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CINE: YOUR GUIDE TO LATINBEAT 2014
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Llegó una de las fiestas cinematográficas más esperadas de Nueva York con una cartelera estupenda de 16 películas de América Latina. La serie LATINBEAT de la Film Society celebra este año su 15ta edición con una mayoría de filmes realizados por talento emergente pero ya galardonado mundialmente. Desde acá les enviamos nuestras felicitaciones por estos 15 fructíferos años y que se multipliquen!.
Marcela Goglio, la Programadora de LATINBEAT destaca la variedad y gran producción del cine latinoamericano desde que comenzó el auge del cine de la región a comienzos de los 90' sin perder aquel espíritu de un "renacimiento cinemático perpetuo".
Así, es esta edición del LATINBEAT tenemos películas tales como My Straight Son (foto), de Miguel Ferrari, la primera película venezolana en ganar el Premio Goya 2013 a la mejor película hispanoamericana; Casa Grande, del brasileño Fellipe Barbosa, un hit en el Festival de Rotterdam; Natural Sciences del argentino Matías Lucchesi, ganadora del Grand Prix de la Generation Kplus en la Berlinale; We Are Mari Pepa, del mexicano Samuel Kishi Leopo; The Searches del también mexicano Jose Luis Valle; Holiday, una co-producción Ecuador/Argentina de Diego Araujo; Cristo Rey, de Leticia Tonos Paniagua, la primera directora de la República Dominicana; All About the Feathers, de Neto Villalobos (Costa Rica). También esperamos el retorno de la mexicana Mariana Chenillo con su nueva peli, Paradise. Y para terminar cabe mencionar a los brasileños Marcelo Gomes y Cao Guimarães que nos traen una adaptación de un cuento del poeta Edgar Allan Poe en The Man of the Crowd.
La edición 2014 de LATINBEAT promete darnos un banquete a los cinéfilos de la Gran Manzana del 11 al 20 de Julio en el Lincoln Center.
Pueden ver el trailer de la serie debajo o siguiendo el enlace > Trailer.
Toda la información sobre LATINBEAT debajo o sigan el enlace > LatinBeat.
FILM DESCRIPTIONS & SCHEDULE
* Casa Grande (Opening Night)Fellipe Barbosa, Brazil, 2014, DCP, 114m
Portuguese with English subtitles
Set in Rio, Fellipe Barbosa’s long-awaited fiction debut is a clear-eyed, empathetic portrait of a teenager who strives to transcend the limitations of his upper-middle-class family life. Seventeen-year-old Jean (an outstanding Thales Cavalcanti) contends with pressure from parental expectations, university entrance exams, and the surprising discovery of a family financial crisis in this tender, beautifully written coming-of-age story that deftly explores class differences and racism in Brazil today.
Friday, July 11, 6:15pm
Monday, July 14, 8:30pm
* All About the Feathers / Por las plumas
Neto Villalobos, Costa Rica, 2013, DCP, 85m
Spanish with English subtitles
Chalo is inseparable from his friend Rocky, a fighting cock he acquires to bring some excitement into his boring life as a security guard. But what Rocky brings is in fact an unexpected set of screwball adventures. Cockfighting is illegal but has a passionate following in the small Costa Rican town where Chalo lives (the film tastefully keeps the action offscreen). Neto Villalobos’s winning, dryly funny debut feature renders that world with genuine flavor and charm by a cast made up of mostly nonprofessional actors.
Thursday, July 17, 6:30pm
* Cristo Rey
Leticia Tonos Paniagua, Dominican Republic, 2013, DCP, 96m
Spanish with English subtitles
In 2011, Leticia Tonos Paniagua was the first Dominican woman to direct a feature film in her country. Her follow-up, a contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet, tackles with sensitivity and a sense of urgency the tough subject of Haitian immigration in the Dominican Republic, where about one million exiles currently reside. Set in the Cristo Rey neighborhood, which is rampant with crime and police corruption, this love story between a teenager of mixed Haitian/Dominican descent and a drug lord’s sister powerfully combines a genuine feel for barrio life with the quick pace and sense of impending danger of a thriller, all the while exploring the implications of racism and xenophobia on this island divided in two.
Saturday, July 12, 6:30pm
Sunday, July 13, 4:00pm
* Dust on the Tongue / Tierra en la lenguaRubén Mendoza, Colombia, 2014, DCP, 89m
Spanish with English subtitles
Despite family patriarch Don Silvio’s abusive behavior toward friends and family, his magnetism has allowed him to remain the center of attention his entire life. When his death is imminent, he makes an unusual request—he asks two of his grandchildren to help him die. Will they take revenge? With an impeccable direction of actors and a seamless flow between fiction, documentary, and mockumentary, Mendoza displays surprising skill and boldness as he navigates the sensitive subject of veiled hostility between parents and offspring.
Saturday, July 12, 4:00pm
Sunday, July 13, 8:40pm
* Holiday / Feriado
Diego Araujo, Ecuador/Argentina, 2013, DCP, 82m
Spanish with English subtitles
Thursday, July 17, 6:30pm
* Cristo Rey
Leticia Tonos Paniagua, Dominican Republic, 2013, DCP, 96m
Spanish with English subtitles
In 2011, Leticia Tonos Paniagua was the first Dominican woman to direct a feature film in her country. Her follow-up, a contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet, tackles with sensitivity and a sense of urgency the tough subject of Haitian immigration in the Dominican Republic, where about one million exiles currently reside. Set in the Cristo Rey neighborhood, which is rampant with crime and police corruption, this love story between a teenager of mixed Haitian/Dominican descent and a drug lord’s sister powerfully combines a genuine feel for barrio life with the quick pace and sense of impending danger of a thriller, all the while exploring the implications of racism and xenophobia on this island divided in two.
Saturday, July 12, 6:30pm
Sunday, July 13, 4:00pm
* Dust on the Tongue / Tierra en la lenguaRubén Mendoza, Colombia, 2014, DCP, 89m
Spanish with English subtitles
Despite family patriarch Don Silvio’s abusive behavior toward friends and family, his magnetism has allowed him to remain the center of attention his entire life. When his death is imminent, he makes an unusual request—he asks two of his grandchildren to help him die. Will they take revenge? With an impeccable direction of actors and a seamless flow between fiction, documentary, and mockumentary, Mendoza displays surprising skill and boldness as he navigates the sensitive subject of veiled hostility between parents and offspring.
Saturday, July 12, 4:00pm
Sunday, July 13, 8:40pm
* Holiday / Feriado
Diego Araujo, Ecuador/Argentina, 2013, DCP, 82m
Spanish with English subtitles
Sixteen-year-old Juan Pablo travels to the remote family hacienda in the Andes, where his uncle, who is involved in a corruption scandal, has taken refuge with his wife and teenage children. It is the carnival holiday of 1999, days before the collapse of Ecuador’s banking system. There, Juan Pablo meets Juano, an enigmatic, self-assured heavy-metal fan from the nearby pueblo, who opens his eyes to an entirely new, liberating world. As his country and family is heading for the abyss, the two boys’ budding friendship develops into a fragile romance, and Juan Pablo is forced to define himself against his chaotic surroundings. Daniele Luppi, who has collaborated with Norah Jones, Jack White, Ennio Morricone, and Gnarls Barkley, composed the score.
Tuesday, July 15, 4:30pm
Wednesday, July 16, 6:15pm
* The Man of the Crowd / O Homem das Multidões
Marcelo Gomes & Cao Guimarães, Brazil, 2013, DCP, 95m
Portuguese with English subtitles
Tuesday, July 15, 4:30pm
Wednesday, July 16, 6:15pm
* The Man of the Crowd / O Homem das Multidões
Marcelo Gomes & Cao Guimarães, Brazil, 2013, DCP, 95m
Portuguese with English subtitles
Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s story of the same name, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimarães—two of the most interesting filmmakers working in Brazil today—have crafted an elegant, parsimonious, and formally impeccable story of Juvenal, a lonely train driver in Belo Horizonte, and his encounter with Margo, a station controller. Emphasizing the theme of alienation in Poe’s story (and revealing Guimarães’s work as a visual artist), the two directors opted for an unusual format, about a 3:3.5 ratio, which intriguingly makes the film resemble a Polaroid. Juvenal and Margo, who each embody a different form of urban solitude, have been brought together in this beautifully composed ode to friendship. A Curator Films Release.
Saturday, July 19, 1:00pm
Sunday, July 20, 6:15pm
* Mateo
Maria Gamboa, Colombia/France, 2014, DCP, 86m
Spanish with English subtitles
Saturday, July 19, 1:00pm
Sunday, July 20, 6:15pm
* Mateo
Maria Gamboa, Colombia/France, 2014, DCP, 86m
Spanish with English subtitles
Sixteen-year-old Mateo infiltrates a theater group in the violent neighborhood where he lives, and reports on the political activities of its members. But his perspective on the nature of their creative work begins to shift when he falls for a beautiful girl in the troupe. Gamboa’s tough but spirited music-infused tale is based on real-life experiences.
Sunday, July 13, 1:30pm
Tuesday, July 15, 6:30pm
* The Militant / El lugar del hijo
Manuel Nieto, Uruguay, 2013, DCP, 121m
Spanish with English subtitles
Ariel, a student leading a 2002 occupation at a Montevideo university, receives news of his father's death in Salto. Leaving the city and all its protests and solidarity movements behind, Ariel embarks on a very personal journey as he settles into the tranquil countryside—an area under-explored in Uruguayan cinema—and learns that he has to manage his father’s inheritance, including his debts and a lover who’s still living in his house. In this fascinating story of rebirth, Nieto crafts a clever metaphor for the country of Uruguay, which its youth will someday inherit and have to learn how to manage, in their own search for restoration.
Thursday, July 17, 8:45pm
Friday, July 18, 4:00pm
* My Straight Son/Azul, No Tan Rosa
Miguel Ferrari, Venezuela, 2013, 35mm, 113m
Spanish with English subtitles
Famous telenovela actor Miguel Ferrari’s debut feature, which won Best Iberoamerican Film at this year’s Goya Awards (the Spanish Oscars), is the first Venezuelan film to openly deal with gay and transgender issues—still mostly taboo in the country. While telling the story of the romantic relationship between a fashion photographer (Guillermo García) a handsome surgeon (Sócrates Serrano), the film also explores with great panache and lots of heart an array of other topics, including teenage love, homophobia, and what it’s like to be a gay parent to an estranged teenage son. Proudly sentimental and reminiscent of Almodóvar’s early melodramas, but also taut, polished, and sexy, My Straight Son features performances by many of Venezuela’s TV personalities. A TLA Releasing release.
