania.
* Crises and Migration
Three documentaries highlight the issues of humanitarian aid, conflict and migration. In the Festival Centerpiece, Fatal Assistance, the acclaimed director Raoul Peck, Haiti's former culture minister, takes us on a two-year journey following the 2010 earthquake and looks at the damage done by international aid agencies whose well-meaning but ignorant assumptions turned a nightmare into an unsolvable tragedy. Danish journalist Nagieb Khaja’s My Afghanistan – Life in the Forbidden Zone shows ordinary Afghans in war-torn Helmand who were provided with hi-res camera phones to record their daily lives, giving a voice to those frequently ignored by the Western media. Marco Williams’ The Undocumented is an unvarnished account of the thousands of Mexican migrants who have died in recent years while trying to cross Arizona’s unforgiving Sonora Desert in search of a better life in the United States.
* Focus on Asia
The festival will screen two important documentaries from Asia. In Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling and inventive The Act of Killing, the unrepentant former members of Indonesian death squads are challenged to reenact some of their many murders in the style of the American movies they love. Marc Wiese’s Camp 14 – Total Control Zone tells the powerful story of Shin Dong-Huyk, who spent the first two decades of his life behind the barbed wire of a North Korean labor camp before his dramatic escape led him into an outside world he had never known. Wiese is the recipient of the festival’s annual Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking for his film.
* Human Rights in the United States
Four American documentaries — including festival opener ANITA — highlight human rights issues in our own back yard. 99% – The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film goes behind the scenes of the 2011 movement, digging into big-picture issues as organizers, participants and critics reveal what happened and why. Al Reinert’s An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story tells the story of a Texas man who was wrongfully convicted of his wife’s murder and was exonerated by new DNA evidence after nearly 25 years behind bars. Lisa Biagiotti’s deepsouth is an evocative exploration of the rise in HIV in the rural American south, a region where poverty, a broken health system and a culture of denial force those affected to create their own solutions to survive.
In conjunction with this year’s film program, the festival will present the photo exhibit Dowry: Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan. The exhibit is Getty photographer Brent Stirton’s visual investigation into the devastating impact the tradition of child marriage has on girls in this East African nation. It will be featured in the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater for the duration of the festival.
Most of the screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions with filmmakers, and some by panel discussions with experts and film subjects.
For more information: http://ff.hrw.org/
Photos courtesy of the HRW Film Festival.
NY ESSENTIALS : FILM IN JUNE
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Cristiada, la cinta de Andy García que se desarrolla en la época de Los Cristeros en el México de 1926-29 se estrena en Nueva York asi como también Found Memories, la película de la directora brasilera Julia Murat. El Topo de Jodorowsky estará en el IFC los días 8 y 9 de Junio y El Velador, documental de la también mexicana Natalia Almada y que se presentó en el Tribeca Film Festival 2010 tendrá su estreno en el MoMa y luego se irá de gira nacional. El Human Rights Watch Film Fest trae cintas latinas como Reportero y The White Ocean y otros documentales sobresalientes como Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry, War Witch and Call Me Kuchu.
El Festival de Cine de Brooklyn tiene en cartelera 4 cintas latinas y el Instituto Cervantes rinde tributo a García Lorca a 100 años de su nacimiento. El director español Nacho Vigalondo estrena Extraterrestrial y continuan Lovely Molly del director Eduardo Sánchez y la super divertida Hysteria, sobre el invento del vibrador en la Inglaterra victoriana. Tropical Tuesdays sigue en Casa Mezcal este mes enfocándose en el tema de iglesias subversivas e íconos mundanos en Latinoamérica.
Ti piace il cinema italiano? Lo último en Cine Italiano estará en la Film Society del Lincoln Center!
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* FOR GREATER GLORY > CRISTIADA > Directed by Dean Wright > En Catelera > GLORY.
An impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War the daring people¹s revolt that rocked 20th Century North America.
Academy Award® nominee Andy Garcia headlines an acclaimed cast as General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife (Golden Globe nominee Eva Longoria) watch Mexico fall into a violent civil war. Yet the man who hesitates in joining the cause will soon become the resistance's most inspiring and self-sacrificing leader, as he begins to see the cost of religious persecution on his countrymen . . . and transforms a rag-tag band of rebels into a heroic force to be reckoned with. The General faces impossible odds against a powerful and ruthless government. Yet is those he meets on the journey youthful idealists, feisty renegades and, most of all, one remarkable teenager named Jose who reveal to him how courage and belief are forged even when justice seems lost.
