Documentary week
The Documentary Week is the exhibition space of DocMontevideo. The 2018 edition presents 18 films with the presence of its directors between July 20 and 26.
One more year, the Documentary Week brings unprecedented programming in the country with the best of the current Latin American documentary. An opportunity to learn about the most recent regional production, which is increasingly strong on the international scene.
With a strong author component, the selection of this edition is marked by a majority of films directed by women (eleven), as well as several raw operas of emerging regional talent (nine) that is breaking into festivals around the world. Also highlighted in the program is a high presence of Brazilian films, which responds to the great growth – in quantity and quality – of documentary production in the neighboring country; and two Uruguayan pre-premieres. It is a diverse program that brings urgent films about regional socio-political contexts, sensitive stories that delve into family and human bonds; and stories that explore and resignify the past.
This year, in addition, 3 guest films are presented: “Becoming Animal” and “Picture of Light” by Peter Mettler, two works that challenge nature and “Alberto García Alix, The Shadow Line”, a film that portrays one of the most outstanding contemporary portrait photographers.
Monday
23 Jul
Alberto García-Alix. The shadow line
19:00 HS / Cultural Center of Spain
“Alberto García-Alix. The Shadow Line” is the portrait of one of the most-recognized authors of the recent international photographic panorama, and a reference of a whole generation. The film is a direct testimony of the lights and shadows that the artist has had to go through to find his way. Narrated from the intimacy of his studio, it proposes a journey between present and past, a dialogue between his life and his work.
Director: Nicolás Combarro García / Producer: Miguel Ángel Delgado Molina / Production company: Morelli Producciones
Country: Spain / Year: 2017 / Duration: 82' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:Awards: -Best Ibero-American Documentary Feature at the Guadalajara International Film Festival. -Nominated New Directors Section at the International Film Festival of San Sebastian. -Nominated Forqué Best Documentary Awards. Festivals: -French International Film Festival of San Sebastián. – Guadalajara International Film Festival. -Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Bafici).
Saturday
21 Jul
Baronesa
17:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
Andreia wants to move out. Leid is waiting for her husband, who is in prison. They are neighbors in a poor suburban slum of Belo Horizonte, trying to escape the daily dangers of a drug traffic war happening on the outside and avoid the tragedy that comes with the rain.
Director: Juliana Antunes / Producer: Juliana Antunes, Laura Godoy, Marcella Jacques / Production company: VENTURA, Filmes de Plástico / Executive production: Camila Bréscia, Camila Bahia / Cinematography: Fernanda Sena / Edition: Affonso Uchoa, Rita Pestana / Sound: Marcela Santos, Pedro Durães / Music: MC Delano
Country: Brazil / Year: 2017 / Duration: 70' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:Awards: 28.º Festival Internacional De Cinema De Marseile – FID marseille – 3 Public Awards: Best Film, Prix Marseille Espérance and Prix Renaud Victor. 24.º Festival Internacional De Cinema De Valdívia . FIC valdívia – Best Film (Chile). 32.º Festival Internacional De Mar Del Plata – Best Film in Latin America Competition. 39.º Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano – Best Documentary (Cuba). 14.º Indie Lisboa – Best Film. 22.º Festival Internacional De Ourense – Best First Film and Best Film by Cineclubs (Spain). Festivals: Vienalle – Vienna International Film Festival – (Austria). Reencontres Internationales Du Documentaire De Montréal – (Canadá, Nov. 2017). 8.º Festival Internacional De Cine Unam – FICUNAM (Mexico). Ambulante Documentary Film Festival (Mexico). Art Of The Real – (NYC). 19.º Jeonju International Film Festival (South Korea)
After the exhibition, case study with:
Juliana Antunes
Juliana Antunes (Brazil). Born in 1989, formed in Cinema at the UNA, of Belo Horizonte, she is a partner of the production company VENTURA, together with Marcella Jacques and Laura Godoy. Juliana premiered in the direction with the feature film “Baroness”, which had its international debut at the 28th FIDMarseille Competition in France, where it received three awards, including Best Film by the Popular Jury. Currently Juliana develops the project of her second feature film, “Bate e Volta Copacabana”.