Thursday, July 17, 3:30pm
Saturday, July 19, 8:30pm
* Natural Sciences / Ciencias Naturales
Matías Lucchesi, Argentina/France, 2014, DCP, 71m
Spanish with English subtitles
Determined to find the father she never knew, 12-year-old Lila (Paula Hertzog) escapes her remote boarding school tucked away in the impressive Sierra de Córdoba mountains. This sweet coming-of-age story about love and perseverance won Berlin’s Generation Kplus Grand Prix as well as Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress at the Guadalajara Film Festival this year.
Friday, July 11, 9:15pm
Monday, July 14, 6:20pm
* Paradise / Paraíso
Mariana Chenillo, Mexico, 2013, DCP, 105m
Spanish with English subtitles
Friday, July 11, 9:15pm
Monday, July 14, 6:20pm
* Paradise / Paraíso
Mariana Chenillo, Mexico, 2013, DCP, 105m
Spanish with English subtitles
Mariana Chenillo’s sophomore feature displays a warmth and delight in life that couldn't be further from the dark humor of her acclaimed debut, Nora’s Will (Latinbeat ’09). This unpretentious romantic comedy about a happy overweight couple from the suburban middle-class neighborhood Satelite (the “paradise” of the title) takes refreshingly unexpected turns, as their move to Mexico City launches them both on a journey of self-discovery.
Friday, July 18, 9:00pm
Sunday, July 20, 3:30pm
* Reimon
Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina/Germany, 2014, DCP, 72m
Spanish with English subtitles
Documentary and fiction are almost indistinguishable in this minimalist but powerfully eloquent film by the director of El custodio and Un mundo misterioso. Moreno closely observes the daily routines of Reimon, a young woman from northeastern Argentina who commutes long distances from her suburban neighborhood to her job cleaning houses in Buenos Aires. In one of these homes, a young couple read passages from Marx’s Das Kapital out loud as she dusts and cooks... And though the film is practically silent, staying true to Reimon’s introspective cadence, the juxtaposition of her daily reality with that of her employers says it all.
Friday, July 18, 6:45pm
Sunday, July 20, 8:30pm
* Root / Raiz
Matías Rojas Valencia, Chile, 2013, DCP, 87m
Spanish with English subtitles
In this hypnotic story of redemption and rebirth, a young woman embarks on a road trip through lush remote locations in southern Chile to find the father of a recently orphaned child. Having just returned from the city to the hostile environment of her home in Puerto Varas, Amalia leaves again with 9-year-old Cristobál on a dilapidated truck. The two clash, bond, and grieve in the almost mystical qualities of the region’s breathtaking natural beauty. In his impressive debut feature, Matías Rojas Valencia tells an intensely moving story with very few elements, skillfully incorporating the natural setting as a mirror through which we can witness the characters’ deep inner transformations.
Saturday, July 12, 1:30pm
Wednesday, July 16, 8:30pm
* The Searches / Las búsquedas
Jose Luis Valle, Mexico, 2013, DCP, 77m
Spanish with English subtitles
The parallel stories of a widow and a widower come together in the elegant and sober second feature by the award-winning Jose Luis Valle, a director of Salvadoran-Mexican descent. Made in just seven days, and shot in black-and-white, with a budget of $1,500, the film exhibits that a large part of Valle’s talent resides in his capacity to tell a taut, polished, and intriguing story with the fewest of elements—great and renowned Mexican actors notwithstanding (Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Arcelia Ramírez, Gabino Rodríguez). Chance, revenge, solitude, and redemption are some of the themes explored by this small gem of a film.
Saturday, July 19, 6:00pm
* The Summer of Flying Fish / El verano de los peces voladores
Marcela Said, Chile/France, 2013, DCP, 95m
Spanish with English subtitles
Don Francisco is celebrated for the effective if increasingly violent ways he employs to exterminate the carp that overpopulate the artificial lake on his property in the majestically beautiful areas of Curarrehue, Coñaripe, and Liquiñe in southern Chile. His beloved 16-year-old daughter, Manena, seems to be the only one aware of the growing tension surrounding them, as the demands of the Mapuche Indians that have lived and worked in the area for centuries have gone unheard for too long. Said brings her sharp observational skills as a documentarian to this fiction/nonfiction hybrid, working on location with nonprofessional actors to create a quietly powerful denunciation of environmental destruction and social injustice. But she also succeeds in crafting a moving and vivid youth drama through Manena’s tricky predicament, caught between loyalty to her family and to what she knows is right.
Sunday, July 13, 6:30pm
Monday, July 14, 4:00pm
* We Are Mari Pepa / Somos Mari Pepa
Samuel Kishi Leopo, Mexico, 2013, DCP, 95m
Spanish with English subtitles
Friday, July 18, 9:00pm
Sunday, July 20, 3:30pm
* Reimon
Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina/Germany, 2014, DCP, 72m
Spanish with English subtitles
Documentary and fiction are almost indistinguishable in this minimalist but powerfully eloquent film by the director of El custodio and Un mundo misterioso. Moreno closely observes the daily routines of Reimon, a young woman from northeastern Argentina who commutes long distances from her suburban neighborhood to her job cleaning houses in Buenos Aires. In one of these homes, a young couple read passages from Marx’s Das Kapital out loud as she dusts and cooks... And though the film is practically silent, staying true to Reimon’s introspective cadence, the juxtaposition of her daily reality with that of her employers says it all.
Friday, July 18, 6:45pm
Sunday, July 20, 8:30pm
* Root / Raiz
Matías Rojas Valencia, Chile, 2013, DCP, 87m
Spanish with English subtitles
In this hypnotic story of redemption and rebirth, a young woman embarks on a road trip through lush remote locations in southern Chile to find the father of a recently orphaned child. Having just returned from the city to the hostile environment of her home in Puerto Varas, Amalia leaves again with 9-year-old Cristobál on a dilapidated truck. The two clash, bond, and grieve in the almost mystical qualities of the region’s breathtaking natural beauty. In his impressive debut feature, Matías Rojas Valencia tells an intensely moving story with very few elements, skillfully incorporating the natural setting as a mirror through which we can witness the characters’ deep inner transformations.
Saturday, July 12, 1:30pm
Wednesday, July 16, 8:30pm
* The Searches / Las búsquedas
Jose Luis Valle, Mexico, 2013, DCP, 77m
Spanish with English subtitles
The parallel stories of a widow and a widower come together in the elegant and sober second feature by the award-winning Jose Luis Valle, a director of Salvadoran-Mexican descent. Made in just seven days, and shot in black-and-white, with a budget of $1,500, the film exhibits that a large part of Valle’s talent resides in his capacity to tell a taut, polished, and intriguing story with the fewest of elements—great and renowned Mexican actors notwithstanding (Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Arcelia Ramírez, Gabino Rodríguez). Chance, revenge, solitude, and redemption are some of the themes explored by this small gem of a film.
Saturday, July 19, 6:00pm
* The Summer of Flying Fish / El verano de los peces voladores
Marcela Said, Chile/France, 2013, DCP, 95m
Spanish with English subtitles
Don Francisco is celebrated for the effective if increasingly violent ways he employs to exterminate the carp that overpopulate the artificial lake on his property in the majestically beautiful areas of Curarrehue, Coñaripe, and Liquiñe in southern Chile. His beloved 16-year-old daughter, Manena, seems to be the only one aware of the growing tension surrounding them, as the demands of the Mapuche Indians that have lived and worked in the area for centuries have gone unheard for too long. Said brings her sharp observational skills as a documentarian to this fiction/nonfiction hybrid, working on location with nonprofessional actors to create a quietly powerful denunciation of environmental destruction and social injustice. But she also succeeds in crafting a moving and vivid youth drama through Manena’s tricky predicament, caught between loyalty to her family and to what she knows is right.
Sunday, July 13, 6:30pm
Monday, July 14, 4:00pm
* We Are Mari Pepa / Somos Mari Pepa
Samuel Kishi Leopo, Mexico, 2013, DCP, 95m
Spanish with English subtitles
As the school year ends, the 16-year-olds who make up the title punk band are free to skateboard, play soccer, and rehearse the one—obscene yet catchy—song they’ve written. Samuel Kishi Leopo vividly captures the carefree spirit of the teenagers' summer vacation, with closely observed, carefully drawn characters and a pitch-perfect score (by his brother Kenji Kishi). The summer finally ends and the leisurely days—palpitating with music, desire, and camaraderie—give way to reality, bringing this vibrant portrait of youth at a pivotal moment full circle. A FiGa Films release.
Saturday, July 12, 9:00pm
Tuesday, July 15, 8:30pm
Friday, July 11
6:15PM Casa Grande (114m)
9:15PM Natural Sciences (71m)
Saturday, July 12
1:30PM Root (87m)
4:00PM Dust on the Tongue (89m)
6:30PM Cristo Rey (96m)
9:00PM We Are Mari Pepa (95m)
Sunday, July 13
1:30PM Mateo (86m)
4:00PM Cristo Rey (96m)
6:30PM The Summer of Flying Fish (95m)
8:40PM Dust on the Tongue (89m)
Monday, July 14
4:00PM The Summer of Flying Fish (95m)
6:20PM Natural Sciences (71m)
8:30PM Casa Grande (114m)
Tuesday, July 15
4:30PM Holiday (82m)
6:30PM Mateo (86m)
8:30PM We Are Mari Pepa (95m)
Wednesday, July 16
6:15PM Holiday (82m)
8:30PM Root (87m)
Thursday, July 17
3:30PM My Straight Son (113m)
6:30PM All About the Feathers (85m)
8:45PM The Militant (121m)
Friday, July 18
4:00PM The Militant (121m)
6:45PM Reimon (72m)
9:00PM Paradise (105m)
Saturday, July 19
1:00PM The Man of the Crowd (95m)
6:00PM The Searches (77m)
8:30PM My Straight Son (113m)
Sunday, July 20
3:30PM Paradise (105m)
6:15PM The Man of the Crowd (95m)
8:30PM Reimon (72m)
Tuesday, July 15, 8:30pm
MOVIES AND DATES ONLY
Friday, July 11
6:15PM Casa Grande (114m)
9:15PM Natural Sciences (71m)
Saturday, July 12
1:30PM Root (87m)
4:00PM Dust on the Tongue (89m)
6:30PM Cristo Rey (96m)
9:00PM We Are Mari Pepa (95m)
Sunday, July 13
1:30PM Mateo (86m)
4:00PM Cristo Rey (96m)
6:30PM The Summer of Flying Fish (95m)
8:40PM Dust on the Tongue (89m)
Monday, July 14
4:00PM The Summer of Flying Fish (95m)
6:20PM Natural Sciences (71m)
8:30PM Casa Grande (114m)
Tuesday, July 15
4:30PM Holiday (82m)
6:30PM Mateo (86m)
8:30PM We Are Mari Pepa (95m)
Wednesday, July 16
6:15PM Holiday (82m)
8:30PM Root (87m)
Thursday, July 17
3:30PM My Straight Son (113m)
6:30PM All About the Feathers (85m)
8:45PM The Militant (121m)
Friday, July 18
4:00PM The Militant (121m)
6:45PM Reimon (72m)
9:00PM Paradise (105m)
Saturday, July 19
1:00PM The Man of the Crowd (95m)
6:00PM The Searches (77m)
8:30PM My Straight Son (113m)
Sunday, July 20
3:30PM Paradise (105m)
6:15PM The Man of the Crowd (95m)
8:30PM Reimon (72m)
Cine: 'VIOLA' en Cartelera.
