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San Sebastian Film Festival · 2019

San Sebastian Film Festival 2019

Horizontes Latinos

Programme

15 films · 5 reviews

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Again Once Again (De Nuevo Otra Vez)

A mum moves back with her son to her own mother's place as she tries to rediscover who she is.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2019; Director: Romina Paula; Writer: Romina Paula; Stars: Ramon Cohen Arazi, Esteban Bigliardi, Mariana Chaud, Denise Groesman, Romina Paula, Monica Rank, Pablo Sigal, Ramon Cohen Arazi, Esteban Bigliardi, Mariana Chaud, Denise Groesman, Romina Paula, Monica Rank, Pablo Sigal)

August (Agosto)

Coming of age story set against the backdrop of Cuba's Special Period.

(Country: Cuba, Costa Rica, France; Year: 2019; Director: Armando Capó; Stars: Damián González Guerrero, Lola Amores Rodríguez, Rafael Lahera Suárez, Verónica Lynn López, Glenda Delgado Dominguez, Alejandro Guerrero Machado, Luis Ernesto Barcenas, Tatiana Monge Herrera)

La Bronca

A son visits his estranged father in Canada.

(Country: Peru, Colombia; Year: 2019; Director: Diego Vega, Daniel Vega; Stars: Jorge Guerra, Rodrigo Palacios, Rodrigo Sánchez Patiño, Isabelle Guérard, Sandrine Poirier-Allard, Charlotte Aubin, Luna Macedo)

Chicuarotes

Story focusing on Mexican teens.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2019; Director: Gael García Bernal; Writer: Augusto Mendoza; Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Dolores Heredia, Benny Emmanuel, Pedro Joaquín, Leidi Gutiérrez, Saúl Mercado, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Dolores Heredia, Benny Emmanuel, Pedro Joaquín, Leidi Gutiérrez, Saúl Mercado)

The Cordillera Of Dreams (La Cordillera De Los Sueños)

Documentary about Chilean history.

(Year: 2019; Director: Patricio Guzmán)

Opening film

The Green Wave (La Ola Verde)

The Green Wave narrates the struggle for legal abortion in Argentina.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 1985; Director: Juan Solas)

Special screening. Out of competition

La Llorona

The spirit of a woman who was killed, with her sons, in genocide, returns to haunt the general who oversaw their deaths.

(Country: Canada, Mexico; Year: 2018; Director: Patricia Harris Seeley; Writer: Cameron Larson, Jose Prendes; Stars: Danny Trejo, Autumn Reeser, Antonio Cupo, Zamia Fandiño, Edgar Wuotto, Mauricio Galaz, Angélica Lara, Nicolas Madrazo, Danny Trejo, Autumn Reeser, Antonio Cupo, Zamia Fandiño, Edgar Wuotto, Mauricio Galaz, Angélica Lara)

Closing film. Out of competition

The Moneychanger (Así Habló El Cambista)

Review preview for The Moneychanger

Looking at the colours, the entire film could be taking place inside a mushroom. Cigarette smoke penetrates almost every scene.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
A money launderer sees the Uruguayan dictatorship as an opportunity to make a killing.

(Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Federico Veiroj; Writer: Arauco Hernández Holz, Martín Mauregui, Federico Veiroj; Stars: Dolores Fonzi, Benjamín Vicuña, Daniel Hendler, Germán de Silva, Luis Machín, Gabriel Perez, Dolores Fonzi, Benjamín Vicuña, Daniel Hendler, Germán de Silva, Luis Machín, Gabriel Perez)

Full review See: Federico Veiroj in conversation on the adaptation of Juan Enrique Gruber’s novel for The Moneychanger (Así Habló El Cambista) and Alain Delon in Joseph Losey’s Monsieur Klein

Monos

Review preview for Monos

Landes' film has the queasy, uneasy feel of a nightmare - and that's before magic mushrooms are involved.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
On a faraway mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.

(Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay; Year: 2019; Director: Alejandro Landes; Writer: Alexis Dos Santos, Alejandro Landes, Alejandro Landes; Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Moises Arias, Jorge Román, Laura Castrillón, Wilson Salazar, Sofia Buenaventura, Deibi Rueda, Karen Quintero, Julian Giraldo, Paul Cubides, Sneider Castro, Julianne Nicholson, Moises Arias, Jorge Román, Laura Castrillón)

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Our Mothers (Nuestras Madres)

Guatemala, 2013. The country is riveted by the trial of the military officers who started the civil warErnesto, a young anthropologist, thinks he has found a lead that will allow him to find his father, a guerillero who disappeared during the war.

(Country: Guatemala, Belgium, France; Year: 2019; Director: César Díaz; Stars: Armando Espitia, Emma Dib, Aurelia Caal, Julio Serrano Echeverría, Victor Moreira)

The Prince (El Principe)

After being jailed for killing his best friend, a man meets a respected gangster who he looks to for acceptance.

(Country: Chile, Argentina, Belgium; Year: 2019; Director: Sebastián Muñoz; Writer: Luis Barrales, Sebastián Muñoz; Stars: Sebastián Ayala, Lucas Balmaceda, Alfredo Castro, Jaime Leiva, Juan Carlos Maldonado, Catalina Martin, Gastón Pauls, Cesare Serra, Paola Volpato, Nicolás Zárate, Paula Zúñiga, Sebastián Ayala, Lucas Balmaceda, Alfredo Castro, Jaime Leiva)

The Sharks

Review preview for The Sharks

Tightly structured and well-shot

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
While a rumour about the presence of sharks in a small beach town distracts residents, 14-year-old Rosina begins to feel an instinct to shorten the distance between her body and Joselo's.

(Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Lucía Garibaldi; Writer: Lucía Garibaldi; Stars: Romina Bentancur, Federico Morosini, Fabián Arenillas, Valeria Lois, Antonella Aquistapache)

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The Sleepwalkers (Los sonámbulos)

Review preview for The Sleepwalkers

Nothing here is as peaceful as the various characters are trying to make it seem.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A mother and her daughter are pushed to their emotional limit during a family celebration.

(Country: Argentina, Uruguay; Year: 2019; Director: Paula Hernández; Writer: Paula Hernández; Stars: Érica Rivas, Ornella D'elía, Marilú Marini, Luis Ziembrowski, Daniel Hendler, Valeria Lois, Rafael Federman)

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Spider (Araña)

Chile, the early 1970s. A violent far-right nationalist group is looking to overthrow Allende's government. Amid the fervour of crime and conspiracy, group members Inés, her husband Justo and their best friend Gerardo pull off a political crime that changes the course of history.

(Country: Chile, Argentina, Brazil; Year: 2019; Director: Andrés Wood; Writer: Guillermo Calderón; Stars: María Valverde, Mercedes Morán, Caio Blat, Pedro Fontaine, Marcelo Alonso, María Gracia Omegna, Mario Horton, Jaime Vadell, Felipe Armas, Gabriel Urzúa, María Valverde, Mercedes Morán, Caio Blat, Pedro Fontaine, Marcelo Alonso)

Tremors (Temblores)

Review preview for Tremors

Bustamante employs physical earthquakes as well, with a similar subtlety that he goes on to use the myth of La Llorona in his follow up film

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.

(Country: Guatemala, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2019; Director: Jayro Bustamante; Writer: Jayro Bustamante; Stars: Juan Pablo Olyslager, Mauricio Armas, Diane Bathen, María Telón, Pedro Javier Silva Lira)

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