HORIZONTES LATINOS Horizontes Selection Made in Spain Films

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HORIZONTES LATINOS
Horizontes Selection
UNA NOVIA ERRANTE (A Stray Girlfriend), Ana Katz (Argentina)
LA ANTENA (The Aerial), Esteban Sapir (Argentina)
AÑO UÑA (Year of the Nail), Jonás Cuarón (Mexico)
EL ASALTANTE (The Mugger), Pablo Fendrik (Argentina)
AURORA BOREAL , Sergio Tovar Velarde (Mexico)
BAIXIO DAS BESTAS / BOG OF BEASTS , Cláudio Assis (Brazil)
EL BAÑO DEL PAPA (The Pope’s Toilet), Enrique Fernández, César Charlone (Uruguay - Brazil - France)
EL BÚFALO DE LA NOCHE (The Night Buffalo), Jorge Hernández Aldana (Mexico)
A CASA DE ALICE , Chico Teixeira (Brazil)
FIESTAPATRIA , Luis R. Vera (Chile - Peru)
LAS NIÑAS (The Girls), Rodrigo Marín (Chile)
OTÁVIO E AS LETRAS (Otavio and the Letters), Marcelo Masagão (Brazil)
PÁRPADOS AZULES (Blue Eyelids), Ernesto Contreras (Mexico)
POR SUS PROPIOS OJOS (Through Her Own Eyes), Liliana Paolinelli (Argentina)
LA SANGRE ILUMINADA (Enlightened Blood), Iván Ávila Dueñas (Mexico)
SATANÁS (Satan), Andrés Baiz (Colombia)
A VIA LÁCTEA (The Milky Way), Lina Chamie (Brazil)
EL VIAJE DE LA NONNA (Nonna’s Trip), Sebastián Silva (Mexico)
Made in Spain
BAJO LAS ESTRELLAS (Under the Stars), Félix Viscarret (Spain)
BOLBORETA, MARIPOSA, PAPALLONA , Pablo García (Spain)
DE PROFUNDIS , Miguelanxo Prado (Spain - Portugal)
DOS MIRADAS (Two Looks), Sergio Candel (Spain)
LA INFLUENCIA (The Influence), Pedro Aguilera (Spain - Mexico)
INVISIBLES , Mariano Barroso, Isabel Coixet, Javier Corcuera, Fernando León de Aranoa, Wim Wenders (Spain)
LADRONES (Thieves), Jaime Marques Olarreaga (Spain)
LA LÍNEA RECTA (The Straight Line), José María de Orbe (Spain)
UNA MUJER INVISIBLE (An Invisible Woman), Gerardo Herrero (Spain)
PUDOR , David Ulloa, Tristán Ulloa (Spain)
LA SOLEDAD (Loneliness), Jaime Rosales (Spain)
TERESA, EL CUERPO DE CRISTO (Teresa, the Body of Christ), Ray Loriga (Spain - UK - France)
UNO DE LOS DOS NO PUEDE ESTAR EQUIVOCADO (One of Us Cannot Be Wrong), Pablo Llorca (Spain)
¿Y TÚ QUIÉN ERES? (And Who Are You?), Antonio Mercero (Spain)
YO (Me), Rafa Cortés (Spain)
Films in Progress
ACNÉ (Acne), Federico Veiroj (Uruguay - Argentina - Spain - Mexico)
LA EXTRANJERA (The Foreigner), Fernando Díaz (Argentina)
A FESTA DA MENINA MORTA (The Dead Girl’s Party), Matheus Nachtergaele (Brazil - Argentina - Portugal)
GASOLINA (Gasoline), Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala)
UNA SEMANA SOLOS (A Week Alone), Celina Murga (Argentina)
SOL NA NEBLINA (Sun in the Mist), Werner Schumann (Brazil)
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HORIZONTES SELECTION
UNA NOVIA ERRANTE
(A Stray Girlfriend)
Director: Ana Katz · Screenplay: Inés Bortagaray, Ana Katz · Photography: Lucio Bonelli · Cast: Ana Katz, Carlos Portaluppi, Daniel Hendler,
Catherine Biquard, Arturo Goetz
Running time: 90 m. · Argentina
Ines and her boyfriend have a bitter argument while travelling on a long-distance bus. They are going off-season to Mar de las Pampas, a
resort where they have planned to spend a short holiday. The bus stops. Ines gets off carrying her heavy bag across her shoulder, suddenly
realising that her boyfriend hasn't followed her. The bus leaves. She's alone on the open road. Ines wanders through the woods, learns
archery and meets kind strangers who become ephemeral friends. Meanwhile, she tries to win back the man she loves. Winner of the
Industry Award at Films in Progress 10 and selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes Festival.