* FOUND MEMORIES > Directed by Julia Murat > Brazil, Argentina, France, 2011 > En Cartelera > FOUND.
Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving in the ghost village of Jotuomba, where time seems to have stopped. A deep relationship is forged between the two women, which gradually builds to have a profound effect on both of their lives, as well as the rest of the villagers.
* El Topo > Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. México, 1970. > Junio 8 y 9 > IFC Center > TOPO.
Jodorowsky’s legendary, notorious cult hit essentially created the genre of the midnight movie — a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn’t contain it. Incorporating influences from tarot to the Bible to surrealism into a mind-blowing western, Jodorowsky cast himself as the leather-clad gunman, El Topo (‘the mole’), who wanders through a desert strewn with mystical symbols on an unnamed quest, leaving blood and carnage in his wake. Declared a masterpiece by no less than John Lennon himself, EL TOPO tops even the most outrageous aesthetic experiments of its radical era and remains unmatched in its provocations and strange beauty. Long unavailable, EL TOPO is presented in a gorgeous new restoration personally overseen by Jodorowsky.
* BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL > Junio 1 al 10 > BLKN.
* OPEN ROADS > New Italian Cinema > Junio 8- 14 > Film Society of Lincoln Center > Open Roads.
* RAUL > The 10th CINE FEST BRASIL > Junio 9 > SummerStage > BRASIL.
Raul Seixas is known as an icon of Brazilian Rock and developed a unique musical style that emphasized the maverick and the mystic. His body of work consists of twenty-one albums and numerous collaborations with then fellow mystic, and future worldwide bestselling author, Paulo Coelho. Director Walter Carvalho, an experienced cinematographer unveils RAUL through rare images from archives, family encounters and discussions with artists, producers and friends, documenting the life and public image of one of Brazil's most controversial and important rockers.
* Lorca, así que pasen cien años el 12 de Junio y Una casa para Bernarda Alba el 18 de Junio > Instituto Cervantes > LORCA.
A propósito de los cien años del nacimiento de Federico García Lorca, se realizó el documental Lorca: Así pasen cien años, que versa sobre una de las figuras literaria más conocida, estudiada y admirada de las letras castellanas del siglo XX, quien con extraordinaria versatilidad creadora, destacó en los campos de la poesía, el teatro, la música y las artes plásticas.
* El Velador / The Night Watchman > Directed by Natalia Almada > June 14-20 at MoMA > VELADOR
* Extraterrestrial. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo > Junio 15 > Several cities.
Extraterrestrial will have an initial theatrical release in select cities including Brooklyn, NY (at reRun’s Gastropub Theater) and Seattle, WA (at the Uptown Theatre), on June 15; North Hollywood, CA (at Laemmle’s Noho 7), on June 22; and in Texas (at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations) in June.
* Lovely Molly > De Eduardo Sánchez > En cartelera > MOLLY.
When newlywed Molly Reynolds returns to her long-abandoned family home, frightful reminders of a nightmarish childhood begin seeping into her new life. She soon begins an inexorable descent into evil that blurs the lines between psychosis and possession.
* Tropical Tuesdays > Junio > Subversive Churches And Mundane Icons > Obra Negra/Casa Mezcal > Tropical.
What is it that unites Latin America is a question that raises many answers: the language, simultaneous historical events, the political issues and tendencies, and so on. In summary, we try to forget our differences in order to unite a divided community. But how healthy is that? Wouldn’t it reduce to a basic level the rich complexity of our bonds? I believe that by recognizing our differences between each border or over each coastline, we learn why we belong together. This is why Counter Culture is such a powerful perspective to analyze a community and its issues. It’s extremely difficult to label what’s Counter Culture if we don’t know in which national context it’s born.
The filmmakers included in this program have adapted fragments from the Bible, the Catholic iconography, or other methods of religious propaganda, like Brazilian Evangelist Public Television, to question these practices and subvert the power of these images. Cinema itself has become a religion, one not based on text, but in a prayer that creates mundane icons and subversive churches.
>> SIMÓN DEL DESIERTO
Simon of the Desert, directed by Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1965, 45 min.
The ascetic Simon believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal in the middle of the desert to be closer to God and resist the temptations of the world. His followers are peasants and travelers that believe him to be a saint capable of performing miracles and they crowd to hear his speeches. However, Satan tries to tempt him with the pleasures of the world.
