72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
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Latin America’s ABC
Films
Films
Juan Bustillo Oro
Mexico
112 min.
This was the first comedy in Cantinflas' career, making him into an authentic national "hero". The light-headed plot of Ahí está el detalle opens the way to a series of absurd situations where Mario Moreno has the opportunity to demonstrate his characteristic unintelligible bluestering. The trial scene is outstanding as verbal misunderstunding obtain frankly hilarious extremes where the judge and the lawyers all end up talking in the same way as Cantinflas.
Rassoul Labuchin
Haiti
45 min.
Medium-length film
Medium-length film whose theme is the use of children as domestic employees in Haiti, which constitutes a new form of slavery in rural areas. Anita, a 14-year-old girl, is the maid of Mme. Baptiste and his daughter of the same age, Choupette. Mme. Baptiste is dedicated to selling food at the door of the largest foreign company in the country, Ryenold's Mining. Mme. Baptiste is harsh with Anita, while his daughter is not insensitive to Anita's fate, and defends her. Choupette is the victim of a nervous breakdown and sees various symbols of the powerful forces of Haitian politics.
Alberto Gout
Mexico
101 min.
Elena has lived happily with her parents in Chihuahua up until the age of 18 when suddenly a tragedy occurs: her mother runs away with a friend of the family; and her father commits suicide. Elena, a dance student, goes to ciudad juárez and tries to find a job but men everywhere only want to take advantage of her. Hungry and jobless she meets Lucio, and old friend who, under the pretext of finding her a job as a secretary, gets her drunk in a cabaret and hands her over to Rosaura, who in turn, drugs her in order to put her to prostitution. Elena has to accept her gate and is a success as cabaret entertainer and dancer, although she compensates her rage by figthing over absolutely anything with her colleagues. One day, Elena sees the man who seduced her mother int he cabaret and hits him over the head witha botthle. as a punishment, Rosaura orders her henchman, "El Rengo" to scar Elena's face, but Lucio steps in, hits the henchman and runs away with the girl. Meanwhile, Lucio is planning the robbery of a jeweller's shop with his accomplices but makes the mistake of hitting one of them who betrays him to the police. When Lucio is arrested, Elena escapes to the capital where she becomes a sucessful cabaret dancer.
Glauber Rocha
Brazil
72 min.
In a fishing village on the Bahía coast, "pai de santo" keeps the population under control with strong superstition. Aruan, a young boy chosen by Yemanjá (God of the Sea) cannot have sexual relations but Firmino, a black man who has returned from the city, fights agains the exploitation to which his friends are submitted and decides to demonstrate that Aruan is the same as all the other men. To this end, he enlists the help of a prostitute who seduces the young boy. After making love, Aruan loses his powers and brings bad luck to his family. He emigrates to the city and the prostitute commits suicide.
Arturo Ripstein
Mexico
95 min.
An honest bank worker is being blackmailed by two policemen. Years ago he worked as a pimp and a thief and was imprisoned for robbery in the Maria Islands prison. The man searches for a legal solution to his problem but can't find one and ends up having to return to his old job in the underworld, where he now works under police protection.
Armando Bo
Argentina
87 min.
Delicia is a young girl who is as beautiful as she is humble and as suggestive as she is honest. She works in a cooling chamber and her boyfriend is Antonio Aicardi, a youung painter. One morning, she is crossing the open road which takes her to work when she is violently attacked and raped by Humberto, a rough labourer who has earned the nickname "El macho" from his friends. He is a savage, cruel and crutal individual. Humebrto keeps on annoying her, obssesed by her physical charms. Delicia's predicament doesn't seem to have an answer. She is about to tell antonio what has happened whilts she is posing in the nude for him, but doesn't have the courage. Once again on her way to work, Delicia is abducted by Humberto in a refrigerated van which takes her to the Riachuelo neighbourhood where, as though she were a piece of meat, he offers her to the highest bidder.
Luis Figueroa
Peru
95 min.
This is a documentary explining the origin and way in chich customs were passed donw to the people who are today farmers in the Peruvian region of Kanas, in the department of Cuzco. Testimonies are given by the most trustworthy sources on oral culture, Inca history and the descendents of the Tupaj amaru II armies of warriors. The protagonists of the film are people who live in the village, speak Quechuan, and criticize both their past and present opresion expressing, in their own language, their conception of the world in which they live.
Antonio Eguino
Bolivia
87 min.