Moderator:
Soledad Castro Lazaroff
Soledad Castro Lazaroff (Uruguay). Filmmaker and writer; film critic. Graduated from the Uruguayan Film School. In 2011 she directed the documentary Falta y Resto 30 years, The Legend. In 2016 she premiered in Canal Encuentro a series called Zero Drama about actors with disabilities, and published her book Poems to clean up the house. She currently writes about cinema in Brecha and works on a documentary about Belela Herrera, a Latin American fighter for human rights.
Estimated duration: 45 minutes
Thursday
26 Jul
Becoming animal (Case Study)
21:15 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
Shot in Grand Teton National Park, this immersive essay film draws together the distinct sensibilities of filmmakers Emma Davie and Peter Mettler and philosopher David Abram to encounter the spaces where humans and animals meet. A subversive nature film in which we pique our senses to witness the so-called natural world—which in turn witnesses us.
Director: Peter Mettler, Emma Davie / Producer: Cornelia Seitler, Rebecca Day, Brigitte Hofer, Sonja Henrici / Production company: Maximage, SDI Productions / Executive production: Cornelia Seitler / Cinematography: Peter Mettler / Edition: Peter Mettler, Emma Davie / Sound: Jacques Kieffer, Peter Mettler
Country: Switzerland, United Kingdom / Year: 2018 / Duration: 78' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark – 2018. Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw & Wroclaw, Poland – 2018. Documenta Madrid – 2018. Bildrausch Filmfestival, Basel, Switzerland – 2018. Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, United Kingdom – 2018. Filmfest München, Munich, Germany – 2018.
After the exhibition, case study with:
Peter Mettler
Peter Mettler (Switzerland-Canada) is known for a diversity of work in image and sound mediums – foremost for his multi-awarded films such as “Picture of Light” (1994), “Gambling, Gods and LSD” (2002) and “The End of Time” (2012). but also as a photographer and groundbreaking live audio/visual mixing performer. His work bridges the gap between experimental, narrative, personal essay, and documentary. He has collaborated with an extensive range of international artists and has been honored with awards and retrospectives worldwide. As cinematographer, he has worked with directors such as Atom Egoyan, Patricia Rozema, Bruce McDonald and Jennifer Baichwal, among others; and he has collaborated with several international artists. He was part of the Toronto New Wave filmmakers collective in the 1980s. His last film “Becoming Animal” co-directed with Emma Davie, was launched this year at CPH:DOX.
Saturday
21 Jul
Dawn
15:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
“Despite I always knew I was adopted it took me over 20 years to begin searching for my biological mother. Meeting her caused opposed feelings: from joy to frustration, from tenderness to estrangement. This film shows how adoption changes the lives of all those involved. But above all, it tells us about the importance of finding your own identity”.
Director: Carmen Torres / Producer: Marta Andreu / Production company: Estudi Playtime / Cinematography: Carmen Torres / Edition: Isabela Monteiro de Castro / Sound: Marta Andreu (directo), Alejandro Castillo (montaje)
Country: Colombia, Spain / Year: 2018 / Duration: 79' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:Awards: Best Colombian film, International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias 2018. Festivals: FICCI, Documenta Madrid, Doclisboa.
After the exhibition, case study with:
Carmen Torres (*)
Carmen Torres (Colombia). “Dawn” is her first feature as a director. She is also a screenwriter and director of photography. She worked as director of photography for “Oleg and the rare arts” by Andrés Duque, a film for which she was nominated for the best picture in the Fénix Awards of Ibero-American Cinema (2016); “Los Rubios” by Albertina Carri (2003) and “Luján” by Andrés Denegri. She has also directed television series in Spain, Colombia and Argentina, such as “La clase” (2015), “Meridiano. Art tells the story” (2011) or “Traces. Argentine Art” (2009); and has produced the documentary web series “Signified” (2011-2013).
(*) Remote participation.
