Argentina • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Cuba

Suriname
TITLE: “A Historical Journey with Cynthia
McLeod”
RUNTIME:
GENRE:
DIRECTOR & CAST:
SYNOPSIS: Suriname’s most celebrated historical
novelist, Cynthia McLeod, has found a unique way of
sharing with Surinam’s youth the history of their nation.
For this documentary she engaged the students of a local
high school. A journey that carries us from the colonialists
and Paramaribo, through a boat trip over the river Commewijne, to tales of
Hindu and Javanese immigrants.
Trinidad & Tobago
TITLE: “Coolie, Pink and Green”
RUNTIME: 25 min
GENRE: Fiction
DIRECTOR & CAST: Patricia Mohammed (2009)
SYNOPSIS: A young Indian girl in Trinidad, a small island
in the Caribbean, is torn between the ancient culture of
her ancestors and the multicultural world of the modern
society in which she has grown up. Told in a mix of poetry
and prose, against the haunting sounds of Indian classical
and chutney music, Coolie Pink and Green is the universal
tale of the children of migrants who must carve out their
own identity in the place they call home.
TITLE: “JAB”
RUNTIME: 46 min
GENRE: Documentary
DIRECTOR & CAST: Alex de Verteuil
SYNOPSIS: Kooto, “King Devil” of rural Paramin is getting
ready for Trinidad’s famous Carnival. Every year he and
his brothers play “Jab”. They become ‘possessed’,
harassing bystanders, ripping up banana trees, blowing
fire. But does Kootoo still have it in him to retain his
title or will the younger Jabs be the better of him? With
a soundtrack of traditional Trinidadian folk-songs and
calypsos, this exquisitely filmed documentary provides an intimate and
humorous portrait of a unique Trinidadian community.
Uruguay
TITLE: “El Baño del Papa”/ “The Pope’s Toilet”
RUNTIME: 90 min
GENRE: Drama / Comedy
DIRECTOR & CAST: César Charlone y Enrique
Fernández (2007)
César Troncoso, Virginia Méndez
SYNOPSIS: In Melo, a poor Uruguayan country village
near the Brazilian border, several men earn their living
from contraband, mostly transported on bicycles. One of
them, Beto, is getting too old for heavy freights but hopes
to earn a motorbike. The idea is to build and charge money for the use of
a proper lavatory at the occasion of the first-ever papal visit to Uruguay, as
is Holiness is expected to pass through Melo where he may be cheered by
hordes of Catholic pilgrims.
TITLE: “Jamás Leí a Onetti” / “I Never Read
Onetti”
RUNTIME: 78 min
GENRE: Documentary
DIRECTOR & CAST: Pablo Dotta (2010) Dolly Onetti,
Eduardo Galeano
SYNOPSIS: Tribute to the Uruguayan writer Juan
Carlos Onetti that recreates part of his legacy through
testimonies, words, drawings and music. It also includes
a reflection, which seeks to understand the methods and
conclusions of a creative process.
Argentina • Brazil • Chile • Colombia • Cuba
Ecuador • Jamaica • Mexico • Peru • Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago • Uruguay • Venezuela
Free Entrance
Collect your free ticket at the
university on the day of screening
Jhb: 06-13 Oct 2011
University of Johannesburg
Faculty of Arts, Design &
Architecture (FADA) Building
Pta: 11-17 Nov 2011
University of Pretoria
LIER Theatre
PRETORIA: LIER Theatre, TUKS
Friday, 11 November 2011
19:00
Venezuela:
I Like It
JOHANNESBURG: FACULTY OF ARTS,
DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE (FADA)
BUILDING, UJ
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Saturday, 12 November 2011
19:00
15:00
Ecuador:
Yasuni ITT
Deporting
Prometeo
Friday, 7 October 2011
15:00
Argentina:
Two Brothers
17:00
Chile:
Chile Can Do it
17:00
Chile:
Chile Can Do It
19:00
Suriname:
A Historical
Journey with
C.McLeod
19:00
Jamaica:
Why do Jamaicans
run so fast?
