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EN EL HOYO
Documental, México, 2006, 84’, 35 mm

Director: Juan Carlos Rulfo.
Producer: Eugenia Montiel, Juan Carlos Rulfo
Script: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Cinematography: Juan Carlos Rulfo
Edition: Valentina Leduc
Music: Leonardo Heiblum
Cast: Isabel Dolores Hernández, José Guadalupe Calzada, Agustín Zárate Centeno, Natividad Sánchez Montes, Pedro Sánchez Bernal, José Juan Soto Sotelo, Vicencio Martínez Vázquez, Tomás José León, Juan Díaz Calvario, Isahín Octaviano Simón, Sofía García López, Salvador Enríquez Castillo.

A Mexican legend tells that the devil asks for souls to not let bridges
collapse when they are built. The movie tells the story of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico
City’s Periferico freeway. Although all of this is just an excuse, the idea is to get closer to the routine, the dreams and the extraordinary dignity of life from the workers, with their humor, romance and little moments that will finish with the food the devil needs, for this freeway to stay standing.

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ALMA MATER
Uruguay/ 2004/ 95’

Director: Álvaro Buela
Producer: José Pedro Charlo, Clara Charlo
Script: Álvaro Buela
Cinematography:Daniel Rodríguez Maseda
Edition: Simone Maccari
Music: Sylvia Meyer
Cast: Roxana Blanco,
Nicolás Becerra, Walter Reyno,
Werner Schünemann, Humberto
de Vargas, Beatriz Massons,
Jenny Galván, Gladys Areta, Gabriela
Quartino, Hugo Bardillo

34-year-old Pamela is a petite and shy woman. She works at a supermarket and attends a religious temple. She periodically visits her autistic mother, an anonymous character. Suddenly, a miracle occurs.
Messages of a marvelous destiny start to reach her in unusual ways:
a client, a transvestite, her own mother dreams, bar codes, real and
imaginary signals. The Savior of the next millennium is apparently
on his way, and everything indicates that, although she is still a virgin,
she is carrying him on her entrails. Impelled to confront herself,
Pamela starts a trip within herself.

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ABSOLUT
Suiza/Alemania, 2004, 94’, 35 mm

Director: Romed Wyder
Producer: Romed Wyder
Script: Romed Wyder,
Yves Mugny, Maria Watzlawick
Cinematography: Denis Jutzeler
Edition: Orsola Valenti
Music: Bernard Trontin
Cast: Vincent Bonillo,
Irene Godel, François Nadin, Delphine Lanza, Ulysse Prévost, Véronique Mermoud

The day Alex tries to put a virus in the computer system of a bank, a
car accident makes him lose his short-term memory. When he wakes
up in a hospital, he discovers that he has been lying in coma for two
days. What has happened? Alex follows a therapy in order to recover
his memory of the day of the accident. For him, visions and reality
are thrown together in a confusing maze. Alex tries to escape from
this muddle but what he discovers turns out to be rather frightening...

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LES ÉTATS NORDIQUES
Canadá, 2005, 91’, 35 mm

Director: Denis Côté Producer: Denis Côté
Script: Denis Côté, Chiristian Le Blanc Cinematography: Denis Laplante
Edition: Rafael Oullet
Cast: Chiristian Le Blanc, Radison`s Citizens.

Christian has committed a crime, a crime of compassion. A troubled
soul, he must now flee not only the law, but the deep ethical consequences of his act. The path he sets upon leads him to where all
roads end: a small community by the name of Radisson, 1500 km
north of Montreal. Slowly, he starts his life anew, among his new
neighbours, a new job, a new interest in life. His story drifts along
between fiction and reality.

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EL CUSTODIO
Argentina/Alemania/
Francia/Uruguay, 2006, 93’, 35 mm

Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Producer: Hernán Musaluppi,
Natacha Cervi, Luis Sartor
Script: Rodrigo Moreno
Cinematography:
Bárbara Álvarez
Edition: Nicolás Goldbart
Music: Juan Federicco Jusid
Cast: Julio Chávez, Osmar
Núñez, Elvira Onetto, Marcelo
D’Andrea, Vanesa Weinberg, Cristina
Villamor, Luciana Lifschitz,
Julieta Vallina, Osvaldo Djeredjián,
Guadalupe Ocampo.

