Distrital

Carcasses

(Carcazas)

Dirección / Director: Denis Côté

Canadá / 2009 / 35mm / Color / Francés / 72'

Producción / Producer: Sylvain Corbeil, Stéphanie Morissette, Denis Côté

Compañías productoras / Production Companies: Nihilproductions, Canada Council for the Arts

Guión / Screenwriter: Denis  Côté

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Iljo Kotorencev

Dirección de arte  / Art Director: Denis Côté

Edición /  Editor: Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer

Reparto / Cast: Jean-Paul Colmor, Etienne Grutman, Célia Léveillée-Marois, Mark Scanlon, Charles-Élie Jacob

Sonido / Sound: Fréderic Cloutier

Sinopsis / Synopsis: Jean-Paul Colmor is 74 years old. After an accident, he took an early retreat and has been collecting car wrecks for the last 40 years. This film makes the border between documentary and fiction to seem fuzzy. Without putting pressure on the actual facts nor harrasing his character, Côté knows how to wait for situations to occur, Keeling in mind the recovery of those debris thrown away by society, the car parts which are recycled and sold. Colmor has created an unthinkable place filled with memories, car parts, iron bars and such. One day four intruders visit Colmor’s junkyard, changing his tranquil paradise.

FUNCIONES:

29 de Mayo  - Lumiere Reforma - 18:00 hrs.

1 de junio  - Lumiere Reforma - 21:00 hrs.

6 de Junio  - CCU Tlaltelolco - 17:30 hrs.

Kynodontas

(Dogtooth)

Dirección / Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Grecia / 2009 / 35mm / Color /  Griego / 96'

Producción / Producer: Yorgos Tsourgiannis

Casa productora / Production company: Horsefly Productions, Boo Productions, Greek Film Center

Guión / Screen writer: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou.

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Thimios Batatakis, Quim Gutiérrez

Dirección de arte / Art Director: Elli Papageorgakopoulou

Edición / Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Reparto / Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis, Anna Kalaitzidou

Sonido / Sound: Liu Jiayin, Leandro Dounis

Sinopsis / Synopsis: The father, the mother and their three kids live in a house at the outskirts of a city in a house surrounded by a tall fence. By their parents decision, the kids have never left the house nor had any contact with the world outside their house. They are being educated, entertained, and exercised in the manner that their parents deem appropriate, without any influence from the outside world. The only person allowed to enter the house and break their rigid isolation is Christina. The gift she gives to one of the daughters will have some serious sequences.

FUNCIONES:

1 de Junio  - Cinemark Reforma 222 - 15:30 hrs.

3 de Junio  - Cinemark Reforma 222 - 15:00 hrs.

6 de Junio  - Cineteca Nacional - 18:30 hrs.

Engkwentro

(Clash)

Dirección / Director: Pepe Diokno

Filipinas / 2009 /  Digital / Color / 61'

Producción / Producer: Pepe Diokno

Compañía productora / Production Company: Cinemalaya Foundation

Guión / Screenwriter: Pepe Diokno

Edición / Edition: Orlean Tan, Ralph Crisostomo, Miko Araneta

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Emman Pascual

Dirección de arte / Art Director: Leeroy New

Reparto / Cast: Celso Ad Castillo, Félix Roco, Daniel Medrana, Zyrus Desamparado, Eda Nolan, Moisés Mag – isa, Bayang Barrios, Jim Libiran.

Sonido / Sound: Marl Laccay

Música / Music: Georges Aperghis, Giovanna Marini and Francesco de Gregori, Lav Díaz.

Sinopsis / Synopsis: Richard and Raymond are two teenage brothers on opposite sides of a gang war. Richard is the leader of his gang, "Bagong Buwan," while Raymond is just being inducted into "Batang Dilim" ("Children of the Night"), a rival gang. Complications arise when Raymond is ordered to kill his older brother. Meanwhile, the City Death Squad lurks the streets. This real-life vigilante group is allegedly backed by the omnipresent city mayor Danilo Dularte Suarez, and it is responsible for many unsolved murders of teen gangsters. Today, they are hunting down Richard.

FUNCIONES:

2 de Junio  - Cinemark Pedregal - 18:00 hrs.

4 de Junio  - Cinemark Pedregal - 18:00 hrs.

5 de Junio  - Lumiere Reforma - 18:00 hrs.

