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Filmed in the idyllic Mayan Riviera, All Inclusive follows the story of a Chilean-Mexican family during their summer vacation. Facing the imminent arrival of a storm, each of the characters goes through unexpected situations that cause deep changes in their lives, and they have to deal with their innermost fears, conflicts and secrets. The trip will be unforgettable, but it will remind every member of the family of the ups and the downs that make up life. With a stellar cast featuring Jesús Ochoa, Valentina Vargas, Ana Serradilla, Martha Higareda, Jesús Zavala, Leonor Varela, Jaime Camil, Maya Zapata, Mónica Cruz and Edgar Vívar, All Inclusive is an appealing movie that talks about the search of happiness, the things we don’t say, tolerance and family love. Amnesia is a thriller of truth, forgetfulness, vengeance and encounters. Zúñiga and Ramírez, two pawns of a war no one wants to recall, are lonely men that find each other after a long period of time. Set in the city of Valparaíso and the Atacama Desert, the film deals with the encounter of the tortured and their torturers after the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. Amnesia is an essential reference for understanding this dramatic period of transition in Chile.
In 1973 in Chile, at the height of the internal tension during Salvador Allende’s three years in office, Carmen, a university employee, maintains her faith in the popular government despite the constant questioning by her colleague Juan and her partner Víctor, who, confronted with the imminent coup, opts for a more radical response than she does. Carmen maintains her hope with the support of Carvajal, an exemplary proletarian in charge of cleaning up the university.
Away Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo Chile/USA, Drama, 2010 5 min, 8mm/S16mm, Black & White No Dialogue
It is the beginning of the winter. Diego travels to New York for the first time trying to come to terms with the memories of his past and those shared with the man he lost.
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Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo was born in Santiago, Chile in 1985. After earning a dual major in Communication and Aesthetics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he worked as an independent filmmaker directing short fiction films and art videos. His first short film, Los hombres y el río, premiered at the Santiago International Film Festival and Valdivia International Film Festival. He is currently in New York completing his Master of Fine Arts degree at New York University.
Producer: Fiona Murguia Production Companies: Cinestación Screenwriter: Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo Cinematographer: Alexis Gambis Editor: Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo Sound Design: Lamia Alami Cast: Diego Muñiz Vicuña, Gregory Lucas
Regal Metropolitan - Thur. April 22 8:00PM (preceding La mujer sin piano)
Narrative Shorts Competition Showcase Regal Metropolitan - Sun. April 25 4:00PM
Don Andrés, the last inheritor of the wealthy Ávalos family, feels that he has wasted the last 58 years of his life, idly reading and searching for the meaning of life. After he employs a 17 year-old peasant girl to care for his senile grandmother, Don Andrés becomes deeply ashamed of the dark desire the girl awakens in him. His inevitable emotional collapse parallels the deterioration of the formerly grand Ávalos mansion. Coronación is based on the novel by Chilean author José Donoso.
An eccentric host of a popular radio show offering offbeat personal advice takes calls from listeners who disclose their trials, tribulations, and passions. The candid exchange between the host and his listeners leads to three stories that, while different from each other, are similar in the callers’ urgency to reveal all to the radio audience. Based on a successful Chilean radio show, the film portrays stories inspired by real listeners of the show. El chacotero sentimental won the audience award at the Chicago Latino Film Festival, Toulouse Latin America Film Festival and Viña del Mar in 2000.
El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia deals with the lives of four lonely people living through monotony and silence in the south of Chile. They meet to eat, walk on the beach, take the ferry or simply to accompany each other without needing to say anything. In a way, they try to save themselves in a silent, furtive, and extreme manner. They search for love, sex, inexistent family affection, and their own space and time, not only to distance themselves from the loneliness that intimately brings them together, but, ultimately, to find themselves. El poder de la palabra The Power of Speech Francisco Hervé Chile, Documentary, 2009 75 min, Mini DV, Color Spanish with English subtitles
Hardy, along with many other Chileans, makes a living selling knickknacks on the buses of Santiago. But in 2005 the government announces that Chile “will soon become a world class country and we will have a modern and elegant public transportation system,” meaning they will no longer tolerate commerce on buses. As a result, Hardy brings together two thousand colleagues in a struggle to survive modernity. Without attempting to impose a master narrative, the film presents glimpses into the mobilization of proponents of informal economy in the face of government attempts to sell its “modern” policy. El poder de la palabra won a Special Jury Prize at the Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago in 2009.