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Viola acaba de estrenarse como parte de la retrospectiva dedicada a Matías Piñeiro en la última edición de Latinbeat en el Lincoln Center. Ahora podrán verla en varios teatros de NYC y del resto de los Estados Unidos.
About: Matías Piñeiro is one of contemporary Argentine cinema’s most sensuous and sophisticated new voices. In his latest film, Viola, he ingeniously fashions out of Shakepeare’sTwelfth Night a seductive roundelay among young actors and lovers in present-day Buenos Aires. Mixing melodrama with sentimental comedy, philosophical conundrum with matters of the heart, Viola bears all the signature traits of a Piñeiro film: serpentine camera movements and slippages of language, an elliptical narrative and a playful confusion of reality and artifice.
* Viola > Director Matías Piñeiro > En varios Teatros > Viola.
CINEMA: YOUR GUIDE TO #LATINBEAT 2013
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“It is exciting to see that as a group, Latin American films express more of a sense of identity beyond national borders, and more of a sense of interconnectedness than in the past, reflecting what is occurring in political/social/economic arenas. I hope this year's lineup provides an opportunity to witness some of this change in the region as it unfolds,” says Film Society of Lincoln Center Programmer, Marcela Goglio.
Highlights of the 2013 Latinbeat includes LA PAZ by prolific Argentinian filmmaker, Santiago Loza, who has showcased his work at the festival since 2000; a beautifully illustrated animation film, ANINA, based on the 2003 book Anina Yatay Salas; and an unusual genre to Latin America: action movies, which will be represented with Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN, a hilarious tribute to Peckinpah’s similarly titled 1974 film, but with a video game aesthetic and structure.
Latinbeat is also welcoming back several filmmakers with new films, including Alicia Scherson, whose third feature (her first two films were showcased in earlier editions of Latinbeat) THE FUTURE is a faithful rendition of Una novelita lumpen, the first of Roberto Bolaño’s literary works to be adapted for cinema. In Mercedes Moncada’s fourth feature, MAGICAL WORDS (BREAKING A SPELL), delivers a poignant and engaging personal perspective on the Nicaraguan revolution (her first two films were showcased at past editions of Latinbeat). Another welcome return is director Enrique Rivero, whose film PARQUE VIA played New Directors/New Films in 2009, and who will now show his new film NEVER DIE.
The Latinbeat celebration also includes North American, US and New York Premieres as well as in-person appearances from ; Emiliano Altuna (THE MAYOR), Ernesto Diaz Espinoza (BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN), Leticia Jorge (SO MUCH WATER), Santiago Loza (LA PAZ), Mercedes Moncada (MAGICAL WORDS), Matías Piñeiro (THE STOLEN MAN/THEY ALL LIE), Lina Rodriguez (SENORITAS), Carlos Federico Rossini (THE MAYOR), Pablo Delgado Sanchez (THE TEARS), Barbara Sarasola-Day (BELATED) and Michael Wahrman (dir, AVANTI POPPOLO).
* La Paz (Opening Night)
Santiago Loza, Argentina, 2013; 73m
North American Premiere!
La Paz is the story of Liso, a young man who emerges from a psychiatric institution and tries to re-adapt to daily life in the universe of his middle class family and neighborhood. Though everything seems difficult, under the surface and very subtly things start to change for him. Quietly and slowly, Loza draws us into Liso's inner plight as he connects again with the outside world and searches for a new balance, a kind of inner peace, while exposing what have become, for him, the limiting rituals of a comfortable middle class life. Also an influential playwright in the nascent indie theater scene of Buenos Aires, Loza is a prolific filmmaker whose films (showcased in Latinbeat since 2000) have remained faithful to a very personal kind of aesthetic/search. He was one of the very first of the so -called "New Argentine Cinema" filmmakers, with a career as discreet and quietly loaded as his films. His films are a space for challenging and uncommon aesthetic exploration—in how to convey emotions visually, using silence as pulse of the story. The result is clear and poignant storytelling devoid of any excess in performance or staging, in which his affection and deep understanding of his characters reach out to the spectator. To quote Marcelo Panozzo, program director of this year’s Bafici: "La Paz’s tone is its true triumph: it’s something related to patience, a rare feature in both cinema and life".
July 12 at 7:00pm
July 14 at 6:50pm
*Director in attendance at both screenings.
* AninA
Alfredo Soderguit, Uruguay/Colombia, 2013; 82m
US Premiere!
The palindromically named Anina Yatay Salas lives in Montevideo and attends elementary school, where her classmates make fun of her because of her name. She has a best friend, but also a girl with whom she doesn’t get along at all: Yisel. One day she fights with Yisel, and so her problems begin: the school principal gives them both an intriguing punishment, a suspended detention. Anina spends her days in that suspension, a period of time with particular tension and questions, and her voiceover guides us as she comments on life with her nice parents, meals, the eyes of gossipy neighbors, homework, and childhood feelings, joys, and fears. Featuring a particularly beautiful animation that perfectly integrates the movement of the characters with background settings that are worthy of illustrated children’s books (AninA is based on the 2003 book Anina Yatay Salas), this moving animated film has the homemade flavor of a warm and happy afternoon tea on a rainy day (Bafici ’13)
July 13 at 11am
July 14 at 11am
* Avanti Popolo
Michael Wahrmann, Brazil, 2012; 72m
North American Premiere!
In this layered and formally subversive first feature, iconic (and recently deceased) Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach plays a withdrawn and foul tempered father who for 30 years has been waiting for the return of his son, who disappeared during the 70s dictatorship. When his other son, Andre (played by film academic Andre Gatti), moves in after his divorce, he tries to reconnect with his father and awaken him to life and his past via recovered Super-8 films and old LPs. Wahrmann crafts an intricate and evocative universe of images and especially of sound in an attempt to shake up the father's monotonous present and make the disappeared brother—as well as the past—less of a ghost. Andre wants the past to become part of his father's present, perhaps for him to even connect with the pain in order to wake up. Wahrmann attempts something similar with the spectator, taking us on a voyage as radical in form as the movements it evokes.
July 13 at 5:15pm
July 14 at 1pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* Belated/Deshora
Bárbara Sarasola-Day, Argentina/Colombia/Norway, 2013; 102m
North American Premiere!
Helena and Ernesto live by the mountainous jungle, in their tobacco plantation in Salta, Northwestern Argentina. Their marriage is already in crisis, but shakes up even further when a quiet and mysterious cousin of Helena’s arrives from Colombia to complete his rehab in this isolated wilderness. The cousin unleashes unknown forces on the couple, putting them in touch with emotions and desires until then suppressed. Through the use of handheld camera, an austere mise-en-scene and contained but subtly explosive performances, Sarasola-Day succeeds in creating an almost unbearably tense atmosphere as each character develops a relationship with the other. With this film, she crafts both a potrait of a decadent landowning aristocracy and its rigid patriarchal social structure, and an exploration of desire’s limits and expression. Paradoxically, the tension brings life to Helena and Ernesto’s marriage. But by then they have become different people, and the restrained emotions that have accumulated throughout the movie eventually explode in surprising ways.
July 19 at 8:45pm
July 21 at 6pm
* Director in attendance for both screenings.
* Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman /Traiganme la cabeza de la mujer metralleta
Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Chile, 2013; 75m
New York Premiere!
An unusual genre in Latin American cinema: the action movie. This exuberant and hilarious tribute to Peckinpah’s similarly titled 1974 film is also a Western, but with a video game aesthetic and structure. A naïve and nerdy DJ who lives with his mother in Santiago and spends his days on his Playstation gets into trouble with a dangerous Argentine gangster. In order to save his own life, the DJ must undertake the mission to capture the untamable female mercenary Machine Gun Woman, dead or alive. The film is structured according to the missions he must accomplish on his way to finding the woman, as he is chased around by paid assassins and witnesses bloody acts.
July 20 at 9:30pm
July 21 at 8:30pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* The Eternal Night of Twelve Moons / La eterna noche de las doce lunas
Priscilla Padilla, Colombia, 2013; 87m
U.S. Premiere!
“I’m happy to be locked up and to carry on our traditions,” says Pili, a young Wayuu who is making the transition to womanhood. In Pili’s community, tradition dictates that, after their first menstruation and in order to be properly appreciated, young women must be isolated from all men for 12 moon cycles. During this time, accompanied only by the women in the family, the girls learn to weave and acquire other skills that will be useful to them in future. A solid narrative discourse that includes references to Wayuu cosmogony describes the three phases in the ritual Pili must complete: the history behind her isolation, the long period of seclusion she must sit out, and the celebration at the end of it, when Pili is officially declared a young woman or majayut. Thanks to some intelligent directing and inspired photography, what could easily have been a simple ethnographic documentary is transformed into a beautiful film about tradition, liberation and the ever-arduous task of being a woman.
July 12 at 3:00pm
July 17 at 6:15pm
July 19 at 4:30pm
* From Tuesday to Tuesday / De martes a martes
Gustavo Fernandez Trivino, Argentina, 2012; 97m
New York Premiere!