Preceded by EL MONTE DE GABRIEL (Gabriel’s Mount, directed byChristopher Murray, 2007, Chile, 25 min; and CARTA DEL APOSTOL SAN JUANECO A LA CIUDAD DEL MAL (Letter from the Apostle Saint Juaneco to the City of Evil, directed by Aldo Salvini, 1994, Peru, 11 min.)
Tuesday, June 5, 9pm*
*Please note this screening will start at 9pm.
* FOR GREATER GLORY > CRISTIADA > Directed by Dean Wright > En Catelera > GLORY.
An impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War the daring people¹s revolt that rocked 20th Century North America.
Academy Award® nominee Andy Garcia headlines an acclaimed cast as General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife (Golden Globe nominee Eva Longoria) watch Mexico fall into a violent civil war. Yet the man who hesitates in joining the cause will soon become the resistance's most inspiring and self-sacrificing leader, as he begins to see the cost of religious persecution on his countrymen . . . and transforms a rag-tag band of rebels into a heroic force to be reckoned with. The General faces impossible odds against a powerful and ruthless government. Yet is those he meets on the journey youthful idealists, feisty renegades and, most of all, one remarkable teenager named Jose who reveal to him how courage and belief are forged even when justice seems lost.
* FOUND MEMORIES > Directed by Julia Murat > Brazil, Argentina, France, 2011 > En Cartelera > FOUND.
Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving in the ghost village of Jotuomba, where time seems to have stopped. A deep relationship is forged between the two women, which gradually builds to have a profound effect on both of their lives, as well as the rest of the villagers.
* El Topo > Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. México, 1970. > Junio 8 y 9 > IFC Center > TOPO.
Jodorowsky’s legendary, notorious cult hit essentially created the genre of the midnight movie — a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn’t contain it. Incorporating influences from tarot to the Bible to surrealism into a mind-blowing western, Jodorowsky cast himself as the leather-clad gunman, El Topo (‘the mole’), who wanders through a desert strewn with mystical symbols on an unnamed quest, leaving blood and carnage in his wake. Declared a masterpiece by no less than John Lennon himself, EL TOPO tops even the most outrageous aesthetic experiments of its radical era and remains unmatched in its provocations and strange beauty. Long unavailable, EL TOPO is presented in a gorgeous new restoration personally overseen by Jodorowsky.
* BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL > Junio 1 al 10 > BLKN.
Cintas Latinas: MUTA ( Argentina/Italia); FEAR OF BLOOD (Brazil); OTTO AND THE ELECTRIC EEL (USA- Photo) y LA ROCA (Spain).
* OPEN ROADS > New Italian Cinema > Junio 8- 14 > Film Society of Lincoln Center > Open Roads.
* RAUL > The 10th CINE FEST BRASIL > Junio 9 > SummerStage > BRASIL.
Raul Seixas is known as an icon of Brazilian Rock and developed a unique musical style that emphasized the maverick and the mystic. His body of work consists of twenty-one albums and numerous collaborations with then fellow mystic, and future worldwide bestselling author, Paulo Coelho. Director Walter Carvalho, an experienced cinematographer unveils RAUL through rare images from archives, family encounters and discussions with artists, producers and friends, documenting the life and public image of one of Brazil's most controversial and important rockers.
* Lorca, así que pasen cien años el 12 de Junio y Una casa para Bernarda Alba el 18 de Junio > Instituto Cervantes > LORCA.
A propósito de los cien años del nacimiento de Federico García Lorca, se realizó el documental Lorca: Así pasen cien años, que versa sobre una de las figuras literaria más conocida, estudiada y admirada de las letras castellanas del siglo XX, quien con extraordinaria versatilidad creadora, destacó en los campos de la poesía, el teatro, la música y las artes plásticas.
* El Velador / The Night Watchman > Directed by Natalia Almada > June 14-20 at MoMA > VELADOR
El Velador / The Night Watchman, the most recent documentary film by Natalia Almada, will have its U.S. theatrical premiere run starting June 14 at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, followed by a tour across the U.S., and will have its national television premiere on September 27 as part of the 25th anniversary season of PBS’ POV.
The film will travel to other cities across the country: Northwest Film Center in Portland (July 6-8); Northwest Film Forum in Seattle (July 6-12); UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles (July 13); Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley (July 15); the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (August 4 and 6); the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (September); the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (September 8); the Cleveland Museum of Art (September 12); the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus (September 25-26); the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (September 27-28).
