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La historia oficial
After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is. (IMDB) -
Alicia en el Pueblo de las Maravillas
A satire about the life of the Cuban people. Alicia, a culture instructor, is sent to a small town "Maravillas", which is itself an exaggerated, but very ingenious reflection of the real Cuba. The adventures that she has there are almost as crazy and senseless as the ones lived by the other Alice (in Wonderland), reflecting the indoctrination, coercion, absolutims, and many other everyday problems in Cuban society. (IMDB) -
Los colores de la montaña
Manuel, 9, has an old ball with which he plays football every day in the countryside. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. His wishes seem set to come true when Ernest, his father, gives him a new ball. But an unexpected accident sends the ball flying into a minefield. Despite the danger, Manuel refuses to abandon his treasure... He convinces Julián and Poca Luz, his two friends, to rescue it with him. Amid the adventures and kids' games, the signs of armed conflict start to appear in the lives of the inhabitants of 'La Pradera'. (IMDB) -
Contracorriente
An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions. (IMDB) -
El hijo de la novia
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past and look at the present in new ways. (IMDB) -
El violín
In an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson. Can the old man ferry out the ammunition in his violin case under the soldiers' nose? (IMDB) -
En la puta vida
Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money. Her best friend Loulou finds her a job - in the brothel run by Dona Jacqueline. And without really being aware of it, Elisa slides into prostitution, which leads her to Barcelona. She falls in love, she is exploited, she gets involved in transvestite gang wars, and meanwhile just dreams of earning enough money for her little beauty salon back home. (IMDB) -
Fresa y chocolate
Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinal ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is a coming-of-age story, told through the development of a great friendship which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance. (IMDB) -
Historias de fútbol
Three stories about football, one of the most important twentieth-century rituals. A third division player from Santiago de Chile is bribed, but does not realise that his behaviour betrays more than the loyalty of his team-mates. A boy from Calama, Chile wins the local derby pichanga, a soccer match that can last all afternoon, but he loses the few pesos he acquired by pawning his mother's last possessions. Francisco, a boy from the city, is stuck in a remote corner of the southern island of Chiloé on the day that Chile has to play its qualifying match for the World Cup. The only TV is in the house of the Serón sisters. While the local male population gathers to watch the match, the sisters decide which of them will initiate the young Francisco into love. (IMDB) -
Madeinusa
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl. (IMDB)Tags Quechua -
Prometeo deportado
In an unknown first world airport the arrival of an Ecuadorian flight is heard. The 'members of the European Union' passby migration, while the 'others', in the other line, wait. In the middle of the claims, a group of Ecuadorians is arrested. They are taken to the Room, where they wait to be deported. Seems like everyone hides something, like PROMETEO the young magician with his hands tied like a delinquent who has a 'magical' trunk as luggage. Time passes, it seems like there is no possible exit. Meanwhile, a different but well-known way of life takes place. The only thing left as a promising way out is illusion. (IMDB) -
Sólo con tu pareja
Yuppie and womanizer Tomas is caught in a trap when falsely diagnosed with A.I.D.S. by Silvia, a nurse who finds herself cheated by the young Casanova. Looking for a quick death (putting his head into a microwave oven) Tomas falls in love with Clarisa, a beautiful stewardess who is also suicidal because her boyfriend is having a love affair with a blonde stewardess from Continental Airlines. (IMDB) -
Tropa de Élite
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged. Captain Nascimento is trying to find a man to replace him because his wife is pregnant and he intends to quit the command and become a trainer of the new recruits. Meanwhile, the two idealistic friends Neto and Matias join the Military Police force expecting to become honest policemen and fight the criminals. However, they see only corruption, lack of competence and stupid bureaucracy in the Military Police, and after a serious incident in the Morro da Babilônia, they decide to join the BOPE. The lives of Capitain Nascimento, Neto and Matias are entwined along the next months, first in the tough training period and then in action against drug dealers. (IMDB) -
Whisky
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship. (IMDB) -