LA ANTENA
(The Aerial)
Director: Esteban Sapir · Screenplay: Esteban Sapir · Photography: Cristian Cottet · Cast: Valeria Bertuccelli, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Julieta
Cardinali, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi
An entire city loses its voice as it endures the throes of a long, harsh winter. The evil, unscrupulous Mr. TV, sole owner of the images on the
local screens and of a wide range of goods made under his own personal label, implements a sinister secret plan to eternally dominate each
of the souls inhabiting the place. To achieve his wicked ends, he pays for the creation of a dangerous machine transmitting hypnotic TV
images inducing compulsive purchase of the products bearing his brand name. Second feature film from the director of Picado fino (1994).
AÑO UÑA
(Year of the Nail)
Director: Jonás Cuarón · Screenplay: Jonás Cuarón · Photography: Alexis Zabé · Cast: Diego Cataño, Eireann Harper, Salvador Elizondo,
Michèle Alban, Cristina Orozco
Running time: 82 m. · Mexico
Año Uña is the impossible romance between Molly, a 21-year-old American, and Diego, a Mexican in the throes of puberty. Molly travels to
Mexico, where she rents a room in Diego's house. A close relationship immediately develops between the two. Diego, who had previously
been consumed by desire for his cousin, Emilia, redirects his obsession towards Molly. Molly enjoys Diego's flirtations, finding the attention
and respect missing from her relationships with other boyfriends. The relationship continues to grow until Molly returns to New York. Diego
decides to run away and win Molly's heart. First feature film by Alfonso Cuarón's son, told based on the photographs which he himself took
over a one-year period.
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EL ASALTANTE
(The Mugger)
Director: Pablo Fendrik · Screenplay: Pablo Fendrik · Photography: Cobi Migliora · Cast: Arturo Goetz, Bárbara Lombardo, Maya Lesca,
Guillermo Arengo, Germán De Silva
The entire action of El asaltante takes place in a single morning. A man is about to implement a meticulously prepared plan. The camera
follows him throughout. The audience becomes a privileged witness to the most intimate moments of anxiety and despair preceding a life or
death decision. Selected for Films in Progress 11 and for the Cannes Critics' Week and Award for Best Actor (Arturo Goetz) at the Buenos
Aires Festival.
AURORA BOREAL
Director: Sergio Tovar Velarde · Screenplay: Sergio Tovar Velarde · Photography: Ricardo Benet · Cast: José Luis Martínez, Renato Bartilotti,
Miguel Ramos Arizpe, Erika Rosales, Eduardo Chávez Hopkins
In the Mexico of 1994, Mariano, a tormented teenager, has decided to kill himself, but not before first of all recording himself on video
explaining his reasons for doing so. The result is a nostalgic, moving portrayal of the soul of a young boy seeking redemption for a family
tragedy sparked by himself years earlier. Selected for Films in Progress 11.
BAIXIO DAS BESTAS / BOG OF BEASTS
Director: Cláudio Assis · Screenplay: Cláudio Assis · Photography: Walter Carvalho · Cast: Mariah Teixeira, Fernando Teixeira, Caio Blat
Running time: 82 m. · Brazil
Baixio das Bestas is a small community entrenched within its secular culture, and paralysed within its own authority and morality: a
decadent land-owning culture. The little urban centres surrounding our small village radiate a certain idea of the future, of possibilities. The
Old Grandfather, Heitor, is an ambiguous moralist. He earns a little money by invading the privacy of his young grand-daughter, Auxiliadora.