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Juan Benitez is a tough bodybuilder with a slightly menacing presence, but gentle and quiet in his interactions with people. He is hardworking, a textile factory operator during the day and a club bouncer at night, and dreams of eventually opening his own gym. But with a family to support, this prospect seems out of reach. Midway into the story, his steady routine is overturned after he witnesses a crime, and the film takes on a different tone, moving from subdued drama to a taut and suspenseful thriller as Benitez ponders what action to take. A cameraman and assistant director on more than 70 films since he graduated from film school 16 years ago, this is Trivino’s directorial debut.
July 15 at 8:15pm
July 17 at 8:15pm
* The Future / Il future
Alicia Scherson, Chile/Germany/Italy/Spain, 2013; 98m
New York Premiere!
This faithful rendition of Una novelita lumpen is the first of Roberto Bolaño’s literary works to be adapted for cinema. Scherson’s third feature (Play and Turistas, her first two, showcased in earlier editions of Latinbeat) tells the story of Bianca and her brother Tomas, two suddenly orphaned Chilean teenagers who, in the dark midst of their mourning slowly descend into an underworld of B-movies, cheap novels and derelict characters in the margins of their adopted city, Rome. Manuela Martelli plays the vulnerable and beautiful Bianca, who is drawn into a heist to rob a hidden treasure from an aging and ailing former Miss Universe and old-schoolHercules star (Rutger Hauer). This sexual and emotional adventure becomes a rite of passage that gives her a sense of empowerment strong enough to move on into a future, however uncertain, from which she soberly narrates this story.
July 12 at 9:15pm
July 16 at 8:15pm
* Impenetrable / El impenetrable
Daniele Incalcaterra & Fausta Quattrini, Argentina/France, 2012; 95m. North American Premiere!
Incalcaterra and Quattrini take us deep into the Paraguayan Chaco with this narratively rigorous, fascinating adventure that is at once travel diary, Western, road trip, scientific exploration, and a portrayal of the savagery of capitalist exploitation. During his dictatorship, Stroessner sold to friends huge amounts of land for very little money, land that originally belonged to the Guarani Indians. This is how the filmmaker and his brother, Italians living in Argentina, came to inherit 5,000 hectares in the heart of Paraguayan Chaco. This land is also the reason they became estranged from their father until his death in 1994. Twenty years later, the brothers embark on a quixotic adventure to restore this piece of wilderness teeming with wildlife and precious botanical resources to its original owners. But the “impenetrable” (as much a geographic as a judiciary term) land seems to be hiding dark forces—in the form of locked gates, bulldozers, armed neighbors—that won’t allow them to advance. Thus starts an intricate suspense story that unwinds with narrative and rhythmical precision to its unexpectedly happy ending.
July 20 at 7:00pm
July 21 at 3:45pm
* Magical Words (Breaking a Spell) / Palabras mágicas (Para romper un encantamiento)
Mercedes Moncada, Guatemala/Mexico, 2012; 83m
New York Premiere!
Moncada lived in Nicaragua for 18 years and, as a child in 1979, witnessed the triumph of the Sandinista revolution. In this, her fourth film (her first two showcased at past editions of Latinbeat), she uses Lake Managua as a metaphor for what her beloved Nicaragua has gone through, and has become, since this pivotal and promising moment in the country’s history. As she traces the changes undergone by the Sandinista movement since the revolution, Moncada weaves herself into the story—her own dreams, love, and pain at every historic step. Her relationship to the revolution is intense and personal and so her feelings about it progress as it does, “from a childhood in which death is romantic and heroic to the deepest and most beautiful love, the pain of loss, betrayal and finally a void.” A poignant and engaging personal perspective on the Nicaraguan revolution.
July 19 at 6:30pm
July 21 at 1:30pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* The Mayor / El alcalde
Emiliano Altuna, Carlos Federico Rossini & Diego Enrique Osorno, Mexico, 2012; 81m. New York Premiere!
Located in the state of Nuevo León, the municipality of San Pedro Garza García is considered the richest and safest in the whole country, despite the violent atmosphere that exists in the northern states of Mexico. Despite the fact that the murder of municipal mayors by the drug cartels is a common practice, the mayor of this municipality, Mauricio Fernández Garza, is not only very much alive but also sparking heated arguments. This eccentric millionaire and collector of art, who both repels and charms, has decided to take justice into his own hands. The unorthodox security strategies he has put into place in order to restrain drug violence are highly questioned. The film wisely captures the fascinating contradictions in Garza’s personality as it reflects the complex situation of Mexico’s drug wars—a mix of violence, modern Mexican politics, strong economic interests, and a bold discredit of the political class.
July 13 at 7:15pm
July 15 at 6:15pm
*Directors in attendance for both screenings.
* Never Die / Mai morire
Enrique Rivero, Mexico, 2012; 84m. New York Premiere!
Director Enrique Rivero moves away from the kind of minimalist aesthetic of Parque Vía (New Directors/New Films ‘09) in his new film starring Chayo, a woman who must return to her hometown of Xochimilco after she learns that the death of her mother is near. The contemplative camerawork paints a stunningly beautiful portrayal of the town, rich in ancient customs and rituals that are still quietly observed. Amidst lush, majestic natural surroundings, Chayo delicately prepares for the imminent loss, which leads to a profound and meditative reflection on the constantly renewing cycle of life and our changing place in the world.
July 13 at 1:00pm
July 16 at 6:15pm
* Señoritas
Lina Rodriguez, Colombia/Canada, 2013; 87m
US Premiere!
The camera follows Alejandra, a young middle class woman from Bogotá, in her daily routines—as she puts on makeup, gets ready to go out, parties with friends, goes out with boys, walks home—capturing both her moments alone and her interactions with the world. The camera stays close enough to Alejandra to make us feel immersed in her world, yet keeps just enough distance to preserve a sense of her mystery. In her exploration of a young woman’s universe, Rodriguez claims that she wanted “to know how women are negotiating expectations of themselves and each other, of their families and friends and the men they meet.” Though conceptually and formally simple—the film has few scenes and each is resolved with just a few shots—hers is a daring, new kind of (minimalist) filmmaking that breaks ground not only in Colombia but in the rest of Latin America as well.
July 12 at 5:00pm
July 14 at 4:45pm
July 19 at 2:30pm
*Director in attendance on July 14.
* So Much Water / Tanta agua
Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge, Uruguay/Mexico/Holland/Germany, 2013; 100m. New York Premiere!
What can be worse than being 14 and going on vacation with your father? Taking your children on vacation and not being able to go out because of the rain. Alberto has not been able to spend much time with Lucia and Federico since his divorce. The three of them are on their way to the hot springs for a short vacation. But when they arrive at their rented cabin they learn that the pools have closed until further notice because of the electric storms. Alberto tries to remain enthusiastic and is determined to not let anything ruin their plans, but everybody's moods inevitably become altered. The rain continues to fall and it seems the house they rented is about to explode.
July 18 at 8:30pm
July 20 at 2:30pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* The Tears / Las lagrimas
Pablo Delgado Sanchez, Mexico, 2012; 66m. North American Premiere!
A camping trip in the woods becomes a painful but ultimately healing rite of passage for two brothers who are struggling to cope with their disturbing family environment. With an absent father and a severely depressed, alcoholic mother who stays locked inside her room all day, spending the summer vacation at home seems like a punishment as it heightens the brothers’ sense of solitude and vulnerability. Though intended as a break from all of this, their escape into nature actually triggers memories and brings forth the fears and hardships that haunt their daily life. Delgado Sanchez's first feature has a taut, suspenseful narrative and sparse mise-en-scene that eloquently conveys the brothers' ordeal and the cathartic spirit of their voyage.
July 18 at 6:30pm
July 20 at 5:00pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
** Matías Piñeiro Retrospective
Pineiro’s sparkling debut film breathlessly follows a clever, capricious young woman as she carefully interweaves friends and lovers into an intricate web of secretive yet often unexpectedly compassionate games. Together with her best friend and fellow tour guide at a rival Buenos Aires historical museum, Piñeiro’s headstrong heroine attempts to tame the unpredictable course of her heart, eccentrically drawing inspiration from Sarmiento’s magnum opus, Facundo. With its grainy 16mm black-and-white cinematography, its political sub- and super-texts and its compelling portrait of impetuous youth, The Stolen Man recalls the alternately sober and sprightly nouvelle vague of Jean Eustache and Jacques Rivette. (Harvard Film Archive)
July 13 at 3:00pm
July 14 at 8:45pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* They All Lie / Todos mienten
Matías Piñeiro, Argentina, 2009; 75m
A more abstract counterpart to The Stolen Man, Piñeiro’s second feature unleashes eight strong-willed characters into a clandestine plot involving art forgery, an unfinished novel, and Sarmiento’s U.S. journals, resulting in a giddy kaleidoscope of differing meaning that playfully channels the high postmodernism of William Gaddis. Piñeiro explores a cool stylistic restraint in They All Lie, deploying previse mise-en-scene to transform the rambling country house that is the film’s sole location into a series of inter-nested boxes and closets in which strange skeletons inevitably wait. With their zealous embrace of Sarmiento’s introspective writings, Piñeiro’s youthful and self-absorbed characters once again become the delightfully improbable vehicles for thoughtful reflections on the history of modern Argentina. (Harvard Film Archive)
July 13 at 9:10pm
July 14 at 2:45pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
This year’s lineup also includes a retrospective of filmmaker Matias Piñeiro, who will screen his films THE STOLEN MAN and THEY ALL LIE during the festival while simultaneously theatrically opening VIOLA and ROSALINDA at the Film Society.
Here is the list of participating films and times:
Here is the list of participating films and times:
* La Paz (Opening Night)
Santiago Loza, Argentina, 2013; 73m
North American Premiere!
La Paz is the story of Liso, a young man who emerges from a psychiatric institution and tries to re-adapt to daily life in the universe of his middle class family and neighborhood. Though everything seems difficult, under the surface and very subtly things start to change for him. Quietly and slowly, Loza draws us into Liso's inner plight as he connects again with the outside world and searches for a new balance, a kind of inner peace, while exposing what have become, for him, the limiting rituals of a comfortable middle class life. Also an influential playwright in the nascent indie theater scene of Buenos Aires, Loza is a prolific filmmaker whose films (showcased in Latinbeat since 2000) have remained faithful to a very personal kind of aesthetic/search. He was one of the very first of the so -called "New Argentine Cinema" filmmakers, with a career as discreet and quietly loaded as his films. His films are a space for challenging and uncommon aesthetic exploration—in how to convey emotions visually, using silence as pulse of the story. The result is clear and poignant storytelling devoid of any excess in performance or staging, in which his affection and deep understanding of his characters reach out to the spectator. To quote Marcelo Panozzo, program director of this year’s Bafici: "La Paz’s tone is its true triumph: it’s something related to patience, a rare feature in both cinema and life".