If the Government Minister gets out of his car, Ruben gets out of his.
If the Government Minister turns to the left, Ruben will do it too.
If the Government Minister goes to Mar del Plata, Ruben travels to
Mar del Plata with him. If the Government Minister decides to take
a break and nap, Ruben has to watch a sleeping man. “El Custodio”
is a movie that shows us a job which consists in replacing the life of
one person for your own, making us witnesses of the pressure that
implies and how it finally explodes.

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PADRE NUESTRO
Chile, 2006, 100’, 35 mm

Director: Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa Producer: Luigi Araneda, Alejandro Burr Script: Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa
Cinematography: Esteban Courtalon
Edition: Soledad Salfate Cast: Jaime Vadell, Luis Gnecco, Fracisco, Pérez-Banner, Cecilia Roth, Amparo Noguera

Say good bye to his sons and daughter, to his family and his city, are
any father’s last wishes.
Caco gathers them all one last night, but once more he runs away.
“Padre Nuestro” is about love an secrets; resentment and happiness
of a family that attends their dying father’s final joke

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LOS PRÓXIMOS PASADOS
Documental, Argentina, 2006, 85’, 35 mm

Directora: Lorena Muñoz
Producer: Laureano Gutiérrez
Script: Lorena Muñoz
Cinematography: Iván Gierasinchuk
Edition: Alejandra
Almirón, Benjamín Ávila

Argentina, 1933. The plastic artist, David Alfaro Siqueiros, paints
the mural “Ejercicio Plástico” in the basement of Natalio Botana’s
mansion. Seventy years later, we immerse ourselves in the dramatic
travel of the art piece that, mutilated and dismantled, lays locked up in containers at the mercy of time. With a variety of resources, from a meticulous files’ compilation, until the execution of a replica, Lorena
Munoz’s camera achieves to get us in that dark room, reconstruct the lost image, and to awake once again emotion and astonishment.

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MADEINUSA
Perú/España, 2006, 100’, 35 mm

Director: Claudia Llosa Producer: José María Morales, Antonio Chavarrías, Claudia Llosa
Script: Claudia Llosa Cinematography: Raúl Pérez Ureta
Edition:
Ernest Blasi
Music: Selma Mutal
Cast: Magaly Solier, Carlos de la Torre, Juan Ubaldo Huamán, Yiliana Chong, Melvin Quijada

“Madeinusa”, is a girl who lives in Manayaycuna, a lost town in the
Peruvian mountains. This strange place is distinguished from the
rest by its religiosity. From Good Friday at 3 pm, time in which Christ
dies in the cross, until Easter, the whole town can do whatever they
please. During these Holy Days, sin doesn’t exist. Everything is accepted and allowed, with no remorse. Madeinusa, her sister Chale
and her father, Don Cayo, the town’s mayor and big boss, preserve
this tradition without questioning it, but all of that will be disturbed
with the arrival of Salvador.

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1973
Documental, México, 2005, 96’, 35 mm

Director: Antonino Isordia
Producer: Antonino Isordia
Script: Antonino Isordia
Cinematography: Fernando Acuña
Edition: Tatiana Ixquic
Huezo, Ana García, Antonino Isorida Llamazarez

“1973” is the tale of the life of three people who were born in Mexico
City in the year of 1973, it starts with their first memory until today.
The three of them want to be something they can’t achieve, they
share the dream of running away from the city.

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MUTUAL APPRECIATION
EE.UU., 2005, 110’, Video

Director: Andrew Bujalski
Producer: Morgan Faust, Dia Sokol, Ethan Vogt
Script: Andrew Bujalski
Cinematography:Matthias Grunsky
Cast: Justin Rice, Rachel
Clift, Andrew Bujalski, Seung-Min Lee

Students from New York have a rock’n roll band, they chat, drink
wine and smoke pot. Alan just got to New York and is looking for
a drummer for his band; meanwhile he chats with his two friends,
goes to an interview, and buys some wine in the corner’s liquid store.
Time goes by in the living room of the apartment of one of them,
while the conversation goes from the every day life to intellectual
criticism.
There is a melancholy feel over them, of pure jazz that involves this
movie with a subtle charm.

