Highlights from the festival include the Oscar-nominated films A Better Life (Best Actor nomination for Demian Bichir) and the animated feature Chico Y Rita (Chico and Rita). Pedro Almodovar's latest dark thriller La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live In) will screen, as will the Sundance Film Festival selection Joven y alocada (Young and Wild) about a young woman's awakening sexuality.
The documentaries being co-presented with Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal are José y Pilar (José and Pilar) about the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and his wife, and Yatasto which profiles young recyclables collectors.
The closing night film will be the world premiere of L'Incrédule, which will screen with the director Federico Hidalgo in attendance.
The Festival du Cinéma Latino-américain de Montréal continues until April 22 at the Cinéma du Parc, 3575, av. du Parc.
http://www.fclm.ca/
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The 3rd Festival Du Cinéma Latino-Américain De Montréal
April 6th - 22nd
From the 6th to the 22nd of April 2012, Cinéma du Parc will host the best talents from Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese cinema.
Come watch our Oscar-nominated and multiple-awarded films in our Official Selection category, the highest-grossing comedies and popular films in our Box Office section; our innovative and daring Novo Cinema line-up; classics and premieres in our Special Presentation section and the best Documentaries in español.
Bienvenidos a Latinoamérica!
OFFICIAL SELECTION
ABRIR PUERTAS Y VENTANAS / BACK TO STAY
Saturday, April 14th, 9 pm / Tuesday, April 17th, 9 pm / Thursday April 19th , 9 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Milagros Mumenthaler. 35mm. 99 min. With María Canale, Martina Juncadella, Ailín Salas, Julían Tello.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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A triple prizewinner at Locarno, Milagros Mumenthaler’s story of three sisters coping with the death of their grandmother offers an original take on the coming of age tale. It is both a striking, exquisitely performed film about growing up and a salient study of loss.
LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – GOLDEN LEOPARD BEST FILM, BEST ACTRESS
FIPRESCI AWARD - BEST FILM
GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONA FILM FESTIVAL 2011- BEST IBEROAMERICAN FILM
EL ESTUDIANTE / THE STUDENT
Saturday, April 7th, 7:15 pm / Friday, April 13th, 7 pm / Friday April 20th 9 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Santiago Mitre. 110 min. Digital projection. With: Esteban Lamothe, Romina Paula, Ricardo Felix, Valeria Correa.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Politics is a seductive game and a vicious cycle in Santiago Mitre’s gripping, fine-tuned debut. Roque is a university student who falls for a radical teacher and organizer, and soon finds himself entangled with Buenos Aires campus activists, in a world as heated and byzantine as the one inhabited by the student revolutionaries of the mythical 1960s. This fascinating film is a must.
“One of the best Argentinean films (of 2011)...”
-THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
FIPRESCI 2011 – BEST ARGENTINE FILM
FESTIVAL DEL FILM LOCARNO 2011 –JURY PRIZE – CONCORSO CINEASTIE DEL PRESENTE
BAFICI 2011 – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION – JURY PRIZE
EL GATO DESAPARECE / THE CAT VANISHES
Sunday, April 8th, 7:15 pm / Tuesday, April 10th, 7 pm / Thursday, April 12th 7:15 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Carlos Sorin. 90 min. Digital projection. With: Beatriz Spelzini, Luis Luque, Norma Argentina, María Abadi.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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This is a very special morning for Beatriz, as she is bringing her husband Luis home from the hospital after he spent several months there recovering from a nervous breakdown. However, she feels conflicted: though she is happy to have the man with whom she shared her life for 25 years back home, Beatriz also worries that he is no longer the same person and will go through yet another gloomy episode. A smart, dark comedy from the acclaimed director of Historias Minimas, Carlos Sorin.
ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF ARGENTINA 2011 – NOMINATED – BEST DIRECTOR, BEST SCREENPLAY
MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL 2012 (IBEROAMERICAN COMPETITION) – NOMINATED – GRAND JURY PRIZE
MEDIANERAS / SIDEWALLS
Friday, April 6th, 7 pm / Saturday, April 7th, 9:15 pm / Saturday, April 14th 5:15 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Gustavo Taretto. 95 min. Digital projection. With: Pilar López de Ayala, Javier Drolas.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Sidewalls is a clever romantic comedy that examines how a city’s architecture conditions the lives of two of its residents. Taretto pays homage to Buenos Aires as he reflects on how urban chaos and new technologies unite people while still keeping them apart, as the film’s title indicates. Mixing animation, photography and graphic art, the characters' isolation and anxieties are revealed as a staple of modern life in a noisy city that nonetheless has an irresistible charm.
