Day by Day

College casts. Advantages and disadvantages

It is a space thought for reflecting and encouraging those entities involved in the creation of stable university casts.
The participants will be : Mario Espinosa, Director of the Theatre University Centre from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), along with representatives of IUNA and academic institutions from Mendoza, Tandil, Tucumán, Córdoba and Río Negro.

For further information: fiba@festivalesbsas.gov.ar

Hamlet (2007)

Hamlet (2007)
Great Britain, 131 minutes

Direction: Alexander Fodor
Production: Paul Allan-Slade
Cinematography: Diego Indraccolo
Setting: Diego Indraccolo and Jovy Thomas
Music: Joe Lyske
Cast: William Bellchambers, Max Davis, Alexander Fodor, James Frail, Alan Hanson, Keaton Makki, Thomas Matthews, Patrick Monckebergy and Simon Nader

www.hamletmovie.co.uk

Respecting Shakespeare’s original text, the most updated english version proposes sudden changes in the reading of characters, placing them in a no man’s land, constantly crossed by the cultural industries’ imaginery.

Película sorpresa

Palermo / Italia: Mishelle di Sant’Oliva

Mishelle Di Sant’Oliva

Mishelle di Sant’Oliva is the story of an always absent body; that of a mother who was a leading dancer at the Olympia of Paris, and of the two men facing the cruelty of having to be there only waiting. The father, Gaetano, and the son Salvatore, live in a very dirty and poor place. Meanwhile, the father dreams with an apparently happy past, as a way to deny the homosexuality of his son, who in the evening turns into a transvestite and prostitutes himself.

Córdoba / Argentina: Salsipuedes

Salsipuedes

This is a town like any other town. With its hidden stories,its perversions and its secrets. There, three sisters are living at their recently deceased father's house. One of them has decided to follow the father’s commandment, while the others try to find the way to run away. Getting married or leaving town to study theatre seems to be the only two possibilities. By means of this play, Argüello Pitt not only pays tribute to Three Sisters by Chejov, but also shows his own critical view about art and its relation with work.

Land ohne Worte / Country with no words

A literary work by Dea Loher (German).

Text reading will be carried out in its original language and attendance will receive a translated copy upon entry.

The beautiful trip of the panda bears

Frumoasa calatorie a ursilor panda povestita de un saxofonist care avea o iubita la Frankfurt / The beautiful trip of the panda bears as told by a saxophonist who had a lover in Frankfurt


A literary work by Matei Visniec (Romanian).

Text reading will be carried out in its original language and attendance will receive a translated copy upon entry.

Santiago / Chile: Neva

Neva

The plot basis applied by Calderón to start a harsh critical debate about his country and the theatre is very simple. One afternoon in the winter season of 1905, at the royal city of Saint Petersburg, an actress named Olga Knipper, widow of the great Antón Chejov, is waiting for her company to arrive so as to start the rehearsals ofThe cherry garden. While she is crying alone, outside, Bloody Sunday is taking place.

Ajaccio (Córcega)/ Francia: Juan la Suerte / Jean la Chance

Juan La Suerte/ Jean La Chance

The script, which was incomplete and unknown until the late 90´s, was written by Bertolt Brecht in his first period, while living at Baviera, right after writting Baal and just before Drums in the night. He was inspired by the story of Hans in Glück written by the Grimm brothers. His aim was to show the critical insights he had about commerce. Orsoni makes his own version, essentially using music to tell the story and thus, being able to work the scene with a certain distance.

ASUNCIÓN/ PARAGUAY: La secreta obscenidad de cada día

La Secreta Obscenidad De Cada Día

A park bench is the only element on stage where two men, who are dressed in suggestive outfits, are waiting for students to come out of school. Two overcoats hide an obscenity which is sexual, but that it may turn ideological for these two men whose names are, significantly, Charles(Marx) and Sigmund (Freud).

Barcelona / España: Crónica sentimental de España

Crónica Sentimental De España

Songs don´t lie. Based on this slogan, Albertí creates this performance which is neither theatrical nor musical, but a mixture of both. It is so symbiotic that it turns it weird; but the audience will be moved by Spain’s story told through its melodies and songs, being this a way to acknowledge our own identity.

Gante / Bélgica: Patchagonia

Patchagonia

Charles Darwin's stories about Patagonia, or those of Billy the Kid, are the basis for this argentine choreographer, living in Belgium, to create this performance. It has a strong beckettian influence, where this particular space thrown to the outskirts of the world, appears to be an ideal place to slow down, to wait for something. This is an absolutely stylized version of our geography and our folklore rhythms, interpreted by Les Ballets C. de la B.

Maputo / Mozambique: Mujer Asfalto / Mulher Asfalto

Mujer Asfalto / Mulher Asfalto

Alain Kamal Martial’s text of Mulher Asfalto , put on stage by the Mutumbela Gogo group, gives them the possibility to give voice to those who are oppressed. In this case, Lucrecia Paco performs a prostitute sharing her insights on her job while having a musical dialogue with her partner, Cheny Wa Gune.

Gamlet (1964)

Gamlet (1964)
USSR, 140 minutes

Direction: Grigori Kozintsev
Translation: Boris Pasternak
Script: Grigori Kozintsev
Cinematography: Jonas Gritsius
Staging: Ye Makhankova
Production design: Yevgeni Yenej
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich
Cast: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina, Yuri Tolubeyev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vadim Medvedev, Vladimir Erenberg and Stepan Oleksenko


Widely considered one of the most powerful and accurate versions of Shakespearean tragedies, the high contrast photography, the tough landscape and Shostakovich’s music in Gamlet constitutes an abominable and decadent space, without the need of adopting a naturalist code so that the film results in “cinematographic”.

Montevideo / Uruguay: Mi muñequita (la farsa)

Mi Muñequita (La Farsa)

My little doll ( the farce) presents a distorted image of the bourgeois concept of family by showing the atrocities underlying the morale proclaimed from the surface. Through this farce, expressly presented by the title itself, Calderón puts on stage a series of creatures that do not resemble neither a realist nor a naturalist theatre.

Buenos Aires / Argentina: Lote 77

Lote 77

Lote 77 is an interrogation about masculinity. What is it that makes a body, beyond its anatomy, define if it belongs to a man or not. Supporting the idea that this genre is essentially about performance, Mininno makes actors represent a sequence of scenes and countryside rituals that urban men can only think of as activities that only men can do.

Bárbara Togander