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Barrio Cuba
Cuba Neighbourhood
PERLAS LATINAS
2005 I 105’ I Spanish I Colour I Spain, Cuba
Over several years, we follow three households and their
emotions in a barrio of Havana. Magalis is a nurse, rarely
happy. An older man, Ignacio, professes his love for her; her
father and her brother quarrel over her brother's sexual
orientation; she thinks about leaving Cuba. Santo's wife Maria
is expecting their first child. Tragedy strikes and Santo leaves,
drowning sorrows in alcohol and crime while his son grows up
in the care of an aunt wondering where dad is. Vivian and
Chino are in love, passionate, but childless. The pressures of a
society that demands grandchildren strain their relationship.
She tries prayer. Fathers embrace their children.
One of the great filmmakers of revolutionary
Cuba, Humberto Solás entered the film industry
as a teenager, and made his first short at the age
of 18. After taking a film course at Centro
Sperimentale de Cinema in Rome, he came up
with his 1966 fiction film "Manuela", the first of
many films dedicated to the Cuban woman. In
1968 his masterpiece "Lucía" won many prizes
and brought him international recognition. In
the 80s he had another huge success with his film
"Cecilia" and a few others.
Director: Humberto Solás
Producer: Aldo Benvenuto
Cast: Jorge Perugorría, Isabel Santos,
Adela Legrá, Mario Limonta, Rafael
Lahera, Luisa María Jiménez, Enrique
Molina, Coralia Veloz, Broselianda
Hernández
Cinematographer: Carlos Rafael Solís
Editor: Nino Martínez Sosa
Music Composer: Esteban Puebla
Costume Designer: Norma San Juan
Production Company: Instituto
Cubano del Arte e Industrias
Cinematográficos
Festivals:
Cartagena Film Festival (2006)
Cine Ceará - National Cinema Festival
(2006)
Havana Film Festival (2005)
Honey for Oshun (2001)
Obataleo (1988)
A Successful Man (1986)
Amada (1985)
Cecilia (1982)
Wifredo Lam (1979)
Nacer en Leningrado (1977)
Cantata de Chile (1976)
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Burros
Donkeys
PERLAS LATINAS
2011 I 93’ I Spanish I Colour I Mexico
Southern Mexico, in the 1940s: Ten-year-old Lautaro lives
happily with his family in a village in the “Tierra Caliente”, the
“hot land”. Until one day, his father is killed, and his mother
fears the murderers might be after her son too. So she sends
Lautaro to his aunt Emma.There, in the city, 60 km away from
his village, he is supposed to spend the next few years. While
Emma looks after the boy touchingly, her husband is not happy
about the new family member and lets his nephew feel it now
and again. Lautaro is very homesick and often feels like the
donkeys whose ears are clipped before driving them away so
they can never return. This is not to be his destiny, and so the
boy sets out secretly on his way home.
Director: Odin Salazar Flores
Producer: Odin Salazar Flores, Elsa
Reyes
Cast: Abimael Orozco Lemus, Leticia
Gutiérrez, Alfredo Herrera, Adriana Paz,
Azalia Ortiz
Screenplay: Odin Salazar Flores
Cinematographer: Alejandro Cantú
Editor: Pedro Jiménez
Music Composer: Pascual Reyes
Costume Designer: Alejandra Berriel
Production Company: Burros Films,
Cinema Maquina, Instituto Mexicano de
Cinematografía (IMCINE), Zensky Cine
World Sales: Films Burros, SA DE CV
World Sales Phone: 52 5556690537
World Sales Email:
[email protected]
Festivals:
Montréal World Film Festival (2011)
Busan International Film Festival (2016)
He was born in Mexico City in 1969. He Donkeys (2011)
attended Engineering School for five years
before he began studying film at the Centro
Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos
(CUEC) at the National University of Mexico
(UNAM), where he majored as a film director in
2000. Since 2001 he worked as 1AD in several
films, documentaries and TV series. In the year
2007, he won an award from IMCINE for his
script BURROS. In 2008, he won production
support from FOPROCINE.