The title of this film is the name Ayamará Indians use when referring to the capital city, an which is the name it had before colonization. The name Chiquiago is almost secretive and describes the ambiguity of a modern city built on the ruins of and Indian civilization lost in the misty past. The film is made up of four stories whose actors are inhabitants of la Paz and who come from different social backgrounds.
Francisco Norden
Colombia
90 min.
The film shows how, since the middle of the 19th century, the two traditional political parties, Liberal and Conservative, have been confornting one another in an almost uninterrupted series of undeclared civil wars which have lasted almost a hundred years. the film is based on the last of these wars known as "La violencia", which started when the popular hero Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assesinated, on 9th April, 1948. This day marked the beginning of a dark period which was to last almost a decade and, during which, paid assassins known as "pájaros", such as León María Lozano, "El Cóndor", who was the most famous of them all, played and important role.
Leonardo Favio
Argentina
79 min.
This film tells the story of Polín, a child in a corrective school for children. In this inhuman and cruel atmosphere, his life passes between idleness, humiliation and a secret desire to escape. When he is at last on his way home to his sordid district where he will at least find a friend's smile, he sees the light of a far off hope symbolized by a white horse. But society is unmoving , and Polín soon finds himself being led back to the corrective school by a policeman.
Grupo Cine Sur , Grupo Cine de la base
Nicaragua - Mexico - Argentina
14 min.
Short film
Clodomiro the "compa" (friend), a caricaturistic personality, explains to the public how the Nicaraguan economy functioned diring the Somoza era. He describes how the war destroyed a large part of the country and that the fundamental objective of the present economy is the reconstruction of the country and the redistribution of wealth.
Valeria Sarmiento
Federal Republic of Germany
63 min.
The events in this film take place in latin America. They look at the man-woman relationships using a succession of testimonies collected in different interviews which wew carried out by talking to a wide range of different kinds of people taking into account their habits, customs: 15th birthday party, weddings, etc., anything which could be considered as an initiation rite, an entrance into society or a devotion towards social status. This leads us to the old argument over "machismo". It doesn't of course, mean that the film is trying to give a solution to nor encourage debate on the problem. however, it seemed important to demonstrate that hthis problem is fed by compicity and existing moral codes. The most naive memories found in the Romanticism latent in the Latin-American man have permitted this film to tell its story naturally, without havinf to resort to the artificial. The result is a certain humour and irony. The film doesn't therefore, have the cold schematical approach of an inquest on the "macho". the facts presented can be found in any Latin-American country and are not exclusive to Costa Rica- Who knows it the situation doesn't also exist, in one form or another, in European countries.
Julio García Espinosa, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba
27 min.
Short film
This film was made in 1955, during the Batista dictatorship, with few means and a lot of talent. The documentary was banned after its debut at the University of Havana. Comments appeared in the press, and both SIM (Military Intelligence Service) and BRAC (Repressive Bureau of Communist Activities) demanded the negatives from Julio García Espinosa. The director turned in one of the two copues that existed and the other he hid until it was released by order of Fidel Castro. Here Julio García Espinosa and his crew, which together formed the collective known as Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time), present the life of the coal miners of Zapata Bog in Cuba. These workers, half-submerged in water all day, search the muddy bottom for the pieces of buried wood that have become the best Cuban coal. The poor working conditions and bad pay are clearly exploitative.The neorealist experiment by Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time) contains little dialogue. The actors are not professionals; they are authentic miners from El Mégano. The scarce economic and technical resources that the group had in order to carry out the production explain the film's defects.
Miguel Zacarías
Mexico
117 min.
Braulio Valdivia reminds his grandson Felipe and Manuel that they must kill Fernando, the last member of the Iturriaga family, due to an old femily vengeance. María ángela, Felipe's sister and Manuel's childhood sweetheart, arrives from Spain. She meets Fernando and they fall in love but, to avoid the spilling of blood, she wants to marry Manuel. Fernando's men are captured by those of Felipe and Rosa, who is in love with Manuel, tells María Ángela of the danger that Felipe is in. Thus warned, Felipe frees his men and escapes with them.
Román Chalbaud
Venezuela
115 min.
The scene is set in huge brothel situated in the outskirts of Caracas. The throne of this kingdom of prostitution is occupied by "La Garza", who lives under the protection of Dimas, pimp and professional in delinquency. Dimas has taken over as favourite in place of Tobias who is now in prison due to a first class "chivatazo" (denunciation). Business has benefited from the change and Dimas is progressively gaining power, until one day a relatively young boy appears who is apparently a genius. The boy's name is jairo. His arrival causes an upheaval in the dark world of "El Pez que fuma".