July 12 at 7:00pm
July 14 at 6:50pm
*Director in attendance at both screenings.
* AninA
Alfredo Soderguit, Uruguay/Colombia, 2013; 82m
US Premiere!
The palindromically named Anina Yatay Salas lives in Montevideo and attends elementary school, where her classmates make fun of her because of her name. She has a best friend, but also a girl with whom she doesn’t get along at all: Yisel. One day she fights with Yisel, and so her problems begin: the school principal gives them both an intriguing punishment, a suspended detention. Anina spends her days in that suspension, a period of time with particular tension and questions, and her voiceover guides us as she comments on life with her nice parents, meals, the eyes of gossipy neighbors, homework, and childhood feelings, joys, and fears. Featuring a particularly beautiful animation that perfectly integrates the movement of the characters with background settings that are worthy of illustrated children’s books (AninA is based on the 2003 book Anina Yatay Salas), this moving animated film has the homemade flavor of a warm and happy afternoon tea on a rainy day (Bafici ’13)
July 13 at 11am
July 14 at 11am
* Avanti Popolo
Michael Wahrmann, Brazil, 2012; 72m
North American Premiere!
In this layered and formally subversive first feature, iconic (and recently deceased) Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach plays a withdrawn and foul tempered father who for 30 years has been waiting for the return of his son, who disappeared during the 70s dictatorship. When his other son, Andre (played by film academic Andre Gatti), moves in after his divorce, he tries to reconnect with his father and awaken him to life and his past via recovered Super-8 films and old LPs. Wahrmann crafts an intricate and evocative universe of images and especially of sound in an attempt to shake up the father's monotonous present and make the disappeared brother—as well as the past—less of a ghost. Andre wants the past to become part of his father's present, perhaps for him to even connect with the pain in order to wake up. Wahrmann attempts something similar with the spectator, taking us on a voyage as radical in form as the movements it evokes.
July 13 at 5:15pm
July 14 at 1pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* Belated/Deshora
Bárbara Sarasola-Day, Argentina/Colombia/Norway, 2013; 102m
North American Premiere!
Helena and Ernesto live by the mountainous jungle, in their tobacco plantation in Salta, Northwestern Argentina. Their marriage is already in crisis, but shakes up even further when a quiet and mysterious cousin of Helena’s arrives from Colombia to complete his rehab in this isolated wilderness. The cousin unleashes unknown forces on the couple, putting them in touch with emotions and desires until then suppressed. Through the use of handheld camera, an austere mise-en-scene and contained but subtly explosive performances, Sarasola-Day succeeds in creating an almost unbearably tense atmosphere as each character develops a relationship with the other. With this film, she crafts both a potrait of a decadent landowning aristocracy and its rigid patriarchal social structure, and an exploration of desire’s limits and expression. Paradoxically, the tension brings life to Helena and Ernesto’s marriage. But by then they have become different people, and the restrained emotions that have accumulated throughout the movie eventually explode in surprising ways.
July 19 at 8:45pm
July 21 at 6pm
* Director in attendance for both screenings.
* Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman /Traiganme la cabeza de la mujer metralleta
Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Chile, 2013; 75m
New York Premiere!
An unusual genre in Latin American cinema: the action movie. This exuberant and hilarious tribute to Peckinpah’s similarly titled 1974 film is also a Western, but with a video game aesthetic and structure. A naïve and nerdy DJ who lives with his mother in Santiago and spends his days on his Playstation gets into trouble with a dangerous Argentine gangster. In order to save his own life, the DJ must undertake the mission to capture the untamable female mercenary Machine Gun Woman, dead or alive. The film is structured according to the missions he must accomplish on his way to finding the woman, as he is chased around by paid assassins and witnesses bloody acts.
July 20 at 9:30pm
July 21 at 8:30pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* The Eternal Night of Twelve Moons / La eterna noche de las doce lunas
Priscilla Padilla, Colombia, 2013; 87m
U.S. Premiere!
“I’m happy to be locked up and to carry on our traditions,” says Pili, a young Wayuu who is making the transition to womanhood. In Pili’s community, tradition dictates that, after their first menstruation and in order to be properly appreciated, young women must be isolated from all men for 12 moon cycles. During this time, accompanied only by the women in the family, the girls learn to weave and acquire other skills that will be useful to them in future. A solid narrative discourse that includes references to Wayuu cosmogony describes the three phases in the ritual Pili must complete: the history behind her isolation, the long period of seclusion she must sit out, and the celebration at the end of it, when Pili is officially declared a young woman or majayut. Thanks to some intelligent directing and inspired photography, what could easily have been a simple ethnographic documentary is transformed into a beautiful film about tradition, liberation and the ever-arduous task of being a woman.
July 12 at 3:00pm
July 17 at 6:15pm
July 19 at 4:30pm
* From Tuesday to Tuesday / De martes a martes
Gustavo Fernandez Trivino, Argentina, 2012; 97m
New York Premiere!
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Juan Benitez is a tough bodybuilder with a slightly menacing presence, but gentle and quiet in his interactions with people. He is hardworking, a textile factory operator during the day and a club bouncer at night, and dreams of eventually opening his own gym. But with a family to support, this prospect seems out of reach. Midway into the story, his steady routine is overturned after he witnesses a crime, and the film takes on a different tone, moving from subdued drama to a taut and suspenseful thriller as Benitez ponders what action to take. A cameraman and assistant director on more than 70 films since he graduated from film school 16 years ago, this is Trivino’s directorial debut.
July 15 at 8:15pm
July 17 at 8:15pm
* The Future / Il future
Alicia Scherson, Chile/Germany/Italy/Spain, 2013; 98m
New York Premiere!
This faithful rendition of Una novelita lumpen is the first of Roberto Bolaño’s literary works to be adapted for cinema. Scherson’s third feature (Play and Turistas, her first two, showcased in earlier editions of Latinbeat) tells the story of Bianca and her brother Tomas, two suddenly orphaned Chilean teenagers who, in the dark midst of their mourning slowly descend into an underworld of B-movies, cheap novels and derelict characters in the margins of their adopted city, Rome. Manuela Martelli plays the vulnerable and beautiful Bianca, who is drawn into a heist to rob a hidden treasure from an aging and ailing former Miss Universe and old-schoolHercules star (Rutger Hauer). This sexual and emotional adventure becomes a rite of passage that gives her a sense of empowerment strong enough to move on into a future, however uncertain, from which she soberly narrates this story.
July 12 at 9:15pm
July 16 at 8:15pm
* Impenetrable / El impenetrable
Daniele Incalcaterra & Fausta Quattrini, Argentina/France, 2012; 95m. North American Premiere!
Incalcaterra and Quattrini take us deep into the Paraguayan Chaco with this narratively rigorous, fascinating adventure that is at once travel diary, Western, road trip, scientific exploration, and a portrayal of the savagery of capitalist exploitation. During his dictatorship, Stroessner sold to friends huge amounts of land for very little money, land that originally belonged to the Guarani Indians. This is how the filmmaker and his brother, Italians living in Argentina, came to inherit 5,000 hectares in the heart of Paraguayan Chaco. This land is also the reason they became estranged from their father until his death in 1994. Twenty years later, the brothers embark on a quixotic adventure to restore this piece of wilderness teeming with wildlife and precious botanical resources to its original owners. But the “impenetrable” (as much a geographic as a judiciary term) land seems to be hiding dark forces—in the form of locked gates, bulldozers, armed neighbors—that won’t allow them to advance. Thus starts an intricate suspense story that unwinds with narrative and rhythmical precision to its unexpectedly happy ending.
July 20 at 7:00pm
July 21 at 3:45pm
* Magical Words (Breaking a Spell) / Palabras mágicas (Para romper un encantamiento)
Mercedes Moncada, Guatemala/Mexico, 2012; 83m
New York Premiere!
Moncada lived in Nicaragua for 18 years and, as a child in 1979, witnessed the triumph of the Sandinista revolution. In this, her fourth film (her first two showcased at past editions of Latinbeat), she uses Lake Managua as a metaphor for what her beloved Nicaragua has gone through, and has become, since this pivotal and promising moment in the country’s history. As she traces the changes undergone by the Sandinista movement since the revolution, Moncada weaves herself into the story—her own dreams, love, and pain at every historic step. Her relationship to the revolution is intense and personal and so her feelings about it progress as it does, “from a childhood in which death is romantic and heroic to the deepest and most beautiful love, the pain of loss, betrayal and finally a void.” A poignant and engaging personal perspective on the Nicaraguan revolution.
July 19 at 6:30pm
July 21 at 1:30pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* The Mayor / El alcalde
Emiliano Altuna, Carlos Federico Rossini & Diego Enrique Osorno, Mexico, 2012; 81m. New York Premiere!
Located in the state of Nuevo León, the municipality of San Pedro Garza García is considered the richest and safest in the whole country, despite the violent atmosphere that exists in the northern states of Mexico. Despite the fact that the murder of municipal mayors by the drug cartels is a common practice, the mayor of this municipality, Mauricio Fernández Garza, is not only very much alive but also sparking heated arguments. This eccentric millionaire and collector of art, who both repels and charms, has decided to take justice into his own hands. The unorthodox security strategies he has put into place in order to restrain drug violence are highly questioned. The film wisely captures the fascinating contradictions in Garza’s personality as it reflects the complex situation of Mexico’s drug wars—a mix of violence, modern Mexican politics, strong economic interests, and a bold discredit of the political class.
July 13 at 7:15pm
July 15 at 6:15pm
*Directors in attendance for both screenings.
* Never Die / Mai morire
Enrique Rivero, Mexico, 2012; 84m. New York Premiere!
Director Enrique Rivero moves away from the kind of minimalist aesthetic of Parque Vía (New Directors/New Films ‘09) in his new film starring Chayo, a woman who must return to her hometown of Xochimilco after she learns that the death of her mother is near. The contemplative camerawork paints a stunningly beautiful portrayal of the town, rich in ancient customs and rituals that are still quietly observed. Amidst lush, majestic natural surroundings, Chayo delicately prepares for the imminent loss, which leads to a profound and meditative reflection on the constantly renewing cycle of life and our changing place in the world.
