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Latin American films at WORLD CINEMA AMSTERDAM
- data:18/08 - 27/08
- locatie:Rialto
- adres:Ceintuurbaan 338, Amsterdam
World Cinema Amsterdam takes place between August 18 and 27 August. The film festival that screens the best and most beautiful recent films from Latin America, Asia and Africa – films that will make you see, feel and experience how life is elsewhere. conSentido listed all the films from Latin America that will screen on the festival.
RARA, PEPA SAN MARTÍN | CHILE | 2016 | 88’| SPANISH WITTH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
In 2004, Karen Atala, a former judge in Chile, lost custody of her three daughters because she is a lesbian. This case formed the basis for the story of Pepa San Martín’s feature debut Rara, which she conceived with writer/director/actress Alicia Scherson. Without becoming ponderous, Pepa San Martín shows how tough life can be for gay couples in predominantly conservative Catholic Chile. 12-year-old Sara and her younger sister Catalina live with their mother Paula, who is separated from their father Victor. Paula now has a girlfriend, Lia, who has moved in with them. Superficially, things are fine, but they increasingly encounter hostile attitudes, which leads to stress in Paula. One day, Paula and Sara get into a classic mother-adolescent daughter squabble, with things getting so bad that Sara storms out to go to her father. When will he claim custody?
Filmmaker Pepa San Martín will be attending the festival and will answer the audience’s questions after the screenings of the film.
AQUARIUS, KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO |BRAZIL| 2016 |145′ | PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Clara, a 65-year-old widow, has lived in a beautiful beachside house in Recife for a long time. This is the place where her memories lay: here she lived with her now deceased husband, raised her children, was diagnosed with breast cancer and beat it, here she still goes for a swim in the sea every morning. It’s where she wants to stay for the rest of her life. Then a real estate company approaches Clara and offers to buy her apartment. Her neighbours have all already sold theirs. Clara turns down the offer, but the developers have set their sights on the property and do not hesitate to resort to dirty tricks to get what they want. Clara, however, won’t be intimidated.
Multiple award-winning road movie by debuting director Francisco Varone, in which it is not so much the journey itself that gives life a new turn, but rather the people with whom the journey is made. 35-year-old Sebastian lives in Buenos Aires with his wife. He’s unemployed and bored, the only thing he really cares for being his old Peugeot 505, which he inherited from his father. It even helps him earn some money when he occasionally acts as a cab driver. Then, one day, he gets a call from Jalil, an elderly, very devout Muslim, who asks him if he can drive him to Bolivia’s capital city, La Paz, which lies some 2000 miles away. Sebastian says yes.
Filmmaker Francisco Varone will be attending the festival and will answer the audience’s questions after the screenings of the film.
Mãe só há uma, ANNA MUYLAERT | BRAZIL | 2016 | 82′ | PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
In Brazilian director Anna Muylaert’s work, family plays an important role. Her previous filmQue horas ela volta? – last year’s World Cinema Audience Award winner – zoomed in on the relationship between housekeeper Val and her quirky daughter. In her new film, Mãe só há uma, which she wrote and directed, Muylaert explores the meaning of family, looking at her subject with scrutinizing, but kind eyes.
Filmmaker Anna Muylaert will be attending the festival and will answer the audience’s questions after the screenings of the film.
Chilean Pablo Larrain is a director who doesn’t shy away from a critical perspective on his home country, as is evidenced in exceptional and award-winning films such as Tony Manero, NO and El club. His latest film Neruda zooms in on a turbulent episode in Chile’s history and the role poet-communist-politician Pablo Neruda played in it. It’s a compelling mix of fact and fiction, of film noir and magical realism, starring Luis Gnecco and Gael García Bernal, both actors Larrain likes to work with.