Let each one go where he may

Dirección / Director: Ben Russell

Estados Unidos, Surinam / 2009 / 16mm / Color / 135'

Producción / Producer: Ben Russell

Compañía productora / Company Production: Ben Rusell Productions

Guión / Screenwriter: Ben Russell

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Chris Fawcett, Ben Russell

Edición / Editor: Ben Russell

Reparto / Cast: Benjen Pansa, Monie Pansa

Sonido / Sound: Brigid McCaffrey, Paul Hill, Ben Russell

Sinopsis / Synopsis: Two brothers begin a journey from the outskirts of Paramaribo (Suriname’s capital city) to a faraway village. These two youngsters track back on the footsteps of their ancestors, who left the place to flee slavery by the Dutch on the colony. As they advance in their trip by foot, canoe or train, the landscape modifies while they remain unflinching in face of all that surrounds them, with the steadfast notion of getting to their destiny. The film is made by around a dozen 10-minute sequence shots, following the characters in their journey. An ethnographic experiment or an observational road movie, Let Each One… offers a challenge to the viewer, generating a hypnotic effect through a rigorous and provocative exercise of contemplation.

FUNCIONES:

29 de Mayo  - Lumiere Reforma - 15:30 hrs.

30 de Mayo  - Lumiere Reforma - 19:00 hrs.

1 de Junio  - Cineteca Nacional - 18:00 hrs.

Mundane History

Dirección / Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong

Tailandia / 2009 / 35mm / Color / 82'

Producción / Productor: Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakornpong

Compañía productora / Product company: Electric Eel Films

Guión / Screenwriter: Anocha Suwichakornpong

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Ming Kain Leung

Director de arte / Art Director: Parinda Moongmaiphol

Edición / Editor: Lee Chatametikool

Reparto /Cast: Phakpoom Surapongsanuruk, Arkaney Cherkham, ParamejNoieam, Anchana Ponpitakthepkij,  Karuna Looktumthong

Sonido / Sound: Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr

Música / Music: The Photo Sticker Machine, Furniture

Sinopsis / Synopsis: A bitter young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident has been appointed a new nurse, their relationship is cool, to put it midly, and his authoritarian father is also not a model of warmth and understanding. In long, neutral scenes separated by hard cuts, the contours of a restrained psychological drama emerge in which the young man’s cynicism slowly makes way for a renewed, cautious attempt to explore life.  Then, the film unexpectedly drops all reserves and explodes in a hallucinogenic ode to the universe that, alike people, has to go through a cycle of birth and death. Behind the narration about the paralyzed man and his nurse lies the real essence: a meditation about our place in the cosmos – insignificant, yet grand. It all comes together in that long, majestic shot of a birth.

FUNCIONES:

31 de Mayo  - Lumiere Reforma - 17:30 hrs.

1 de Junio  - CCU Tlatelolco - 19:30 hrs.

3 de junio  - Cineteca Nacional - 18:30 hrs.

Ne change rien

Dirección / Director: Pedro Costa

Portugal, Francia / 2009 / 35mm /  b y n / Francés/ 98'

Producción / Producer: Abel Ribeiro Chaves, Sébastien de Fonséca, Cédric Walter

Compañía Productora / Company Production: Red Star Cinema

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Pedro Costa

Edición / Editor: Patricia Saramago

Reparto / Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Rodolphe Burger

Sonido / Sound: Philippe Morel, Olivier Blanc, Vasco Pedroso

Música / Music: Jeanne Balibar, Rodolphe Burger, Pierre Alferi, Jacques Offenbach

Sinopsis / Synopsis: In Ne change rien, we see the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar rehearsing, recording, performing and practising with a singing coach for an opera bouffe by Jacques Offenbach. The Portuguese director Pedro Costa, a friend of Balibar's who did the camera work himself, filmed her in long, static shots in which all attention is focused on her performance. This film, shot digitally, shows how versatile Balibar is. Costa also manages to portray the creative process, for instance in a scene in which Balibar and her guitarist Rodolphe Burger try out several variations of a song. Costa's intimate portrait of the singer is filmed in black-and-white. Costa, has seen many of his films screened in Rotterdam over the years.

FUNCIONES:

30 de Mayo  - Cinemark Reforma 222 - 19:30 hrs.

2 de Junio  - Lumiere Reforma - 16:00 hrs.

4 de Junio - Lumiere Reforma - 18:30 hrs.

Chitaem Blokadnuyu Knigu

(Reading book of blockade)

Dirección / Director: Alexander Sokurov

Rusia / 2009 / Digital / Color / 96'

Producción / Producer: Oleg Rudnov

Compañía productora / Production Company: Tv Kupol Company

Guión /Screenwriter: Nadezda Guzarova

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Aleksander Degtiarev

Diseño de producción / Production designer: Igos Mosin

Edición / Editor: Tatiana Orlova

Reparto / Cast: Maia Kilmenko, Ivan Krasko, Oleg Basilashvili, Boris Averin, Elena Shtopfen.

