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San Sebastian Film Festival · 2016

San Sebastian Film Festival 2016

Horizontes Latinos

Programme

13 films · 1 review

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Alba

Alba, aged 11, has to go and live with her dad, Igor, because of her mum’s illness. Both struggle to forge a relationship.

(Country: Ecuador, Mexico, Greece; Year: 2016; Director: Ana Cristina Barragán; Writer: Ana Cristina Barragán; Stars: Macarena Arias, Pablo Aguirre Andrade, Amaia Merino, Mara Appel, Isabel Borje, Maisa Herrera, María Pareja)

The Blind Christ (El Cristo Ciego)

A man claims to have had a divine revelation and, in the belief that he is Christ, sets out to perform a miracle.

(Country: France, Chile; Year: 2016; Director: Christopher Murray; Writer: Christopher Murray; Stars: Michael Silva)

Dark Skull (Viejo Calavera)

Review preview for Dark Skull

Russo's approach is much more impressionistic than you might imagine, seeking to retain an air of mystery even though he takes a largely neo-realist approach.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A young man finds himself no other option but to replace his dead father down the mine.

(Country: Bolivia, Qatar; Year: 2016; Director: Kiro Russo; Writer: Gilmar Gonzales, Kiro Russo; Stars: Narciso Choquecallata, Anastasia Daza López, Felix Espejo Espejo, Israel Hurtado, Rolando Patzi, Elisabeth Ramírez Galván, Julio Cezar Ticona)

Full review See: Kiro Russo interview about Dark Skull (Viejo Calavera) and Shewolf (Loba)

El Amparo

Two men survive and assault and find themselves accused of being guerillas.

(Country: Venezuela, Columbia; Year: 2016; Director: Rober Calzadilla)

Era O Hotel Cambridge

The story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo.

(Country: France, Brazil; Year: 2016; Director: Eliane Caffé; Writer: Luis Alberto de Abreu, Eliane Caffé, Inês Figueiró; Stars: José Dumont, Suely Franco, Ibtessam Umran, Thais Carvalho, Carmen Silva, Guylain Muskendi Lobobo, Paulo Américo, Juliane Arguello, Isam Ahmad Issa, Lucia Pulido, Mariana Raposo, Gabriel Tonin)

The Idea Of A Lake (La Idea De Un Lago)

A pregnant photographer, trying to complete her book before she gives birth, is drawn back to he disappearance of her father under the military dictatorship.

(Country: Switzerland, Argentina, Qatar; Year: 2016; Director: Milagros Mumenthaler; Writer: Milagros Mumenthaler; Stars: Carla Crespo , Rosario Bléfari , Malena Moiron )

The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis (La Larga Noche De Francisco Sanctis)

A man faces a dilemma over whether to help to men wanted by the dictatorship.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Francisco Márquez, Andrea Testa; Stars: Rafael Federman, Valeria Lois, Laura Paredes, Romina Pinto, Marcelo Subiotto, Diego Velázquez)

Much Ado About Nothing (Aquí no ha pasado nada)

A reckless loner finds himself accused of a hit and run... but he remembers the night very differently.

(Country: Chile; Year: 2016; Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras; Writer: Alejandro Fernández Almendras, Jerónimo Rodríguez; Stars: Agustín Silva, Daniel Alcaíno, Isabella Costa, Li Fridman, Paulina García, Luis Gnecco, Alejandro Goic, Daniel Muñoz, Geraldine Neary, Augusto Schuster, Samuel Vicuña)

Rara

Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is very similar to that of other families. But not everyone sees it that way.

(Country: Chile, Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Pepa San Martín; Writer: Pepa San Martín, Alicia Scherson; Stars: Julia Lübbert, Emilia Ossandon, Mariana Loyola, Agustina Muñoz, Coca Guazzini, Daniel Muñoz, Sigrid Alegría, Micaela Cristi, Nicolás Vigneaux)

Santa And Andres (Santa y Andres)

Cuba, 1983. Santa, a lonely country girl, is sent to keep an eye on Andrés, a gay writer in whom the Revolution has little “confidence”. The two strike up a friendship.

(Country: Cuba, Colombia, France; Year: 2016; Director: Carlos Lechuga; Writer: Eliseo Altunaga, Carlos Lechuga, Carlos Lechuga; Stars: Lola Amores, Cesar Domínguez, Luna Tinoco, Ederlys Rodriguez Perez, Maikel Alexi Sánchez, Jorge Abreu, Eduardo Martinez)

The Tenth Man (El rey del Once)

Ariel is summoned to Buenos Aires by his distant father, who runs a Jewish aid foundation in El Once, the bustling Jewish neighborhood where he spent his youth.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Daniel Burman; Writer: Daniel Burman; Stars: Dan Breitman, Elisa Carricajo, Elvira Onetto, Usher Raymond, Alan Sabbagh, Adrián Stoppelman, Julieta Zylberberg)

The Untamed (La región salvaje)

A mysterious young woman is convinced that something otherworldly could be the answer to all of her family's problems.

(Country: Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Amat Escalante; Writer: Amat Escalante, Gibrán Portela; Stars: Kenny Johnston)

X Quinientos

Coming to Montreal from Manila to live with her grandmother, Maria struggles to adapt to the new environment.

(Country: Canada, Colombia, Mexico; Year: 2016; Director: Juan Andrés Arango Garcia; Writer: Juan Andrés Arango Garcia)