* Human Rights Watch Film Festival > Junio 14-28 > Human Rights.
* Human Rights Watch Film Festival > Junio 14-28 > Human Rights.
Se presentan: Reportero y Color of the Ocean y otros documentales sobresalientes como Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, War Witch, Brother Number One, Habibi and Call Me Kuchu.
* Extraterrestrial. Directed by Nacho Vigalondo > Junio 15 > Several cities.
Extraterrestrial will have an initial theatrical release in select cities including Brooklyn, NY (at reRun’s Gastropub Theater) and Seattle, WA (at the Uptown Theatre), on June 15; North Hollywood, CA (at Laemmle’s Noho 7), on June 22; and in Texas (at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema locations) in June.
When newlywed Molly Reynolds returns to her long-abandoned family home, frightful reminders of a nightmarish childhood begin seeping into her new life. She soon begins an inexorable descent into evil that blurs the lines between psychosis and possession.
* Tropical Tuesdays > Junio > Subversive Churches And Mundane Icons > Obra Negra/Casa Mezcal > Tropical.
What is it that unites Latin America is a question that raises many answers: the language, simultaneous historical events, the political issues and tendencies, and so on. In summary, we try to forget our differences in order to unite a divided community. But how healthy is that? Wouldn’t it reduce to a basic level the rich complexity of our bonds? I believe that by recognizing our differences between each border or over each coastline, we learn why we belong together. This is why Counter Culture is such a powerful perspective to analyze a community and its issues. It’s extremely difficult to label what’s Counter Culture if we don’t know in which national context it’s born.
The filmmakers included in this program have adapted fragments from the Bible, the Catholic iconography, or other methods of religious propaganda, like Brazilian Evangelist Public Television, to question these practices and subvert the power of these images. Cinema itself has become a religion, one not based on text, but in a prayer that creates mundane icons and subversive churches.
>> SIMÓN DEL DESIERTO
Simon of the Desert, directed by Luis Buñuel, Mexico, 1965, 45 min.
The ascetic Simon believes he is a sinner and decides to self-inflict a sacrifice, living like a hermit on the top of a pedestal in the middle of the desert to be closer to God and resist the temptations of the world. His followers are peasants and travelers that believe him to be a saint capable of performing miracles and they crowd to hear his speeches. However, Satan tries to tempt him with the pleasures of the world.
Preceded by EL MONTE DE GABRIEL (Gabriel’s Mount, directed byChristopher Murray, 2007, Chile, 25 min; and CARTA DEL APOSTOL SAN JUANECO A LA CIUDAD DEL MAL (Letter from the Apostle Saint Juaneco to the City of Evil, directed by Aldo Salvini, 1994, Peru, 11 min.)
Tuesday, June 5, 9pm*
*Please note this screening will start at 9pm.
>> SANGREDirected by Amat Escalante, Mexico, 2005, 78 min.
Diego's job is counting people as they enter a large government building. After work, he and his wife Blanca lie on the couch, watch soap operas, or make love on the kitchen table. Their relationship is based on having sex, watching TV, and fighting, until one day their routine is interrupted. Karina, Diego's daughter from a previous marriage, arrives in search of her father's love, but Blanca refuses to accept her. Diego finds himself caught between an extremely jealous wife and a daughter in desperate need of guidance. An astonishing climax will lead Diego to a total loss of control.
Preceded by MARTES DE CH’ALLA (Tuesday Ch’alla, directed by Carlos Piñeiro, Bolivia, 2009, 12 min.)
Tuesday June 12, 7pm
Diego's job is counting people as they enter a large government building. After work, he and his wife Blanca lie on the couch, watch soap operas, or make love on the kitchen table. Their relationship is based on having sex, watching TV, and fighting, until one day their routine is interrupted. Karina, Diego's daughter from a previous marriage, arrives in search of her father's love, but Blanca refuses to accept her. Diego finds himself caught between an extremely jealous wife and a daughter in desperate need of guidance. An astonishing climax will lead Diego to a total loss of control.
Preceded by MARTES DE CH’ALLA (Tuesday Ch’alla, directed by Carlos Piñeiro, Bolivia, 2009, 12 min.)
Tuesday June 12, 7pm
>> Shorts by Carlosmagno Rodrigues
1976 – LUGAR SAGRADO (1976 – Sacred Place. Brazil, 2009, 6 min.)
