Cycle
From 06.11. To 25.11.2008.
Program of Ibero-American films
Films in cycle
Balseros
(2002)
Directed by: Carles Bosch
PHOTOGRAPHY: Josep Maria Domčnech
Synopsis:
In the summer of 1994, two Spanish TV reporters interviewed seven Cubans and their families just before they embarked on a dangerous boat trip to the USA. Seven years later they found the survivors in the American refugee camp in Guantánamo. While their families in Cuba have no news of them, the film portrays the refugees’ lives, which turned out to be far from the desired “American dream”.
color, digital, 120 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 07.11.2008 AT 19:00
Thursday 06.11.2008 AT 20:00
Machuca
(2004)
Directed by: Andrés Wood
PHOTOGRAPHY: Miguel Joan Littin M.
Synopsis:
Father McEnroe, head of a catholic school of St. Patric in Chile, decides to do a small sociological experiment and puts boys from different social strata in the same class. Soon the poor Pedro Machuca and rich Gonzalo Infante become great friends. Their friendship and coming of age will ultimately be affected by political and social events; the year is 1973 and a military coup is on the horizon…
color, digital, 121 min
PROJECTION:
Saturday 08.11.2008 AT 19:00
Friday 07.11.2008 AT 21:00
Me, You, Them
(Eu, tu, eles, 2000)
Directed by: Andrucha Waddington
PHOTOGRAPHY: Breno Silveira
Synopsis:
Inspired by a true story, this film is about an independent woman who does not want to settle for less. Darlene and her son Dimas return to her village in north of Brazil and learns that her mother has passed away. After the funeral her mother’s neighbor Osias proposes to Darlene and she accepts. Soon she realizes that he only needed a maid, and finds herself flirting with Osias’s nephew Zezinho. However, true passion is nowhere to be found…
color, digital, 104 min
PROJECTION:
Sunday 09.11.2008 AT 19:00
Saturday 08.11.2008 AT 21:00
Dot.com
(2006)
Directed by: Teles, Galvão
PHOTOGRAPHY: Miguel Sales Lopes
Synopsis:
Aguas Altas is a small village with thirty nine inhabitants in north Portugal. An engineer arrives in the village for work. In order to fill his free time he decides to make a web page for the village. All the villagers are supportive of the project but problems arise when a Spanish corporation claims the rights to the web page domain in order to promote its new mineral water.
color, digital, 103 min
PROJECTION:
Sunday 16.11.2008 AT 19:00
Sunday 09.11.2008 AT 21:00
Con Game
(Doble juego, 2004)
Directed by: Alberto Durant
PHOTOGRAPHY: Fernando Pardo
Synopsis:
An experienced Spanish crook arrives to Peru in order to pull off a sting. Pretending to be the chief of a telecom operator, he enters the lives of several people so he can get their money. Among is victims are a real estate agent who falls for the crook’s charm and carefully chosen words and a couple from Lima: Rafo, who hopes to become an actor, and his girlfriend Laura, a pianist earning money by selling clothes.
color, digital, 90 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 17.11.2008 AT 19:00
Sunday 16.11.2008 AT 21:00
Mondays in the Sun
(Los lunes al sol, 2002)
Directed by: Fernando León de Aranoa
PHOTOGRAPHY: Alfredo F. Mayo
Synopsis:
Six middle aged friends meet every day in a bar La Naval in the Spanish industrial and harbor town of Vigo. Rico opened the bar after the shipyard in which they all worked closed down. Now they are unemployed and spend their days drinking and chatting and hoping for a better future. Paulino is persistent but unsuccessful in trying to find a job. José is insecure because his family is supported by his wife. Santa dreams of moving to Australia. Amador misses a wife who abandoned him a along time a...
color, digital, 113 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 18.11.2008 AT 19:00
Monday 17.11.2008 AT 21:00
Sexo con amor
(2003)
Directed by: Boris Quercia
PHOTOGRAPHY: Antonio Quercia
Synopsis:
Luisa is a young teacher at an elementary school. She wants to educate her students about sex and invites the parents to a meeting in order to hear their opinions and to get their consent. However, it turns out that the parents are not very smart when it comes to certain issues. Luisa is herself torn between her romantic love for the painter Valentin and a physical relationship with the father of one of her students. Other parents have similar problems; some have completely lost the passion from...
color, digital, 90 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 19.11.2008 AT 19:00
Tuesday 18.11.2008 AT 21:00
A dona da história
(2004)
Directed by: Daniel Filho
PHOTOGRAPHY: José Roberto Eliezer
Synopsis:
How would your life look had you done something differently? This is the question that fifty year old Carolina asks herself. She is the mother of four grown up children and spent thirty years married to her first love, her husband Luiz. As a young woman she was a ballerina and wanted to become an actress. Wondering what her life would be like without her husband she imagines two destinies: one as the actress that she wanted to be and one as the lonely spinster she could have been, had she not...
color, digital, 84 min
PROJECTION:
Sunday 23.11.2008 AT 19:00
Wednesday 19.11.2008 AT 21:00
Behind the Clouds
(Atrás das nuvens, 2007)
Directed by: Jorge Queiroga
PHOTOGRAPHY: Amílcar Carrajola
Synopsis:
Nine year old Paulo lives with his mother in Lisbon. He has never met his father because he died before Paulo’s birth. One day he finds photographs of his grandfather and decides to find him and meet him. Therefore Paulo starts his search and goes to the farm in Alenteja where his lonely eccentric grandpa Migue lives. In his garden, Paulo finds a red car that supposedly flies.
color, digital, 86 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 24.11.2008 AT 19:00
Sunday 23.11.2008 AT 21:00
In the Mouth of the Wolf
(La boca del lobo, 1988)
Directed by: Francisco Lombardi
PHOTOGRAPHY: José Luis López-Linares
Synopsis:
This film depicts the civil war in Peru through events in the remote village of Chuspa. Government troops are trapped by enemy fire from the guerrilla Sendero Luminoso. Trapped in a hopeless situation, young soldier Vitin Luna is forced to come into conflict with his superior, a brutal lieutenant who accuses the entire village of treason.