meggo Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 if anyone is interested... :: hope to make it out to a few of these if i can! 2005 LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL DU FILM DE L’AMERIQUE LATINE 2005 232-6727 All screenings at 395, rue Wellington Street National Archives Auditorium Archives nationales du canada FREE PARKING CAFÉ EX at Club SAW 67 Nicholas St. The Canadian Film Institute is proud to present the 9th annual Latin American Film festival, featuring the best of contemporary cinema from Latin America. All films are Ottawa premieres! Fri./ven. April 1 avril, 19:00 Brazil MANUAL FOR LOVE STORIES Brazil, 2004, 85 min. Director: José Roberto Torero “A freewheeling Brazilian take on the comedy of romance. Or is it the romance of comedy? This playfully ingenious script, worthy of the madcap twists of Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich), charts the making of a romantic comedy from A to Z. Through a narrator’s ironic guide, audiences are invited to participate in the casting of the main players in the story, how their characters meet, and how they jump through the clichés of romance. Just when you think you’ve got this unique film figured out, it comes up with more and more surprises.” Cinequest Film Festival. English sub-titles. [Marker]Sat./sam. April 2 avril, 19:00 Chile MACHUCA Chile, 2004, 120 min. Director: Andrés Wood Chile, 1973. Gonzalo Infante and Pedro Machucha are two 11-year-old boys from Santiago. Gonzalo’s family lives in a wealthy neighbourhood, while Pedro’s home is in a recently created, illegal shantytown just a few blocks away. There’s a huge invisible wall dividing these two separate worlds, a wall that some people want to break down. One of these hopeful dreamers is Father McEnroe, the headmaster of an elite private school. All seems to be working until the Allende government is besieged. “Richly human in focus, the drama steadily cranks up its political and emotional charge, poignantly viewing its themes through the eyes of two 11-year-old boys.” David Rooney (Variety) English sub-titles. [Marker]Sat./dim. April 2 avril, 21:30 Argentina LOST EMBRACE/El Abrazo Partido Argentina 2004, 100 min. Director: Daniel Burman Ariel is in his twenties and living in Buenos Aires with his mother. Resaerching his family history, he learns of how his Polish grandparents came to Argentina to escape the Holocaust. He also discovers that his father left Argentina to go to Israel the year Ariel was born. No one talks about the absent father, in spite of Ariel's questions. Then, one day, his father arrives in Buenos Aires and Ariel gets to hear the whole story.... Selected for Official Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2004. English sub-titles. Sun./dim. April 3 avril, 19:00 El Salvador EL SALVADOR SHORT FILM PROGRAMME This impressive collection of short film productions from El Salvador includes: CORN HIKERS/Caminantes de maiz (2004, 20 min. Director: Santiago Gutierrez) This is the story of two Salvadoran immigrants: Mauricio and Esteban who decide to go to United States illegally. They make it to Tapachula in the south of Mexico, where in their attempt to jump into a moving, when disaster strikes; MELQUIEDES SHOES/Los Zapatos de Melquiedes (2004, 8 min. Director: David Ulloa) A man resolute to find a job finds more obstacles than expected; THE GIFT/El Regalo La Navidad de los Mora (2005, 17 min. Director: Adrián Hernández) This is the story of the misadventures of a “Tacuacin” named, Tacuache who steals the Christmas presents of a young boy from a typical Salvadorian family in a far away town; and PORTRAITS OF CLEMENTINA (2001, 6 min. Director: Paula Heredia) A celebration of the legacy of the infamous Honduran poet and patron of the arts, Clementina Suarez. English sub-titles. [Marker]Sun. /dim. April 3 avril, 21:00 Honduras ANITA THE INSECT HUNTER / Anita, la cazadora de insectos Honduras 2001, 93 min. Director: Hispano Duron Sometimes it's tough being too smart and attractive. As her younger brother reminisces in voice over, Marcela Flores's Anita does well in school, but then she spots her already short-fused dad with someone else. Ultimately she finds her refuge in tracking bugs, but finally Mom has to intervene in the complicated emotional situation by reaching for that flower pot. Coming of age can be difficult and painful, but also entertaining, in