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Mostra De Valencia · 2018

Mostra De Valencia 2018

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10 films · 2 reviews

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The 12-Year Night (La noche De 12 Años)

September 1973. Uruguay is under the control of military dictatorship. The Tupamaros guerrilla movement has been crushed and out of action for a year. Its members imprisoned and tortured. One autumn night, three Tupamaros prisoners are taken from their prison cells in a secret military operation that will last for 12years.

(Director: Álvaro Brechner; Writer: Álvaro Brechner; Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso, Soledad Villamil, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Mirella Pascual, Nidia Telles, César Bordón, Luis Mottola, John De Luca, Rodrigo Villagrán, Luciano Ciaglia, Álvaro Armand Ugón, David Landatxe)

Another Day Of Life

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Measured but naturally emotional recollections dovetail with the more impressionistic animated segments to scrutinise the psyche of war.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
True story of a reporter who took a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the civil war in Angola in the 70s.

(Country: Poland, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Hungary; Year: 2018; Director: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow; Writer: Raúl de la Fuente, Amaia Remirez, Niall Johnson, David Weber, Damian Nenow, Ryszard Kapuscinski; Stars: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Vergil J. Smith, Tomasz Zietek, Olga Boladz, Rafal Fudalej, Pawel Paczesny, Jakub Kamienski, Kerry Shale, Daniel Flynn, Youssef Kerkour, Lillie Flynn, Akie Kotabe, Ben Elliot, Emma Tate, Jude Owusu)

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Amerika Square (Plateia Amerikis)

A Greek nationalist takes extreme measures to “make Athens Greek again".

(Country: Greece, UK, Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Yannis Sakaridis; Writer: Vangelis Mourikis, Yannis Sakaridis, Yannis Tsirbas; Stars: Yannis Stankoglou, Makis Papadimitriou, Vassilis Koukalani, Ksenia Dania, Sultan Amir, Rea Pediaditaki, Themis Bazaka, Errikos Litsis, Dorothea Howlader, Kostas Kourtidis, Nikkos J. Frangos, Nikos Mylonas, Petros Santovito, Alexandros Logothetis, Achilleas Kyriakidis)

Capernaum (Capharnaüm)

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You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
A child rebels against the life imposed upon him.

(Country: Lebanon, US; Year: 2018; Director: Nadine Labaki; Writer: Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Michelle Keserwany, Georges Khabbaz, Khaled Mouzanar; Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad, Fadi Yousef, Haita 'Cedra' Izzam, Alaa Chouchnieh, Nadine Labaki, Elias Khoury, Nour El Husseini, Joseph Jimbazian, Samira Chalhoub, Farah Hasno, Joe Maalouf, Alexandre Youakim)

Full review See: Interview with Nadine Labaki about the lives in Capernaum (Capharnaüm)

Equilibrium (l'equilibrio)

When a priest gets a transfer to his home region, he discovers some uncomfortable truths about where he has come to live.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Vincenzo Marra; Writer: Vincenzo Marra; Stars: Mimmo Borrelli, Roberto del Gaudio, Lucio Giannetti, Giuseppe D'Ambrosio, Francesca Zazzera, Autilia Ranieri, Paolo Sassanelli, Astrid Meloni, Francesco Pio Romano, Sergio Del Prete)

Let The Girls Play (Comme Des Garcons)

Reims, 1969. A sports reporter organises a football match female to defy his newspaper's director.

(Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Julien Hallard; Writer: Jean-Christophe Bouzy, Julien Hallard; Stars: Max Boublil, Vanessa Guide, Bruno Lochet, Carole Franck, Delphine Baril, Zoé Héran, Julie Moulier, Solène Rigot, Sarah Suco, Mona Walravens, Luca Zingaretti, Renaud Rutten, Éric Naggar, Jean-Louis Barcelona, Wilfred Benaïche)

The Marriage

A couple's impending wedding is threatened when an old friend of the groom returns unexpectedly, and the situation becomes complicated.

(Country: Kosovo, Albania; Year: 2017; Director: Blerta Zeqiri; Writer: Blerta Zeqiri, Kreshnik Keka Berisha; Stars: Alban Ukaj, Adriana Matoshi, Genc Salihu, Vjosa Abazi, Fisnik Ademi, Aurita Agushi, Donike Ahmeti, Kreshnik Keka Berisha, Yllka Brada, Besfort Daka, Xhevdet Doda, Xhelal Haliti, Kumrije Hoxha, Enver Konushevci, Gojart Kqiku)

My Favourite Fabric

A young single woman living in a suburb of Damascus dreams of a better life when she meets a Syrian expat living in the US, who is looking for a wife.

(Country: France, Germany, Turkey; Year: 2018; Director: Gaya Jiji; Writer: Zoé Galeron, Gaya Jiji, Eiji Yamazaki; Stars: Metin Akdülger, Manal Issa, Gaya Jiji, Ula Tabari, Wissam Fares, Saad Lostan, Mariah Tannoury, Rand Raslan, Souraya Baghdadi, Nathalie Issa, Amani Ibrahim, Hala Sayasne, Eiji Yamazaki, Metin Akdülger, Manal Issa)

Sad Hill Unearthed

Documentary about the cemetery built in Spain for the final sequence of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

(Year: 2017; Director: Guillermo de Oliveira; Writer: Guillermo de Oliveira; Stars: Ennio Morricone, James Hetfield, Joe Dante, Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, Álex de la Iglesia, Sergio Salvati, Joseba del Valle, David Alba Romero, Sergio García Hernández, Diego Montero, Eugenio Alabiso, Stephen Leigh, Daniel Jeffery, Carlo Leva)

Until The End Of Time

An elderly undertaker develops a special relationship with a woman who comes to the cemetery to visit her sister's grave after losing her husband.

(Country: Algeria, United Arab Emirates; Year: 2017; Director: Yasmine Chouikh; Writer: Yasmine Chouikh; Stars: Djillali Boudjemaa, Jamila Arres, Mohamed Takiret, Imen Nouel, Mohamed Benbakreti, Mehdi Moulay, Djillali Boudjemaa, Jamila Arres, Mohamed Takiret, Imen Nouel, Mohamed Benbakreti, Mehdi Moulay)