“... fresh and immensely likable.”- VARIETY
ROMPECABEZAS / PUZZLE
Monday, April 9th, 9:15 pm / Sunday, April 15th, 7:15 pm / Wednesday, April 18th 7 pm
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Argentina. 2010. Dir.: Natalia Smirnoff. 88 min. Digital Projection. With: María Onetto, Gabriel Goity, Arturo Goetz.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Chance is a dangerous game, which can entail great tragedies or life-changing discoveries. On her 50th birthday, María del Carmen, a housewife, is given a puzzle. She discovers a new passion and a gift. What no one suspects is that this seemingly inoffensive gift holds the key to a whole new world for her.
BERLINALE 2010 – WORLD PREMIERE
ARGENTINEAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS 2011 – BEST FIRST WORK
TROPA DE ELITE 2 / ELITE SQUAD 2: THE ENEMY WITHIN
Monday, April 12th , 9 pm (FST) / Saturday, April 14th , 9:15 pm (FST)
Thursday, April 19th 9:15 pm (EST) / Saturday, April 21st 9:15 pm (EST)
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Brazil. 2011. Dir.: José Padilha. 114 min. 35mm and Digital Projection. With: Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro.
Original Portuguese version with English or French subtitles depending on the day and the time of the showing.
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Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora e Outro) is both the sequel to the Brazilian 2007 thriller and the biggest ever box office hit in its native country. Set 13 years later, the film once again stars Wagner Moura as Lt Col Nascimento, now a high-ranking officer for government intelligence. He is swept into a bloody political dispute after a prison confrontation between rioters and his paramilitary BOPE squad goes terribly wrong.
CINEMA BRAZIL GRAND PRIZE – BEST FILM, BEST ACTOR, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Co-presented with the Brazil Film Fest of Montreal
BONSAI
Friday, April 6th, 9 pm (FST) / Thursday, April 12th 7:00 pm (EST)
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Chile. 2011. Dir.: Cristián Jiménez. 95 min. Digital projection. With: Natalia Diego Noguera, Gabriela Galgani.
Original Spanish version with English or French subtitles depending on the day and the time of the showing.
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Based on the much-lauded novel by Alejandro Zambra, Bonsai is a charming film celebrating love, literature and botany. It portrays a struggling writer, who, in order to keep up with a lie that he told his current lover, finds himself writing a book about his very first experience with love. Nostalgic and moving, Cristian Jiménez captures the essence of first love and the loss of innocence that occurs when it disappears.
CANNES PREMIERE – UN CERTAIN REGARD CATEGORY
JOVEN Y ALOCADA / YOUNG AND WILD
Thursday, April 19th 7 pm / Saturday, April 21st 7:15 pm
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Chile. 2011. Dir.: Marialy Rivas. 100 min. Digital projection. With: Alicia Rodríguez, Aline Küppenheim and María Gracia Omegna.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Daniela, a 17-year-old girl, may be quiet and elegant, but her thoughts are pretty wild and revolve mostly around sex and her need for self-fulfillment. She writes extensively about her longings and needs on her blog. After she is expelled from school for sleeping with a boy, her mother starts to see her as a disgrace for her devout Protestant family. But Daniela is not prepared to wait any longer for tenderness and sexual pleasure...
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2012 – WORLD CINEMA SCREENWRITING AWARD.
BERLIN – GENERATION 2012
LOS COLORES DE LA MONTAÑA / LES COULEURS DE LA MONTAGNE
Saturday, April 7th, 9:30 pm / Friday, April 13th, 7:15 pm / Thursday, April 19th 7:15 pm
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Colombia. 2010. Dir.: Carlos César Arbelá. 90 min. Digital projection. With: Hernán Mauricio Ocampo, Nolberto Sánchez, Genaro Aristizábal.
Original Spanish version with French subtitles.
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The Colors of the Mountain is a modern-day portrayal of daily life in a remote part of the mountainous Colombian countryside. It revolves around the relationship between Manuel and Julián, two best friends. One day, while playing a game of football, they kick the ball into a minefield. Accompanied by Poca Luz, they do everything in their power to recover their prized belonging, an essential part of their everyday lives and of their dreams.
“Breathtakingly scenic… nimbly captures the pleasures and pains of childhood bonds.”
–THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Moving, funny, poignant and insightful… a powerful debut!”
–SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – NEW DIRECTORS’ PRIZE
CARTAGENA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – AUDIENCE AWARD (BEST FILM)
SILENCIO EN EL PARAISO / TICKET TO PARADISE
Friday, April 6th, 9:15 pm / Monday, April 9th, 9:15 pm
Wednesday, April 18th 9 pm / Friday, April 20th 7:15 pm
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Colombia. 2012. Dir.: Colbert García. 88 min. 35mm. With: Francisco Bolivar, Linda Baldrich, Esmeraldo Pinzón.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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A teenage love story is the fictional plot device in Ticket to Paradise, about the all-too-real phenomenon of the ‘’false positives’’ – the euphemism used to describe army killings of young civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties.
CHICO Y RITA / CHICO AND RITA
Sunday, April 8th, 9:15 pm (FST) / Saturday, April 14th, 5 pm (FST)
Saturday, April 21st, 7 pm (EST)
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Cuba-Spain. 2010. Dir.: Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba. 94 min. Animation. Digital projection. With the voices of: Eman Xor Oña, Limara Meneses, Mario Guerra.
Original Spanish version with English or French subtitles depending on the day of the showing
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Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and love.
“… a visually hypnotic, musically electric film…”
-HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
OSCARS 2012 – NOMINATED FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
BEST ANIMATED FILM – GAUDI AWARDS 2012, EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2011, GOYA AWARDS 2011
AMADOR
Sunday, April 8th , 4:45 pm / Sunday, April 15th , 9:15 pm
Tuesday, April 17th , 9:15 pm / Sunday, April 22nd , 9:15 pm
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Spain. 2011. Dir.: Fernando Leon de Aranoa. 112 min. Digital projection. With: Magaly Solier, Celso Bugallo.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Marcela, a young immigrant with financial troubles, gets a summer job looking after Amador, a bed-ridden elderly man whose family is away. The two strangers quickly develop a friendship and begin to share their secrets with one another. This chance encounter could help Marcela pull herself together, but an unexpected event puts her face to face with a heavy moral dilemma: to act out of necessity or conscientiously...
GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – BEST DIRECTOR (IBEROAMERICAN FEATURE), BEST ACTRESS (IBEROAMERICAN FEATURE)
“Well crafted and thoughtful. Successfully (...) blending black comedy, lyricism and social critique.”
–VARIETY
EL LENGUAJE DE LOS MACHETES / MACHETE LANGUAGE
Friday, April 6th, 7:15 pm / Wednesday, April 11th, 7:15 pm
Wednesday, April 18th, 7:15 pm
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Mexico. 2011. Dir.: Kyzza Terrazas. 85 min. Digital projection. With: Jessy Bulbo, Andrés Almeida, Flor Eduarda Gurrola.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Ray and Ramona form a young couple and hate the social injustices that surround them. Each cultivating their respective niche - Ramona as a musician, Ray as an activist – they try to fight for a world that is fair and equal. Devoted to self-sabotage, Ray fails in his rebellion and drags Ramona into a downward spiral that culminates in an act of poetic terrorism.
CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – NOMINATED – BEST DIRECTOR
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – WORLD PREMIERE
SOMOS LOS QUE HAY / WE ARE WHAT WE ARE
Tuesday, April 10th, 7:15 pm / Friday, April 13th, 9 pm
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Mexico. 2010. Dir.: Jorge Michel Grau. 89 min. Digital projection. With: Adrián Aguirre, Miriam Balderas, Francisco Barreiro.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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A father dies, leaving his family destitute. Devastated, they are confronted with the daily challenges of survival, which is even more complicated for them as they are cannibals. Having relied on their father to provide the human flesh consumed in bloody ritual ceremonies, the daunting task falls upon the eldest son, Alfredo, a teen misfit who is far from ready to accept the responsibility. Shocking, bloody and deeply moving, We Are What We Are is a remarkable reinvention of the horror genre — a visceral and powerfully emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible secret hunger and driven by monstrous appetites.
“We Are What We Are is a darkly comic social allegory as well as an atmospheric little genre flick.”
-VILLAGE VOICE
“Does for cannibals what Let The Right One In did for vampires.”
