film festival program, lasa 2015

8/18/2019 Film Festival Program, LASA 2015

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Festival co-sponsorsOtros Saberes Program

Brazil SectionColombia Section

Southern-Cone Section

LASA 2015 FILM FESTIVALDIRECTORCLAUDIA FERMAN

IN FOCUSINDIGENOUS and COMMUNITY FILM

CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS

RELIGION and SPIRITUALITIES

ARGENTINA ECUADOR All films will be screened in

Auditorium @ Caribe Hilton

FREE AND OPENTO THE PUBLIC



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Wednesday 27

8:30 am ARCHITECTURE - ENVIRONMENT - PUERTO RICO

La casa ausente / The Absent HouseRubén Abruña, dir.Puerto Rico, 2014, 55’Spanish w/English subtitles

Architect Fernando Abruña Charneco from Puerto Ricopioneered green architecture thirty years ago, and today he confrontsclimate change with sustainable constructions including a housewithout a roof that is completely independent of power and waterutilities; a micro-eco-house on wheels; a pre-designed sustainablehouse; a parachute-house; and a solar-electric car.

9:30 amSTREET CHILDREN – CITIES - ARGENTINA

Años de calle / Street YearsAlejandra Grinschpun, dir.Argentina, 2013, 74’

Spanish w/English subtitles

Shot between 1999 and 2011, this lm features the life of

its protagonists in three different stages: childhood, adolescence,and adulthood. As kids, these youths used to live in the streets ofBuenos Aires city. Each of them reects what means to grow up in

social exclusion.

10:50 amPRISONS - ART – PEDAGOGY - MEXICO

Fuera de foco / Out of FocusAdrián Arce & Antonio Zirión, dirs.

Mexico, 2013, 36’Spanish w/English subtitles

This collaborative lm is a byproduct of a photography a

video workshop at the Juvenile Community for Specialized Treatmin San Fernando, south of Mexico City. It presents arts, culture aeveryday life inside a prison for minors.

11:30 amPRISONS – RELIGION & SPIRTUALITIES - BRAZIL

If I Give My Soul: PentecostalismInside of Rio´s PrisonsAndrew Johnson & Ryan Patch

USA, Brazil, 2014, 57’English & Portuguese w/English subtitles

The lm began the day co-director Andrew Johnson check

into a Brazilian prison for two weeks to see prison from an inmperspective. During this process, Johnson was brought face-to-fawith two powerful forces: narco-trafcking gangs, and Penteco

Christianity. The lm uses social science methods and rst-ha

experience to investigate if this religion is an escape from oppressive conditions of prison, an elaborate show for the guardiand justice system, or if their faith represents something more.

12:30 pm

PENITENTIARY SYSTEMS - UNIVERSITY EDUCATION - ARGENT13 puertas / 13 DoorsDavid Rubio, dir.Argentina, 2014, 70’


What happens when a university enters a maximusecurity prison and invites inmates and guards to study Socioloas schoolmates, and at the same classroom? The lm narra

one academic year in this extraordinary university environmshared by three people: an inmate, a guard, and a professThe CUSAM, San Martín University Center, was created2008 through an agreement between the San Martín Univers(UNSAM) and the Buenos Aires Penitentiary System.



3:25 pm1999 BANKING CRISIS – CLASS RELATIONS - SEXUALITIES

AND LGBTQ STUDIES

Feriado / HolidayDiego Araujo, dir.Ecuador, Argentina, 2014, 82’


Juan Pablo, 16, travels to the family hacienda in the Andes,where his uncle, who is involved in a corruption scandal (the 1999Banking Crisis in Ecuador), has taken refuge with his wife andteenage children. There, Juan Pablo meets Juano, an enigmatic,self-assured black-metal fan from the nearby pueblo, who openshis eyes to a new, liberating universe. As his country and family isheading for the abyss, the two boys’ budding friendship develops into

a fragile romance and Juan Pablo is forced to dene himself against

his chaotic surroundings.

Wednesday 27

1:45 pmCONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY – ECUADOR

Nariz del Diablo / Devil’s NoseJosé Fernando Yépez López, dir.Ecuador, 2012, 93’Spanish w/English subtitles

The lm exposes the political processes surrounding the

2007-2008 Constituent Assembly by portraying the social movementsand organizations throughout Ecuador. This popular participation hasbeen rendered invisible by the hegemonic media. The lm brings to

the forefront human solidarity as the “good life” enabler, and a vision inwhich humankind is an integral part of Nature.

4:50 pmINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS – MIGRATION ANDDIASPORAS – CUBA – SPAIN

D’une île à l’autre / Otra islaHeidi Hassan, dir.Cuba, Switzerland, Spain, 2014, 70’


A family of Cuban dissidents, expelled by the Castrisgovernment and then abandoned to their fate by the country that hastaken them in, has been camping for months in a square in MadridIn the past, they were reliant on the communist regime that housedthem; now, they must face a capitalist system, of which they hadonce dreamed.