this first ever all-Honduran feature. English sub-titles. [Marker]Mon./lun. April 4 avril, 19:00 Mexico LOVE HURTS/Amar te duele Mexico 2002, 104 min. Director: Fernando Sarinana Teenagers Renata and Ulises search for love and freedom amid class divides, prejudice, peer pressure and urban violence in this moving Romeo-and-Juliet story set in the shopping malls, working-class barrios and wealthy neighbourhoods of Mexico City. Skateboards, graffiti art and a gritty rock en español soundtrack propel this bittersweet love story starring Martha Higareda and Luis Fernando Peña as teenagers who use hopes and dreams to imagine a better world. PARAGUAY Preceded by BURNING OVEN/Horno Ardiente (Paraguay 2002, 12 min. Directors: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori), in which, through the doors of an oven, we look at a married couple submerged in a terrible disagreement. English sub-titles. [Marker]Mon./lun. April 4 avril, 21:15 Cuba HONEY FOR OSHUN/Miel para Oshun 2001, 115 min. Director: Humberto Solas Roberto returns to Cuba after 32 years in Miami. He's there to find his mother, whoabandoned the family, or so he's been told. When he meets Pilar, his cousin, however, he gets a different version of events. After hearing that his father lied abnout his mother, Roberto becomes obsessed with finding her. Accompanied by a tourist driver in a ramshackle car, the pair travel Cuba what seems to be a futile search. Until.... "Humberto Solas, the veteran Cuban director whose LUCIA was one of the classics of the Latin American cinema, proves with HONEY FOR OSHUN that he has lost none of the special warmth and humanity that distinguished his past work." Derek Malcolm (Screen International) English sub-titles. [Marker]Tues./mardi April 5 avril, 19:00 Peru WHAT THE EYE DOESN’T SEE / Ojos que no ven Peru 2003, 149 minutes Director: Francisco Lombardi Based on actual events, EYE captures dramatically the devastating consequences of a corrupt government. In September 2002, a television channel in Peru broadcasts a secretly recorded video in which the Director of Intelligence Services and advisor to the President is paying an opposition congressman for his “services.” This unveils a vast web of corruption web that involves judges, the military, businessmen, politicians, and the media. The airing of the video soon generates a political scandal. Through six parallel stories that develop during this time of deep crisis, Lombardi explores the moral decomposition of Peruvian society. A masterwork from Peru’s greatest director. English sub-titles. [Marker]Wed./mer. April 6 avril, 19:00 Venezuela STALKED / Acosada en Lunes de Carnaval Venezuela 2003 106 min. Director: Malena Roncayolo Set in the 1920s, this potent tale of lost innocence revolves around Mariantonia, a young girl rapidly moving from childhood to adulthood. In the middle of her great fears and her parent’s terrible suffering at the hands of an unscrupulous and powerful local man, Colonel Villagra, she discovers life and femininity. Mariantonia and her mother resist force and power of Villagra. Narrated as an adult today, she reflects upon about the consequences, personal and political, of her childhood. English sub-titles. [Marker]Wed./mer. April 6 avril, 21:00 Uruguay TRUE WORDS / Palabras Verdaderas Uruguay 2004 55 min Director: Ricardo Casas How can one paint a portrait of such a public person, one so well-known and well-loved by his vast readership, a readership which covers every age and every country in the Spanish-speaking world? Why is Mario Benedetti quoted and recited, even by his enemies? What is it about this man, a man of such modesty, so "typically Uruguayan", yet who is able to represent so many kindred spirits throughout the width and breadth of Latin America and Spain? So many questions to be answered. TRUE WORDS searches for the keys of this illustrious citizen of Montevideo in his life and especially in his poetry. Here is a man who has had to face various periods in exile yet who has received all the prizes the world can offer. But above all else, who has received the unconditional love of his readership, a massive and faithful audience that follows him everywhere he goes and that spoils him every day with its applause and its reading. English sub-titles. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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