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The Colours Of The Mountain and Sins Of My Father
Brother And Sister (Dos Hermanos)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2010; Director: Daniel Burman; Writer: Daniel Burman, Diego Dubcovsky; Stars: Antonio Gasalla, Graciela Borges, Elena Lucena, Rita Cortese, Omar Núñez)
Two siblings try to come to terms with the death of their mother.
Circo
(Country: Mexico, USA; Year: 2010; Director: Aaron Schock)
A documentary following a travelling circus.
The Cloud Painting Machine (La Máquina De Pintar Nubes, Lainoak Margotzeko Makina)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2008; Director: Aitor Mazo, Patxo Tellería; Writer: Aitor Mazo; Stars: Aitor Mazo, Gracia Olayo, Bingen Elortza, Lander Otaola, Santi Ugalde)
A teenager living in a rough working class area discovers a love of painting.
The Colours Of The Mountain (Los Colores De La Montana)
(Country: Colombia, Panama; Year: 2010; Director: Carlos César Arbeláez; Writer: Carlos César Arbeláez; Stars: Hernán Mauricio Ocampo, Nolberto Sánchez, Genaro Aristizábal, Hernán Méndez, Natalia Cuellar)
A boy and his pals in a mountainside village find their lives under the threat of conflict.
The Desert Within (Desierto adentro)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: Rodrigo Plá; Writer: Rodrigo Plá, Laura Santullo; Stars: Mario Zaragoza, Diego Cataño, Memo Dorantes)
Paternal affection takes a twisted turn in this epic take on devotion and indoctrination set during the religious purges that followed the 1928 Mexican Revolution.
Optical Illusions and Fat People
Elisa K
(Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Jordi Cadena, Judith Colell; Writer: Lolita Bosch, Jordi Cadena; Stars: Aina Clotet, Nausicaa Bonnín, Ramon Madaula, Pep Sais, Lydia Zimmermann, Hans Richter, Jordi Gràcia, Maria de la Pau Janer, Clàudia Pons, Ricard Farré, Pol Montañés), Official Site
The effect of childhood abuse on a young girl, both at the time and in later life.
Fat People (Gordos)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; Writer: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Enríquez, Verónica Sánchez, Raúl Arévalo, Leticia Herrero, Fernando Albizu, Pilar Castro, María Morales, Adam Jeziersky, Marta Martín, Teté Delgado, Roberto Álamo, Seidina Mboup, Miguel Ortiz, José David Pérez), Official Site
Ensemble comedy drama, in which a slimming class self-help group find that weight is the least of their problems.
For 80 Days (80 egunean)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Jon Garaño, José María Goenaga; Writer: Jon Garaño, José María Goenaga; Stars: Itziar Aizpuru, José Ramón Argoitia, Zorion Eguileor, Ane Gabarain, Patricia López, Mariasun Pagoaga)
A woman bumps into an old school friend at a hospital bedside and finds they share a mutual attraction even after 50 years apart.
The Island Inside (La isla interior)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Dunia Ayaso, Félix Sabroso; Writer: Dunia Ayaso, Félix Sabroso; Stars: Candela Peña, Alberto San Juan, Cristina Marcos, Geraldine Chaplin, Celso Bugallo, Antonio de la Torre, Emy Cazorla, Vicente Ayala, Paola Bontempi, Marta Rubio, Herminia Orihuela, Alcides Cairós, Pettit Lorena, Gara Mora, Tomás Monsalve)
Siblings are forced to confront their feelings for one another by their father's imminent death.
The Last Summer of La Boyita (El último verano de la Boyita)
(Country: Argentina, Spain, France; Year: 2009; Director: Julia Solomonoff; Writer: Julia Solomonoff; Stars: Guadalupe Alonso, Gabo Correa, María Clara Merendino, Mirella Pascual, Guillermo Pfening, Silvia Tavcar, Nicolás Treise)
Coming of age film involving, apparently, a magical floating motorhome.
Tear This Heart Out and Elisa K
The Life Of Fish (La Vida De Los Peces)
(Country: Chile; Year: 2010; Director: Matías Bize; Writer: Matías Bize, Julio Rojas; Stars: Santiago Cabrera, Blanca Lewin, Antonia Zegers, Victor Montero, Sebastián Layseca, Juan Pablo Miranda, Luz Jiménez, María Gracia Omegna, Alicia Rodríguez, Francisca Cárdenas, Diego Fontecilla, Pedro del Carril, Matías Jara)
After 10 years living abroad, travel journalist
Andrés briefly returns to his native Chile to attend
to some unfinished business. The action takes
place in real time and follows the course of events
of one evening, as Andrés is reunited with his
childhood friends and the love of his life.
Norberto's Deadline (Norberto Apenas Tarde)
(Country: Uruguay, Argentina; Year: 2010; Director: Daniel Hendler; Writer: Daniel Hendler; Stars: Fernando Amaral, Eugenia Guerty, César Troncoso and Roberto Suárez)
A beginner real estate agent discovers that while he's bad at lying to other people, he's very good at lying to himself.
October (Octubre)
(Country: Peru; Year: 2010; Director: Daniel Vega, Diego Vega; Stars: Bruno Odar, Gabriela Velásquez, Carlos Gassols)
When a moneylender finds himself sole carer of his newborn baby, his neighbour offers to help, hoping to win his heart.
Optical Illusions (Ilusiones Ópticas)
(Country: Chile; Year: 2009; Director: Cristián Jiménez; Writer: Cristián Jiménez, Alicia Scherson; Stars: Ivan Alvarez de Araya, Gregory Cohen, Eduardo Paxeco, Paola Lattus, Álvaro Rudolphy, Valentina Vargas, Hugo Medina, Carla Bolito, Samuel González, Carla Chambel, Paulina Eguiluz, Dusan Gasic, Cristóbal Briceño, Andrés Waas, Cristián Jiménez), Official Site
The lives of a group of Chileans interconnect with absurdly comic consequences.
Revolución
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2010; Director: Fernando Eimbcke, Patricia Riggen, Gael García Bernal, Amat Escalante, Carlos Reygadas, Gerardo Naranjo, Mariana Chenillo, Rodrigo Plá, Diego Luna, Rodrigo García)
Ten Mexican directors explore the legacy of their country's revolution.
October and For 80 Days
Sins Of My Father (Pecados de mi padre)
(Country: Argentina, Colombia; Year: 2009; Director: Nicolas Entel; Writer: Nicolas Entel, Pablo Farina)
The story of Pablo Escobar - as recounted by his son and widow.
Tear This Heart Out (Arráncame la vida)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2008; Director: Roberto Sneider; Writer: Ángeles Mastretta, Roberto Sneider; Stars: Ana Claudia Talancón, Daniel Giménez Cacho, José María de Tavira, Mariana Peñalva, Irene Azuela, Jake Koenig, María Aura, Danna Paola, Metztli Adamina, Alain, Rodolfo Almada, Andrea Arámburo, Marta Aura, Carmen Beato, Fernando Becerril)
Passionate melodrama set against the backdrop of post-Revolution Mexco.
Under The Bridge
(Country: US, GB; Director: Mike Todd)
Telling the
story of San Diego’s Chicano Park, which is
situated in the heart of one of America’s oldest
Mexican communities, this unique film reveals
a cultural revolution that has refused to go
away.
The Wind Journeys (Los viajes del viento)
(Country: Colombia, Netherlands, Argentina, Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Ciro Guerra; Writer: Ciro Guerra; Stars: Marciano Martínez, Yull Núñez)
The adventures of a wandering minstrel who is travelling Colombia to return his instrument to the man who taught him.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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