IGREREV - IGRESIA REVOLUCIONARIA DOS CORAÇOES AMARGURADOS (IGREREV, Revolutionary Church Of The Embittered Hearts. Brazil, 2007, 16 min.)
ANDROMEDA – A MENINA QUE FUMAVA SABAO (Andromeda, the Girl Who Smoked Soap. Brazil, 2007, 15 min.)
SEBASTIÃO, O HOMEM QUE BEBIA QUEROSEN (Sebastião, The Man Who Used to Drink Kerosene. Brazil, 2007, 11 min.)
ALEXANDER ILLICH. Brazil, 2009, 13 min.)
1976 – LUGAR SAGRADO (1976 – Sacred Place. Brazil, 2009, 6 min.)
IGREREV - IGRESIA REVOLUCIONARIA DOS CORAÇOES AMARGURADOS (IGREREV, Revolutionary Church Of The Embittered Hearts. Brazil, 2007, 16 min.)
ANDROMEDA – A MENINA QUE FUMAVA SABAO (Andromeda, the Girl Who Smoked Soap. Brazil, 2007, 15 min.)
SEBASTIÃO, O HOMEM QUE BEBIA QUEROSEN (Sebastião, The Man Who Used to Drink Kerosene. Brazil, 2007, 11 min.)
ALEXANDER ILLICH. Brazil, 2009, 13 min.)
ANALOGÍA DO VERME (Worm Analogy. Brazil, 2007, 18 min.)
DIANTE DO ABISMO DOS SEUS OLHOS (Before The Abyss Of Your Eyes. Brazil, 2006, 6 min.)
DROP IN THE DARKNESS. Brazil, 2011, 7 min.)
Tuesday, June 19, 7pm
>> EL CANT DELS OCELLS
Birdsong, directed by Albert Serra, Spain, 2008, 98 min.
Serra recasts the story of the Magi as an elemental epic of man simultaneously lost and found in the uncanny beauty of nature. Masterfully shot in black and white on remote, almost extraterrestrial locations in the Canary Islands and Iceland, the film follows the slow, stumbling passage of the kings toward the mysterious birth that beckons them through the long days and dark nights. Birdsong adds a level of humor to gently undercut the sacred qualities of the tale by foregrounding the wonderfully profane corporality of the awkward kings who float and fidget in an assertively and refreshingly human manner.
Preceded by AHENDU NDE SAPUKAI (I Hear Your Scream, directed by Pablo Lamar, Paraguay/Argentina, 2008, 11 min.)
Tuesday, June 26, 7pm
* HYSTERIA > En Cartelera Mayo 18 > HYSTERIA.
Hysteria is a romantic comedy with an accomplished cast led by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones and Rupert Everett, that tells an untold tale of discovery - the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness.
* FAMILY FILMS > June - July > Matinee series > Film Society of Lincoln Center > Special discount ticket price: $6 for everyone > FAMILY.
DIANTE DO ABISMO DOS SEUS OLHOS (Before The Abyss Of Your Eyes. Brazil, 2006, 6 min.)
DROP IN THE DARKNESS. Brazil, 2011, 7 min.)
Tuesday, June 19, 7pm
>> EL CANT DELS OCELLS
Birdsong, directed by Albert Serra, Spain, 2008, 98 min.
Serra recasts the story of the Magi as an elemental epic of man simultaneously lost and found in the uncanny beauty of nature. Masterfully shot in black and white on remote, almost extraterrestrial locations in the Canary Islands and Iceland, the film follows the slow, stumbling passage of the kings toward the mysterious birth that beckons them through the long days and dark nights. Birdsong adds a level of humor to gently undercut the sacred qualities of the tale by foregrounding the wonderfully profane corporality of the awkward kings who float and fidget in an assertively and refreshingly human manner.
Preceded by AHENDU NDE SAPUKAI (I Hear Your Scream, directed by Pablo Lamar, Paraguay/Argentina, 2008, 11 min.)
Tuesday, June 26, 7pm
* HYSTERIA > En Cartelera Mayo 18 > HYSTERIA.
Hysteria is a romantic comedy with an accomplished cast led by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones and Rupert Everett, that tells an untold tale of discovery - the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical vibrator at the very peak of Victorian prudishness.
* FAMILY FILMS > June - July > Matinee series > Film Society of Lincoln Center > Special discount ticket price: $6 for everyone > FAMILY.
