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  • Inés María Barrionuevo – Atlántida (2014)

    Inés María Barrionuevo2011-2020ArgentinaDrama
    Atlántida (2014)
    Atlántida (2014)

    In the summer of 1987 in a town in Córdoba, two teenage sisters, Elena and Lucia, are alone at home. The youngest is in a cast and annoyed with pleasure by her older sister, who thinks of how to get out of that town, to study and to live in a different way, beyond the small gossip of the village club, the bar of the town, the little clubs and the pool and who squeezed with whom. There are also the boys who live and work in the field, a young doctor, but much older than Elena, a connection between Lucia and a friend of her sister, some conflicts elsewhere. Sexual awakenings, annoyances, identities, searches, encounters, urgencies.Read More »

  • Kenya Marquez – Asfixia (2019)

    2011-2020DramaKenya MarquezMexico
    Asfixia (2019)
    Asfixia (2019)

    After getting out of jail where she learned how to take care of the sick, Alma, an albino woman, decides to recover something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma is forced to take care of Clemente (a hypochondriac with an OCD to avoid a sudden death) at night. The relationship between them will transit from suspicion and fear to tenderness and love.Read More »

  • Lila Avilés – Tótem AKA Totem (2023)

    2021-2030DramaLila AvilésMexico
    Tótem (2023)
    Tótem (2023)

    Quote:
    Seven-year-old Sol spends the day at her grandfather’s home, helping with the preparations for a surprise party for her father. Throughout the day, chaos slowly takes over, fracturing the family’s foundations. Sol will embrace the essence of letting go as a release for existence.Read More »

  • Isabel Coixet – Un Amor (2023)

    Isabel Coixet2021-2030DramaRomanceSpain
    Un Amor (2023)
    Un Amor (2023)

    Upon settling in the countryside village of La Escapa, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal by neighbour Andreas, paving the way for a self-consuming passion.

    5 wins, 35 nominations.Read More »

  • Pedro Olea – No es bueno que el hombre esté solo AKA It’s No Good for a Man to Be Alone (1973)

    Pedro Olea1971-1980DramaSpainSpanish cinema under FrancoThriller

    Martin (played by José Luis López Vázquez, a legend of Spanish film and theatre) is a middle-aged engineer employed by a big shipbuilding firm in the northern city of Bilbao. Quiet, diligent in his work and reserved, Martin is a model of respectability. His secretary, Monica (played by Helga Line) often asks about his wife, whom no-one has ever met and who seems to be an invalid.

    Every evening after work, Martin returns to his big, gloomy house that looks out over the bay and towards the north Atlantic Ocean.Read More »

  • Amat Escalante – Perdidos en la noche AKA Lost in the Night (2023)

    Amat Escalante2021-2030DramaMexicoThriller
    Perdidos en la noche (2023)
    Perdidos en la noche (2023)

    Emiliano lives in a small mining town in Mexico. Driven by a deep sense of justice, he seeks those responsible for the disappearance of his activist mother.Read More »

  • Pedro Olea – La casa sin fronteras AKA The House Without Frontiers (1972)

    Pedro Olea1971-1980DramaHorrorSpainSpanish cinema under Franco
    La casa sin fronteras (1972)
    La casa sin fronteras (1972)

    Daniel, a young man in his twenties, moves from his hometown to the city of Bilbao in search of… a chance to discover himself. When he is not looking for work, he spends his time reading in the city library. One day Daniel encounters an elderly and seemingly kind old gentleman who commends his desire to educate himself. He says he might be able to find Daniel a job and sure enough, he starts work for an organization called The House Without Frontiers. After a short period of probation, Daniel is summoned to the organizations labyrinthine headquarters and is given his instructions. Although much is still not clear to him, it seems he is being asked to locate a young woman called Anabel Campos (played by Geraldine Chaplin). It turns out that Anabel, like Daniel, had accepted a job with the House Without Frontiers but fled the organization after a senior member of the tribunal was found murdered. Was she guilty? Is she in hiding or has she vanished without a trace?Read More »

  • Paula Markovitch – El premio AKA The Prize (2011)

    2011-2020DramaMexicoPaula Markovitch
    El premio (2011)
    El premio (2011)

    Synopsis
    Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn’t completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Ceci asks herself: what must she say? What should she really believe and do in order to deserve the love of her mother and others?Read More »

  • Constanza Feldman & Agustín Mendilaharzu – Clementina (2022)

    Constanza Feldman2021-2030Agustín MendilaharzuArgentinaComedy
    Clementina (2022)
    Clementina (2022)

    While many filmmakers (the majority) remained immobile during home confinement, the members of the El Pampero collective did not stop filming… Alejo Moguillansky filmed with his partner, the actress Luciana Acuña, The Middle Ages, while Agustín Mendilaharzu did the same with Constanza Feldman in Clementina…

    Clementina is Feldman’s alter-ego, who in the middle of the pandemic settles — in principle provisionally — in the apartment of her boyfriend Guillermo (Mendilaharzu) in the Chacarita neighborhood. The first few minutes are typical of this “subgenre” of COVID times: wearing masks, maintaining social distance, using hand sanitizer, disinfecting food, changing shoes as soon as you enter, earning a living by teaching online or selling homemade bread… The risk of pandemic comedy “fatigue” at this point is evident.Read More »

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