-THE TIMES
CANNES 2010 - DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
FANTASTIC FEST 2010 – BEST FILM
Co-presented with Fantasia Film Fest
BOX OFFICE
CERRO BAYO
Sunday, April 8th , 5 pm /Thursday April 12th, 9:15 pm
Sunday, April 15th , 9:15 pm / Monday, April 16th , 7:15 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Victoria Galardi. 86 min. Digital projection. With: Adriana Barraza, Verónica Llinás, Inés Efron, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Life in quiet Patagonia is disrupted when Juana Keller, matriarch of a peculiar family, tries to commit suicide. As she lies in a coma, the lives of her daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren profoundly change, bringing out the best and the worst in each of them. A touching and quirky comedy that’s sure to please.
SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL – OFFICIAL SELECTION
MI PRIMERA BODA / MY FIRST WEDDING
Monday, April 9th , 7 pm / Friday, April 13th , 9:15 pm
Saturday, April 14th , 7:15 pm / Saturday, April 21st, 9 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Ariel Winograd. 102 min. Digital Projection. With: Natalia Oreiro, Daniel Hendler, Imanol Arias.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Non-practicing Jew Adrián Hershell is about to marry non-practicing Catholic Leonora Bellami. Unfortunately, the groom isn’t entirely ready to give up his freedom just yet. A day of chaos ensues as he attempts to postpone the ceremony without upsetting both families.
BIGGEST BOX OFFICE SUCCESS IN ARGENTINA
VIUDAS / WIDOWS
Sunday April 8th, 9 pm / Wednesday April 11th, 9 pm
Wednesday April 18th, 9:15 pm / Friday April 20th, 7 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Marcos Carnevale. 100 min. Digital projection. With: Graciela Borges, Valeria Bertuccelli.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Elena’s husband is on his deathbed, and reveals his dying wish to her: to look after his mistress, Adela, whose existence she was unaware of until then. The director of Elsa y Fred strikes again with a touching story about an unusual living arrangement between two women with incredible character.
ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF ARGENTINA – NOMINATED – BEST ACTRESS (GRACIELA VORGES, VALERIA BERTUCCELLI), BEST NEW ACTOR
QUE PENA TU BODA / FUCK MY WEDDING
Sunday, April 8th , 7 pm / Wednesday, April 11th , 7 pm
Tuesday, April 17th , 7:15 pm / Friday, April 20th, 9:15 pm
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Chile. 2011. Dir.: Nicolas Lopez. 100 min. Digital projection. With: Ariel Levy, Andrea Velasco.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Que Pena Tu Boda is that rare Chilean homegrown romantic comedy that reminds us that not all is grim and dark in Chilean cinema. It tells the story of Javier, a thirty-year-old publicist dating his lifelong friend Ángela, until temptation and misunderstanding challenge their love. Do not miss the sequel to last year’s smash rom-com hit, Que Pena Tu Vida (F*** My Life), part of FCLM’s 2011 programming.
LA PIEL QUE HABITO / THE SKIN I LIVE IN
Saturday, April 7th, 5 pm (FST) / Sunday, April 15th, 5:15 pm (FST)
Sunday, April 22nd, 4:45 pm (EST)
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Spain. 2011. Dir. : Pedro Almodovar. Digital Projection. 117 min. With : Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya.
Original Spanish version with English or French subtitles depending on the day and the time of the showing.
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In honor of his late wife who died in a flaming car accident, scientist Dr. Robert Ledgard is trying to synthesize the perfect skin, which can withstand burns, cuts and any other kind of damage. As he gets closer to perfecting this skin on his flawless patient, the scientific community starts growing skeptical and his past is revealed, showing how his patient is closely linked to tragic events he would like to forget.
A BETTER LIFE
Monday, April 16th, 9 pm
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United States. 2011. Dir. : Chris Weitz. Digital Projection. 98 min. With : Demian Bichir, José Julian.
Original English and Spanish version with English subtitles
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Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the United States. He starts by getting a job as a landscaper for wealthy landowners in the city of Los Angeles, but when his wife leaves him, wanting more than he can give, Carlos’ only goal becomes to make sure his son Luis is given the opportunities he never had.
ACORAZADO
Saturday April 7th, 7:30 pm / Tuesday, April 10th , 9 pm
Saturday, April 14th , 7 pm / Sunday, April 15th , 7:30 pm
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Mexico. 2011. Dir.: Alvaro Curiel. 97 min. Digital projection. With: Marius Biegai, Camilla Natta, Silverio Palacios.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Curiel´s film debut tells the hilarious story of Silveiro, a failed Mexican trade unionist from Veracruz who decides to do what no one he knows has ever been able to do: enter the United States and live there “legally.” His buddies help him draft the most unusual plan and after turning his old taxi-cab into an improvised raft (which he names “El Acorazado Jarocho” or “The Veracruzan Battleship”) he sets sail towards Miami but, to his surprise, ends up in La Havana, Cuba.