Patricio Guzmán
Chile
100 min.
A feature length documentary showing the main aspects of the Chilean revolutionary process from the moment of President Allende's victory until the visit of Fidel Castro to Chile.
Fernando Méndez
Mexico
83 min.
A box sent from Hungary by a certain Bukovich to Mr. Duval arrives by train in the Sierra Negra, Mexico. Enrique and Marta, two travellers on their way to visit their aunt Eloísa and uncle Emilio on Sycamore Ranch which they own, arrive in the area at the same time only to have their trip interrupted by a landslide. A cart driven by a person dressed in black comes to collect the box. As Marta and Enrique are going to the same place as the box, Enrique asks the driver if he'll give them a lift. On arrival in Sycamore, they find the sinister aunt Eloísa at the head of a funeral cortge which has come to take the box (a coffin) to the underground crypt where the remains of Karol, the Count of Lavud, are buried. Emilio asks to see his sister's, María Teresa, corpse one last time. enrique is a young doctor whom Emili has asked to come in the hope that he will be able to cure Maria Teresa of her fear of vampires.
Paul Leduc
Mexico, - Canada
127 min.
A sociological study on the conditions in which Otmí Indians are forced to live in the Mezquital region, one of the poorest rural zones in Mexico, situated in the State of Hidalgo. The indians themselves relate their history, the persecution they suffer and lastly, the veritable ethnocide to which they are subjected by "civilizing forces". The theme of the film extends outwith its context and could actually be talking about a large part of the Continent where other villages and ethnic cultures are being exterminated by all kinds of mechanisms, ranging from the most brutal repressin to the most sophisticated cultural penetration.
Ciro Durán
Colombia
110 min.
Bogotá is a city which has grown out of all proportion. It has five million inhabitants, many of whom live packed into overpopulated suburbs. In these societies, crammed full by the migratory flow of farmers dispossessed of their land, the family unit doesn't exist due to its being aubjected to urban aggressivity. Children break their relationships with their families and swarm around the streets in the area; these children are known as "gamines" and the groups which they form, "galladas". In order to survive, they organize bands and gangs who dedicate themselves to begging, theiving ans prostitution. This film is structured in blocks which ilustrate important memoments in the daily existence of a "gamín" and chich follow the logical evolution of these children who, as they grow up, abandon their adolescent status to become antisocial adults. This film talks about all of these things and treats them with lucidity and tenderness.
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
Argentina
74 min.
Ana is turning into a woman. Her father is an old-fashioned politician, head of a parliamentary minority to which Pablo belongs, the young and fiery deputy with revolutionary ideas who likes to show off his honesty in public. He meets ana who, due to her personal circumstances, rigorous and antequated education, is especially open to romance and tumulteous relationship results which has a disastrous effect on the young girls phsychology.
Lucio Lleras Monge, Colectivo Cero a la Izquierda
El Salvador
105 min.
The film presents the rearguard created by the "Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional" FMLN), and shows the political and military progress which has been made since 1980. There is now a medical system for the civilian population which didn't exist previously, schools, sports facilities, cultural activities and the organized production of cereals and sugar cane. The film reflects the aims of the salvadorian revolutionary movement, talks about how it sees the new society and highlights new battles which will have to be fought once freedom has been achieved.
Fernando Ezequiel Solanas
Argentina
255 min.
These "notes and testimonies on neocolonization, violence and liberation" constitute, within the panorama of Latin american cinema of the 1960s, somewhat more that a long cinematographic speech developed on a level of high idealogical lingustic and spectacular complexity. This is the first part of an unequal triptych where even the title (Neocolonialismo y violencia) refers to the Argentinian situation which it describes in thirteen notes and a prologue. In the second part, made up of ten notes, the history of the first Peron Government, from 1945-1955, is analyzed as well as the Peronist Worker's Movement.
Héctor Olivera
Argentina
104 min.
This film takes its name from the tragical incident which took place in 1976 in La Plata City, the capital of the Buenos Aires province, qhen security forces kidnapped seven students leaders, adolescents with an average age of 17. Leaders in the fight to obtain a secondary school ticket, these young people are still "missing" to this day, with the single exception of Pablo Díaz who, as well as advising script writers and directors, has become the focal point of the film describing the day-to-day family and student life led by these youngsters before the coup d'etat on 24th March, 1976. On 16th September of the same year, these young people were kidnapped and put into two concentration camps.
Adolfo Aristarain
Argentina
85 min.