Marta Andreu (*)
Marta Andreu (Spain) is the academic coordinator of DocMontevideo. She is the academic coordinator of the master’s in creation documentary course at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She teaches port-graduate documentary film courses at the Universidad Rovira y Virgili in Tarragona. In 2004-2005 she coordinated a Spanish documentary cinema retrospective for Cinéma du Réel. She analyses documentary scripts for the Centre de Desenvolupament Audiovisual. In 2004 she founded Estudi Playtime in order to devote her time to producing creation documentaries. She has a degree in audiovisual communication and a master’s in creation documentary from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
(*) Remote participation.
Tuesday
24 Jul
Elegy of a Crime
21:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, February 24, 2011. Isabel Burlan da Silva, director’s mother, is murdered by her companion. “Elegy of a Crime” concludes the “Trilogy of Mourning”, that approaches the tragic story of the family. In front of impunity, the film immerses in a vertiginous journey to rebuild Isabel’s image and life.
Director: Cristiano Burlan / Producer: Henrique Zanoni, Cristiano Burlan / Production company: Bela Filmes / Executive production: Priscila Portella / Cinematography: Renato Maia, Henrique Zanoni / Edition: Renato Maia, Cristiano Burlan / Sound: Emily Hozokawa
Country: Brazil / Year: 2018 / Duration: 92' / Format: Digital
Awards and festivals:Awards: ABD-SP Award – Best Documentary / EDT Award- Best Edition. Festivals: It’s All True – International Documentary Film Festival. The project took part in the DOCSP Lab.
After the exhibition, open dialog with:
Cristiano Burlan
Cristiano Burlan (Brazil) is a film and theater director. In 2005, he founded the company Bela Filmes in São Paulo. Most of his filmography participated in important festivals, such as Havana Film Festival, Malaga Festival, It’s All True, among others. His documentary “Killed My Brother” was the winner of the “It’s All True 2013”, winning the award for the best film by the critics and jury.
Wednesday
25 Jul
Gambling, Gods and LSD
20:15 HS / Cultural Center of Spain
It is a trip across four countries and cultures; a journey that includes evangelism at Toronto’s airport strip, demolition in Las Vegas, tracings in the Nevada desert, chemistry and street life in Switzerland, and the coexistence of technology and divinity in contemporary India. Along the way, we encounter thrill-seeking, luck, destiny, belief, expanding perception, and the craving for security in an uncertain world. GAMBLING, GODS AND LSD is an audio-visual composition, a wondrous ride, where the theme of the film, and the experience of watching it, are one and the same.
Director: Peter Mettler
Country: Canada, Switzerland / Year: 2012 / Duration: 180'
Awards and festivals:Awards: -Toronto International Film Festival: Best Feature Lenght Documentary Genie Awards 2003. -Top Ten Canadian Films of 2002, Toronto International Film Festival. -Docs Against Gravity Film Festival: Award for Best Film 2003. -Duisburger Filmwoche: 3SAT-Dokumentarfilmpreis für den besten deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilm 2002 (3SAT Best German Documentary Prize). -Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal: NFB Best Documentary Award 2002. -Nyon, Visions du Réel: Prix du jeune public 2002. -Nyon, Visions du Réel: Grand Prix UBS 2002. -Vancouver International Film Festival: National Film Board Award for Best Documentary 2002. -International Press Award: Runner-Up at Int. Toronto Film Festival 2013. -Swiss Film Prize 2003: Nomination for Best Documentary. -Swiss Ministry of Culture: Quality Award 2003. Festivals: International Festival Documentaries FIDOCS Santiago / Doc Film Festival Warsaw / Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto / Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival Prizren / Firenze Festival dei Popoli / International Documentary Festival Amsterdam / Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm / Yamagata Int Documentary Film Festival / Docu Days -. Beirut International Documentary Festival / DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival / Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival / Denver Int Film Festival / Melbourne International Film Festival / International Film Festival Trencianske Tepice / Buenos Aires International Independent. film Festival / Torino, Intinity Festival – film and Spiritual Research / Thessaloniki Documentary film Festival / International Rotterdam film / Festival Solothurner Filmtage / Saarbrücken, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis / Pusan International film Festiv at / Duisburger Filmwoche / Montréal, International Film Festival et des nouveaux medias / Vancouver International Film Festival / Toronto International Film Festival / South African International Documentary Festival / Nyon, Visions du réel – Int. du cinéma documentaire.