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Embassy of Ecuador in India
El juego sucio
Foul play
PERLAS LATINAS
2016 I 60’ I Spanish I Colour I Ecuador
Director: Nitsy Grau
Cast: Frank Bonilla, Cinthia Coppiano,
Paty Loor, Ana Lara, Alex Cisneros
Screenplay: Nitsy Grau
Cinematographer: Rodolfo Beer
Music Composer: Nelson García
"The Dirty Game" tells the story of an American journalist
who travels to Ecuador to seek evidence of the alleged fraud of
the legal system in the country against the Chevron oil
company that was condemned to pay the Amazon
communities compensation for environmental damage,
which Is $ 9.5 billion.
However, after his research in the Andean country finds
another reality and decides to travel to the Amazon to verify
the evidence of the waste left by Texaco for the exploitation of
hydrocarbons made between 1964 and 1992, without
complying with the minimum environmental standards,
which caused damage in an area of 2 million hectares.
Nitsy Grau was born in 1970 in Villa Clara, Medardo (2014)
Cuba, and lives in Ecuador since 1997. She
earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Film and Stories of Looks and Lies (2012)
TV) from Escuela Nacional de Arte and Instituto Kaleidoscope (2007)
Superior de Arte, Havana-Cuba. Nitsy worked
for ten straight years as Stage Manager and
General Director for dramatic series, soap
operas and sitcoms for the Ecuadorian TV
network Ecuavisa. Some of the short films she
has written and directed have been awarded
several prizes. Currently, she is an independent
director, and works at the Institute of Television,
ITV, training up the next generation of
professionals for theTV and film industry.
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Gente de bien
Good People
PERLAS LATINAS
2015 I 87’ I Spanish I Colour I Colombia, France
French-Colombian film written and directed by Franco Lolli.
It was screened in the International Critics' Week section at
the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Grand Prix for Best
Film at the 2014 Flanders International Film Festival Ghent.
Eric, 10, finds himself almost overnight living with Gabriel,
his father, who he barely knows. Living in a noisy boarding
house in a rough and ready quarter of Bógota, Gabriel
struggles to make ends meet. However, Eric sees a different
side to the city when he is taken to the home of one of
Gabriel’s wealthier clients, a middle-class university teacher
who is keen to help the pair out.
He was born in Mexico City in 1969. He
attended Engineering School for five years
before he began studying film at the Centro
Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos
(CUEC) at the National University of Mexico
(UNAM), where he majored as a film director in
2000. Since 2001 he worked as 1AD in several
films, documentaries and TV series. In the year
2007, he won an award from IMCINE for his
script BURROS. In 2008, he won production
support from FOPROCINE.
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Director: Franco Lolli
Producer: Gregoire Debailly
Cast: Brayan Santamaria, Carlos Fernando
Perez, Alejandra Borrero
Screenplay: Franco Lolli, Catherine
Paillé
Cinematographer: Oscar Duran
Editor: Nicolas Desmaison, Julie Duclaux
Sound Designer: Matthieu Perrot
Production Company: Geko Films,
Evidencia Films
World Sales: Versatile Films
World Sales Phone: +33 1 76 21 61 68
World Sales Email: [email protected]
Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival (2014)
San Sebastián International Film Festival
(2014)
Chicago International Film Festival (2014)
Gente De Bien (2013)
Rodri (2012)
Memoire Et Images, Une Experience
Cambodgienne (2008)
Como Todo El Mundo (2007)
José Martí: El Ojo Del Canario
José Martí: The Eye of the Canary
PERLAS LATINAS
2010 I 120’ I Spanish I Colour I Cuba
Little is known of the childhood and youth of the great 19thcentury Cuban liberator, José Martí. This robust biopic
imagines his early years. The son of a magistrate, the
precocious Martí — “Pepe” to family and friends — takes an
early interest in justice. Gradually he enters the nascent
independence movement and, not yet 18, is arrested for
sedition. Respectful, yet not worshipful, this is a portrait of
the revolutionary as a young man, and a stirring historical
drama besides.