Theives rob a bank and, on being followed by the police, leave the money in the hostel were Bruno di Toro lives, who looks for it until he finds it before going in search of his ex-wife with whom his relationship has deteriorated due to problems. He is unable to convince her that he has done a good business and, by reading the newspapers, finds out that the notes were numerically controlled. He gets in touch iwth a friend who has contacts in the underworld but the thieves are after him and threatening his family. Bruno has lost control.
Manuel Octavio Gomez
Cuba
80 min.
Using contemporaneous cinematographic methods such as camera-in-hand, direct sound and thta of cinema-inquest, the film reconstructs, with a cronically old documentary treatment, fragments of a period in Cuban history during the beginning of the Ten-year War.
Miguel Littin
Chile
120 min.
In order to film La tierra prometida, (the story of a peasant uprising in 1932, after the fall of General Grove's Goverment, which proclaimed Chile to be a Socialist Republic), Miguel Littin looked for, found and tlaked to the survivors of this tragedy adn their children, travelling around the area where the events took place. Littin has chosen the tale of one man in particular, who lived through the massacre carried out by the Chilean Army and based the film on his story. The mixture of a documental style with the unreal stemmed from this direct contact with the protagonists, the survivors of this drama, and the combination of red-hot, true, imaginary and magical events which they related to Littin, all contributed to the script.
Julio García Espinosa
Cuba
110 min.
This film narrates the life and passion of this farmer during que pre-revolution ere. Juan Quin Quin never dies because he is "the hero of the film", or Colombia's guerrilla chief. there is always someone who inherits the name of the hero. Juan is a lively farmer whom nothing stops in his fight to live. Full of agression, he never accepts his fate. together with his friend Jachero and Teresa, his sweetheart, he confronts the situation as though it comes naturally to him. The different stories told in the film originate from the shocks produced by this confrontation.
Felipe Cazals
Mexico
115 min.
This film is based on a true story which moved public opinion in the 1960s. The Poquianchis are three sisters who, combining religion and horror, martyrize and exploit an undetermined number of children over a various years. Peasants poverty and ignorance has led some of them to sell their daugthers without realizing what they have done. When this isn't the case, the organization has members whose job it is to kidnap them. Later they are tortured and cruelly put to prostitution sometimes resulting in death.
Carlos Alvarez
Colombia
45 min.
Medium-length film
"Subdevelopment children" are the children of the capitalist system. In colombia, according to official data, 90.000 children under the age of five die yearly, this means 245 per day. This frigthening fact has given a base to the Colombian society's relationship with proletarian and bourgeois childres ans antagonistic classes. In spite of the war until death imposed by capitalism with its multinational birth control programmes, subdevelopment children will be tomorrow's fathers of the revolution. (Carlos Álvarez)
Joaquin Pedro De Andrade
Brazil
108 min.
Macunaíma, the hero's name, originates from a series of legends. Macunaíma is born black in a miserable hut in the mirst of the jungle. When he emigrates to the ity with his brothers, he undergoes a transformation whereby he becomes white. After beating wenceslau, the ferocious giant, Macunaíma goes back to the jungle, where other dangers lie in store for him. In the end, Macunaíma is his own victim, or prehaps the victim of certain ancestral traits such as laziness, lust, anhropophagy, propitiatory innocence, etc., form which neither his lewdness not natural cunning can save him.
Humberto Solás
Cuba
42 min.
Medium-length film
The guerrilla movement agains the Batista dictatorship is maintained mainly by farmers. The motives which push Manuela to join this revolutionary movement are typical: her home has been razed to the ground, her mother assassinated and she has a thirst for vengeance. The film follows the progress of this peasant girl through armed figthing until her death and can gradually see how she is progressively adding new elements to her vengeance and how this is obliterating her more solid instincts.
Jorge Preloran
Ecuador
90 min.
This is the tale of an aristocratic family, the Arismendis, seen from the point of view of the memories of Beatriz Arismendi, the youngest member of the family. The scene is set on Christmas Eve inside their grandmother's house. The children are: Fernando, resident in the USA and who owns a car showroom; Raúl, a Latin American bureaucrat and also Beatriz's father; and Nora, a forty-year old spinster dominated by her mother. Virginia, Raúl's wife, is outstanding in her lack or aristocratic manners. When Lady Eugenia dies, there is no-one to take over the head of the family, a fact from which Virginia tries to benefit. Beatriz grows closer to her aunt who is defenseless and victim at the same time. Beatriz meets Sebastian, who wants to save her from the alienation of her sorroundings.