Friday
20 Jul
Heiress of the Wind
21:15 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
I was born with the Sandinista Revolution (1979-1989) and grew up under the fear and fascination over the war and military power of the U.S. My parents fell in love in the midst of the struggle against the Somocista Dictatorship. Now, 36 years later, I begin a search of that past through a kaleidoscope of memories that will challenge the myth of the revolution, redeeming the pain caused by collective amnesia.
Director: Gloria Carrión Fonseca / Producer: Gloria Carrión Fonseca, Natalia Hernández, Woody T. Richman / Production company: Caja de Luz / Executive production: Gloria Carrión Fonseca / Cinematography: Juli Carné / Edition: Álvaro Serjé / Sound: Eduardo Cáceres
Country: Nicaragua / Year: 2017 / Duration: 78' / Format: DCP, Bluray, Apple ProRes, H264
Awards and festivals:Awards: International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, 2017. Mention in the Memory Documentary Award of the Cultural Center Pablo de la Torriente Brau. Festivals: -International Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival IDFA, The Netherlands, 2017. -Festival International of New Latin American Cinema of Havana, 2017. -Costa Rica International Film Festival, 2017. -Tempo Documentary Festival. Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.-Guadalajara International Film Festival, 2018. -Panama International Film Fest, 2018. -EDOC, Ecuador, 2018. -Docs Barcelona, Spain, 2018.
Thursday
26 Jul
I still am
18:35 HS / Sala B, Nelly Goitiño Auditorium
A film about characters, characters who are part of a country. Although the film talks about music and musicians, it is not strictly a musical but rather a reflection on personal stories apparently very far apart, stories that look for one another in a country also immersed in the struggle to find itself and create its own identity: Peru.
Director: Javier Corcuera / Producer: Rolando Toledo, Gervasio Iglesias / Production company: Nakuy / Executive production: Rolando Toledo, Gervasio Iglesias / Cinematography: Jordi Abusada / Edition: Fabiola Sialer / Sound: Rosa María Oliart
Country: Peru, Spain / Year: 2013 / Duration: 120' / Format: DCP, BLU RAY, archivo digital
Awards and festivals:Awards: -Best film Lima Film Festival. Peru. -18 awards around the world. Festivals: -Busan international film festival. South Korea. -San Sebastian Film Festival. Spain. -More than 80 official selections.
Monday
23 Jul
In the intense now
20:00 HS / Zavala Muniz Room, Solís Theatre
Filmed after the discovery of film material recorded in China in 1966 during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, “In the Intense Now” speaks of the ephemeral nature of the most intense moments. The scenes shot in that country are combined with archival images of the 1968 events in France, Czechoslovakia and Brazil. Maintaining the tradition of film rehearsal and narrated in the first person, in addition to reflecting on images, the documentary seeks to analyze who films them, why they do it and what their political context is. What can be said about Paris, Prague, Rio de Janeiro or Beijing looking at the images of that period?
Director: João Moreira Salles / Producer: João Moreira Salles / Production company: Videofilmes / Edition: Eduardo Escorel
Country: Brazil / Year: 2017 / Duration: 127´
Awards and festivals:Best SCAM Film and Best Soundtrack at Cinéma du Réel Festival, Berlin Film Festival, BAFICI, É Tudo Verdade, EDOC Festival, DocAviv Film Festival
After the exhibition, open dialog with:
João Moreira Salles
João Moreira Salles (Brazil) was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1962. Founder of VideoFilmes, where he has produced and directed several documentaries that have been awarded worldwide, including “América” (1989), Blues (1990), Nelson Freire (2003), Entreatos (2004) and “Santiago” (2007), which was recognized as Best Film in Cinéma du Réel, Miami Film Festival and Alba Film Festival and Best Documentary of the Year by the Brazilian Film Academy. His last film “No intenso agora” (2017), was launched at Berlinale. Since 2006 he has published the monthly magazine ‘piauí’ which is devoted to long-form journalism.
