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FOR THE LOVE OF CINEMA 19 April 2012

POR AMOR AL CINE

The testimony and opinions of film masters such as Samuel Fuller, Michael Powell, Francis Ford Coppola, Abbas Kiarostami and Milos Forman are featured in the series Sodankylä Forever, by Finnish director and historian Peter von Bagh (one of the notable international guests of this Festival). All of them were invited to the legendary Midnight Sun Film Festival that he directs in the small town of Sodankylä (and which he co-founded with the Kaurismaki brothers in 1986). At the event, they share views and talk about their art, passion for films, the art of programming and the charm of festivals. Today, Thursday, Malba Cine will screen the two parts of the series, The Century of Cinema and The Yearnings of the First Cinema Experience. There are tickets available for purchase at the Festival’s ticket outlets and also on this website.

MORE CINEMA TO HELP THE CRISIS 19 April 2012

CONTRA LA CRISIS, MÁS CINE

Offf PDV: ¡Retaguardia! is a compilation of videos made by a large number of Spanish filmmakers, who condemned the cancellation of the original festival from Navarre, Punto de Vista, and later participated in a music and audiovisual festival. The film portrays the interesting dialogue among musicians and directors who have made audiovisual works specifically for the group they each accompany and using orphaned Super 8 movies from the YourLostMemories project. Each filmmaker edited these lost memories together with other footage, and the final outcome was screened live during the concerts.

THE DILEMMA 19 April 2012

EL DILEMA

In the documentary Mal del viento, Ximena Gonzalez paints a portrait of a boy from the Mbyá Pindó Poty village (El Soberbio, Misiones), Julián, who is transferred to a Buenos Aires hospital by court order. While doctors prescribe a cardiac surgery, his parents refuse the procedure. The spiritual leader of the community dreams with a stone in the boy’s heart and asks for his return to the village to cure him with natural medicine. The media, doctors, officials and caciques speak on behalf of Julián, who is waiting for a decision secluded in a hospital room together with his family, far away from the mountain and all by themselves, prolonging his agony.

NEW SCREENING OF “KEYHOLE” 19 April 2012

NUEVA FUNCIÓN DE “KEYHOLE”

A gangster returns home after a long absence. He carries with him the drowned body of a girl who mysteriously returns to life, and a bound and gagged hostage, who is actually his teenage son, Manners. According to the groundbreaking Canadian director Guy Maddin, whose films are featured in the “Careers” section, Keyhole is a story parallel to Homer’s The Odyssey. And it is also a silent black-and-white fantasy starring none other than Isabella Rosellini, Jason Patrick and the legendary German actor Udo Kier. This Saturday, there will be an additional screening of this film, one of the small wonders of the 2012 edition of BAFICI. Tickets are available for on-site purchase at the Festival’s ticket outlets and for online purchase at this website.

THE HARVESTERS 18 April 2012

LOS COSECHEROS

The rough working conditions and the exhausting, repetitive, labor-intensive activity of a group of sugar cane harvesters are portrayed in the documentary Corta, by Colombian director Felipe Guerrero, taking an intimate approach and with a careful editing that stresses, through repetition, these workers’ daily routine. The film is all about the hypnotic exhaustion produced by the laboring bodies of the sugar cane harvesters from Valle del Cauca (Colombia). A contemplation of manual work gestures, as the omnipresent landscape of the surrounding plantations appears as a backdrop. Corta will be screened this coming Sunday 22, on the last day of the 2012 BAFICI.

MEMORIES OF MILITANT CINEMA 18 April 2012

RECUERDOS DEL CINE MILITANTE

C3M – Cinemateca del Tercer Mundo, by Uruguayan director Lucía Jacob, narrates how the 1960s film festival organized by the magazine Marcha took a political turn after the May ’68 in France and the discovery of Cuban films in a storeroom. This scenario gave birth to a type of militant cinema made in response to the political context of those years. Over forty years later, many of the protagonists of the time are reunited in front of the camera to see those films and share their memories and thoughts in a touching story illustrative of that special moment of their country. The documentary will be screened this coming Sunday 22. There are tickets available, which can be purchased at the Festival’s ticket outlets and on this website.

FACING THE SEA 17 April 2012

FRENTE AL MAR

Mauricio, a young twenty-something with dreadlocks, watches over the safety of vacationers on El Tabo beach, near Valparaíso, on Chile’s central coast. His golden rule for the job is never getting wet, that is, working on prevention. The antagonist is Jean Pierre, a colleague from the next lifeguard tower who, apart from being too lenient in his duties, has a totally different view on the job: he is all about getting in the water. This is the framework for the documentary El Salvavidas, one of the 11 Chilean films shown at this edition of BAFICI: an "ethnographic tragicomedy,” as defined by its author Maite Alberdi. The film will be screened today, Tuesday, and tomorrow, Wednesday: tickets are available for purchase at the Festival’s ticket outlets and on this website.

SUPER-POWERED GIRLS 17 April 2012

CHICAS SUPERPODEROSAS

The everyday reality of a tribe from Alto Xingu, Mato Grosso, is affected by the illness and imminent death of the most long-lived woman in the community, who is the “living” memory of the group. So, her husband decides to carry out the maximum ritual for women as a way to keep the rites and traditions transmitted for centuries, from generation to generation. Directed by Carlos Fausto, Leo Sette and the native Takumã Kuikuro, and produced by AIKAX (Associação Indigena dos Kuikuro do Alto Xingu), the documentary As hiper mulheres is a stunning, captivating and moving piece. Since its premiere in 2011, the film has amassed several awards at different festivals in Brazil (Gramado, Brasilia, Goiania) and now arrives at BAFICI with a charm of its own. There are tickets available for the screening on Friday 20, which can be purchased at ticket outlets or at this website.

THE ABSENT FRIEND 16 April 2012

EL AMIGO AUSENTE

Three friends remember Cristian, who left a mark on them with his particular, risk-taking lifestyle. Everything takes place on the west side of Buenos Aires City, on the blurred border between Liniers and Mataderos, on a house’s mezzanine level that was squatted by the absent friend and where his belongings and traces of him still remain. La Oruga is the film equivalent of the Argentine rock movement of the last two decades, called rock chabón or rock barrial (unrefined urban rock with lyrics about the average working class kid). The movie will be screened tomorrow, Tuesday, and on Sunday 22, and stars its filmmakers Ariel Guerchicoff and Maximiliano Rossi, in addition to Leonel Gonzales, Cristian Díaz, Francisco Arroyo.

A CURRENT AFFAIR 16 April 2012

UNA CUESTION DE ACTUALIDAD

El tramo, by Juan Hendel, will be premiered at this Festival. This 65-min observational documentary records the struggle of a group of people, first against nature and then against progress. The background issue is the decline of Argentina’s railway system over the last decades – the recent tragedy at Once station does nothing but confirm this reality. Hendel’s film was made in the framework of El Observatorio documentary film school and supported by the National Institute of Cinema and Audivisual (INCAA).

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