Sunday, 13 November 2011
15:00
Trinidad &
Tobago:
Coolie, Pink and
Green
Jab
17:00
Mexico:
A Wall for Cecilia
19:00
Uruguay:
The Pope’s Toilet
Brazil:
Monday, 10 October 2011
17:00
Ecuador:
Yasuni ITT
Deporting
Prometeo
19:00
Colombia:
A Paper Tiger
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
17:00
Suriname:
A Historical
Journey with
C.McLeod
19:00
Cuba:
Love by Mistake
Monday, 14 November 2011
15:00
Colombia:
A Paper Tigre
17:00
Peru:
Crossing a Shadow
19:00
Cuba:
Love by Mistake
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
15:00
Mexico:
To the Sea
17:00
Argentina:
Two Brothers
19:00
Venezuela
TITLE: “A Mí Me Gusta” / “I Like It”
RUNTIME: 90 min
GENRE: Comedy / Romance
DIRECTOR & CAST: Ralph Kinnard Mónica Pasqualotto,
Jonathan Ashford
SYNOPSIS: Margarita dreams of becoming a successful
chef, but she is completely convinced that she will not be
able to obtain it in her own country; for that reason she is
leaving everything achieved in Venezuela, to go to London.
There she finds a very different reality, nothing is like she ever imagined.
On returning to Caracas, she begins form scratch between failures and
refusals, but a new opportunity is presented: working with Paul Welsare,
an English chef she admired while her studies in London. Everything gets
complicated because Paul and Margarita are so much opposite poles in
personalities, family values, friendships and languages; but maybe love will
finally unite them.
Brazil:
Central Do Brasil
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
15:00
Uruguay:
I Never Read Onetti
17:00
Jamaica:
Why do Jamaicans
run so fast?
19:00
Colombia:
A Paper Tigre
Thursday, 17 November 2011
15:00
Jamaica:
Ghett’a Life
17:00
Chile:
Chile Can Do It
19:00
Suriname:
A Historical
Journey with
C.McLeod
Central Do Brazil
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
17:00
Trinidad &
Tobago:
Coolie, Pink and
Green
Jab
19:00
Mexico:
To the Sea
Thursday, 13 October 2011
15:00
Venezuela:
I like it
17:00
Peru:
Crossing a Shadow
19:00
Uruguay:
The Pope’s Toilet
ARGENTINA
TITLE: “Dos Hermanos” /“Brother and Sister”
RUNTIME: 105 min
GENRE: Drama / Comedy
DIRECTOR & CAST: Daniel Burman (2010); Antonio
Gasalla, Graciela Borges, Elena Lucero
SYNOPSIS: They are both alone. They need each other
but, at the same time, they despise each other. Siblings
Marcos and Susana are unable to heal the old wounds
festering within them after the death of their mother.
When Susana sells their mother’s flat, she deprives her
brother of the home where he had cared for their mother his whole life.
Marcos’s need to start living again surfaces when his sister forces him to
leave Buenos Aires for Uruguay.
Jamaica
Brazil
TITLE: “Central do Brasil” / “Central Station”
RUNTIME: 113 min
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR & CAST: Walter Salles (1998) Fernanda
Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira
SYNOPSIS: An emotive journey of a former school
teacher, who write letters for illiterate people, and a
young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the
father he never knew.
TITLE: “Ghett’a Life”
RUNTIME:
GENRE: Action / Drama
DIRECTOR & CAST: Chris Browne (2010) Winston Bell,
Kevoy Burton
SYNOPSIS: Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Kingston’s
inner city, Ghett’a Life explores one boy’s attempt to achieve
boxing glory, despite the political divide that threatens to tear
his community and country apart. His journey takes him on a
path that will force him to defy his family and his community
and the result will either destroy him or bring his community together.
Chile
TITLE: “Chile Puede” / “Chile Can Do It”
RUNTIME: 85 min
GENRE: Comedy / SciFi
DIRECTOR & CAST: Ricardo Larraín (2007) Boris
Quercia, Javiera Contador
SYNOPSIS: The businessman who sends the first Chilean
astronaut into outer space can’t quite come up with the
money to bring the adventurer back.
Colombia
TITLE: “Un Tigre de Papel” / “A Paper Tiger”
RUNTIME: 114 min
GENRE: Documentary
DIRECTOR & CAST: Luis Ospina (2007) Arturo Alape, Jotamario Arbeláez
SYNOPSIS: Pedro Manrique Figueroa, pioneer of collage
in Colombia, has never had a biographer. For a very simple
reason: his life is like an adventure novel that is both
incomplete and contradictory, constantly linked to the
sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition. Taking Manrique
Figueroa’s life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary
takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until
1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view. A Paper Tiger is
itself a collage, where art and politics rub shoulders, where truth and lies
are placed
Cuba
TITLE: “Perfecto Amor Equivocado” /
“Love by Mistake”
RUNTIME: 91 min
GENRE: Comedy
DIRECTOR & CAST: Gerardo Chijona (2004) Luis Alberto
García, Susana Pérez
SYNOPSIS: Julio del Toro, a successful writer nudging
fifty, has always had his wife Miriam, his daughter Milly,
his lover Silvia and obviously his career completely under
his control, until one day, on returning from one of his
frequent trips abroad he sees this reassuring, coherent world collapse: his
daughter has started a sentimental relationship with a Spaniard older than
him; his lover gives him a serious ultimatum; a young journalist starts to
prepare a report on his work questioning whether or not he is finished as
a creator. Then the real problem of this writer comes to the surface; his
incapacity to make decisions, to adapt to new contexts, his insecurity in
relation to his own life.
