Archive 2009
Vistas Latinas - Programme
Corazón del Tiempo (Heart of Time)Director: Alberto Cortés, MEX 2009, 90 min, DVCam, colour, ES
Actors: Rocío Barrios, Francisco Jiménez, Marisela Rodríguez
A bride entering into an arranged marriage against the backdrop of the Zapatista struggle in the mountains of Chiapas in Mexico falls for one of the insurgents in director Alberto Cortés' politicized romantic drama. Sonia's decision entails consequences for the entire community...
Dioses (Gods)
Director: Josué Méndez, PE/RA/F/D 2008, 91 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Maricielo Effio, Sergio Gjurinovic, Edgar Saba
Diego is sexually inexperienced and in love with sister Andrea who does not take love and sex too seriously. They live in a beautiful house in Peru and belong to the social upper class. Father Augustin brings home his new much younger girlfriend. There is no escape from the senselessness of their decadent life. The film has won many international prizes.
El regalo de la Pachamama (The Gift of Pachamama)
Director: Toshifumi Matsushita, BOL 2008, 104 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Francisco Gutierrez, Christian Huaygua, Luis Mamani
A wonderfully filmed docu-drama from Bolivia. There 13-year-old Kunturi lives a traditional life with his family at the salt lake Uyuni. The technical changes of modern times inexorably threaten their former existence. And then there is the encounter with Ulala, the most beautiful girl in the world...
El Nido Vacío (Empty nest)
Director: Daniel Burman, RA 2008, 92 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Oscar Martinez, Cecilia Roth, Arturo Goetz
When their last child marries and leaves home, a middle-aged couple suddenly finds itself alone for the first time in years. While the husband tackles the empty-nest syndrome with vivid fantasies, his wife throws herself into a whirlwind of activities and turmoil arises.
La Milagrosa (The Miraculous)
Director: Rafael Lara, CO 2008, 106 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Carlos Duplat, Montserrat Espadalé, Álvaro García
Eduardo, a young upper-class Colombian, is on a road trip, when he is kid-napped by a guerrilla group and held for ransom. Traumatized by the armed dashes and unbearable ventures in the jungle, Eduardo's outlook on life and his relationship with his country undergoes a radical transformation.
La Nana (The Maid)
Director: Sebastián Silva, RCH/MEX 2009, 115 min, 35mm, colour, ES
Actors: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Alejandro Goic
Raquel has worked for 23 years for the Valdes family, torn between her status as maid and her illusion of belonging to the family. A private life, contacts to her own family or other friendships have long ago ceased to exist. Raquel does not like this at all, and she tries desperately to get rid of her supposed competitors. Only Lucy, the last in a line of new house maids, is successful in breaking through Raquel’s stubbornness. Catalina Saavedra convinces as a wonderfully bitchy Raquel. LA NANA received the World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival 2009.
Sin Nombre
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga, MEX/USA 2008, 95 min, 35mm, colour, GS
Actors: Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan
Violence is part of the everyday life of the gang Mara Salvatrucha and Caspar is part of it. When everything starts happening very fast destiny brings him together with Sayra. A trip into Mexico’s dark side prduced by Mexico’s superstars Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.