Eduardo Escorel
Eduardo Escorel (Brazil). Director: “1937-45 Images of the Estado Novo” (2016); “Paulo Moura – Brazilian Soul” (2013); “The time and the place” (2012). Author: Adivinhadores de água (Water diviners, 2005). Academic coordinator and teacher of Fundação Getúlio Vargas’s MBA on Documentary Film; Film critic: Piauí magazine’s site; Editor: Terra em transe (1967), Cabra marcado para morrer (1984), Santiago (2006), No intenso agora (2017).
Monday
23 Jul
Picture of Light
20:30 HS / Sala B, Nelly Goitiño Auditorium
Picture of Light takes the approach of a poetical essay documenting the search for a natural wonder: the mysterious Aurora Borealis. Its incorporeal lights and colours pouring from the sky lure a small film team of six to Canada’s arctic. After strenuous and complicated technical preparations (among other things, the camera had to be protected against temperatures dropping to minus 40˚ Celsius) and with 50 pounds of batteries in their luggage, they set out on a 3000-mile train journey through practically uninhabited snowy landscapes to the end of the civilized world – Churchill, Manitoba.
Director: Peter Mettler / Producer: Andreas Züst, Peter Mettler, A. Gill / Production company: Grimthorpe Film Inc., Andreas Züst / Cinematography: Peter Mettler / Edition: Peter Mettler, Mike Munn / Sound: Leon Johnson, Gaston Kyriaz / Mix: Hans Kuenzi / Music: Jim O’Rourke
Country: Canada, Switzerland / Year: 1994 / Duration: 83'
Awards and festivals:Best Film, Photography and Script. Hot Docs Toronto. LA Sarraz Prize. Festival of Locarno. Prize for the Excellence of the Arts. Ministry of Culture Switzerland. Excellence price. Yamagata International Documentary Festival, Japan. Exhibited in Rotterdam, Sydney, Locarno, Toronto, Hof, Sundance, Yamagata.
Saturday
21 Jul
Piripkura
20:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
The last two nomadic members of the Piripkura People live in a protected area in the Amazon rainforest. The area where is surrounded by farms and sawmills, whose almost inevitable expansion is taking place through violent means. To keep the area’s protected status, every two years a public officer goes into the forest seeking proof of the men’s existence.
Director: Mariana Oliva, Renata Terra, Bruno Jorge / Producer: Mariana Oliva / Production company: Zeza Filmes / Executive production: Mariana Oliva / Cinematography: Bruno Jorge / Edition: Renata Terra / Sound: Gustavo Canzian, Gustavo Nascimento
Country: Brazil / Year: 2017 / Duration: 82' / Format: Apple Pro RES 422 HQ
Awards and festivals:-Best International Documentary, Docville Festival 2018. -Best Documentary, Festival do Rio 2017. -Human Rights Award, IDFA 2017
After the exhibition, open dialog with:
Mariana Oliva
Mariana Oliva (Brazil), graduated in journalism from the PUC-SP and has a master’s degree in documentary directing from the University of Edinburgh. She is a producer and partner of Zeza Filmes. He co-produced with Casa Redonda the documentary film Mi querido Supermercado, awarded by the IDFA Bertha Fund and SPCINE (2017) and the Uruguayan feature film Calle Durazno contemplated by the FONA. She is the coordinator of the DOCSP laboratories and market.
Sunday
22 Jul
The Best Thing You Can Do with Your Life
17:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
When my brother joined the Legionaries of Christ after finishing school, he disappeared from our lives. We can only visit him once a year. His superiors are even allowed to read the letters we send him. I hate them. Why did my brother choose them to be his new family? Eight years pass by before I visit him in his monastery in Connecticut. And I get my brother back — finally.