Ecuador
TITLE: “Yasuni / ITT An Iniciative for Life”
RUNTIME: 91 min
GENRE: Science / Environment
DIRECTOR & CAST: María Espinosa
SYNOPSIS: A short documentary about the Yasuni Natural
Park and the efforts of the Government of Ecuador to
protect a unique “biosphere reserve” (UNESCO).
Ecuador
TITLE: “Prometeo Deportado” / “Deporting
Prometeus”
RUNTIME: 130 min
GENRE: Drama / Comedy
DIRECTOR & CAST: Fernando Mieles (2008) Peki Andino, Andrés Crespo
SYNOPSIS: In a “first world” airport the arrival of an aircraft
is heard. The “Members of the European Union” pass
by immigration without any trouble, while the “others”,
in another line, wait. In the middle of claims, a group of
Ecuadorians is arrested. Immigration guards escort them
through long and cold hallways to an uncertain destiny. They are going to be
deported. Everyone hides something, like Prometeo, a young man with his
hands tied like a delinquent and with a magical trunk as luggage.
TITLE: “Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast?”
RUNTIME:
GENRE: Documentary
DIRECTOR & CAST: Miguel Galofré (2009)
SYNOPSIS: This documentary tries to find an explanation
for the unprecedented success of the Jamaican sprinters at
the 2008 Olympics. The documentary tells the exceptional
story of the world’s strongest sprinting nation and features
exclusive interviews with the Jamaican medal winners, their
coaches and their fans. They provide unusual and sometimes
hilarious answers. Why Do Jamaicans Run So Fast? also
offers a unique insight in Jamaican society.
Mexico
TITLE: “ALAMAR” /“To the Sea”
RUNTIME: 73 min
GENRE: Drama /Family
DIRECTOR & CAST: Pedro González Rubio (2010)
Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini
SYNOPSIS: This highly acclaimed and already multi-awardwinning work follows the last summer little Natan will spend
in Mexico with his father before he moves to Rome with his
Italian mother. Off the coral reef of Banco Chinchorro, the boy
learns about the land and water around him, guided by his
father and grandfather. This is poetic filmmaking that foregrounds the peace and
beauty of a fragile environment.
TITLE: “Una Pared Para Cecilia” / “A Wall for
Cecilia”
RUNTIME: 90 min
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR & CAST: Hugo Rodríguez (2009) Jimena Guerra,
Vladimir Zamudio
SYNOPSIS: Cecilia is looking for a form of artistic
expression. She does not want to have children, as they
would get in the way of her development as an artist. A failed
robbery attempt brings her into contact with Rafael, a ten
year- old Mexican-American who cannot return to the United
States. Despite themselves, they develop a mother-son relationship. This is a
story about motherhood and the search for meaning.
Peru
TITLE: “Una Sombra Al Frente” / “Crossing a
Shadow”
RUNTIME: 135 min
GENRE: Drama
DIRECTOR & CAST: Augusto Tamayo (2007) Diego Bertie,
Vanessa Saba
SYNOPSIS: Enrique Aet is a young civil engineer dedicated
to the building of roads and systems that will allow
communication with the distant Peruvian Amazonia, at the beginnings of the
XX century, in times of progress and construction in a Republic that is trying
to integrate a difficult territory. Of strong and vigorous character Aet embodies
the will to communicate, even in the face of despairing personal, political and
geographical obstacles. In the midst of those hard circumstances Aet, driven by
a strict sense of duty and responsibility, will have to choose between conflicting
interest of work, family and love. The decisions he takes, derived from his
most personal convictions, will face him with heartbreaking options and tragic
situations. His character will eventually be a reflection of the world he inhabits;
his personal and inner tensions will be a reflection of the social tensions of the
context within which he lives.