Sonido / Sound: Nikolaj Almaev

Sinopsis / Synopsis: Various people of different ages and professions read parts from the famous book by Alexander Adamovich and Daniil Granin about the siege of Leningrad. The origins of The Book of Blockade go back to the 60s, when they wrote the stories of a group of survivors of the almost 900-day siege of Stalingrad (current Saint Petersburg) by the Germans during WWII. From September, 1941, to January, 1944, a million and a half civilians and soldiers died. Based on this experience, Sokurov reunited in a studio a diverse group of people (children, elderly people, students, professionals, artists and military) and allowed them to read parts from the book. When faced today with words from the past describing hunger, death, cannibalism and destruction, the eventual actors (and also the viewer) are confronted with a reality which forces them to reconnect with those stories, from the comfort and safety of their own current lives.

FUNCIONES:

28 de Mayo  - Cinemark Pedregal - 17:00 hrs.

30 de Mayo  - Lumiere Reforma - 20:30 hrs.

3 de Junio  - Cineteca Nacional - 20:30 hrs.

Ruhr

Dirección / Director: James Benning

Alemania / 2009 / Digital / Alemán /121'

Producción / Producer: Zorana Musikic

Compañías productoras / Production Companies: Schaf Oder Scharf Films 2D/3sat

Guión / Screenwriter: James Benning

Fotografía / Cinematographer: James Benning

Edición / Edition: James Benning

Sonido / Sound: James Benning

Sinopsis / Synopsis: This is a cold and subjective observation of the Ruhr valley. Local or visitor, his camera has the same almost magnetic relationship with the elements inside the frame, setting a vital and indivisible dialog with its surroundings. A tunnel, a factory, a forest, a temple, a graffiti remover, a street and a giant chimney: the amazing thing about Ruhr is that, even when you know beforehand what its images show, you can never be fully certain if that is what you’re actually seeing.

FUNCIONES:

29 de Mayo  - Cinemark Pedregal - 15:00 hrs.

1 de Junio  - Cinemark Reforma 222 - 13:30 hrs.

2 de Junio  - Cinemark Pedregal - 15:00 hrs.

Searching for Hassan

Dirección / Director: Edouard Beau

Francia / 2009 / Digital /  Color / 82'

Producción / Productor: Edouard Beau

Compañía productora / Production Company: Edouardbeau Productions

Guión  / Screenwriter: Edouard Beau

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Edoaurd Beau

Edición / Editor: Jeremy  Gravayat

Reparto / Cast: Soldado kurdos / Kurd soldiers

Sonido / Sound: Gil Savoy

Sinopsis / Synopsis:  For a whole month, Beau filmed a Kurdish battalion of the Iraqi army with a digital camera. This battalion was located in Mossoul. He filmed each day in the lives of these soldiers, from their endless wanderings through the city looking for terrorists to their long periods of wait. The stunning proximity of images doesn’t spare us any of their harrowing brutality, the beatings, the yelling, an exhausted city, houses violated, terrifying searches, fear that reigns and quashes everyone. The action in this film takes place in one day, from sunrise till sunset. The film constructs its own temporality. Which one? That of a law that wants to absorb chaos. In reality, it is chaos that is absorbing law.

FUNCIONES:

28 de Mayo  - Cineteca Nacional - 18:30 hrs.

29 de Mayo  - Cinemark Reforma 222 - 16:30 hrs.

30 de Mayo  - Cinemark Pedregal - 19:30 hrs.

Tsetsuo: The bullet man

Dirección / Director: Shinya Tsukamoto

Japón / 2009 / Digital / Inglés /80'

Producción / Producer: Shuinichi Kawahara, MasaTanishima

Compañía productora / Company Production: Asmik Ace Entertaiment, Kaijyu Theater, Yahoo Japan

Guión  / Screewriter: Shinya Tsukamoto y Hasakatsu Kuroki

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Shinya Tsukamoto, Takayuki Shida

Dirección de arte / Art director: Shinya Tsukamoto

Edición / Editor: Shinya Tsukamoto, Yuji Anbe,

Reparto / Cast: Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Shynia Tsukamoto

Sonido / Sound: Hirokazu Kato.

Música / Music: Chu Ishikawa.

Sinopsis / Synopsis: Anthony is a ordinary American businessman living in Tokio, without knowing his happy life with wife Yuriko and 3-years-old son Tom would end suddenly. One day, Tom gets killed by a mysterious man. Instead of loosing control, Anthony starts searching for the reason his Tom has such a gruesome death. What he finds out is that Ride, Anthony´s father, used to work for the US military forces and was involved in a top-secret experiment.

FUNCIONES:

29 de Mayo  - Lumiere Reforma - 21:00 hrs.

30 de Mayo  - Cineteca Nacional - 20:30 hrs.

Until the next resurrection

Dirección / Director: Oleg Morozov

Rusia / 2008 / Digital / Color /90'

Producción  / Producer: Alexander Slavin, Larisa Bekh

Compañía productora / Production Company: German Lorents

Guión  / Screenwriter: Oleg Morozov, Oleg Dane.