Cicero is a young man who lives in a town including the district of Baixio das Bestas. He is the son of a well-known local family. Once he has
set eyes on Auxiliadora he has an uncontrollable desire to have her. Winner of the Tiger for Best Film at Rotterdam Festival.
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EL BAÑO DEL PAPA
(The Pope’s Toilet)
Director: Enrique Fernández, César Charlone · Screenplay: Enrique Fernández · Photography: César Charlone · Cast: César Troncoso,
Virginia Méndez, Virginia Ruiz, Mario Silva, Henry de León
Running time: 97 m. · Uruguay - Brazil - France
It's 1988 and Pope John Paul II is on the point of visiting Melo; 50,000 people are expected to attend. The poorest locals believe that selling
food and drink to the multitude will just about set them up for life. Beto, however, decides to build a toilet in front of his house and charge
for its use. Selected for Films in Progress 9 and for Un Certain Regard at Cannes Festival.
EL BÚFALO DE LA NOCHE
(The Night Buffalo)
Director: Jorge Hernández Aldana · Screenplay: Jorge Hernández Aldana, Guillermo Arriaga · Photography: Héctor Ortega · Cast: Diego
Luna, Liz Gallardo, Gabriel González, Irene Azuela, Emilio Echevarria, Camila Sodi
Gregorio is a 22-year-old schizophrenic with two great loves: his adored girlfriend Tania, and his best and trusted friend, Manuel. While
Gregorio goes in and out of psychiatric hospitals, Manuel and Tania start meeting in secret, striking up an intense romance behind his back
and eventually falling in love. Gregorio commits suicide, but not before designing a plan to drive the lovers into the depths of madness.
A CASA DE ALICE
Director: Chico Teixeira · Screenplay: Chico Teixeira · Photography: Mauro Pinheiro Jr. · Cast: Carla Ribas, Berta Zemel, Zécarlos Machado,
Vinicius Zinn, Ricardo Vilaça
São Paulo, in a working-class district. Alice, a 40-year-old woman and manicurist has been married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver.
They live with Alice's mother, who cooks, cleans, and does the household laundry, listening all day to her favourite radio programme. Alice
and Lindomar have 3 children living with them. Alice's marriage is undergoing a crisis and Lindomar doesn't try to hide his adventures with
teenage girls. None of the three siblings pay much attention to their mother and they treat their grandmother with lack of respect. Alice's
life in the female working world contrasts strongly with the powerful masculine presence in her home. Selected for Films in Progress 9
(2006). TVE Award at Films in Progress 10. Participated in the Panorama Section of Berlin Festival. Earned a Special Mention from the
Grand Jury at Miami Festival and the Special Jury Prize, Award for Best Actress and Fipresci Award at Guadalajara Festival.
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FIESTAPATRIA
Director: Luis R. Vera · Screenplay: Luis R. Vera · Photography: Alfredo García · Cast: Adela Secall, Marcela Osorio, Nelson Brodt, Tatiana
Astengo, Patricio Contreras
Running time: 102 m. · Chile - Peru
Fiestapatria is a metaphor on the social and moral state of Chile and a provocative testimony of the period from the start of the Pinochet
dictatorship until today. Featuring a gallery of characters representative of Chilean society, the movie tells the tale of two families who meet
at a country house to celebrate the national holidays and the engagement of their children, Macarena and Alvaro. Shortly before the
expected happy ending to the event, the young Macarena discovers the family's best kept secret. Selected for Films in Progress 10, winner
of the TVE award in this section.
LAS NIÑAS
(The Girls)
Director: Rodrigo Marín · Screenplay: Rodrigo Marín · Photography: Fernando Solís · Cast: Antonia Santa María, Sofía Oportot
Running time: 72 m. · Chile
An intimate, realistic tale about the relationship between two women. A disease, an apartment and music. A little window looking out onto
the enormous, complex landscape of the contemporary female soul. A production with only 20 pages of screenplay, 24-hours of filming,
three digital cameras and two actresses who had never met before they started shooting. A daring proposal from new Chilean cinema.