Cine latinoamericano: re-definiendo identidades siglo XXI
Un estudio del cine latinoamericano y su desarrollo temático y técnico con un énfasis en la producción contemporánea. -
Contemporary Latin American Film
A study of a specific group of Latin American films in relation to their specific cultural and historical contexts. -
Después del cine latinoamericano: Tradición y renovación
Un estudio del cine latinoamericano y su desarrollo temático y técnico con un énfasis en la producción contemporánea. -
Postmodernismo: la historia en la producción cultural latinoamericana
Un estudio de la representación de la historia en la ficción y el cine latinoamericano y su desarrollo temático y técnico con un énfasis en la producción contemporánea. -
Latin American Cinema: 1930 to the Present
This course is a survey of Latin American cinema that spans from the 1930s to the present. Topics will include Mexican Golden Age cinema as well as the New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s and contemporary new new waves. The course will examine key films in the history of Latin American cinema including María Candelaría (Emilio Fernandez, 1944), Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba,1968), and The Jackal of Nahueltoro (Miguel Littín, 1969) as well as accomplished contemporary productions such as Edifício Master (Eduardo Coutinho, 2002) and Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012). The course will put these films in dialogue with key debates within Latin American cultural studies including debates around national culture, national identity, aesthetics and politics, and underdevelopment. In many cases, we will compare filmic treatments of these questions from different countries and from different time periods. -
Latin American Documentary
This course will investigate Latin American documentary by focusing on three important topics in Latin American cultural studies. We will screen recent and historical documentaries about (1) underdevelopment and poverty, (2) the history and memory of the Southern Cone military dictatorships, and (3) popular culture and folklore. These three topics will provide material for an investigation of documentary form. With respect to each topic, we will consider how the resources of documentary filmmaking are employed to frame the same subject matter in different ways. -
La nana
Raquel, una mujer agria e introvertida, lleva 23 años trabajando de nana para los Valdés, una numerosa familia de clase alta. Un día, Pilar, su patrona, contrata a otra nana para ayudarla. Raquel, sintiendo peligrar su lugar en la familia, espanta a la recién llegada con crueles e infantiles maltratos psicológicos. Esto se repite una y otra vez hasta que llega Lucy, una risueña mujer de provincia, que logra penetrar la coraza de Raquel y cambiar su forma de ver la vida. (DVD container) -
El estudiante
Roque llega a Buenos Aires para iniciar sus estudios universitarios. Sin vocación ni rumbo se dedica a deambular por la facultad, a hacer amigos, a conocer chicas. Una de ellas lo introduce en la militancia política y le presenta a un viejo político retirado. Junto a él, Roque aprende a manejarse como un dirigente estudiantil, y siente que por fin ha encontrado su vocación, que la política es su Universidad. (DVD container) -
No
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders of the NO vote persuade a brash young advertising executive, René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot's minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free. (DVD container) -
Viva Cuba
Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother doesn't want her to play with Jorgito, who she looks down on because of his lower-class background. Jorgito's mother, a poor socialist proud of her family's social standing, places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malú and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malú's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to run away and travel to the other side of the island to find Malú's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it. (DVD container) -
Suite Habana
Panorámica de una ciudad en la que la multiplicidad de rostros y lugares se entrecruzan con las memorias de personajes anónimos. Seres sumamente peculiares que representan una curiosa diversidad de grupos sociales que viven en La Habana de hoy. --- Documentary combines with narrative film to offer a leisurely-paced look into the lives of ten average Cubans in a meditation on life in modern-day Havana. From children playing in the streets to the elderly woman who seldom moves from her place in front of the television. It combines songs and imagery to fully immerse the viewer in the Cuban experience. (Portal del cine y audiovisual Latinoamericano y caribeño) -
Estamira