6:00 pmINDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND POLITICS - HISTORICALIMAGINARIES

InsurgentesJorge Sanjinés, dir.Bolivia, 2014, 83’

Spanish

The lm marks an awaited homecoming for Jorge Sanjinés—

it takes a diachronic view of the successive conicts that mark

Bolivian history--the early 20th-century execution of the indigenousrebel Zárate Willka, the lynching of left-leaning president GualbertoVillaroel, the last 18th century rebellion of Julián Apaza and BartolinaSisa, the Water War and Gas War at the dawn of the new millenniumand more. A conscientious reconstruction of historical eventsframed by an excellent photography with acting kept to a minimumthese historical events are visited as stages in an inexorable processof native liberation.

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Thursday 28

8:30 amHEALTH & VULNERABILITY – DRUGS - URBAN POVERTY –ECUADOR

Sea la Luz / Let There Be LightAnna Wilking, dir.Ecuador-USA, 2013, 52’


The lm offers an intimate portrait of life on the streets in

Ecuador. Javier must rebuild his life with his three children aftertragedy strikes in Quito. The stake of his choices is high, since hisyoungest son, who is severely disabled, depends on Javier for allhis needs.

11:00 amINDIGENOUS / DECOLONIAL STRUGGLES, DISPLACEMEETHNOCIDE

Testigos de un etnocidio. Memorias

Resistencia / Witnesses to EthnocideMemories of ResistanceMarta Rodríguez, dir.Colombia, 2011, 52’


Based on 40 years of documentary work, Rodríganalyzes the history of ethnocide against Colombia’s indigen

peoples. The lm is a journey through Rodríguez’s mem

beginning with the massacre against Guahibo and Sicuani peoin Planas in 1970, up until the acts of macabre violence againstAwá people in August 2009.

SPECIAL EVENT:Q&A with director MARTA RODRIGUEZ & FERNANDO

RESTREPO, Fundación Cine Documental

12:20 pmPUNK MOVEMENT, LGBTQ, ANARCHISM, DICTATORSHIP

ARGENTINA

Desacato a la autoridad, relatosde punks en Argentina 1983-1988(Capítulo 1) / Contempt for authority,Stories of Local Punk in ArgentinaTomás Makaji & Patricia Pietrafesa, dirs.Argentina, 2014, 58’

Spanish

A lm on the pioneering punk scene’s fury in Argent

between the end of the dictatorship and the beginning of democraFront-page testimonies in rst person by survivors of a ledge built

anti-system will, noise, tacks, patches, and counter informationdocument on resistance to social control institutions, the lm partn

with sexual workers and other groups persecuted by police edicwhich extended the last dictatorship beyond 1983.

9:30 am

SPECIAL EVENT:Round Table on Indigenous Communication & Film

Participants: Vincent Carelli(Video Nas Aldeias, Brazil)

Marta Rodríguez & Fernando Restrepo(Fundación Cine Documental, Colombia)

Iván Sanjinés(CEFREC-CAIB, Bolivia)

Presenter& moderator: Debra Castillo(LASA President)



Thursday 28

4:45 pmTELEVANGELISTS – CALL CENTERS – RELIGION

GonzálezChristian Díaz Pardo,

Mexico, 2014, 110’Spanish w/English subtitles

Money - that’s the discourse of televangelists is referring

to when they talk about “giving to receive.” And it is money (oas always, lack thereof) what has González by the neck when hends a modest job at the call center of an organization ran by one

of those exhorters of faith that populate TV midnights.

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2:30 pmINDIGENOUS COMMUNICATION – MINING – SANTA CRUZ

La Tentación del Nixhix / Nixhix’s Temptation

Gumercindo Yumani, Nicolás Ipamo, Marta Zelady, RubénDarío, Franklin Gutierrez, dirs.Bolivia, 2015, 110’


A devastating flood, the unexpected arrival of the miningindustry, and the loss of two children in the Amazon forest elicita collective questioning inside the community. This will bringthe community to strive to recover the ancient pact with theforces of Nature.

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SPECIAL EVENT:Q&A with IVAN SANJINES (director of CEFREC)

6:40 pmCITIES – RACE – BRASILIA – SCIENCE FICTION

Branco Sai Preto Fica

/ White Out Black InAdirley Queirós, dir.Brazil, 2014, 93’

Portuguese w/English subtitles

Brazil in the eighties: white people out, black in. A simple andbrutal motto of the Federal District police used when repressing—

with clubs, shields, and horses—the organized dances in the black

suburbs of Brasilia. A different yet similar Brazil today; a handful omen who were damaged for life by police brutality in the past. A lm

that is an act of combat, with a controversially renovating air.