Selected for Films in Progress 11.
OTÁVIO E AS LETRAS
(Otavio and the Letters)
Director: Marcelo Masagão · Screenplay: Andrea Menezes, Marcelo Masagão · Photography: Thiago Lage · Cast: Doninette Mazonas, Arieta
Corrêa, Fábio Malavoglia
Otavio silences all the words and has one special way of capturing the feminine beauty. The film is a disturbing diagnosis of a city and its
population sick from their writing, letters and graphics. We are being drowned and we are drowning ourselves in our writing, in our graphics,
in our representations. We suffer profoundly from this evil. And the film says: "This is how we are living today"; it doesn't explain, it doesn't
analyse - it leaves us alone with our disease. It's a disease that comes from afar, that keeps on eating at us, bit by bit. Selected for Films in
Progress 11.
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PÁRPADOS AZULES
(Blue Eyelids)
Director: Ernesto Contreras · Screenplay: Carlos Contreras · Photography: Tonatiuh Martínez · Cast: Cecilia Suárez, Enrique Arreola, Ana
Ofelia Murguía, Tiaré Scanda, Luisa Huertas
Winning a dream holiday for two in a place called Playa Salamandra, Marina realises that she has no-one to share it with and decides to
invite Victor, a complete strange, to go with her. Together they discover that to fall in love they don't need idyllic settings or ideal situations;
there's no way you can gaze lovingly into someone else's eyes without that special something. Selected for Films in Progress 10, Best
Ibero-American Feature Film, Award for Best Screenplay and Youth Award at Guadalajara Festival, Critics' Week at Cannes Festival.
POR SUS PROPIOS OJOS
(Through Her Own Eyes)
Director: Liliana Paolinelli · Screenplay: Liliana Paolinelli · Photography: Martín Mohadeb · Cast: Ana Carabajal, Luisa Núñez, Maximiliano
Gallo, Mara Santucho
A film student is writing her thesis on prisoners' wives. She meets a woman who asks her to visit her son in jail in exchange for an interview.
Despite trying to get out of the situation, she finally enters the prison to find that their two worlds clash. Films in Progress 11 Award.
LA SANGRE ILUMINADA
(Enlightened Blood)
Director: Iván Ávila Dueñas · Screenplay: José Ignacio Valenzuela · Photography: Ciro Cabello, Alejandro Cantú · Cast: Gustavo Sánchez
Parra, Jostein Roustand, Enoc Leaño, Flor Payán, Jorge Zárate
Six characters tell us about their strange shared life. Every so often, a rare mathematical phenomenon situates them before specific
coordinates. At the centre of this crossing, one life changes to be continued in the body of another. At the crossing of two roads, a strange
mutation takes place. It's time for a new corporal change for one of these six characters, who narrate their complex existence through their
switching from one body to another, forming a network of collective memories and experiences. From the director of Adán y Eva (todavía).
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SATANÁS
(Satan)
Director: Andrés Baiz · Screenplay: Andi Baiz · Photography: Mauricio Vidal · Cast: Damián Alcázar, Marcela Mar, Blas Jaramillo, Teresa
Gutiérrez
Running time: 95 m. · Colombia
Passion, violence and secrets clash when three characters put their dreams and fears to the test. A beautiful woman swindles rich men in
the quest for a better life. A priest, madly in love with his housekeeper, is tormented with the burden of a secret confided to him by a woman
from his congregation. A bitter teacher and war veteran dreams of shaking off the tedium with one of his pupils. Their actions will have
devastating consequences. First feature by Andrés Baiz, chosen to represent Colombia in the Academy Award pre-selection for Best Film in
a Foreign Language.
A VIA LÁCTEA
(The Milky Way)
Director: Lina Chamie · Screenplay: Aleksei Abib, Lina Chamie · Photography: Kátia Coelho · Cast: Marco Ricca, Alice Braga, Fernando Alves
Pinto
Heitor and Julia are a couple. It's late afternoon in São Paulo and they are having a violent argument over the phone. Heitor decides to go
and see her to sort things out face to face. Beside himself with worry, he jumps into the car and sets off for her house. On the way there, in
the streets of São Paulo at the start of the evening rush hour, Heitor observes the city and the city starts interfering in his thoughts. Winner
of the Casa de America Award at Films in Progress 10 (2006), and selected for Cannes Critics’ Week.
