director: Santiago Loza

cu sprijinul:

A man in a suit with a tie wakes up on the bank of a river at the crack of dawn. He answers his mobile phone and, starting from the minimal indications in his conversation, we can infer that he follows the instructions of some kidnappers. We may think that he has the money for the ransom in the black backpack. He walks around all day. On foot or by bus, his goal is to walk aimlessly. We may think that he wants to put the policemen on the wrong track.

director: Marcelo Gomes/ Karim Ainouz

“ Beautifully structured and ultimately transcendent, "I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You" is a road movie in its purest form, offering an affecting record of processing loss and coming through to the other side. Co-helmers Marcelo Gomes and Karim Ainouz work seamlessly together in the bleak Brazilian Northeast, creating a fictional travelogue for a character heard but never seen thanks to a creative combination of p.o.v. lensing and snapshots. Utterly unpretentious and deeply touching” ( Variety, Jay Weissberg)

director: Esteban Sapir

"An amazing spectacle of sight and sound."( Cinema Without Borders) “A stylishly inventive play on silent-era movies that presses political buttons.”( Film4 Review)
An unique visual feast, dark, cartoonish and beautifully shot in black and white, LA ANTENA is a surreal hommage to silent film era and meanwhile a harsh criticism of consumerist society and television brainwashing. Full of cinema references - its images bring to mind the films of Murnau , Lang or Eisenstein, we can even see the Melies’ Moon with a (here cigar-smoking) human face and the Melies-like paper-made, painted mountains and city-landscapes-, La Antena is nevertheless a film of our times, not only as theme - monopolisation, consumerism, cultural dulling-, but also formally, being highly innovative in the set design, editing and techniques used. The fairytale allegory continues to surprise from scene to scene with extensive, cleverly made sets, beautiful use of words written on screen and, not to forget, excellent acting.

 

director: Juan Ignacio Domínguez, Lucio Álvarez (Movimiento Indigente)

cu sprijinul:

It is fall. An old man is dying on his bed. Next to the bed, his grandson is taking care of him. He goes for some water and finds, in the old shed, his granddad’s bicycle. A memory makes him go on a ride through the poor neighbourhood he lives in. In another place of the city, a ragman who is doing his daily tour on a cart pulled by a mare is invited by a pleasant woman to go into her house and take away the bottles she has piled up on a kitchen corner. On the other side of the house, the woman’s grandson drinks his coffee quickly, before going downstairs and jumping into his car, with which he will cross the city. 

 

director: Hernán Khourian

cu sprijinul:

Puna is a high plateau that extends over part of Bolivia, Peru and the north of Chile
and Argentina. This visual poem invokes the culture of the plateau, showing the richness of a region that others regard as barren.
Briefly defined by the director as a “personal essay on the Puna”, it is difficult to translate into words a film that is so deeply based on audiovisual language.