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Oleg Morozov, Larisa Bekh, Igor Ryazantsev.

Dirección de arte / Art Director: Parinda Moongmaiphol.

Edición  / Editor: Oleg Morozov, Larisa Bekh.

Reparto / Cast: Yevgeny Yegorov, Viktor Mytin, Tatyana Shashko, Alexandr Chichkanev, Yulya Ystomina,   Zhanna Serebryakova.

Sonido / Sound: Oleg Morozov, Sergei Inshakov.

Música / Music: Richard Wagner, Consuelo Velásquez, Boris Sheremetyev, Mikhail Valovatz, Sergey Shnurov.

Sinopsis / Synopsis: Shot in Russia, in Kaliningrad, the former German city then named Königsberg, emptied of its inhabitants after WWII and repopulated since by Russian migrants, the film follows over a period of almost fifteen years the track of certain characters whose fate, we are soon given to understand, is more or less sealed in advance. Moreover, an off voice tells us without mercy that they have passed away while we see them on the screen moving around and struggling to survive. Nothing must be omitted in this descent into hell, not forgetting that it implies the corpses of those who chose to give up. The fact that Oleg Morozov, the film director who now and again appears on the screen, died some weeks after finishing his film renders his tribute to the future as a testimony from the realms of death.

FUNCIONES:

28 de Mayo  - Cinemark Pedregal - 20:30 hrs.

30 de Mayo  - Cineteca Nacional - 18:30 hrs.

31 de Mayo  - Cinemark Reforma 222 - 15:00 hrs.

Vapor Trail  (Clark)

Dirección / Director: John Gianvito

Estados Unidos / 2010 / Digital / Color / 264 '

Producción / Producer: Traveling light productions con el apoyo de la Fundación Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart, La fundación  Judy & Bob Huret, el Colegio Emerson, la Fundación  LEF

Compañía productora / Production Company: John Gianvito

Guión  / Secreenwriter: John Gianvito

Fotografía / Cinematographer: John Gianvito

Edición / Editor: John Gianvito, Eric Gulliver

Reparto / Cast: Howard Zinn, Travis Wilkerson, Myrla Baldonado, Teofilo “Boojie” Juatco, Alan Abdon Along, Dina Valencia, Juan Miguel “Red” Fuentes, Jocelyn y  Joel Cárdenas, Estrelita y  Jayson Barnuevo, Rosenella y Guiller Carreón, Rubén Naguit, Nimfa Yumang, Benjamin Morales, Eduardo David Gutiérrez, Elena Neverida, Annvil Rose, Rosalina Rabelas

Sonido / Sound: John Gavito

Música / Music: Georges Aperghis, Giovanna Marini, Francesco de Gregori, Lav Díaz

Sinopsis / Synopsis: Vapor Trail (Clark) is a documentary essay exploring circumstances of toxic contamination around the former US military bases in the Philippines as the locus for a meditation on historical amnesia, colonial privilege, and the consequences of unchecked militarism. Interweaving both cinéma-vérité and interview  of Filipino victims and their families, environmental spokespersons, and community activists, along with early photographic material pertaining to the Philippine-American War, partisan songs, historical texts, and landscape photography, Vapor trail (Clark) is an attempt to construct a work capable of rendering some measure of this human and environmental tragedy and the complexities of its remedy.

FUNCIONES:

28 de Mayo  - Cinemark Pedregal - 19:30 hrs.

1 de Junio  - Lumiere Reforma - 17:30 hrs.

2 de Junio  - Cineteca Nacional - 18:30 hrs.

Niupi er

(Oxhide II)

Dirección / Director: Liu Jiayin

China / 2009 / Digital / Color / 133'

Producción / Producer: Liu Jiayin

Compañía productora / Production Company: Hubert Bals Fund

Guión / Screenwriter: Liu Jiayin

Fotografía / Cinematographer: Liu Jiayin

Edición / Editor: Liu Jiayin

Reparto / Cast: Liu Zai Ping, Jia Hui Fen, Liu Jiayin

Sonido / Sound: Liu Jiayin

Sinopsis / Synopsis: Just as in her previous film, Oxhide, the Chinese director films herself and her parents in their rather clastrophobic apartment with documentary realism. She used nine fixed camera positions, with which she turns clockwise around the kitchen  table (so that the last shot has exactly the same perspective as the first). The resulting rigorously minimalistic story passes in real time  is a long as it takes to clear a worktable, to prepare Chinese dumplings on it and to eat them. While the meal is being prepared, the three talk occasionally about the problems with the wife and daughter having a serious word with the father. However, as long as they talk about making dumplings, the family is united.