EL VIAJE DE LA NONNA
(Nonna’s Trip)
Director: Sebastián Silva · Screenplay: Antonio Armonía · Photography: Guillermo Rosas · Cast: Ana Ofelia Murguía, Verónica Langer,
Rodrigo Murray, Julio Bracho, Jimena Ayala
La Nonna, grandmother to the Todaro family, forgets everything. Everything that is except wanting to go to Italy, birthplace of her beloved
deceased husband, with the whole family, before her mind obliterates their memory too. Cornered by La Nonna's insistence and wanting to
grant her a last wish, they decide to take her on the journey she longs for so badly. They all set out on an adventure in search of images for
the grandmother's memory; a voyage of twists and surprises, but, above all, of love. What matters most, that she goes or that she
remembers she went?
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BAJO LAS ESTRELLAS
(Under the Stars)
Director: Félix Viscarret · Screenplay: Félix Viscarret · Photography: Alvaro Gutiérrez · Cast: Alberto San Juan, Emma Suárez, Julián
Villagrán, Violeta Rodríguez, Amparo Valle
Running time: 108 m. · Spain
When Benito Lacunza, a 30-something-year-old drunken waster who gets by as he can in Madrid, is obliged to return to his native Estella for
a few days, he discovers that his kind-hearted, almost mystical brother Lalo, intends to marry Nines, a single mother with a rough
background. Although Benito resolves to scupper the wedding, his plans bite the dust on meeting Nines’ daughter, Ainara, a borderline
autistic child with whom he strikes up an unusual friendship.
BOLBORETA, MARIPOSA, PAPALLONA
Director: Pablo García · Screenplay: Pablo García · Photography: Beth Rourich · Cast: Fele Martínez, Tzeitel Rodríguez, David Benito
Victor and Laura (a film director and his assistant) travel to a small seaside town on the coast of Galicia to carry out an ambitious movie
project endeavouring to capture the love and beauty of everyday things, but they don’t get it finished. From their open, childlike point of
view, girls and boys try to use that filmed material to achieve what the ambition of the adult director was unable to do: catch life.
DE PROFUNDIS
Director: Miguelanxo Prado · Screenplay: Miguelanxo Prado ·
Running time: 75 m. · Spain - Portugal
Once upon a time there was a house in the middle of the sea where a woman melancholically played the cello as she waited. She was waiting
for her lover, an artist who always wanted to be a sailor so that he could take to the seas with the jellyfish, the starfish and the
multi-coloured species he dreamt of in his paintings. His fascination led him to set out on a journey to discover the thrilling beauty and
mysteries of the depths, following which neither of the two were sure if they would meet again.
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DOS MIRADAS
(Two Looks)
Director: Sergio Candel · Screenplay: Sergio Candel · Photography: Xabier Iriondo · Cast: Marta Larralde, Pilar Alonso
Dos miradas takes place in a day, in the San Pedro de Atacama desert (Chile). Sofia and Laura have decided to spend their holidays there
enjoying the peace and quiet. But the harmony of the place is disturbed when a sexual encounter emerges between the two.
LA INFLUENCIA
(The Influence)
Director: Pedro Aguilera · Screenplay: Pedro Aguilera · Photography: Arnau Valls Colomer · Cast: Paloma Morales, Romeo Manzanedo,
Jimena Jiménez, Mariel Sanjosé, Alvaro Moltó
Running time: 83 m. · Spain - Mexico
This is the story of a disoriented and vulnerable woman, overburdened with everyday problems: her belongings are impounded, her
cosmetics shop is closed, and her children are forced to go to comprehensive school. The children’s vitality draws a sharp contrast to the
apathy of their mother as she slowly sinks into deep depression. The kids, aware that she lacks the necessary strength and maturity to
effectively face these problems, are forced to adopt adult attitudes. Life goes on, and things change. Sometimes the changes are slow and
unnoticeable, at others they are sharp and tangible.