Fernando Pérez Valdés born 1944 is Cuban film
director, graduated from the University of
Havana and began working in the Cuban film
industry in 1971 as an assistant director. His
feature debut was Clandestinos (1987) but it
wasn’t until Madagascar (1994) that he garnered
significant international recognition. SUITE
Habana is considered by some critics to be the
best film in decades. Variety hailed it as "A
lyrical, meticulously-crafted and unexpectedly
melancholy homage to the battered but resilient
inhabitants of a battered but resilient city." His
most recent film called Madrigal tells a story
about life in the theater world.
Director: Fernando Pérez
Producer: Rafael Rey Rodríguez
Cast: Daniel Romero Bildaín, Rolando
Brito, Broselianda Hernández
Screenplay: Fernando Pérez
Cinematographer: Edesio Alejandro
Editor: Julio Yip
Music Composer: Edesio Alejandro
Costume Designer: Miriam Dueñas
Production Company: Televisión
Española, ICAIC
Festivals:
Ariel Awards, Mexico (2011)
Oslo Films from the South Festival (2011)
Premios ACE (2013)
Últimos días en La Habana (2016)
La pared de las palabras (2014)
José Martí: el ojo del canario (2010)
Madrigal (2007)
Life is to Whistle (1998)
Madagascar (1995)
Hello Hemingway (1990)
Clandestinos (1987)
Omara (Short documentary) (1983)
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La Tierra Y La Sombra
Land and Shade
2015 I 97’ I Spanish I Colour I
Colombia, France, Netherlands, Chile, Brazil
Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his
son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the
woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-inlaw and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a
wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house,
producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 years after abandoning
them,Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family.
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Director: César Augusto Acevedo
Cast: José Felipe Cárdenas, Haimer Leal,
Edison Raigosa, Hilda Ruiz, Marleyda Soto
Screenplay: César Augusto Acevedo
Cinematographer: Mateo Guzmán
Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger
Sound Designer: Felipe Rayo
Costume Designer: Maria Camila
Botero
Production Designer: Marcela Gómez
Production Company: Ciné-Sud
Promotion, Topkapi Films
World Sales: Pyramide Distribution
World Sales Phone: +01 42 96 01 01
World Sales Email:
[email protected]
Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival (2015)
San Sebastián International Film Festival
(2015)
AFI Fest (2015)
Munich Film Festival (2015)
Writer and director born in Cali, awarded in Los pasos del agua (Short) (2016)
Cannes for his film, La Tierra y la Sombra (Land and
Shade). Graduated with honors from the School Land and Shade (2015)
of Social Communication of the Universidad del
Valle with the script for his Opera prima, La Tierra
y la Sombra, which took him around 10 years to
finish it. Also known by the two shorts he
developed, Los Pasos del Agua (Steps of the Water)
and La Campana (The Bell). He was co-writer and
assistant to Óscar Ruiz Navia en la película Los
Hongos. He has been part of the production of
another movies like El Vuelco del Cangrejo and La
Sirga.
Otilia Rauda
PERLAS LATINAS
2001 I 110’ I Spanish I Colour I Mexico
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of
feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her
beautiful face.The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and
disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she
grows up friendless, save the family's hired hand Melquíades.
Though most figured she would end up as a prostitute, she is
married off to Isidro, the local police chief. Cruel and petty,
this ogre of a man brutalizes her and eventually infects her
with venereal disease, rendering her sterile. With the help of
Melquíades, Otilia takes a series of lovers to spite her husband.