Director: Zita Erffa / Production company: Petruvski Films, Ojo de Vaca / Executive production: Petruvski Films, Ojo de Vaca, HFF Munich, con el apoyo del CCC México / Cinematography: Bruno Santamaría Razo / Edition: Zita Erffa / Sound: Gerhard Auer
Country: Mexico, Germany / Year: 2018 / Duration: 93' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:Honorable Mention ‘Best Direction’ of the Mezcal Prize of the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Berlinale FICCI, Colombia. Dok.Fest Muncih. EDOCS. Karlovy Vary. The project took part in the DocMontevideo’s Pitching.
Web: https://www.facebook.com/thebestthingyoucandowithyourlife/
After the exhibition, case study with:
Bruno Santamaría
Bruno Santamaría (Mexico) has a degree in Communication and Cinematography from CCC. He works as a documentary cinematographer and director. Among his works include Margarita, The best thing you can do with your life and Artemio. He has the grant of FONCA and is currently working on his second film as director.
Moderator:
José Ma. Ciganda
José Ma. Ciganda (Uruguay). Filmmaker, Director of Photography. Teacher. He has worked in the documentary, advertising, fiction and television areas. He was Director of TV Ciudad (2001-2002) and Management Advisor at TNU (2009-2010)
Estimated duration: 45 minutes
Sunday
22 Jul
The Creator of Universes
15:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
Unlike most teenagers, Juan’s idea of fun is creating soap-operas together with his 96-year-old grandmother. Give him a camera and he will turn the living room into the set of “Juan the slave”, a mini soap about a kid being abducted from his mother. As Juan’s sister, Mercedes Dominioni offers us an insider’s look on the character‘s inner world and how the fictions they set up can help quell the anxiety of growing up as well as that of aging.
Director: Mercedes Dominioni / Producer: Gerardo Castelli, Mercedes Dominioni / Production company: Irreal Cine / Executive production: Gerardo Castelli / Cinematography: Gabriel Adda, Mercedes Dominioni / Edition: Mercedes Dominioni / Advisors: Martín Solá and Lorena Moriconi / Sound: Hamid Martín / Music: Alvaro Riet, Juan Eiraldi / Project and Editing Mentor: Marta Andreu
Country: Uruguay / Year: 2017 / Duration: 79' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:Awards: -Best Feature Documentary en DOXA Documentary Film Festival de Vancouver. Festivals: -IDFA 2017 (Premiere in the category “First Appearance Competition”). -Doxa Documentary Film Festival de Vancouver. The project took part in the DocMontevideo’s Pitching.
After the exhibition, open dialog with:
Mercedes Dominioni
Mercedes Dominioni (Uruguay) was born in Montevideo, in 1986. She has a Degree in Audiovisual Communication. In 2013 she completed a Master in Editing at the ESCAC (Catalonia) and in 2014 the Master in Creative Documentary (Pompeu Fabra-Barcelona). There she developped “The Creator of Universes”. She worked as an editor in film, TV and interactive projects. She was a teacher of editing and documentary at ORT University. She’s currently working as an editor (Spain, Uruguay and Italy), while developing her second film.
Friday
20 Jul
The Prime of Life
19:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
After five decades of marriage, Aldo and Gabriella are facing a crisis. What happened to the couple that fell in love in their twenties? What is keeping them together now that they are blowing out their eightieth candles? Is it time to say good-bye? La Flor de la Vida is a fairy tale facing reality – a universal story about love, relationships, and the challenges of aging.
Director: Claudia Abend, Adriana Loeff / Producer: Claudia Abend, Adriana Loeff / Production company: MMS FILMS / Executive production: Daniel J. Chalfen, David Eckles, Minette Nelson, Claudia Abend, Adriana Loeff / Cinematography: Jackie Bourdette, Fabio Berrutti / Edition: Claudia Abend, Adriana Loeff / Sound: Daniel Márquez, Fernando Serkhochian / Music: Lito Vitale
Country: Uruguay / Year: 2017 / Duration: 86' / Format: DCP - HD
Awards and festivals:Awards: Special Jury Prize, É Tudo Verdade – Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. -Public Award, Malaga Festival – Malaga, Spain. Festivals: -Selection official, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) – Amsterdam, Holland (world premiere). -Selection official, True / False Film Fest – Columbia, United States (premiere North American). -Selection official, DocsBarcelona – Barcelona, Spain. -Selection official, Sarasota Film Festival – Sarasota, United States. -Selection official ambulant – Mexico City, Mexico. The project took part in the DocMontevideo’s Pitching.