INVISIBLES
Director: Mariano Barroso, Isabel Coixet, Javier Corcuera, Fernando León de Aranoa, Wim Wenders · Screenplay: Mariano Barroso, Isabel
Coixet, Javier Corcuera, Elena García Quevedo, Fernando León de Aranoa, Wim Wenders · Photography: David Omedes, Emili Guirao, Jordi
Abusada, Alberto Venzago ·
This a story about different stories. A look at those we refuse to see. An endeavour to give a voice to many of those left mute by
indifference. And a humble tribute to those others who have always kept a close eye on them. But it is above all an attempt by five directors
to bring visibility to their only real heroes, to those we believe and prefer to continue considering to be invisible. Isabel Coixet looks at the
chagas disease in Bolivia; Mariano Barroso, at sleeping sickness in the Central African Republic; Fernando Leon de Aranoa, at the children
targeted by war in Uganda; Javier Corcuera, at the trauma left by violence in Colombia; and Wim Wenders, at rape in Congo.
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LADRONES
(Thieves)
Director: Jaime Marques Olarreaga · Screenplay: Jaime Marques Olarreaga, Juan Ibáñez · Photography: David Azcona · Cast: Juan José
Ballesta, María Valverde, Patrick Bauchau, María Ballesteros, Carlos Kaniowsky
Just out of orphanage, Alex steals his first wallet: it seems that his fate is to be the same as the cause of his separation from his mother,
who taught him to steal 10 years previously. Running into Sara, a novice kleptomaniac robbing in a supermarket, completely changes his
life. Alex suggests that they steal together and split their takings. But the apparent “professional” agreement hides a secret: they are
attracted to one another right from the very first moment and it’s only a question of time before their relationship develops into something
more. However, when they eventually do take the step, their worlds clash: Alex has no other future before him than that of living from day to
day. Sara, however, has plenty to lose: a family, the chance to study... In other words, a normal life. Like his mother did for him, Alex now has
to choose for her...
LA LÍNEA RECTA
(The Straight Line)
Director: José María de Orbe · Screenplay: José María de Orbe, Daniel Vázquez · Photography: David Valldepérez · Cast: Aina Calpe, Blanca
Apilánez
Noelia is not yet thirty. She lives in a Barcelona suburb. By night, she works in a petrol station. By day, she distributes advertising fliers to
houses. She has no free time.
Noelia quits her night job. She leaves the house she shares with Rosa. She never says goodbye to anyone. She leaves neither trail nor trace.
She doesn’t look for or have any friends.
Noelia is an anonymous character. Just another of the thousands of youngsters in the big city. Around her, Rosa, Lucas, the boss... All with
their little conflicts, their little dreams, struggling to survive by the day.
La línea recta is an urban story of which the heroine, Noelia, behaves like the city in which she lives, grows and progresses in an imaginary
straight line taking her from one job to another, one house to another, with no fixed direction, unstopping, tirelessly, and with no set course.
UNA MUJER INVISIBLE
(An Invisible Woman)
Director: Gerardo Herrero · Screenplay: Belén Gopegui · Photography: Alfredo Mayo · Cast: María Bouzas, Adolfo Fernández, Nuria Gago,
Tamar Novas, Carlos Blanco
Mobile phone company executive, Luisa, feels invisible at her 44 years of age: she lives alone, has been left by her husband and her daughter
studies away from home. At the works party, she’s ignored by Jorge, a colleague the same age as herself whose partner for the evening is
the young company phone salesgirl, Marina. Indignant, Luisa turns to an actress and to her table tennis coach to make herself noticed and
seduce Jorge.
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PUDOR
Director: David Ulloa, Tristán Ulloa · Screenplay: Tristán Ulloa · Photography: David Omedes · Cast: Nancho Novo, Elvira Mínguez, Natalia
Rodríguez, Celso Bugallo, Carolina Román
Pudor is a look at the intimacy of a family consisting of a man about to die, a woman who receives anonymous sex calls, a teenager
struggling with the doubts of her age, a boy who sees ghosts and a grandfather offered a last chance by love. They all live together, unable
to tell each other about the desires, fears, obsessions and secrets marking their respective lives; a modesty leading to lack of
communication and loneliness.