July 13 at 1:00pm
July 16 at 6:15pm
* Señoritas
Lina Rodriguez, Colombia/Canada, 2013; 87m
US Premiere!
The camera follows Alejandra, a young middle class woman from Bogotá, in her daily routines—as she puts on makeup, gets ready to go out, parties with friends, goes out with boys, walks home—capturing both her moments alone and her interactions with the world. The camera stays close enough to Alejandra to make us feel immersed in her world, yet keeps just enough distance to preserve a sense of her mystery. In her exploration of a young woman’s universe, Rodriguez claims that she wanted “to know how women are negotiating expectations of themselves and each other, of their families and friends and the men they meet.” Though conceptually and formally simple—the film has few scenes and each is resolved with just a few shots—hers is a daring, new kind of (minimalist) filmmaking that breaks ground not only in Colombia but in the rest of Latin America as well.
July 12 at 5:00pm
July 14 at 4:45pm
July 19 at 2:30pm
*Director in attendance on July 14.
* So Much Water / Tanta agua
Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge, Uruguay/Mexico/Holland/Germany, 2013; 100m. New York Premiere!
What can be worse than being 14 and going on vacation with your father? Taking your children on vacation and not being able to go out because of the rain. Alberto has not been able to spend much time with Lucia and Federico since his divorce. The three of them are on their way to the hot springs for a short vacation. But when they arrive at their rented cabin they learn that the pools have closed until further notice because of the electric storms. Alberto tries to remain enthusiastic and is determined to not let anything ruin their plans, but everybody's moods inevitably become altered. The rain continues to fall and it seems the house they rented is about to explode.
July 18 at 8:30pm
July 20 at 2:30pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* The Tears / Las lagrimas
Pablo Delgado Sanchez, Mexico, 2012; 66m. North American Premiere!
A camping trip in the woods becomes a painful but ultimately healing rite of passage for two brothers who are struggling to cope with their disturbing family environment. With an absent father and a severely depressed, alcoholic mother who stays locked inside her room all day, spending the summer vacation at home seems like a punishment as it heightens the brothers’ sense of solitude and vulnerability. Though intended as a break from all of this, their escape into nature actually triggers memories and brings forth the fears and hardships that haunt their daily life. Delgado Sanchez's first feature has a taut, suspenseful narrative and sparse mise-en-scene that eloquently conveys the brothers' ordeal and the cathartic spirit of their voyage.
July 18 at 6:30pm
July 20 at 5:00pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
** Matías Piñeiro Retrospective
* The Stolen Man / El hombre robado
Matéas Piñeiro, Argentina, 2007; 91m. New York Premiere!
Matéas Piñeiro, Argentina, 2007; 91m. New York Premiere!
Pineiro’s sparkling debut film breathlessly follows a clever, capricious young woman as she carefully interweaves friends and lovers into an intricate web of secretive yet often unexpectedly compassionate games. Together with her best friend and fellow tour guide at a rival Buenos Aires historical museum, Piñeiro’s headstrong heroine attempts to tame the unpredictable course of her heart, eccentrically drawing inspiration from Sarmiento’s magnum opus, Facundo. With its grainy 16mm black-and-white cinematography, its political sub- and super-texts and its compelling portrait of impetuous youth, The Stolen Man recalls the alternately sober and sprightly nouvelle vague of Jean Eustache and Jacques Rivette. (Harvard Film Archive)
July 13 at 3:00pm
July 14 at 8:45pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
* They All Lie / Todos mienten
Matías Piñeiro, Argentina, 2009; 75m
A more abstract counterpart to The Stolen Man, Piñeiro’s second feature unleashes eight strong-willed characters into a clandestine plot involving art forgery, an unfinished novel, and Sarmiento’s U.S. journals, resulting in a giddy kaleidoscope of differing meaning that playfully channels the high postmodernism of William Gaddis. Piñeiro explores a cool stylistic restraint in They All Lie, deploying previse mise-en-scene to transform the rambling country house that is the film’s sole location into a series of inter-nested boxes and closets in which strange skeletons inevitably wait. With their zealous embrace of Sarmiento’s introspective writings, Piñeiro’s youthful and self-absorbed characters once again become the delightfully improbable vehicles for thoughtful reflections on the history of modern Argentina. (Harvard Film Archive)
July 13 at 9:10pm
July 14 at 2:45pm
*Director in attendance for both screenings.
CONTEMPORARY LATINO CINEMA AT LATINBEAT 2012
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The 13th edition of Latinbeat brings the best contemporary cinema from Latin America to the Film Society of Lincoln Center from August 10–23. This year’s lineup represents films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela as well as an incredible selection of documentaries, directorial debuts and a strong focus on music, including Violeta Parra in VIOLETA and master Brazilian documentarian Eduarado Coutinho’s SONGS. The festival will also present a panel discussion on NEW MEXICAN CINEMA.
There is something for everyone at this year’s festival including EXPIRATION DATE/FECHA DE CADUCIDAD and 3 MILLION/3 MILLONES; family programming with BACALAR, a favorite on the children’s film festival circuit; the sweet and funny animated feature titled FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN; fans of the wonderful play EVITA will be pleased to see Elena Roger’s film debut in ONE LOVE, starring opposite Diego Peretti; and the blockbuster award-winning hit from Argentina CHINESE TAKEAWAY, starring Ricardo Darin, will have its New York Premiere!
Here is a look at all the participating films:
** EXPIRATION DATE/FECHA DE CADUCIDAD
Kenya Marquez, 2011, Mexico, 35mm; 111m
Ramona suspects a stranger is responsible for the disappearance of her son. But not all is what it seems in this funny and suspenseful black comedy of shifting viewpoints starring the great Damian Alcazar. In person: Kenya Marquez, producer Karla Uribe and star Damian Alcazar.
*AUG 10, 6:30PM (OPENING NIGHT!); AUG 12, 3:45PM
** 3 MILLION/3 MILLONES
Jaime Roos & Yamandu Roos, 2012, Uruguay, DCP; 135m
In this joyous documentary about the passion of soccer, the iconic Uruguayan musician and his (Dutch) photographer son reunite to embark on a “relentless journey” to the South African World Cup with the Uruguayan national soccer team. In person: Jaime Roos.
*AUG 21, 8:15PM; AUG 23, 8:00PM
CLOSING NIGHT! U.S. PREMIERE!
** AWKA LIWEN
Mariano Aiello & Kristina Hille, 2010, Argentina; 90m
This “alternative” history of Argentina focuses on the extermination of indigenous populations in the 19th century, and how this connects to the country’s current political and economic situation.
*AUG 14, 9:00PM; AUG 18, 3:00PM
** BACALAR
Patricia Arriaga-Jordan, 2011, Mexico, Blu-Ray; 96m
When Santiago and his best friend Mariana inadvertently videotape a group of dangerous animal traffickers while out playing detective, they set out to save the endangered wolves in this favorite on the children’s film festival circuit! Rated G.
** AWKA LIWEN
Mariano Aiello & Kristina Hille, 2010, Argentina; 90m
This “alternative” history of Argentina focuses on the extermination of indigenous populations in the 19th century, and how this connects to the country’s current political and economic situation.
*AUG 14, 9:00PM; AUG 18, 3:00PM
** BACALAR
Patricia Arriaga-Jordan, 2011, Mexico, Blu-Ray; 96m
When Santiago and his best friend Mariana inadvertently videotape a group of dangerous animal traffickers while out playing detective, they set out to save the endangered wolves in this favorite on the children’s film festival circuit! Rated G.
*AUG 19, 1:00PM
** CHINESE TAKEAWAY / CUENTO CHINO.
** CHINESE TAKEAWAY / CUENTO CHINO.
Sebastian Borensztein, 2011, Argentina; 93m
In this warm hearted, gentle and affectionate comedy, the great Ricardo Darin stars as the hardened lonely owner of a hardware store who one day assists a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in need of help.
*AUG 11, 9:15PM; AUG 12, 6:30PM
** FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN/GORDO, CALVO Y BAJITO
Carlos Osuna, 2011, Colombia, 35mm; 97m
In this sweet and funny animated feature, Antonio, a middle aged loner and exemplary employee at a notary office in Bogota, sees his luck change when a new boss arrives.
*AUG 15, 4:30PM & 9:00PM
** THE LAST CHRISTEROS/LOS ULTIMOS CRISTEROS. Matias Meyer, 2011, Mexico; 90m
A rigorous and intimate exploration of a lesser known aspect of Mexican history--the dramatic war between Church and State in the 20’s and 30’s. A visually powerful tribute to the bravery and perseverance of Christian rebels in defense of religious freedom. In person: Matias Meyer.
*AUG 17, 6:30PM; AUG 18, 5:00PM
** MACHETE LANGUAGE/EL LENGUAJE DE LOS MACHETES.
In this warm hearted, gentle and affectionate comedy, the great Ricardo Darin stars as the hardened lonely owner of a hardware store who one day assists a newly arrived Chinese immigrant in need of help.
*AUG 11, 9:15PM; AUG 12, 6:30PM
** FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN/GORDO, CALVO Y BAJITO
Carlos Osuna, 2011, Colombia, 35mm; 97m
In this sweet and funny animated feature, Antonio, a middle aged loner and exemplary employee at a notary office in Bogota, sees his luck change when a new boss arrives.
*AUG 15, 4:30PM & 9:00PM
** THE LAST CHRISTEROS/LOS ULTIMOS CRISTEROS. Matias Meyer, 2011, Mexico; 90m
A rigorous and intimate exploration of a lesser known aspect of Mexican history--the dramatic war between Church and State in the 20’s and 30’s. A visually powerful tribute to the bravery and perseverance of Christian rebels in defense of religious freedom. In person: Matias Meyer.
*AUG 17, 6:30PM; AUG 18, 5:00PM
** MACHETE LANGUAGE/EL LENGUAJE DE LOS MACHETES.
Kyzza Terrazas, 2011, Mexico; 85m
Pushed over the edge by the violent repression in Salvador Atenco, a political activist and punk singer feel increasingly drawn to commit a terrorist act in the name of their political beliefs and their love. In person: Kyzza Terrazas.
*AUG 18, 9:15PM; AUG 19, 8:15PM
** MALAVENTURA
Pushed over the edge by the violent repression in Salvador Atenco, a political activist and punk singer feel increasingly drawn to commit a terrorist act in the name of their political beliefs and their love. In person: Kyzza Terrazas.