PROMETEO DEPORTADO
Tuesday, April 10th, 9:15 pm / Monday, April 16th, 7 pm
Saturday, April 21st, 4:45 pm
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Ecuador. 2009. Dir.: Fernando Mieles. 112 min. Digital projection. With: Peki Andino.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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In the airport of a highly developed country, a flight lands from Ecuador. Members of the European Union pass by without any problem, while the ‘others’ have to wait. A group of Ecuadorians is arrested and taken to a room where they wait to be deported. It seems like everyone’s hiding something, especially Prometeo, the young magician who has a magical trunk as luggage. Illusion seems to be the only promising way out.
MORELIA FILM FESTIVAL – AUDIENCE AWARD
EL GUACHIMAN
Monday, April 9th , 5 pm / Wednesday, April 11th , 9:15 pm
Sunday, April 15th , 5 pm / Saturday, April 21st , 5 pm
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Peru. 2011. Dir.: Gastón Vizcarra. 86 min. Digital projection. With: Anahi de Cardenas.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Alejandrino is madly in love with Lupita, but she isn’t quite so sure. He gets a job as a security guard known as a “Guachiman” to make her happy but it isn’t enough for her. Desperate to make more money, he plans a heist, and as things don’t go quite according to plan, his world is changed forever.
BIGGEST BOX OFFICE SUCCESS IN PERU
EL INCA, LA BOBA Y EL HIJO DEL LADRON
/ THE INCA, THE SILLY GIRL AND THE SON OF THE THIEF
Saturday, April 7th, 5:15 pm / Monday, April 9th, 7:15 pm
Tuesday, April 17th, 7 pm
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Peru. 2011. Dir.: Ronnie Temoche. 104 min. Digital projection. With: Peki Andino.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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A wrestler who is in search of a place to live his last few years, a waitress who dreams of living an idyllic romance, and a young man who has been dishonored by his father’s deeds and crimes all cross paths in their struggle to achieve their dreams.
TROPA DE ELITE 1
Saturday, April 7th, 3 pm (STF) / Monday, April 9th, 4:45 pm (EST)
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Brazil. 2007. Dir.: José Padilha. Digital projection. 115 min. With Wagner Moura.
Original Spanish version with English or French subtitles depending on the day of the showing
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Elite Squad is an action-packed thriller that follows an elite police battalion (BOPE) that has been appointed to clean up a drug-ridden Rio de Janeiro slum before the Pope’s 1997 visit. The team of trained killers struggles to do what’s right in a corrupt system and in a dangerous neighborhood.
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008 GOLDEN BERLIN BEAR
DOCUMENTARIES
JOSÉ Y PILAR / JOSÉ AND PILAR
Monday, April 9th, 2:30 pm / Sunday, April 22nd, 7 pm
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Portugal. 2009. Dir.: Miguel Goncalves Mendes. 128 min. Digital projection. With: José Saramago, Pilar del Rio, Gael Garcia Bernal
Original Portuguese version with English subtitles
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This high-profile documentary, Portugal’s entry for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, chronicles the life of the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist José Saramago through his day-to-day life and his relationship to his beloved, strong-willed wife, Spanish journalist Pilar del Rio.
“A witty, multilayered and often moving portrait of an odd couple in love.”
-VARIETY
CINEMA BRAZIL GRAND PRIZE – NOMINATED – BEST DOCUMENTARY, BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
SAO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – AUDIENCE AWARD – BEST DOCUMENTARY
Co-presented with Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal
YATASTO
Saturday, April 7th, 3:15 pm / Sunday, April 15th, 3 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Hermes Paralluelo. Digital Projection. 99 min.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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In the suburbs of Córdoba, young “cartoneros” - collectors of cardboard and recyclable materials whose skills are passed on from generation to generation - learn the ropes while dreaming of a better life. From an oft-covered premise in Argentinian cinema — and one that could easily veer into the moralizing and maudlin — filmmaker Hermes Paralluelo achieves a great cinematic work, opting for fixed shots and remaining constantly anchored on the points of view of its characters, young Ricardo, Bebo and Pata.