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1:25 pm ART, EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, NARCISA HIRSCH, ARGENTINA

NarcisaDaniela Muttis, dir.

Argentina, 2014, 61’Spanish w/English subtitles

Ever since the late sixties, Narcisa Hirsch elaborated a bodyof work in Argentina with a wide aesthetic, conceptual, and cinematicrange, which very few experimental lmmakers were able to match.

What Muttis, who worked with Hirsch for twelve years, manages toaccomplish is an expository and erudite portrait that also feels closeand intimate.



Friday 29

8:30 amLABOR – IMMIGRATION – WORKERS ORGANIZATION

The Hand that FeedsRobin Blotnick, Rachel Lears, dirs.USA, 2014, 88’Spanish & English w/ English subtitles

At a popular deli in New York’s Upper East Side, customers

get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. Butbehind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegalwages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers. Riskingdeportation and the loss of livelihood, the workers team up and forman independent union. The lm follows the struggle to win a fair

contract that would set a historic precedent for low-wage workersacross the country.

10:05 amINDIGENOUS ACTIVISM – MINING – MEDIA -EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA -PERU

The Blood in their VeinsThe Owners of the Land. Culture and the Spectre of

Mining in the Andes

Juan Javier River Andía, Peter Snowdon, dirs.Belgium, Perú, 2013, 6’

Quechua, Spanish w/ English subtitles

Remixing found footage from Peruvian television andlocal activist groups, this short lm explores the conict between

the people of the region and the mining company, and the conict

between dominant discourses of the dominant media, and those oflocal leaders.

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE - GENDER – EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA -PERU

Nadie especial / Nobody SpecialJuan Alejandro Ramírez, dir.Perú, 2013, 23’

Quechua w/English subtitles

A lyrical mix of ction and documentary, the lm uses wide-

angle and close-in shots, and haunting voiceover, to focus on threePeruvian women from three eras, all of whom lead difcult lives--a

portrayal of ethnic and class conicts in Peru.

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12:00 pmROQUE DALTON – LITERATURE – EL SALVADOR – CUBA

Roque Dalton, Fusilemos la Noche! / Roque Dalton, Let’s Shoot the Night!Tina Leisch, dir.Austria, El Salvador, Cuba, 2013, 85’


The lm looks back on the life of this key gure in

movement resisting military dictatorship in El Salvador, and shnew light on the circumstances of his death. Director Tina Leitakes a unique approach to telling the story of Dalton’s life. S

introduces us to nearly two-dozen people who knew him - includhis widow and two surviving sons, fellow writers and revolutionar

and lovers - and accompanies them to meaningful locations.

10:40 amPOPE FRANCIS - ARGENTINA

Francisco de Buenos Aires / Francis of Buenos AiresMiguel Rodríguez Arias, dir.Argentina, 2014, 72’

Spanish, Italian w/English subtitles

The decision of choosing Cardinal Bergoglio to be at front of the Vatican took the world for surprise. The vote differefor which the Argentine Cardinal won (100 to 15) was not a producchance. This documentary seeks to reect on the reasons why

and not another, was the man chosen by his peers with the hophim solving the profound crisis the Church has been going for ye



Friday 29

4:20 pmROBERTO BOLAÑO – LITERATURE

Il Futuro / The FutureAlicia Scherson, 2013, 94’

Chile, Italy, SpainItalian w/English subtitles

6:00 pmCOMMUNITY CINEMA- ARGENTINA

El Perro Molina / Dog MolinaJosé Campusano, dir.Argentina, 2014, 88’


The lm is based on Roberto Bolaño’s Una novelita lumpen

(2002), the last novel published during Bolaño’s lifetime. Bolaño

himself gave the rights to lmmaker Alicia Scherson, making this

lm the only lm adaptation that escaped the rigid control exerted by

Bolaño’s heirs and Andrew Wylie’s Agency since the author’s demise

Campusano’s last production of cine comunitario once again

gets into the dirt an dust of a world where justice is never on the sideof authorities and even the toughest criminals hint some nobility, andeven tenderness. A raw story of deliberate harshness, where thesearch for authenticity is the only rule.

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2:35 pm XAVANTE PEOPLE – MEMORY – AMAZONAS - BRAZIL

O mestre e o divino / Master and DivinoTiago Campos Tôrres, dir.Spain, Brazil, Xavante, 2013, 85’

Portuguese, Xavante, German w/English subtitles

Two lmmakers portray life in the village and in the mission

of Sangradouro, Mato Grosso: Adalbert Heide, an eccentric Germanmissionary, that soon after the contact with the Indians, in 1957, startsto lm with his Super-8 camera; and Divino Tserewahu, a young

Xavante lmmaker, that produces lms for television and cinema

festivals since the 90’s. Shifting between complicity, competition,

irony and affect, they give life to their historical records, revealing thepeculiar backstage of indigenous catechization in Brazil.