One day, the wounded Ruben -- a wanted outlaw -- staggers
onto her doorstep and immediately she is in love. Much to
Melquíades' chagrin, she harbors and tends to the criminal as
her husband is out hunting for him.
Dana Rotberg has lived and worked as a director,
writer and producer in Mexico, France and
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dana’s first film was
the documentary ELVIRA LUZ CRUZ: PEMA
MAXIMA (1985) which was awarded Best
Documentary by the Mexican Film Academy and
the Bochica de Oro Award. Dana has thrice been
given the prestigious honour of opening the
Director’s Fortnight at the Cannes International
Film Festival. In 2000 Dana directed and cowrote the Mexican feature film OTILIA RAUDA
which won the NHK Filmmaker’s Award at the
2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Director: Dana Rotberg
Producer: Alfredo Ripstein hijo, Daniel
Birman Ripstein
Cast: Gabriela Canudas, Álvaro Guerrero,
Ana Ofelia Murguía, Carlos Torrestorija,
Julieta Egurrola, Alberto Estrella
Screenplay: Dana Rotberg
Cinematographer: Guillermo Granillo
Editor: Sigfrido Barjau
Costume Designer: Mónica Neumaier
Production Designer: Salvador Parra
Production Company: Alameda Films,
Altavista Films, Fondo para la Producción
Cinematográfica de Calidad
(FOPROCINE), Gobierno del Estado de
Veracruz, Universidad de Veracruz, Wanda
Films, Wanda Visión S.A.
Festivals:
Amiens International Film Festival (2001)
Guadalajara International Film Festival
(2002)
White Lies (2013)
Otilia Rauda (2001)
Ángel de fuego (1992)
Intimacy (1991)
Elvira Luz Cruz, pena máxima
(Documentary) (1985)
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Demasiado miedo a la vida o Plaff
Too Afraid of Life or Splat
PERLAS LATINAS
1988 I 110’ I Spanish I Colour I Cuba
This comedic film gives a nonconformist view about
everything.The heroine is constantly attacked by a mysterious
hand that throws eggs at her house. Limited by her prejudices
and fears and incapable of finding a way out of her internal
conflicts, she comes to an unexpected end. Apparently a
comedy, Tabío also shows and criticizes real characters and
situations of contemporary Cuban society.
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Juan Carlos Tabío was born on 3rd Sept 1943 in
Havana. He made his debut as an assistantproducer and assisant-director at the Instituto
Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos
(I.C.A.I.C.) in 1961. From the eighties on, he
starts making comedies in which he is often
critical of bureaucracy, such as Plaff (1988) and Se
permuta. He often collaborated with Tomás
Gutiérrez Alea.They wrote the scenario of Hasta
cierto punto (1982) together. In the nineties they
co-directed Fresa y chocolate (1993) and
Guantanamera (1995). His most recent success
film is Lista de espera (2000).
Director: Juan Carlos Tabío
Producer: Instituto Cubano del Arte e
Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC)
Cast: Daisy Granados, Thais Valdés, Raúl
Pomares, Jorge Cao, Luis Alberto García
Jr., Alicia Bustamante
Screenplay: Daniel Chavarría, Juan
Carlos Tabío
Cinematographer: Julio Valdés
Editor: Roberto Bravo
Sound Designer: Raul Garcia
Music Composer: Nicolás Reynoso
Production Company: Instituto
Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfi
Festivals:
Caracol Award for best director of feature
film and best screenplay. National Festival
of Film, Radio and TV ( UNEAC ) (1989)
Prize Cathedral for the best film (National
Office of the Catholic Organization of
Cinema of Cuba) (1989)
Award The Mégano best film. National
Film Festival clubs (1989)
Award for best film. Latino Festival of
New York (1989)
Horn of Plenty (2008)
So Far Away (2003)
The Waiting List (2000)
Guantanamera (1995)
El elefante y la bicicleta (1994)
Strawberry and Chocolate (1993)
House for Swap (1985)