LA SOLEDAD
(Loneliness)
Director: Jaime Rosales · Screenplay: Jaime Rosales, Enric Rufas · Photography: Oscar Durán · Cast: Sonia Almarcha, Petra Martínez,
Miriam Correa, Nuria Mencía, María Bazán
Separated, Adela leaves her small native village in the north of Leon and moves to Madrid with her year-old son. To pay her way, she finds a
job as a hostess and moves into a flat with Carlos and Ines. The three hit it off immediately, sharing meals, doubts and their free time. Adela
doesn’t find it particularly difficult to adapt to city life, despite not receiving much financial help from Miguelito’s father. A terrorist attack
as she rides in a bus shatters her whole being. From then on, she has to find the strength to return to a normal life.
TERESA, EL CUERPO DE CRISTO
(Teresa, the Body of Christ)
Director: Ray Loriga · Screenplay: Ray Loriga · Photography: José Luis Alcaine · Cast: Paz Vega, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, José Luis
Gómez, Eusebio Poncela
Running time: 101 m. · Spain - UK - France
In 16th-century Spain, the daughter of a nobleman from Avila, Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada, refuses to accept her role as a woman in a
man’s world: she doesn’t want to be a mere wife and mother. She feels that there must be more. She wants to write, read and learn. She
enters a convent, searching for the “something” she needs so badly. But her disappointment couldn’t be greater: the convent walls conceal
exactly the same materialism and frivolity she is trying to escape. She decides to set out on a crusade of prayer and sacrifice initially
earning her the label of rebel and lunatic, before going on to become a leader, and finally, a saint.
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UNO DE LOS DOS NO PUEDE ESTAR EQUIVOCADO
(One of Us Cannot Be Wrong)
Director: Pablo Llorca · Screenplay: Pablo Llorca · Photography: Almudena Sánchez · Cast: Luis Miguel Cintra, Mónica López, Alberto
Jiménez, Pedro Casablanc, Paco Maestre
A film about films, or about the need we all have to tell stories. All of the characters spend their time telling, or listening to stories, told in
every thinkable way. Although the plot has a number of threads, the main one, seemingly started a few years previously in Beirut, is about
the Devil and Almudena, a television journalist. They fell in love with each other, but he panicked and stood her up on their second date.
Years later, the Devil reappears in Madrid to persuade Almudena to start anew with him. But she has a very stable life now and won’t be easy
to convince...
¿Y TÚ QUIÉN ERES?
(And Who Are You?)
Director: Antonio Mercero · Screenplay: Antonio Mercero · Photography: Gonzalo Berridi · Cast: Manuel Alexandre, José Luis López Vázquez,
Cristina Brondo, Álvaro de Luna, Monti Castiñeira
The Rivero family sets out on its summer holidays. Luis heads with his wife and two sons for San Sebastian, leaving his only daughter, Ana,
in Madrid with his father. Ana is studying for a public entrance competition and decides to stay in the capital to get as far ahead as she can
with her studies and be near her grandfather, Ricardo, who has been put into a home for the summer. In the home, Ricardo makes a new
friend with his roommate, Andres. Together, they recall their youth, giving rise to tender, amusing scenes. But Ricardo is increasingly
affected by Alzheimer’s Disease.
YO
(Me)
Director: Rafa Cortés · Screenplay: Alex Brendemühl, Rafa Cortés · Photography: David Valldepérez · Cast: Alex Brendemühl, Marga Grimalt,
Rafel Ramis, Heinz Hoenig, Maria Lanau
A Majorcan village. A new German worker. An unspoken suspicion. A job to keep. Yo is the tale of a man who, feeling accused of something
he hasn’t done, tries to demonstrate an innocence questioned by nobody. His endeavours to solve the situation lead him to confront the real
problem: himself.