Luis César Amadori
Argentina
107 min.
Luis César amadori has repeated the formula of Dios se lo pague in this film which was also an enormous success all over America, although more so because its predecessor than for its own merits. Based on a novel by Manuel Gálvez, the film is about a melodramatic and gloomy television series played by a socially resentful man (Arturo de Córdova), and a reformed sinner (Zully Moreno). The film is extremely similar to delirious tear-jerking Mexican soap operas.
Santiago Alvarez
Cuba
18 min.
Short film
This is a documental short which shows the mass unification of workers, students and Government Heads cutting cane during the Girón fortnight.
Santiago Alvarez
Cuba
6 min.
Short film
The song "Now" which has been censored, forbidden and pursued by the authorities in southern USA, has become a hymn, a war chant. the film is as short as the song, only 6 minutes long, but with such strenght, combativity and denouncement as the theme demands. Persecution reality and the death of a negro are given as recent history in the USA. Now doesn't stop at showing discrimination as a singular act in American politics, but presents it as a symptomatic element of USA military action as a whole: Vietnam, Santo Domingo, Cuba...
Alberto Cavalcanti
Brazil
124 min.
This film relates the deama of those who fled drought and hunger in the "sertao" of the Northwest, who think they will find refuge on the coast, first stop on their way South. One of the families is made up of an ageing invalid father who is slightly unbalanced; the mother sho is a launderess; and the son who, although still young, must wupport and look after his family. His youngerbrother dies without receiving attention of any kind. Their sister observes how misery is destroying all her dreams. The search for a way out will only increase the helplessness of the family.
Ruy Guerra
Brazil
100 min.
Two men and two women, unemployed vagrants. The first is poor but drives a Buick, symbol of the bourgeois medium to which his compice belongs. With an end to blackmailing his unvle's lover, the young bourgeois boy takes photograohs of he nude on the beach. When this plan fails, they decice to try the same thing on the firl which the young boy is in love with. the situation underlines their misery, as much on one side as on the other. the film combines a strong dose of eroticism with a cinematographic style which recalls that of the Nouvelle Vague.
Tizuka Yamasaki
Brazil
103 min.
Whilst Brazil is dreaming of returning to democracy and people are out on the streets demanding direct presidential elections (april 1984), three people from different walks of life and gerenations are conrfonted wich each other due to the shooting of a film and love story: Lina, a young 20-year-old journalist; Goyas, a thirty-five-year-old filmmaker; and Raul, a powerful fifty-five-year-old businessman.
Ricardo Wullicher
Argentina
100 min.
During the first decade of this century, British companies installed north of Santa Fe province created a veritable feud for the felling of trees from which a tannin used in curing skins is extracted. This commercial and spoliating empire which had no respect for social laws and corrupted officials, and which subjected its workers to total slavery, was dismantled when business got slack, leaving whole villages abandoned and the land exhausted. In three episodes set in different periods, form the beginning of this explotation by the company until its leaving, this film describes the drama of the workers, their attempted strikes ferociously put down, and the multitude of interests manipulated from abroad.
Juan Padrón
Cuba - Argentina
36 min.
Medium-length film
A cartoon based on drawings and ideas by the Argentinian Joaquín Lavado (Quino).
Jesús Salvador Treviño
Mexico
100 min.
Chicanos, Mexicans who have either been born or set their roots in the United States, live in desperate situations: from the inhuman traffic of "braceros" (farm-workers) to the exploitation and discrimination to which they are subjected in the fields and factories. Some companies, like Morris, the one in this story, even work fraudulentrly on both sides of the border, provoking unfair competition between the workers and a constant reduction in the price of labour.
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Brazil
100 min.
Five children form the "favelas" (slums) occupy the best places for selling their peanuts in Río de Janeiro between themselves. The film exhibits, from a poor persons point of view, the possibilities which the future comparison with that of the middle and upper classses. This was the first episode in a series on living conditions in Río de Janeiro.
Luis Buñuel
Mexico
89 min.
After being ship-wrecked, Robinson Crusoe finds an island, apparently uninhabited, where he sets himself in a cave and, using the natural elements he finds on the island, makes his own bread and wime. After some time, he finds a native girl whom he sabes from being eaten by her fellow tribesmen and who becomes his servant. After baptizing him with the name "Friday", he starts teaching her about occidental culture.
Emilio Fernández
Mexico
95 min.