FND MARSEILLE 2011 SPECIAL MENTION
VIENNALE 2011 FIPRESCI PRIZE
FICUNAM 2012 SILVER PUMA FOR BEST FILM
Co-presented with Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal
NOVO CINEMA
HOY NO TUVE MIEDO / TODAY I FELT NO FEAR
Saturday, April 14th, 2:45 pm
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Argentina. 2011. Dir.: Iván Fund. 122 min. Digital projection. With: Araceli Castellano, Belén Werbach, Marianela Castellano, Lilian Keller, Hugo Fund.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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‘‘Today I felt no fear.” Under this beautiful title, the young Fund (The Lips) made a lyrical film in the rural Argentine town of Crespo about his friends, family and acquaintances, including the crew. It’s a film about the feelings surrounding a sunrise, second-hand clothes, Argentine parties, friendships, families and bonds, including the ones of those making the film.
AITA / FATHER
Saturday, April 14th, 3 pm / Saturday, April 21st, 3 pm
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Spain. 2009. Dir.: José María de Orbe. 85 min. 35mm. With: Luis Pescador, Mikel Goenaga.
Original Catalan version with English subtitles
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An old abandoned home, a security guard looking after the town priest, spaces, sounds, lights and shadows, the passing of time : from the most remote corners of a house, an intimate and collective story is revealed.
“An exquisitely high-art variation on the haunted-house movie.” HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Visually exquisite…” VARIETY
SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2011 – Best Cinematography
MALAVENTURA
Sunday, April 8th, 3:30 pm / Monday, April 16th, 9:15 pm
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Mexico. 2011. Dir.: Michel Lipkes. 66 min. Digital projection.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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On an ordinary day, an old man is walking the streets of Mexico City. Memories revive the man’s guilt, and pain starts to take shape. But he continues on his way, just as life continues its strange and sinuous path.
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
L’INCRÉDULE – CLOSING FILM
WORLD PREMIERE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR
Sunday, April 22nd, 5 pm (STF)
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Canada. 2011. Dir.: Federico Hidalgo. 95 min. With : Marcelo Arroyo, Marcela Pizaro.
Original Spanish version with French subtitles
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Tomas and Sofia have lived in Montreal a long time, but Sofia is feeling nostalgic. One day, they befriend another couple, Luisa and Mariano, recent arrivals who are feeling adrift. In a moment of desperation, Luisa speaks longingly of the Charuflauta, an apparently curative procedure for melancholy. Sofia convinces Tomas they should help Luisa and Mariano launch a local Charuflauta business together. Tomas is skeptical - he’s the only one who can’t remember what a Charuflauta is. Nevertheless, the four starts up an agency dedicated to providing this mysterious service. When their first clients, another couple, call them up and actually request the fabled service, a poignant comedy of errors ensues.
MEMORIAS DEL SUBDESARROLLO / MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT
Sunday, April 8th, 3 pm / Sunday, April 15th, 3:15 pm
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Cuba. 1968. Dir.: Tomàs Gutiérrez Alea. 97 min. Digital Projection.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna.
“One of the 100 greatest movies of all time...” THE GUARDIAN
LOS ULTIMOS CRISTEROS / THE LAST CHRISTEROS
PRESENTED BY HISTORIAN DR. JEAN MEYER AND Q&A WITH THE DIRECTOR
Monday, April 9th, 3 pm
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Mexico-Netherlands. 2011. Dir.: Matias Meyer. 90 min. Digital Projection.
Original Spanish version with English subtitles
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The plot occurs around 1925 in Mexico when the Mexican government decides to severely restrict religious freedoms. It is the story of a few rebels, The Cristeros, who fight for the right to freely and publicly practice their Catholic faith. The movie follows a few of those rebels with their doubts and struggles, and is loosely based on true historical facts.
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – WORLD PREMIERE
PARATY (BRAZIL) FILM FESTIVAL – HONORABLE MENTION
HAVANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – SIGNIS AWARD
ELS NOMS DE CRIST
Film presented free of charge in the hall of the cinema during the whole festival
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Espagne. 2011. Réal.: Albert Serra. 210 min. Projection numérique. Avec: Román Bavarri, Nanu Ferrari, Jordi Spain. 2011. Dir.: Albert Serra. 210 min. Digital Projection. With: Román Bavarri, Nanu Ferrari, Jordi Pau.
Original Catalan version with English subtitles
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Serra freely developped a television series for an exhibition at the MACBA in Barcelona. His series deals with the problems involved in funding ‘difficult’ films and draws parallels between religious asceticism and the creation of art. Inspired by Fray Luis de Leon.
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