De sus 63 años, Estamira ha trabajado durante los últimos 20 en un depósito de basura. Frente al rechazo de la sociedad, ha recobrado su dignidad construyendo un discurso místico que ha dado un nuevo sentido a su vida. Esquizofrénica, pero carismática y maternal por naturaleza, sus amigos la consideran una auténtica líder. --- Documentary about Estamira, a 63-year-old woman who has been working for over 20 years at a landfill site in Rio de Janeiro. Schizophrenic, but very charismatic, she's the leader of a small community of old people living off garbage and has a very lyrical and philosophical attitude towards life. (Portal del cine y audiovisual Latinoamericano y caribeño) -
Chile, la memoria obstinada
CHILE, OBSTINATE MEMORY visits with Chileans who experienced the coup first-hand (some of whom are seen in The Battle of Chile from 25 years ago). Survivors reminisce as they watch that film, recognizing lost comrades and recalling their courage, gaiety and love of life. Those who were not killed during the coup itself were crowded into the National Stadium in Santiago, where many were tortured, disappeared, and never seen again. Survivors talk about the terror that characterized the Pinochet regime until the dictator was finally obliged to relinquish power. (Icarus Films) -
Cabra marcado para morrer
Em 1962, o líder da liga Camponesa de Sapé (PB), João Pedro Teixeira, é assassinado por ordem de latifundiários. Um filme sobre sua vida começa a ser rodado em 1964, com a reconstituição ficcional da ação política que levou ao assassinato, e com a produção do CPC da UNE e do Movimento de Cultura Popular de Pernambuco, e direção de Eduardo Coutinho. As filmagens com a participação de camponeses do Engenho Galiléia (PE) e da viúva de João Pedro, Elizabeth Teixeira, são interrompidas pelo Golpe Militar em 1964. Dezessete anos depois, em 1981, Eduardo Coutinho retoma o projeto e procura Elizabeth Teixeira e outros participantes do filme interrompido, como o camponês João Virgílio, também atuante em ligas. O tema central passa a ser a história de cada um deles que, estimulados pela filmagem e revendo as imagens do passado, elaboram para a câmera os sentidos de suas experiências. João Virgílio conta a tortura e a prisão que sofreu neste período. Enquanto Elizabeth, que havia mudado de nome e vivia refugiada numa pequena cidade da Bahia com apenas um de seus dez filhos, emerge da clandestinidade e reassume sua identidade. Ela também fala de sua prisão e do rencontro com os filhos, antes dispersos por várias cidades do Brasil, e da tentativa de reconstituir suas vidas. (Cinemateca Brasileira) -
Nostalgia de la luz
“Nostalgia de la Luz” es un film sobre la distancia entre el cielo y la tierra, entre la luz del cosmos y los seres humanos y las misteriosas idas y vueltas que se crean entre ellos. En Chile, a tres mil metros de altura, los astrónomos venidos de todo el mundo se reúnen en el desierto de Atacama para observar las estrellas. Aquí, la transparencia del cielo permite ver hasta los confines del universo. Abajo, la sequedad del suelo preserva los restos humanos intactos para siempre: momias, exploradores, aventureros, indígenas, mineros y osamentas de los prisioneros políticos de la dictadura.Mientras los astrónomos buscan la vida extra terrestre, un grupo de mujeres remueve las piedras: busca a sus familiares. -
Jogo de cena
"Mulheres desconhecidas e atrizes famosas se revezam em depoimentos pessoais num jogo onde o espectador nunca sabe quem está representando." (Cinemateca Brasileira) -- Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation. (IMDB) -
Año Bisiesto
Laura's personal life consists of one affair after another. She meets Arturo, and the pair enter into an intense, violent sexual relationship. As days go by, Laura crosses out the days on a calendar, revealing her secret past to her lover. (IMDB) -
Edifício Master
Durante uma semana, Eduardo Coutinho e sua equipe conversaram com 27 moradores de um enorme edifício de apartamentos em Copacabana. Entre eles um casal de meia-idade que se conheceu pelos classificados de um jornal, uma garota de programa que sustenta a filha e a irmã, um ator aposentado, um ex-jogador de futebol e um porteiro desconfiado de que o pai adotivo, com quem sonha toda noite, é seu pai verdadeiro. O assunto desse documentário é a vida privada na grande cidade, o apartamento como último refúgio de individualidade, além de ressaltar o fato de que, morar junto num mesmo lugar não garante a formação de uma comunidade. (Cinemateca Brasileira) -- For one week, Eduardo Coutinho and his team talked to 27 residents in an enormous building in Copacabana. Amongst these are a middle-aged couple who met through the classified ads in a newspaper, a call-girl who keeps her daughter and her sister, a retired actor, an ex-football player, and a janitor who suspects that his adopted father, whom he dreams about every night, is his real father. The subject of this documentary is private life in the big city, apartments as a last stronghold of individuality, in addition to emphasizing the fact that to live together in one and the same place does not ensure that a community will be formed. (IMDB) -
Quanto vale ou é quilo?