US Premiere
Francisco Hervé is a writer, director and producer with Panchito Films. He studied journalism and film direction at the EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He has worked on various documentaries, television series and short fiction films. He is currently doing pre-production for his first feature film, Vaterland.
Producer: Francisco Hervé Production Companies: Panchito Films Screenwriter: Francisco Hervé, Pablo Leighton, Sebastian Brahm Cinematographer: David Bravo Editor: Sebastian Brahm, Francisco Hervé Sound Design: Roberto Espinoza Music: Fernando Milagros Regal Metropolitan - Sun. April 25 6:00 PMBuy Tickets
El regaloThe Gift Cristián Galaz, Andrea Ugalde Chile, Comedy, 2008108 min, 35mm, ColorSpanish with English subtitles
El regalo is the story of three close friends, Francisco, Pacheco and Tito. Francisco, a widowed retiree, is going through a difficult time and, to cheer him up, Tito and Pacheco decide to give him a gift. They invite him on a trip to the Chillán hot springs, along with Lucy, Francisco's teenage sweetheart, who excitedly accepts their invitation. But things don't always go as planned and this trip brings many surprises that change everyone's lives. El regalo is a romantic comedy where charming characters and amusing situations make for an unforgettable experience. When released in Chile, the film broke box office records and is esteemed as one of the best films to come out of Chile in recent years.
Regional Premiere
Cristián Galaz's first feature, El chacotero sentimental, won him multiple awards including the Audience Choice Award at the Chicago Latino Film Festival. This is his second time partnering with Andrea Ugalde, who was the assistant director of El chacotero sentimental. They co-directed and co-wrote El regalo, which is the second feature film project for both Galaz and Ugalde.
Producer: Paula Saenz-Laguna, Mauricio SepúlvedaProduction Companies: Delirio FilmsScreenwriter: Andrea Ugalde, Cristián GalazCinematographer: David BravoEditor: Soledad SalfateSound Design: Freddy GonzálezMusic: Miranda & TobarCast: Nelson Villagra, Delfina Guzman, Héctor Noguera, Gloria Münchmeyer, Jaime Vadell, Julio Jung
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Fotógrafos reveals the stories of the photographers who work at the foot of the stairs of the Capitol in Havana, Cuba. Their beautiful antique cameras may be relics of the past as supplies become harder and harder to acquire, yet they remain upbeat as they preserve the images of visitors in sepia-toned photographs.
Historias de fútbol portrays the life, love, and passion involved in soccer, one of the twentieth century’s most important rituals, through the lives of three different characters. The star player of a small neighborhood team from Santiago de Chile is offered a bribe and the possibility of playing professional football. A boy from Northern Chile wins a classic neighborhood pichanga football contest. In the process, however, he loses the few pesos he had gained from pawning one of his mother’s last items of value. A kid from the city finds himself stranded in a remote corner of the southern island of Chiloé on the day of the World Cup qualifying match for the Chilean National team. The only television in the area is at the house of the old Serón sisters, where the kid finds himself in the middle of more than he bargained for. La buena vida tells the story of four characters that, while strangers to each other, live in the same bustling city. All of them chase after their dreams: Teresa tries to rescue lives as a psychologist; Edmundo is a hairdresser who dreams of owning a car; Mario wishes to join the Philharmonic; and Patricia works on surviving daily life. As they chase after their dreams, but struggle with misfortune, all of the characters will be surprised by where life takes them.
A small fishing village in the south of Chile becomes a magnet for hordes of divers, fishermen, merchants, businessmen and prostitutes, who flock in from around the country when the ban on a prized, yet endangered mollusk—“el loco” (the abalone)—is lifted ever so briefly by fishing authorities. Father Antonio is intent on both preventing his flock from running wild as well as raising enough cash for a new antenna that would allow his radio station, “Mother of the Divine Providence” to reach the entire region. The fishing village is also invaded by a small band of hookers led by Norma, a madam who drives her girls in a battered bus to any place around the country where there is action. Carlos Maldonado, a former local diver, comes home after a seven-year absence to join this bizarre group of people so he can buy abalone for a Japanese firm, and also to see Sonia, a love interest from the past.
