Documentary weekDocumentary Week is a DocMontevideo space for showing films. Every day a new film will be presented by its director and shown.
This event is open to the general public and admission is free of charge. At the end of each film showing there will be a participative dialogue between the film makers and members of the audience.
Leach Kowalski / Francia / 2013 / 82'
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One day the people who live in a small village located in far eastern Poland near the Ukrainian border, an ecologically pristine agricultural area called the lungs of Poland discover that Chevron, the world’s fourth largest energy corporation plans to build a shale gas well in their village
Director: Leach Kowalski / Producer: Odile Allard / Production company: Revolt Cinema y canal Arte / Cinematography: Leach Kowalski / Edition: Lech Kowalski y Marcin Latanik / Sound: Emmanuel Soland
Country: Francia / Year: 2013 / Duration: 82'
Nicolás Prividera / Argentina / 2010 / 100 minutos
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As a poem-essay, the film narrates the continually and repeated confrontation of two versions of history: the winner’s and the vanquisher’s. And it does it in a location that it is at the same time concrete and symbolic: Buenos Aires’ oldest cemetery.
Director: Nicolás Prividera / Producer: Pablo Ratto / Production company: Trivial Media
Country: Argentina / Year: 2010 / Duration: 100 minutos
Petra Costa / Brasil / 2012 / 82'
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Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship and Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused; we no longer know one from the other.
Director: Petra Costa / Production company: Busca Vida Filmes / Executive production: Julia Bock y Daniela Santos / Cinematography: Janice D'Ávila, Will Etchebehere y Miguel Vassy / Edition: Marilia Moraes y Tina Baz / Sound: Olivier Goniard y Guile Martins
Country: Brasil / Year: 2012 / Duration: 82' / Format: HD
Awards and festivals:5º Festival de Brasilia de Cine Brasileño – Mejor dirección, mejor montaje, mejor dirección de arte y mejor film para el jurado en la categoría documental.
28º Festival Internacional de Cinema de Guadalajara – Mención Especial
9º Festival Internacional de Documentales ZagrebDox – Mención Especial
Films de Femmes 2013 – Mejor documental
Guzmán García / Uruguay / 2012 / 54'/ 61'
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When the 30-year-old director of this documentary decided to make a film about love, he started at a dance party for old folks at a bar in Montevideo. He thought that those people with life experience would know what love is. He collected 11 stories from them, but realized that there’s plenty they didn’t understand, either. If the stories have one lesson in common, it’s that love can be complicated, but that doesn’t mean it’s not love.
Director: Guzmán García / Producer: Guzmán García, Andrés Varela, Sebastián Bednarik / Production company: Coral Cine / Executive production: Guzmán García, Sebastián Bednarik, Mercedes Sader / Cinematography: Marcelo Rabuñal / Edition: Guzmán García, Sebastián Bednarik, Santiago Bednarik / Sound: Santiago Bednarik / Music: Sofía Scheps, Julián Crispino Gastelum, Faraón, Santiago Bednarik
Country: Uruguay / Year: 2012 / Duration: 54'/ 61' / Format: HD; Betadigital; Bluray; DVD
Awards and festivals:-Competencia Oficial Mediometrajes, IDFA 2012
-Competencia Iberoamericana, Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara, 2013
-Premio Mejor Director por el Jurado Joven, Festival Internacional de Cine de Punta del Este, 2012
-Competencia sección Nuevos Talentos, DocsBarcelona, 2013
Luis Ospina / Colombia / 2007 / 114'
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Pedro Manrique Figueroa, pioneer of collage in Colombia, has never had a biographer. For a very simple reason: his life is like an adventure novel that is both incomplete and contradictory, constantly linked to the sparkling uncertainties of oral tradition. Taking Manrique Figueroa’s life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view. A Paper Tiger is itself a collage, where art and politics rub shoulders, where truth and lies are placed side by side, where documentary and fiction intermingle.
Director: Luis Ospina / Producer: Luis Ospina con el apoyo del Fondo para el Desarrollo Cinematográfico / Production company: Congo Films, Efe-X, Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano (Bogotá), Miguel Salazar (Nueva York, Ucrania, Amazonas), Andrés Mora (China), Rodrigo Lalinde (Rumania), Karen Lamassonne (Atlanta) / Cinematography: Luis Ospina / Edition: Ruben Mendoza, Luis Ospina / Sound: Luis Ospina / Music: “En el segundo tono” de Guillermo Gaviria interpretada por la Orquesta Sinfónica de Colombia bajo la dirección de Federico García Vigil
Country: Colombia / Year: 2007 / Duration: 114' / Format: DVD, DVCAM, BETACAM DIGITAL
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