Partes de Una Familia (Parts of a Family)
Gonzalo and Gina live in a world of their own; a magnificent villa on a 4.000 m2 estate, in the outskirts of Mexico City. Walls with barbed wire keep the outside world far away. It's their son, filmmaker Diego Gutierrez who tells their story. Parts of a Family is a portrait of how a relationship between two people after many years can change from great love into a strangling imprisonment. It's a bittersweet and universal love story.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 22, 2014 - Tuesday = 3:30 PM
July 24, 2014 - Thursday = 5:30 PM
July 25, 2014 - Friday = 3:30 PM
Las Sufragistas (The Suffragettes)
In 2008, indigenous woman Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza claimed her right to vote and to be a candidate for mayoralty, but she was rejected. Eufrosina’s struggle revives Mexican women’s fight for their right to vote. More than fifty years after they won it, the suffragettes still have to defend women’s rights. This documentary is directed by Ana Cruz.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 22, 2014 - Tuesday = 5:30 PM
July 24, 2014 - Thursday = 3:30 PM
July 25, 2014 - Friday= 1:30 PM
Magic Words (Breaking a Spell)
Moncada lived in Nicaragua for 18 years and, as a child in 1979, witnessed the triumph of the Sandinista revolution. In this documentary, she uses Lake Managua as a metaphor for what her beloved Nicaragua has gone through, and has become, since this pivotal and promising moment in the country’s history. Her relationship to the revolution is intense and personal and so her feelings about it progress as it does, “from a childhood in which death is romantic and heroic to the deepest and most beautiful love, the pain of loss, betrayal and finally a void.” A poignant and engaging personal perspective on the Nicaraguan revolution.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 23, 2014 - Wednesday = 3:30 PM
July 25, 2014 - Friday = 5:30 PM
July 26, 2014 - Saturday = 1:30 PM
July 27, 2014 - Sunday = 11:30 PM
Espantapájaros (Scarecrow)
"Scarecrow" is the film's main character's job. An ancient occupation on the brink of extinction. Alejandro Tapia Catalan, or El Sapo, as he is known in the town, lives alone in a small cane house in the hills. His days tend to be lonely and contemplative and, over the years, he has developed a complex inner world. The camera follows him on one of his days working in the fields. The rhythm in the rice fields depict the typical life style of Southern Morelos in Mexico.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 23, 2014 - Wednesday = 5:30 PM
July 26, 2014 - Saturday = 11:30 PM
July 27, 2014 - Sunday = 1:30 PM
Cry, The Beloved Country
Based on a novel by South African author Alan Paton (the novel was also adapted in a 1951 film of the same title), this film is directed by Darrell Roodt, and stars James Earl Jones, Charles S. Dutton, and Richard Harris. The protagonist is Stephen Kumalo, a South-African priest from a rural Natal town, who is searching for his wayward son Absalom who has committed a crime in the city of Johannesburg.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 27, 2014 - Sunday = 3:30 PM
Über Wasser (About Water)
Documentary film-maker Udo Maurer takes us to the outskirts of human civilization and the stories of the dealings with the "wet element". From inundated Bangladesh, where houses turn into boats, to the steppe of Kazachstan, where fishing villages lie in the middle of the desert, and finally to the densely populated slums of Nairobi, where drinking water becomes a matter of life and death.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 26, 2014 - Saturday = 3:30 PM
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