In Salón México, an important slow dancing competition is held which is won by Paco "Pachuco" and his partner Mercedes, a cabaret dancer. Mercedes demands the prize money, but Paco gives her the trophy and goes to a hotel with the money and another woman. When they are asleep, Mercedes enters the room and steals the money. She has her sister's college fees to pay. paco beats her up. Lupe, the goos policeman, knows the whole sotry and takes vengeance on Paco. But Beatriz, Mercedes' sister, has problems and her family doesn't know what she does for a living in the Salón México. Things become complicated.
Leon Hirszman
Brazil
110 min.
Paulo Honorio, a street trades in the "sertao", decides to snatch the São Bernardo "fazenda" from its incompetent propietor. This achieved, he decides to create a family and marries madalena, the school teacher. Obssessed by jealousy, Paulo Honorio continually suspects that his wife is being unfaithful to him. After an argument over a letter which he considers to be a love letter, Madalena commits suicide. Caught between uncertainty andloneliness, Paulo reflects upon his life.
Perry Henzell
Jamaica
109 min.
This first Jamaican feature film describes the journey of a young farmer boy, Ivan, who goes to the city with the intention of becoming famous in the world of pop music, and who ends up discovering that corruption is everywhere, not only in the record-making industry but that it also dominates religion, the police force, marihuana dealers, personal relationships.... The film, which is interpreted by Jamaican pop singers (in particular Jimmy Cliff), also describes the new Jamaican way of life born from the Rastafari culture, its religion, music and philosophy.
Luis Alcoriza
Mexico
100 min.
A group of shark fishermen live close to the mouth of a river. Among them is a man whom they all respect and love, who is a prominent figure by virtue of his bravery and intelligence, his zeal for improvements, and above all his sense of justice. In order to ensure the survival of Manela, a young half-Korean and his intimate friend, Aurelio gives her family a small boat and a net which he buys on credit. Life is hard for Aurelio, who works without rest and suffers in order to put together a little money for his family in the city. Suddenly, his routine is upset. Sharks start escaping from the nets that he puts out at dusk. One night he discovers a that a man is stealing them from the nets after they've died. aurelio takes his revenge and gets his money. He goes back to the cory, but becomes un happy within a few days and realizes that it's not his world. He is a shark huntere, and besides, he now knows that he loves Manela. Thinking in terms of justice, especially for himself, he decides to go back to the coast. There he finds that the people missed him and are glad he returned.
Fernando Birri, Estudiantes del Instituto de Cinematografía de la Universidad Nacional de Litoral - Santa Fe
Argentina
33 min.
Medium-length film
This was the first film made by the documental School of santa Fe, founded by Fernando Berri in 1956. The film is conceived and produced in the form of a social investigation in the outskirts of Buenos aires. On the screen, images and character from a working class suburban district file past. The film shows, with simplicity, the condition in which people fron this area live. Tire dié is an attempt at democratizing this kind of documentary, giving a voice and an image to sectors of a society which have, until now, been ignored.
Raúl Ruiz
Chile
105 min.
Some writers have defined this films as pertaining to a certain neo-realistic genre which seems to be fixed in the basic anecdote, due to the freshness ad novelty of its production, although it has a final result that could not be further from that starting point. the picture is interesting for its use of two fairly unusual elements inthe field of cinematography: torrential dialogue (here making the best posisble use of the Chilean accent's rhythm), and long takes of various persons (in small rooms which makes off screen references). The combined effect of all this is to get as far away as possible from the basic anecdote. However, the film is worthwhile and attractive. It follows a group of aimless, frustrated ruffians through the labyrinth of city night-life.
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba
89 min.
In his sermons, Father Manuel insists that everybody go to live in the interior of the country, far from the coast. This, according to him, is the only way to avoid dealing in contraban with heretics and he does everything possible to convince the Governor of the necessity to move. Against Father Manuel are the interest of the inhabitants. Juan Contreras, is aware that, in reality, paradise doesn't exist, but he doesn't want to resign himself to a life with no meanin to it which implie figthing, mans way of demonstrating on earth. He stops looking for paradise but instead starts trying to contribute towards one...
Jorge Sanjinés
Bolivia
74 min.
This film tells of events which tool place in Bolivia in 1968, how during part of a birth control programme, Indian women were sterilized without realizing it. The film explores various aspects fo Bolivian Society. Ignacio and Paulina, a Quechuan Indian couple who live in the andes, want to have more children as they have lost all three due to illness. Ignacio, a leader in the community, is extremely worried when he discovers taht Paulina is incapable of conceiving again. The film narrates Igancio's assault on the clinic installed by the North American progress Corpss, how he is shot and later dies.
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