*AUG 18, 9:15PM; AUG 19, 8:15PM
** MALAVENTURA
Michel Lipkes, 2011, Mexico; 66m
Lipkes captures the last day of an elderly man’s life with deliberate calm and suggestive cinematography as he wanders through a Mexico City that is at once familiar and foreign, in this very personal debut. In person: Michel Lipkes.
*AUG 19, 6:15PM; AUG 20, 8:30PM
** NORMAL SCHOOL/ESCUELA NORMALCelina Murga, 2012, Argentina; 88m.
Celina Murga applies her sensitive, observant perspective on young people's behavior and thoughts to her superb foray into nonfiction.
*AUG 16, 8:45PM; AUG 17, 4:15PM
** THE NOTIFIER/EL NOTIFICADOR
Blas Eloy Martinez, Argentina, 2011, 35mm; 76m
Eloy is a civil servant who delivers documents notifying people on the state of their lawsuits. His own story unravels with dry humor as each delivery opens into the outrageous worlds of the different urban dwellers he visits. In person: Blas Eloy Martinez.
*AUG 18, 7:15PM; AUG 20, 6:30PM
** ONE LOVE/UN AMOR
Paula Hernandez, 2011, Argentina, DCP; 99m
For three friends reunited in middle age, teenage summer love and heartbreak live on 30 years later. Featuring Broadway sensation Elena Roger (Evita) in her big-screen debut. In person: Elena Roger.
*AUG 22, 6:30PM; AUG 23, 6:00PM
** P.E./EDUCACIÓN FÍSICA
Pablo Cerda, 2011, Chile; 105m
Exequiel (played by director Cerda), a P.E. teacher living in a beautiful seaside town in Southern Chile, faces a midlife crisis after an encounter with an old love in this intimate and down-to-earth debut feature. In person: Pablo Cerda.
*AUG 15, 6:30PM; AUG 16, 4:00PM; AUG 22, 8:45PM (Pablo Cerda will not be attending the 22nd)
** SAMUEL
Cesar Lucena, Venezuela, 2011, 35mm; 75m
An exponent of the Venezuelan “Atom Cinema” manifesto, this stunningly beautiful portrait of life in the mountains tells the story of Samuel, a gifted healer. Based on the ideas of Edgar Cayce, who investigated hypnosis as a form of diagnosing and curing illnesses.
*AUG 11, 5:00PM; AUG 12, 8:30PM
** SONGS/AS CANÇOES
Eduardo Coutinho, 2012, Brazil; 90m
The power of music made bare by 78 year old master docu filmmaker Coutinho, who interviews 18 people from Rio de Janeiro about their favorite Brazilian song and why it is important to them.
*AUG 10, 9:15PM; AUG 11, 3:00PM
** THURSDAY TILL SUNDAY/DE JUEVES A DOMINGODominga Sotomayor, 2012, Chile, DCP; 96m
In a tightly packed car, 12-year-old Lucia and her younger brother take off on a family vacation that will prove to be full of pure childhood happiness, but also quietly yet deeply life-altering.
*AUG 12, 1:30PM; AUG 13, 6:30PM
** UNFINISHED SPACES
Alysa Nahmias & Benjamin Murray, 2011, USA; 86m
In 1961 Fidel Castro and Che commission a group of national art schools. Over the next fifty years a unique convoluted epic of contrasts enveloped the five resulting buildings. Now rediscovered, they are major markers in the history of alternative architecture and the political climate of Cuba in the second half of the twentieth century. (Howard Feinstein). In person: Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray.
*AUG 11, 7:00PM; AUG 13, 8:35PM
** VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN/VIOLETA SE FUE A LOS CIELOSAndrés Wood, 2011, Chile/Argentina/Brazil/Spain; 110m
The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Chile’s official Oscar entry. *AUG 17, 9:00PM; AUG 18, 12:30PM
Lipkes captures the last day of an elderly man’s life with deliberate calm and suggestive cinematography as he wanders through a Mexico City that is at once familiar and foreign, in this very personal debut. In person: Michel Lipkes.
*AUG 19, 6:15PM; AUG 20, 8:30PM
** NORMAL SCHOOL/ESCUELA NORMALCelina Murga, 2012, Argentina; 88m.
Celina Murga applies her sensitive, observant perspective on young people's behavior and thoughts to her superb foray into nonfiction.
*AUG 16, 8:45PM; AUG 17, 4:15PM
** THE NOTIFIER/EL NOTIFICADOR
Blas Eloy Martinez, Argentina, 2011, 35mm; 76m
Eloy is a civil servant who delivers documents notifying people on the state of their lawsuits. His own story unravels with dry humor as each delivery opens into the outrageous worlds of the different urban dwellers he visits. In person: Blas Eloy Martinez.
*AUG 18, 7:15PM; AUG 20, 6:30PM
** ONE LOVE/UN AMOR
Paula Hernandez, 2011, Argentina, DCP; 99m
For three friends reunited in middle age, teenage summer love and heartbreak live on 30 years later. Featuring Broadway sensation Elena Roger (Evita) in her big-screen debut. In person: Elena Roger.
*AUG 22, 6:30PM; AUG 23, 6:00PM
** P.E./EDUCACIÓN FÍSICA
Pablo Cerda, 2011, Chile; 105m
Exequiel (played by director Cerda), a P.E. teacher living in a beautiful seaside town in Southern Chile, faces a midlife crisis after an encounter with an old love in this intimate and down-to-earth debut feature. In person: Pablo Cerda.
*AUG 15, 6:30PM; AUG 16, 4:00PM; AUG 22, 8:45PM (Pablo Cerda will not be attending the 22nd)
** SAMUEL
Cesar Lucena, Venezuela, 2011, 35mm; 75m
An exponent of the Venezuelan “Atom Cinema” manifesto, this stunningly beautiful portrait of life in the mountains tells the story of Samuel, a gifted healer. Based on the ideas of Edgar Cayce, who investigated hypnosis as a form of diagnosing and curing illnesses.
*AUG 11, 5:00PM; AUG 12, 8:30PM
** SONGS/AS CANÇOES
Eduardo Coutinho, 2012, Brazil; 90m
The power of music made bare by 78 year old master docu filmmaker Coutinho, who interviews 18 people from Rio de Janeiro about their favorite Brazilian song and why it is important to them.
*AUG 10, 9:15PM; AUG 11, 3:00PM
** THURSDAY TILL SUNDAY/DE JUEVES A DOMINGODominga Sotomayor, 2012, Chile, DCP; 96m
In a tightly packed car, 12-year-old Lucia and her younger brother take off on a family vacation that will prove to be full of pure childhood happiness, but also quietly yet deeply life-altering.
*AUG 12, 1:30PM; AUG 13, 6:30PM
** UNFINISHED SPACES
Alysa Nahmias & Benjamin Murray, 2011, USA; 86m
In 1961 Fidel Castro and Che commission a group of national art schools. Over the next fifty years a unique convoluted epic of contrasts enveloped the five resulting buildings. Now rediscovered, they are major markers in the history of alternative architecture and the political climate of Cuba in the second half of the twentieth century. (Howard Feinstein). In person: Alysa Nahmias and Benjamin Murray.
*AUG 11, 7:00PM; AUG 13, 8:35PM
** VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN/VIOLETA SE FUE A LOS CIELOSAndrés Wood, 2011, Chile/Argentina/Brazil/Spain; 110m
The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Chile’s official Oscar entry. *AUG 17, 9:00PM; AUG 18, 12:30PM
** PANEL DISCUSSION!
NEW MEXICAN CINEMA
Co-presented by Cinema Tropical
Join us for a conversation about recent trends in Mexican filmmaking with Matias Meyer (The Last Christeros), Michel Lipkes (Malaventura) and Kyzza Terrazas (Machete Language). Moderated by Carlos Gutierrez (Cinema Tropical). Special thanks to the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
*AUG 16, 6:30PM (Location: Furman Gallery)
NEW MEXICAN CINEMA
Co-presented by Cinema Tropical
Join us for a conversation about recent trends in Mexican filmmaking with Matias Meyer (The Last Christeros), Michel Lipkes (Malaventura) and Kyzza Terrazas (Machete Language). Moderated by Carlos Gutierrez (Cinema Tropical). Special thanks to the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
*AUG 16, 6:30PM (Location: Furman Gallery)
In addition to the many U.S. Premieres and New York premieres, Latinbeat will host several in-person appearances including: Damian Alcazar, Pablo Cerda, Michel Lipkes, Blas Eloy Martinez, Kenya Marquez, Matias Meyer, Benjamin Murray, Alysa Nahmias, Jaime Roos and Kyzza Terrazas.
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Gustavo Taretto’s great romantic comedy Sidewalls (MEDIANERAS -foto) made its East Coast Premiere as Latinbeat’s Opening Night selection. A well done film with excellent acting, Sidewalls is a tale of modern life, modern alienation in the big city and human resourcefulness to make the best out of it. A crowd-pleasing hit at the Berlin Film Festival, Taretto’s feature film debut pays homage to Buenos Aires as it follows two people navigating through a sea of personal phobias as they (hopefully) head toward their eventual meeting and happy romantic destiny.
The US premieres films include Lais Bodanzky’s The Best Things in the World; Tristan Bauer’s Che, A New Man; Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s Querida Voy a Comprar Cigarrillos y Vuelvo; and Marta Ferrer’s El Varal.
This year’s program also features two special screenings with live musical accompaniment: The Stoessel Expedition, a 1928 film of a remarkable journey in car from Buenos Aires to New York and Mojica Marin’s cult horror classic This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse.
Here is a brief description of all the films participating in this year's LatinBeat. For more info >> LATINBEAT
ACORAZADO (2010, 97min)
Director: Alvaro Curiel
Country: Mexico/Cuba
Curiel’s hilarious debut tells the story of Veracruz native Silveiro, whose buddies help him hatch an unusual emigration plan: turning his old taxi into an improvised raft.
ACORAZADO screens Thursday, August 11 at 4:45PM; and Friday, August 12 at 7:00PM.
ALL YOUR DEAD ONES (Todos tus muertos) (2011, 88min)
Director: Carlos Moreno
Country: Colombia
When a Colombian farmer stumbles upon a pile of corpses, he finds that the officials have other priorities in this searing attack on a culture of corruption, poverty, and violence. ALL YOUR DEAD ONES is a Shoreline Films release.
ALL YOUR DEAD ONES screens Saturday, August 20 at 2:45PM; Sunday, August 21 at 9:30PM; and Monday, August 22 at 6:30PM.