After the exhibition, open dialog with:
Claudia Abend
Claudia Abend (Uruguay). Director, documentalist, editor. She directed “The beginning of the end”, “Hit” (official selection of BAFICI) and “The prime of life”, which had its world premiere at IDFA.
Adriana Loeff
Adriana Loeff (Uruguay). Documentalist, journalist. She directed “Hit”, the most watched Uruguayan film in the year of its premiere, and “The Prime of Life”, which received support from The Filmmaker Fund and Sundance, among others. She is an editor and director for international organizations and an editor at the AFP. She was the producer and scriptwriter of a documentary for NatGeo Latino and made coverage for CNN Internacional, Forbes.com and Al Jazeera.
Sunday
22 Jul
The Trial
19:30 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
A behind-the-scenes look at the impeachment trial of Brazil’s first female President. This film – a tale of betrayal and corruption – witnesses the profound political crisis and the collapse of the democratic institutions.
Director: Maria Augusta Ramos / Producer: Maria Augusta Ramos / Production company: Nofoco Filmes Produções Cinematográficas LTDA / Executive production: Maria Augusta Ramos / Cinematography: Alan Schvarsberg / Edition: Karen Akerman / Sound: Marta Lopes
Country: Brazil, Germany, Netherlands / Year: 2018 / Duration: 140' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:Awards: Best Film at Visions du Reél Film festival and at Documenta Madrid. Audience Award at Berlinale Panorama. Audience Award and Best Film by the jury of the Silvestre session, IndieLisboa. Festivals: Berlinale (premiere), It’s all true, Visions du Reél, Documenta Madrid, Toronto Hotdocs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, DokMunchen, Indie Lisboa.
Tuesday
24 Jul
The Union
21:30 HS / Sala B, Nelly Goitiño Auditorium
In a country that lost its ability to organize itself, a group of old amateur referees’ leaders win the elections and decide to make their last move: to update their 90-year-old institution. Reality will hit them hard, but every small struggle they face, will remind us of the importance of collective work.
Director: Lorena Giachino / Producer: Paola Castillo / Production company: Errante Producciones
Country: Chile / Year: 2017 / Duration: 75' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:Awards: Best documentary, national competition International Documentary Festival of Santiago, FIDOCS 2017. Festivals: -Selection Latin American Competition BAFICI 2018. -International Documentary Festival of Santiago, FIDOCS 2017. -Selection at International Film Festival of Valdivia, FICValdivia 2017. The project took part in the DocMontevideo’s Pitching.
After the exhibition, open dialog with:
Paola Castillo
Paola Castillo (Chile). Director and producer of documentary films. She is one of the most prominent producers in her country, with award-winning documentaries such as Allende, my grandfather Allende, winner of Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival 2015, El Salvavidas, El Gran Circo Pobre de Timoteo, and 74 m2 among others. Executive Director of Chiledoc, organization responsible for promoting the distribution of Chilean documentaries at local and international level.
Lorena Giachino
Lorena Giachino (Chile) was born in 1972. She is a journalist, director and screenwriter. She has worked around 15 years as an audiovisual producer for Chilean and foreign television. As a film director, her debut was with “Reinalda del Carmen, mi mamá y yo” (Chile, 2006). Her second feature film was “El Gran Circo pobre de Timoteo” (Chile-Argentina 2013). She has been a teacher in the areas of direction and documentary script in various universities.
Thursday
26 Jul
Theatre of War
19:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
“Theater of war” is an essay on how to represent war, played by former enemies. Argentine and British veterans of the Malvinas / Falklands War come together to discuss, rehearse and represent their memories 35 years after the conflict.
Director: Lola Arias / Producer: Gema Juarez Allen, Alejandra Grinschpun / Production company: Gema Films / Executive production: Gema Juarez Allen, Alejandra Grinschpun / Cinematography: Manuel Abramovich / Edition: Anita Remon, Alejo Hoijman / Sound: Sofia Straface
Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany / Duration: 86' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:Berlinale: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Prize CICAE. BAFICI: Award to the Best Director.