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ILLUMINATION
Francia, 2004, 135’, 35 mm

Director: Pascale Breton
Producer: Paulo Branco
Script: Pascale Breton
Cinematography: Philippe Elusse
Edition: Joseph Guinvarch,
Julie Pelat
Music: Eric Duchamp, Nori
Cast: Clet Beyer, Mélanie
Leray, Catherine Hosmalin,
Hervé Furic, Albertine Dagand, Clara Roux, Jean-Jacques Vanier

After returning from a seafaring expedition, Ildut’s odd behavior on
land incites a visit to a psychiatrist and a prescription for medication
he refuses to take. A further mental imbalance ensues, conveyed in a
disorienting but cinematically invigorating sequence set in the Scottish
highlands.
Since he exchanged a glance with Christina, her grandmother’s
nurse, Ildutt tries to find the normality in a desperate and chaotic
way. Now he wants to heal, and in order to start a relationship with
Christina, he is willing to do whatever it takes: go back to therapy,
work on his look, and also, risk his mental balance following what a
Guru of a sect tells him.

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THE BLOSSOMING OF MAXIMO OLIVEROS
Filipinas, 2005, 100’, Video

Director: Auraeus Solito
Producer: Raymond Lee
Script: Michiko Yamamoto
Edition: Kanakan-
Balintagos, Clang Sison
Music: Pepe Smith, Mike
Villegas
Cast: J.R. Valentin, Soliman Cruz, Neil Ryan Sese, Ping Medina, Bodjie Pascua, Nathan Lopez, Pepe Smith, Peter Anthony
Tombasa

“The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros” has the feel of an enormous
hot air balloon being slowly inflated. Gradually, it begins to take
shape and then lifts and soars. At this films center is Maxi, the youngest child of widower, Paca. The family lives in a Manilla slum, his father and brothers small time thieves. Maxi is the family’s caretaker, a girl who seems to be trapped in a boy’s body. What is inspiring about
Maxi’s story is that he is unrelenting in his love of his family -- his
brothers and his father. What transpires is both moving and uplifting,
and Aureaeus Solito, never steps back from his characters or the
arc of the narrative.

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THE PLAY
Documental, Turquía, 2005, 70’, Video

Director: Pelin Esmer
Producer: Pelin Esmer
Script: Pelin Esmer
Cinematography: Pelin Esmer, Ozlem Ozbek, Mustafa Unlu
Script: Pelin Esmer
Music: Maslum Cimen
Cast: Arlansköy Village
Theater Group

Nine peasants from Arslanköy, spend the day working without stopping in the fields, in the construction and at home. To lighten a bit the burden that life supposes, they decide to get together for a very different cause: they want to write and to interpret a play based on their own lives. To do it, they gather at school; where they collaborate with the school’s Principal, Ms. Huseyin, to whom they will tell the true history of their lives, that way, they would be able to confront it. Thus, day after day, and under the constant look of the town’s people, they will work tirelessly to give shape to a play, named “The Women’s cry”

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NETTO
Alemania, 2005, 87’, 35 mm

Director: Robert Thalheim
Producer: Matthias Miege
Script: Robert Thalheim
Cinematography: Yoliswa Gärtig
Edition: Stefan Kobe
Music Peter Tschernig
Cast: Milan Peschel, Sebastian Butz, Stephanie Charlotta Koetz, Christina Grosse, Bernd Lambrecht, Peter Tschernig

Marcel Werner always has a lot to say, either as an unemployed
expert for Security and taste in all its forms or as a sympathetic
Dreamer and Pub Philosopher. He has a penchant for Berlin pre re-unification real socialist country-music. He is also the father of a son, who has been solely brought up by, and lives with, his mother.
Suddenly one day his son Sebastian is standing in front of the door.
The fifteen year old Sebastian has decided to seek refuge because
he is not being treated like an adult at home. He finds himself in the
role of the tutor. The father son relationship is revived again, however
they will be confronted by a hard test, as Sebastian’s girlfriend, Nora wants to meet this “new” father.

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OLD JOY
EE.UU., 2006, 76’, Video

Director: Kelly Reichardt
Producer: Neil Kopp, Lars nudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Anish Savjani
Script: Kelly Reichardt,
Jonathan Raymond
Cinematography: Peter Sillen
Edition: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: Will Oldham, Daniel
London, Tanya Smith, Robin
Ronsenberg, Keri Moran

“Old Joy” is the story of two old friends, Kurt and Mark, who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. “Old Joy” is a minimalist story of friendship, loss
and alienation in the Bush era. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, it is part of a long series of carefree adventures. When they arrive at their final destination, a hot spring in an old growth forest, they must either confront the divergent paths they have taken, or somehow transcend their growing tensions in an act of forgiveness and mourning.

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