THE BEST THINGS IN THE WORLD (As Melhores Coisas do Mundo)
(2010, 100min)
(2010, 100min)
Director: Lais Bodanzky
Country: Brazil
In this sweet, funny coming-of-age tale set in Sao Paolo (with a great soundtrack), a 15-year-old boy’s carefree life is complicated by a shocking revelation. The film is an Intra Movies release.
THE BEST THINGS IN THE WORLD screens Thursday, August 18 at 4:30PM; Saturday, August 20 at 9:30PM; and Tuesday, August 23 at 9:00PM.
BROTHER (Hermano) (2010, 96min)
Director: Marcel Rasquin
Country: Venezuela
Two futbol-playing brothers have their love and loyalty put to the test when a scout invites them to try out with the best team in Caracas in this inspiring family drama. BROTHER is a Musicbox Films release.
BROTHER screens Friday, August 12 at 5:00PM; Saturday, August 13 at 2:40PM; and Sunday, August 14 at 8:45PM.
***Special Filmmaker Panel Presentation***
Central American Cinema Today
Co-presented with Casa Clementina and Cinema Tropical
Sponsored by New York Women in Film and Television
Latin Beat filmmakers will discuss innovative forms of local film production.
Central American Cinema Today is free with ticket to the 1:00PM screening of MARIMBAS FROM HELL.
The Central American Cinema Today panel takes place Sunday, August 14 at 11:00AM.
CHE, A NEW MAN (Che, un hombre nuevo) (2010, 94min)
Director: Tristan Bauer
Country: Argentina
Twelve years in the making, Bauer’s intimate look at the larger-than-life Che Guevara demonstrates both his ideals and his passion, with never-before-seen private documents and recordings. CHE, A NEW MAN is a Match Factory release.
CHE, A NEW MAN screens Wednesday, August 10 at 4:30PM and 9:30PM; and Sunday, August 14 at 6:40PM.
COUNTRY MUSIC (Musica campesina) (2011, 100min)
Director: Alberto Fuguet
Country: Chile/U.S.
A Chilean man who loves country music roams through Nashville in this fresh take on immigrant stories, laced with funny dialogue and boasting a terrific soundtrack.
COUNTRY MUSIC screens Friday, August 19 at 6:30PM; Sunday, August 21 at 3:00PM; and Monday, August 22 at 4:15PM. (Alberto Fuguet will participate in Q&As following each screening.)
THE DEATH OF PINOCHET (La muerte de Pinochet) (2011, 70min)
Directors: Bettina Perut & Ivan Osnovikoff
Country: Chile
A raw yet intimate look at Chilean history, this provocative documentary takes to the streets on the day of Pinochet’s death, capturing intensely divided reactions.
THE DEATH OF PINOCHET screens Sunday, August 14 at 3:00PM; and August, 17 at 7:00PM. (Directors Bettina Perut and Ivan Osnovikoff will participate in Q&As following each screening.)
JEAN GENTIL (2010, 84min)
Directors: Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas
Country: Mexico/Dominican Republic/Haiti
This poignant tale vividly captures the day-to-day life of an educated Haitian immigrant as he travels through the Dominican Republic in search of work and a meaning to his life.
JEAN GENTIL screens Saturday, August 13 at 4:45PM and Monday, August 15 at 4:15PM.
THE LIFE OF FISH (La vida de los peces) (2010, 84min)
Director: Matias Bize
Country: Chile
Returning to Chile after 11 years abroad, an expat writer meets old friends and is forced to confront his past in this insightful, emotionally intense love story.
THE LIFE OF FISH screens Friday, August 12 at 9:15PM, and Tuesday, August 16 at 6:30PM. (Matias Bize will participate in Q&As following each screening.)
LITTLE VOICES (Pequeñas voces) (2010, 75min)
Director: Jairo Carrillo
Country: Colombia
Beautifully animating their drawings, this extraordinary 3D documentary depicts the lives of displaced Colombian children who have grown up amidst guerrilla fighting. The film is a Films Boutique release.
LITTLE VOICES screens Wednesday, August 24 at 6:30PM.
LONG DISTANCE (Larga distancia) (2010, 93min)
Director: Esteban Insausti
Country: Cuba
Insausti explores the dramatic emotional impact of the mass exodus of Cubans to the US through the story of a woman who finds that she has lost all of her friends to this crisis.
Co-presented with The New England Festival of Ibero American Cinema. LONG DISTANCE screens Saturday, August 13 at 6:35PM; Tuesday, August 16 at 8:45PM; and Wednesday, August 17 at 5:00PM. (Esteban Insausti and the film’s stars, Alexis Diaz de Villegas, Anna Biu and Zulema Clares will attend and participate in Q&As following each screening).
MARIMBAS FROM HELL (Marimbas del infierno) (2010, 75min)
Director: Julio Hernández Cordón
Country: Guatemala/Mexico/France
This funny and moving story of an improbable artistic collaboration—between a homeless marimba player and a pioneer of Guatemalan heavy metal music—straddles documentary and fiction. The film is a FiGA Films release.
MARIMBAS FROM HELL screens Sunday, August 14 at 1:00PM; Monday, August 15 at 9:00PM; and Tuesday, August 16 at 4:45PM. (Julio Hernandez Cordon and producer Pamela Guinea will attend and participate in Q&As following each screening.)
MOUNT BAYO (Cerro Bayo) (2010, 86min)
Director: Victoria Galardi
Country: Argentina
On the cusp of ski season, a peaceful Patagonian village is tested by an incident that divides a local family, in Galardi’s funny and gentle dramatic comedy.
MOUNT BAYO screens Saturday, August 20 at 7:15PM; Monday, August 22 at 8:30PM; and Tuesday, August 23 at 5:00PM. (Victoria Galardi will attend and participate in Q&As following each screening.)
NORBERTO’S DEADLINE (Norberto apenas tarde) (2010, 89min)
Director: Daniel Hendler
Country: Uruguay
When a young man joins a theater group—following his boss’s orders—his life starts to change, in this tender and offbeat tale of personal reinvention. NORBERTO’S DEADLINE is an Outsider Pictures release.
NORBERTO’S DEADLINE screens Friday, August 19 at 4:30PM; Sunday, August 21 at 1:00PM; and Tuesday, August 23 at 7:00PM.
NO RETURN (Sin retorno) (2010, 100min)
Director: Marcelo Cohan
Country: Argentina
An intense, perfectly calibrated thriller with a twist ending, Cohan’s debut feature also engages sensitive issues of ethics and justice that will make spectators squirm in their seats. Starring Federico Luppi and Leonardo Sbaraglia. NO RETURN is a Latido Films release.
NO RETURN screens Friday, August 19 at 9:00PM and Wednesday, August 24 at 8:35PM.
QUERIDA VOY A COMPRAR CIGARRILLOS Y VUELVO (2011, 80min)
Directors: Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat
Country: Argentina
In this black comedy, a mediocre real estate agent enters a Faustian deal with a stranger who has superpowers. With great performances by Eusebio Poncela and Emilio Disi.
QUERIDA VOY A COMPRAR CIGARRILLOS Y VUELVO screens Wednesday, August 17 at 5:00PM; Sunday, August 21 at 7:30PM; and Wednesday, August 24 at 4:30PM.
***OPENING NIGHT PRESENTATION***
SIDEWALLS (Medianeras) (2011, 96min)
Director: Gustavo Taretto
Country: Argentina/Germany/Spain
Taretto’s clever romantic comedy pays homage to Buenos Aires as it follows two lonely souls who live on the same block but have somehow never met. SIDEWALLS is a Sundance Selects release.
SIDEWALLS screens Wednesday, Aug 10 at 7:00PM (with Gustavo Taretto, the film’s star, Pilar Lopez De Ayala and composer Gabriel Chwojnik in attendance); Thursday, August 11 at 7:00PM; and Saturday, August 13 at 9:10PM.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT (Zona Sur) (2009, 109min)
Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia
Country: Bolivia
Valdivia's stylish, class-conscious feature envelops viewers in the insular world of an upper-crust Bolivian family in decline, through the eyes of two Aymara Indians who serve them. The film is a Shoreline Films release.
SOUTHERN DISTRICT screens Thursday, August 18 at 9:00PM and Saturday, August 20 at 12:30PM.
THE STOESSEL EXPEDITION (Expedición Argentina Stoessel: Raid Buenos Aires-Nueva York-1928) (1928, 60min)
Director: Adán & Andrés Stoessel
Country: Argentina
In 1928, two brothers began a two-year automotive journey from Buenos Aires all the way to New York, capturing their wide-ranging expedition on film. Copy restored by the Fundacion Cinemateca Argentina in cooperation with The Library of Congress of the United States.
The screening features live musical accompaniment by original score composer, Donald Sosin.
SCREENING WITH
FOR THE FIRST TIME (Por primera vez) (1965, 10min)
Director: Octavio Cortazar
Country: Cuba
The landmark Cuban documentary captures the reactions of isolated Cuban villagers to seeing films for the first time.
THE STOESSEL EXPEDITION/FOR THE FIRST TIME screens Sunday, August 21 at 5:45PM.
THIS NIGHT I’LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE (Esta Noite Encarnarei no teu Cadáver) (1967, 108min)
Director: Jose Mojica Marins
Country: Brazil
Springing from the margins of Brazilian culture like a long-suppressed nightmare, Brazilian terror icon Coffin Joe returns, bent on his quest to father the perfect child.
The screening features live solo guitar accompaniment by composer Gary Lucas.
THIS NIGHT I’LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE screens Thursday, August 11 at 9:30PM.
EL VARAL (2009, 75min)
Director: Marta Ferrer
Country: Mexico
Ferrer’s rueful documentary contrasts the fanfare of a village’s patron saint day with the post-celebration calm, haunted by the absence of families who have emigrated to the U.S.
EL VARAL screens Saturday, August 13 at 1:00PM and Sunday, August 14 at 5:00PM.
THE WATER AT THE END OF THE WORLD (El agua del fin del mundo) (2101, 85min)
Director: Paula Siero
Country: Argentina
Siero’s warm, intensely honest, and humane story of the real emotions between two sisters - one terminally ill, as they journey to the tip of South America. The film is an Outsider Pictures release.
THE WATER AT THE END OF THE WORLD screens Thursday, August 18 at 6:45PM and Saturday, August 20 at 5:00PM. (Paula Siero wll attend and participate in Q&As following each screening.)
FOTO: SIDEWALLS. Credit: Film Society of Lincoln Center