Lo bueno de llorar tells the story of a couple, Vera and Alejandro, in the midst of ending their relationship. They are faced with a long night of decisions, doubts, fears, lies, silences, reflections and arguments. In a style reminiscent of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset (2004), Bize’s film ultimately explores the dissolution of the couple. Intent on exploring the hidden feelings involved in a relationship through its minimalist style, the film reveals the dishonesty that may exist in a relationship, but also great truths about human beings.
Lokas Gonzalo Justiniano Mexico/Chile, Comedy, 2008 95 min, 35mm, Color Spanish with English subtitles
Co-sponsored by the Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival Lokas is a comedy about Charly, a con man of sorts and a convinced homophobe who discovers after years of separation from him, that his father is homosexual and is living with his boyfriend. Pedro, Charly's 9-year-old son, reunites the whole family beyond prejudices.
Regional Premiere Gonzalo Justiniano was born in Chile in 1955, and after studying at the Paris University and the Louis Lumière Film School in France, Justiniano moved back to Chile to produce Los guerreros pacifistas (The Pacifist Warriors), a documentary about the punk movement in Chile. His first feature film, Los hijos de la guerra fría, won the award for Best First Feature in Biarritz, among other awards. Since 2000, he has directed the feature films El Leyton, B-Happy--winner of several international awards--and Lokas.
Producers: Daniel de la Vega, Gonzalo Justiniano, Rodrigo Bastidas Production Companies: Sahara Films, Cinecorp, Bastidas S.A. Screenwriter: Rodrigo Bastidas, Gonzalo Justiniano Cinematographer: Andrés Garretón Editor: Carolina Quevedo Sound Design: Andrés Carrasco Music: Cuti Aste Cast: Rodrigo Bastidas, Coco Legrand, Raimundo Bastidas, Fabiola Campomanes, Rodrigo Murray
Regal Metropolitan - Sun. April 25 10:00 PMBuy Tickets
During supper, two women who recently began dating sit down to discuss infidelity. Between wine, a snoring son, and passionate sex, the discussion will lead them to ask each other whether their relationship should and could continue.
O Areal The Sandpit Sebastian Sepulveda Chile/Spain, Documentary, 2008 54 min, DV CAM, Color Portuguese with English subtitles
Descendants of slaves who found their freedom in the Brazilian Amazonia formed the Guajará community more than 200 years ago. Ever since then, the inhabitants have been relatively isolated from all urban contact and its progress, thus maintaining a way of life linked to their ancestors and fed with a series of myths about spirits and incarnations of evil. The sandpit near the community is a place where spirits talk and coexist with the inhabitants of Guajará. Yet, the construction of a bridge, which shall join the community with the city, will compromise the sandpit and will also bring a change in their vision, existence and nature. This documentary was the winner of the Special Jury Award at FIDOCS 2008.
US Premiere
Sebastian Sepulveda was born in 1972 in Concepción, Chile. He has done post-production work for several films. O Areal is the first documentary film in which he has taken on the role of writer and director.
Producer: Sebastian Sepulveda Production Companies: Ojos de Agua Films Screenwriter: Sebastian Sepulveda Cinematographer: Sebastian Sepulveda Editor: Sebastian Sepulveda Sound Design: Roberto Espinoza
Regal Metropolitan - Sat. April 24 6:00PMBuy Tickets Director Sebastian Sepuveda in attendance. A man and a woman sit in front of one another, eating pasta. They express their feelings through the food, getting to know each other and creating their own language with sounds, special effects, and music.
Seventeen-year-old Roberto Rodríguez is fat and nerdy, wears glasses, and always dresses in black. He escapes reality by writing and drawing comics through which he describes his pathetic existence, always with the company of his two best friends, “Condoro,” the psychopath, and “Papitas,” the freak. But his life changes radically when Cristina, the new girl in school, arrives from Spain and stirs up Roberto’s hormones. Promedio rojo combines cartoon animation with reality, creating a world in which superheroes as well as grandparents play a part. The film was awarded Special Jury Prize at Viña del Mar in 2004. Carmilla is a journalism student at the university whose romantic interest in a mysterious classmate named “M” leads her to join a group of role game players who are obsessed with a game named “Sangre eterna” (Eternal Blood). What begins as a harmless game quickly turns into a nightmare when, during a party at an abandoned house, the group meets Dahmer, who initiates them into the rites of vampirism. Now, M must face his darkest fears and obliterate this evil before it’s too late.