Uma analogia entre o antigo comércio de escravos e a atual exploração da miséria pelo marketing social, que forma uma solidariedade de fachada. No século XVII um capitão-do-mato captura um escrava fugitiva, que está grávida. Após entregá-la ao seu dono e receber sua recompensa, a escrava aborta o filho que espera. Nos dias atuais uma ONG implanta o projeto Informática na Periferia em uma comunidade carente. Arminda, que trabalha no projeto, descobre que os computadores comprados foram superfaturados e, por causa disto, precisa agora ser eliminada. Candinho, um jovem desempregado cuja esposa está grávida, torna-se matador de aluguel para conseguir dinheiro para sobreviver. (Cinemateca Brasileira) -
O Som ao Redor
A vida numa rua de classe-média na zona sul do Recife toma um rumo inesperado após a chegada de uma milícia que oferece a paz de espírito da segurança particular. A presença desses homens traz tranqulidade para alguns, e tensão para outros, numa comunidade que parece temer muita coisa. Enquanto isso, Bia, casada e mãe de duas crianças, precisa achar uma maneira de lidar com os latidos constantes do cão de seu vizinho. Uma crônica brasileira, uma reflexão sobre história, violência e barulho. (Cinemateca Brasileira) -
Las muertes chiquitas
Las Muertes Chiquitas es resultado de cuatro años de trabajo de Mireia Sallares, un proyecto interdisciplinario concentrado en las entrevistas a más de treinta mujeres de México de diferentes zonas del país; mujeres de diversas edades, estratos sociales, profesiones y religiones. Sus historias de vida nos llevan a conocer sucesos relacionados con los feminicidios de Ciudad Juárez, con las prostitutas de barrios marginados, con profesoras de universidad, exiliadas de guerras europeas, cero positivas y homosexuales o transexuales, ex guerrilleras de los años setenta, burguesas, indígenas, estudiantes, madres, abuelas, hijas... mujeres. (Las Muertes Chiquitas) -
Zulay
Zulay Sarvino is part of a family of weavers in the Quinchuqui village of the Otavalo region in the Andean highlands of Ecuador. The film shows her family's life in the first half, but in the second half Zulay accompanies the filmmakers back to Los Angeles to seek out new markets for their weavings. (World Cat) -
Machuca
Chile, 1973. Gonzalo Infante y Pedro Machuca son dos niños de once años que viven en Santiago, el primero en un barrio acomodado y el segundo en un humilde poblado ilegal. Ambos son compañeros de un colegio privado (al cual Pedro accede por becas que ofrece el director). Pero a las dificultades objetivas de este intento de integración se agregan las que se derivan del clima de abierto enfrentamiento social que vive la sociedad chilena. (Portal del cine y audiovisual Latinoamericano y caribeño) -
Cine contemporáneo latinoamericano
Using methods that both embrace and critique the study of national cinemas, this course provides a survey of cinema from across the Latin American region, concentrating on the changing tropes of contemporary cinema and including screenings as part of the AFI Latin American Film Festival. -
National Cinema Study: Mexico
This course will examine different histories, approaches and methodologies related to the study of national cinema, tying in aspects of culture, politics, aesthetics and economics. Throughout the course, we will study the Mexican film tradition as case studies and examples. It should be clear, however, that the primary pedagogical thrust of this course concentrates on larger implications of national cinema writ large; to that end, each student will choose a different national cinematic tradition to examine, culminating in a term-long research project. -
Transnational Cinemas
This seminar explores the breadth of theoretical and cultural perspectives on the complex state of contemporary international cinema. By the end of this course, you will be able to:- Apply theoretical and practical contexts to examine “transnational cinema” as a broad concept
- Explain historical and contemporary trends concerning international cinema
- Participate within the intellectual conversation concerning narrative, films and, more specifically, international cinema.
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Orfeu
O célebre compositor Orfeu se apaixona por uma recém chegada ao morro, Eurídice. Mas tudo se complica, pois Orfeu é desejado por várias forças. No entanto, por seu amor descerá ao mundo dos mortos. (Cinemateca Brasileira) -
No se lo digas a nadie
Joaquín siempre ha sabido que le gustan los hombres, aunque no quiera aceptarlo. Presionado por el entorno social y familiar intenta relacionarse con Alejandra, pero se enamora de Gonzalo, con quien inicia una intensa aventura. El problema es que él quiere que su amigo deje a su novia, pero Gonzalo quiere casarse y continuar los encuentros a ocultas. Decepcionado por la conducta hipócrita de Gonzalo y deprimido por su ruptura con él, decide irse a Miami a buscar una vida más auténtica lejos de los prejuicios de la sociedad limeña. Pero en su nuevo destino tampoco encuentra lo que busca. Decide regresar a Lima aceptando las reglas y convenciones para integrarse socialmente. (Cine Aparte) -
Kamchatka