Web: http://gemafilms.com
After the exhibition, open dialog with:
Lola Arias
Lola Arias (Argentina) es escritora, directora de teatro y cine y performer. Colabora con personas de distintos ámbitos (veteranos de guerra, ex comunistas, niños búlgaros, etc) en proyectos de teatro, literatura, música, cine y artes visuales. Sus obras transitan la frontera entre la ficción y lo real. Ha presentado, entre otras, las obras Mi vida después, Familienbande, El año en que nací, Melancolía y manifestaciones, The art of making money, The art of arriving, Campo Minado/Minefield y Atlas del comunismo. Realiza films e instalaciones de arte. También ha creado varios proyectos de intervención urbana con Stefan Kaegi. Junto a Ulises Conti, compone música y toca en vivo. Ha publicado poesía, ficción y obras de teatro. Su obra ha sido presentada en festivales internacionales, entre ellos Lift Festival, Theater Spektakel; Under the radar NY; Wiener Festwochen; Spielart Festival; Sterischer Herbst; y en espacios como Theatre de la Ville, Red Cat LA, Walker Art Centre, Parque de la memoria, Museum of Contemporary Art de Chicago.
Tuesday
24 Jul
Tie your Plough to a Star
19:00 HS / Sala Zitarrosa
Fernando Birri and the glimmer of his utopias emerge through several encounters with the director Carmen Guarini over almost two decades.
Director: Carmen Guarini / Producer: Carmen Guarini y Marcelo Céspedes / Production company: El Desencanto Films / Executive production: Carmen Guarini / Cinematography: Carmen Guarini, Martín Gamaler / Edition: Carmen Guarini / Sound: Adrián Rodríguez / Music: Gustavo Pomeranec
Country: Argentina / Year: 2017 / Duration: 88' / Format: DCP
Awards and festivals:International Film Festival of Mar del Plata. Argentina (2017). International Festival of New Latin American Cinema. Cuba (2017). International Film Festival of Punta del Este. Uruguay (2018). FICCI International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias. Colombia (2018). Havana New York Film Festival. USA (2018). É Tudo Verdade. Brazil (2018). Malaga Film Festival. Spain (2018). DocumentaMadrid Spain (2018). EDOC. Ecuador (2018)
After the exhibition, open dialog with:
Carmen Guarini
Carmen Guarini (Argentina). Filmmaker and Anthropologist. Dr. by the Univ. De Paris X (France) in Anthropological Cinema under the direction of Jean Rouch (1988). Researcher and professor at the UBA, at the Master’s in Documentary Cinema at the Universidad del Cine and at the EICTV of Cuba. In 1986, together with Marcelo Céspedes, CINE OJO, Argentinean producer, pioneer in documentary film. And he founded and co-directed the DocBuenosAires Festival since 2001.
Tuesday
24 Jul
We the Stones
19:30 HS / Sala B, Nelly Goitiño Auditorium
We the stones follows three gold panners deep in Costa Rica’s jungle. For years they have panned the rivers and exchanged their gold for food and alcohol. Now, the government has decided to expel them all. This intimate and lyrical film captures these modern day pariahs´ struggles and questions Costa Rica´s conservation fame.
Director: Álvaro Torres Crespo / Producer: Amaya Izquierdo / Production company: Betta Films, Teonanacatl Audiovisual / Executive production: Amaya Izquierdo / Cinematography: Caleb B. Kuntz / Edition: Lenz Claure, Álvaro Torres Crespo / Sound: Odín Acosta / Music: David Stükenberg
Country: Costa Rica, Mexico / Year: 2017 / Duration: 52' / Format: H.264, Full HD . mp4
Awards and festivals:Awards: Best documentary at Cartagena International Film Festival. Festivals: Costa Rica International Film Festival, Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Meetings of the Other Cinema International Documentary Film Festival. The project took part in the DocMontevideo’s Pitching.