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ACNÉ
(Acne)
Director: Federico Veiroj · Screenplay: Federico Veiroj · Photography: Bárbara Álvarez · Cast: Alejandro Tocar
Running time: 85 m. · Uruguay - Argentina - Spain - Mexico
Rafael Bregman (13) lost his virginity, but without having kissed a girl. To see his dream come true he has to do something about his acne,
struggle with his clumsiness, overcome his timidity, assume adolescence.
LA EXTRANJERA
(The Foreigner)
Director: Fernando Díaz · Screenplay: Fernando Díaz · Photography: Mariano Cuneo · Cast: Arnaldo André, María Laura Cali, Roly Serrano,
Norma Argentina
María is a shy and introverted Argentine woman who lives in Barcelona. When her grandfather and last relation dies, she finds herself
obliged to return to Indio Muerto, a remote village in the Argentine hinterlands. After a seemingly unending journey, María reaches the
ranch. The desolate solitude of this place is further emphasized by the ceaseless wind and whirling clouds of dust. Unexpectedly, María
decides to stay on.
A FESTA DA MENINA MORTA
(The Dead Girl’s Party)
Director: Matheus Nachtergaele · Screenplay: Matheus Nachtergaele, Hilton Lacerda · Photography: Lula Carvalho · Cast: Daniel de Oliveira,
Jackson Antunes, Cássia Kiss, Juliano Cazarré
Running time: 116 m. · Brazil - Argentina - Portugal
The film narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the
upper Amazonas state, after performing a "miracle" upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of the ones
who are involved in this sect and of the infinite human capacity of "fabricating" faith and seeking for some sense in the horrifying
experience of death.
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HORIZONTES LATINOS
FILMS IN PROGRESS
GASOLINA
(Gasoline)
Director: Julio Hernández Cordón · Screenplay: Julio Hernández Cordón · Photography: María Secco · Cast: Carlos Dardón, Gabriel Armas,
Francisco Jácome
Running time: 100 m. · Guatemala
Three adolescents travel in a car without course; they are low on fuel. During their ride they find that friendship is the border line between
treason, deceit and the ambivalent solidarity of youth. It is also an intimate story that puts forward news of an unplanned pregnancy and
shows how momentary lapses of sincerity and burden can define a young generation and portray a country.
UNA SEMANA SOLOS
(A Week Alone)
Director: Celina Murga · Screenplay: Celina Murga, Juan Villegas · Photography: Marcelo Lavintman · Cast: Magdalena Capobianco, Eleonora
Capobianco, Gastón Luparo, Ignacio Jiménez
A group of children (siblings and cousins of between 7 and 14 years of age) are left alone for several days in a house in a country (an
enclosed estate with private security surrounded by barbed wire, with sports installations and other services, plus its own rules of security
and coexistence), without their parents to look after them. This is the chronicle of these days, ranging from the everyday innocence of
childhood and the ferocity of their enclosure.
SOL NA NEBLINA
(Sun in the Mist)
Director: Werner Schumann · Screenplay: Werner Schumann · Photography: Rodrigo R. Chaves · Cast: Santos Chagas, Dani Oliveira, Rosana
Stávis, Florival Gomes
After separating from his wife and being kidnapped, Pedro tries a new life by the seaside in the south of Brazil. He'll meet a young girl there
who is victim of infantile prostitution and underage traffic.
Acknowledgements
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HORIZONTES LATINOS
Films in Progress
ACNÉ (Acne), Federico Veiroj (Uruguay - Argentina - Spain - Mexico)
LA EXTRANJERA (The Foreigner), Fernando Díaz (Argentina)
A FESTA DA MENINA MORTA (The Dead Girl’s Party), Matheus Nachtergaele (Brazil - Argentina - Portugal)
GASOLINA (Gasoline), Julio Hernández Cordón (Guatemala)
UNA SEMANA SOLOS (A Week Alone), Celina Murga (Argentina)
SOL NA NEBLINA (Sun in the Mist), Werner Schumann (Brazil)

HORIZONTES LATINOS Horizontes Selection Made in Spain Films

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