Salvador Santos—bald, obese, and 33—does not look the superhero type. But after a strange inter-dimensional traveler warns him that his best friend, multimillionaire Arturo Antares, is actually a tyrant from another dimension who has been hiding in Arturo’s body, he has no other choice but to accept the challenge. His years of experience as a comic book artist will come in handy, especially when it comes time to save the love of his life, Laura Luna, from the evil grip of Nova.
A group of parents of fourth-grade students discuss how the school should deal with sex education. But sexuality is still an unresolved issue for many of the parents themselves. Sex with Love is the story of how three of these couples find themselves ambushed by their own erotic passions.
A ten-year-old girl awakes alone in the middle of a ravaged and abandoned territory. She begins to wander around the contaminated land in search of food and people, but she discovers that she is caught in the middle of a war where military officials, patrolling the land covered in gas masks, execute people in horrible ways. The girl realizes that the only people who survive the mass executions show severe infections on their bodies so she finds her only company in other small children who share with her the recurrent dream of going to the ocean. In search of their common objective the group of children embarks on a journey to the ocean, crossing a city in ruins followed by the dangerous armed military.
This black comedy tells the story of Ulises, a taxi driver who thinks that joining the gang of thieves that holds him up may be the way out of his problems. The lure of easy money throws him off his usual driving route. His assailants lead him to rich neighborhoods, where the cash that will help pay off his beat-up taxicab can be found. After numerous failed robberies and overwhelmed by a police chase, the inept thieves end up trapped in Ulises’ home, intruding upon him and Javiera, his beloved daughter. This is too much for the cab driver, who resolves to end the partnership in a drastic way. Taxi para tres was nominated for a Silver Ariel for best Latin American Film, and for a Goya for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film.
Tercer mundo Third World César Caro Cruz Chile/Costa Rica, Comedy, 2009 85 min, HDV, Color Spanish with English subtitles
Tercer mundo tells the stories of Juan, Amaya and Richi, all struggling to make sense of their ordinary, monotonous lives. For them, the solution to their problems lies somewhere beyond their countries’ borders, in a mysterious solar eclipse. Using humor and irony, Tercer mundo reveals the fantastic side of Latin American youth culture that, despite a struggle to achieve modernity, still preserves magic and mystery. Winner of the Best Central American Narrative Feature, XII Festival de Cine Icaro, 2009.
Regional Premiere
César Caro Cruz, a native of Chile, graduated from the International Film and Television School in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His interest in exploring different narratives and aesthetic possibilities has led him to write and direct several short films. He continues to develop his own film projects, two of which have received the CORFO Development Award and the Audiovisual Promotion Fund of the National Council for Culture and Arts in Chile. Tercer mundo is his first feature film.
Producer: César Caro Cruz Production Companies: Películas Plot Screenwriter: César Caro Cruz Cinematographer: Ana Lucía Jiménez Hine Editor: Danielle Fillios, Juan Manuel Fernández Sound Design: Ramiro Valdés, Alexander Mederos, Adrián Fernández, Roberto Muñoz Music: José Manuel Gatica Eguiguren Cast: Luis Miguel Sánchez, Juan Pablo Garuti, Carmen Tito, Magdiel Ramírez, Hugo Pozo, Bibiana Ezurmendia Alvarez Regal Metropolitan - Sat. April 24 8:00 PMBuy Tickets Director César Caro Cruz in attendance.
Regal Metropolitan - Mon. April 26 4:00 PMBuy Tickets Director César Caro Cruz in attendance. In the midst of the tough social context of Pinochet’s dictatorship, Raúl Peralta, a man in his fifties, is obsessed with the idea of impersonating “Tony Manero,” John Travolta’s character in Saturday Night Fever. He leads a small group of dancers regularly performing at a bar located in the outskirts of the city every Saturday. Beneath Raúl’s exterior of seeming indifference to anything except meticulous recreation of Tony Manero’s dance moves and the chance to compete in a nationally televised Tony Manero impersonating contest, lies a darker side of his personality driven to commit a bizarre series of violent crimes. Meanwhile, his dancing partners, who are involved in underground activities against the regime, are persecuted by the government’s secret police. Tony Manero is a story about the loss of identity and obsession in recent Chilean history.
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