The film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "disappearance" of dissident friends, a human rights lawyer (Ricardo Darín) and his research scientist wife (Cecilia Roth) flee the city and hide from the military police in a vacant summer house. With them are their two kids: Harry, who is fascinated with the escape artistry of Harry Houdini, and El Enano, his little brother. (Translated as "Little Guy" in the English subtitles, played by Milton de la Canal. The actual translation is "dwarf".) The family adopts new identities and attempts to lead a normal life. Later, they are joined by a student who is using the alias Lucas (Tomás Fonzi). Their new life is difficult, but a visit with their estranged grandparents (Fernanda Mistral and Héctor Alterio) reveals that they are still a close-knit family. (IMDB) -
Hello Hemingway
A young girl's academic asperation conflict with her family's struggle against poverty. Both these aspects are made all the more potent by the clear view they have of Ernest Hemingway's mansion in their home town just outside Havana. (Film Affinity US) -
Os Inquilinos
Durante os dias de atentado do PCC em São Paulo, a realidade de uma família de periferia é alterada com a chegada de três jovens barulhentos que alugam a casa vizinha. Valter, Iara e seus dois filhos pequenos passam a dormir mal. Valter, empregado em uma banca de frutas, se atormenta com as mudanças no cotidiano de sua rua, que conhece apenas pela narrativa de Iara. Iara, desde a chegada dos novos inquilinos, lhe parece cada dia mais bonita. Logo, eles percebem que os três rapazes fazem parte do crime organizado. O uso da violência parece ser inevitável, e eles começam a se sentir acuados. (Cinemateca Brasileira) -
La mujer sin cabeza
A woman is driving on the highway. She becomes distracted and runs over something. On the days following this incident, she fails to recognize the feelings that bond her to things and people. She just lets herself be taken by the events of her social life. One night she tells her husband that she killed someone on the highway. They go back to the road only to find a dead dog. Friends close to the police confirm that there were no accident reports. Everything returns to normal and the bad moment seems to be over until the news of a gruesome discovery again worries everyone. (Festival Cannes) -
A Hora da Estrela
Película brasileña dirigida por Suzana Amaral (Uma Vida em Segredo) y estrenada en 1985. Se trata de una adaptación de la obra homónima de Clarice Lispector. En 1986, la actriz Marcélia Cartaxo (Bautismo de sangre) ganó el Oso de Plata como Mejor Actriz en el 36 Festival Internacional de Cine de Berlín. Macabéa (Cartaxo) es una joven de diecinueve años, inmigrante del norte, huérfana, casi analfabeta y con escasos recursos económicos. Desesperada por dar un cambio a su solitaria vida, viaja a Sao Paulo, donde encuentra un trabajo como mecanógrafa. Allí conoce a Olímpico de Jesús (José Dumont, José Dumont), obrero metalúrgico, con el que comienza un romance. Sin embargo, pronto éste rompe la relación y empieza a salir con una compañera del trabajo, Gloria (Tamara Taxman), quien está con Olímpico por recomendación de un adivino. (Sensa Cine) -
Tan de repente
Esta tragicomedia holandesa y argentina trata de una joven ingenua, Marcia (Tatiana Saphir), que aprende acerca de su sexualidad. Marcia es secuestrada por dos mujeres punky, Mao (Carla Crespo) y Lenin (Veronica Hassan). Ellas la llevan a una costa, la cual Marcia nunca había estado. Finalmente, las tres mujeres se familiarizan y terminan en la casa de una amiga de la abuela de Lenin, la tía Blanca (Beatriz Thibaudin). Allí todas descubren y redescubren las relaciones y los sentimientos que hay entre ellas. Película dirigida por Diego Lerman ('Porfirio', 'La familia invisible') (Sensa Cine) -
El etnógrafo
Retomando algunos de los lineamientos con los que construyó Bonanza en el 2001, Rosell cuenta la cotidianeidad de una comunidad wichi. De la mano del etnógrafo, se adentra en la Salta profunda y, desde Tartagal, hace hablar a los wichis en su propia lengua. Pero también, como en el cuento de Borges, el etnógrafo americano “llega a soñar en un idioma que no es el de sus padres”. Así, Rosell pone en escena multiplicidad de lenguas –las maternas y las que se aprenden, las que nos son propias y las ajenas– para proponer que el lenguaje es lo que nos define y nos identifica. Este extranjero, antropólogo de profesión, llega para observar e investigar las prácticas sociales de una comunidad, se queda a vivir allí y se vuelve la voz cantante (hablando de voces) de la resistencia de los wichis por defender sus tierras, sus tradiciones; en definitiva, su identidad. La película trabaja sobre la grieta que genera el olvido en el que están sumidos estos pueblos y expone de un modo tenso y a la vez amable, uno de los modos en el que las tradiciones se instalan conflictivamente en el cuerpo social. (Film Affinity US)Tags Wichí / Mataco -
El diablo nunca duerme
Cinta sobre la misteriosa muerte del tío de la realizadora en Chihuahua y de cómo reaccionó su familia ante la posibilidad de un suicidio. Es un reflejo de la sociedad actual de provincia. El gobierno está lleno de secretos que todo el mundo sabe pero no lo dice. (Filmoteca UNAM)