1:30 pmUITOTO PEOPLE – MEMORY – AMAZONAS - COLOMBIA

La trocha / The PathLionel Rossini, dir.France, Colombia, 2014, 58’Uitoto & Spanish w/English subtitles

Uitoto ethnic group, live in the semi-urban Kilómetro Oncecommunity, close to Leticia City, in the Amazonas county, Colombia.Their ancestors have been displaced during the rubber boom at thebeginning of the Twentieth Century. After the decease of the lastcommunity chief, they decided to go back to the original Uitoto’s

settlement: La Chorrera. A memory journey into the history of theUitoto people and the consequences of a genocide.

SPECIAL EVENT:Q&A with director VINCENT CARELLI (VNA)



Saturday 30

9:00 amINDIGENOUS AND AFRO-DESCENDANTS PEOPLES -NICARAGUA

Imágenes de mi Territorio Rama y Kriol

/ Images Of My Territory Rama & KriolJosé Wheelock, dir.Nicaragua, 2014, 50’

Spanish, Rama & Kriol w/English subtitles

About 2000 Rama, an indigenous people from Nicaragua’s

Caribbean coast, have managed to survive over 500 years ofcolonization and exploitation. They share the coast with 600Kriols, who are of Afro-Caribbean descent. True to its title, thislm explores the unique beauty of Rama and Kriol life and the

enormous challenges they face as endangered people.

9:55 amGOLD PANNING – COSTA RICA

El lugar indeseado / The Undesired PlaceÁlvaro Torres Crespo, dir.Costa Rica, 2014, 26’


Men have been searching for gold in the rivers of the OsaPeninsula in Costa Rica for over sixty years. Thirty years ago, inthe name of conservation, these men were expelled from the newlyestablished Corcovado National Park. Modern day pariahs, thegold panners continue to move rock and sift through sand as theytry to survive in the rain forest.

10:25 amPINOCHET ERA - DEMOCRATIZATION – CHILE

Ulises’ Odyssey / La Odisea de UlisesLorena Manriquez, Miguel Picker, dirs.Chile-USA, 2014, 67’Spanish & English w/English subtitles

Can a 30-year-old rift be healed? Filmmaker LoreManriquez is torn between the story she was taught as a girChile, and the truth she begins to unravel as a young womanthe United States. Her father is a former army ofcer and a

supporter of Pinochet. Her Uncle Ulises is a former union leaand leftist, who supported democratically elected PresidAllende. The lm follows the lmmaker’s gradual understand

of her family and of history.

11:40 amMINING - WOMEN - PALLIRIS – DOMITILA BARRIOS DECHUNGARA – BOLIVIA

Mujeres de la mina / Women of the MiMalena Bystrowicz, Loreley UnamunoArgentina, Bolivia, 62’


Portrait of three women who lived and worked on the miof Cerro Rico de Potosí, Bolivia, the emblem of colonial plundDomitila Barrios de Chungara, one of the rst revolutionary wom

who died in 2012; Lucía Armijo, miner leader and single mothesix children; and Francisca Gonzalez woman miner, granddaughdaughter and widow of miners. The Uruguayan writer EduaGaleano surrounds with lucid poetry the daily real life of these womwho face, every day, death and fear.



12:50 pmENVIRONMENT - BIODIVERSITY – INDIGENOUS SURVIVAL –FOREST LAW

Gran ChacoLucas Van Esso, dir.Argentina, 2014, 66’

Spanish & Wichí, w/English subtitles

The lm focuses on man’s action on nature. It’s about

the extermination of a productive and healthy ecosystem, aboutdenouncing production systems, and about the Forest Law.But above all, it’s about rescuing indigenous communities and

valuing them.

Saturday 30

2:00 pmCLASS – RACE – YOUTH - BRAZIL

Eles Voltam / They’ll Come BackMarcelo Lordello, dir.Brazil, 2012, 105’

Portuguese w/English subtitles

Cris, aged twelve, and her older brother are left at the sideof the road by their parents. Very quickly the punishment turns intoan even greater challenge. The lm follows Cris as she attempts to

nd her way back home. It is a journey through a series of different

realities, guided by the people that inhabit them. A modern day fable,lled with realistic overtones, and the story of Cris’s self-discovery.

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A documentary if not otherwise indicated/ Documental si no se especica

All films will be screenedin Auditorium @ Caribe Hilton

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Fiction - Ficción

LASA Award of Merit in Film

Short - Corto

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