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East End Film Festival · 2014

East End Film Festival 2014

Mexican Focus

Programme

8 films · 3 reviews

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Calle Lopez

A documentary portrait of working class life on López Street in Mexico City.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Gerardo Barroso, Lisa Tillinger)

Club Sandwich

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As Hector, Lucio Gimenez Cacho embodies the three primary desires of any teenage boy: getting one's way, getting one's end away, and potato chips.

Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
A teenage boy experiences first love while holidaying with his mother.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Fernando Eimbcke; Writer: Fernando Eimbcke; Stars: Lucio Giménez Cacho, María Renée Prudencio, Danae Reynaud)

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The Golden Dream (La Jaula De Oro)

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A flowing, lyrical film, at times startlingly beautiful, The Golden Dream hypnotises the viewer with its constant movement, its unceasing rhythm.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A group of Guatemalan teenagers tries to make it to the US.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Diego Quemada-Diez; Writer: Diego Quemada-Diez, Lucia Carreras, Gibrán Portela; Stars: Carlos Chajon, Rodolfo Domínguez, Brandon López, Karen Martínez)

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Malaventura

An old man walks through Mexico City with a singular purpose in mind.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2012; Director: Michel Lipkes)

Potosí

The lives of a goat herder, a housewife and a peasant intersect in an accident.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Alfredo Castruita; Writer: Jose Lomas-Hervert; Stars: Arcelia Ramírez, Aldo Verastegui, Don Margarito Sánchez, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Gerardo Taracena, Sonia Couoh, Francisco Barreiro, Mario Zaragoza, Fernando Becerril, José Sefami, Harold Torres, Melissa Alvarado Ramos, Luisa Huertas, Ursula Peña)

Summum Bonum

Two brothers hit the road in an attempt to reconnect with their past.

(Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2013; Director: Matias Penachino)

We Are Mari Pepa (Somos Mari Pepa)

The four boys in the band Mari Pepa have only one song in their repertoire. Yet music is their big hope. Friendships and dreams are suffering from the constraints of everyday life. A film as poetic as punk rock.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Samuel Kishi; Writer: Samuel Kishi, Sofía Gómez-Córdova; Stars: Alejandro Gallardo, Arnold Ramírez, Moisés Galindo, Rafael Andrade, Petra Iñiguez Robles)

Who Is Dayani Cristal?

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Silver may succeed in pushing emotional buttons but its people's heads that need to be engaged in tackling this complex issue, not just their hearts.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama.

(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Marc Silver; Stars: Gael Garcia Bernal)

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