Category / South America
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JOSÉ – The price of working class queerness in Guatemalan currency
Depends on the rent-by-the-hour hotel. The winner of last year’s Queer Lion Award JOSÉ is part of an evergrowing struggle of queer cinema directors to overcome the monopoly of the white skin,…
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MARIGHELLA – The political guerrilla, Carlos Marighella, against the military dictatorship in Brazil
MARIGHELLA, the film debut of Wagner Moura, ‘Out of Competition’ at the last Berlinale, is a political action movie and, perhaps, this is its real limitation. In an attempt to ring the alarm…
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BEFORE THE FERRY ARRIVES – A keepsake of Cuba before the big change
May 2015: a multigenerational Cuban family is in the living room right in front of the TV, quarreling in an indistinct yet heated argument. An elderly woman interrupts at the highest point…
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JOSÉ MUJICA – The Story of a Giant
He is José Mujica the star of Venice 75. Completely removed from the blander canons of fame standards of celebrity, José Mujica has become, against his will, a world celebrity, a giant.…
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TALES OF MEXICO – A house tells the story of Mexico
TALES OF MEXICO’s original title in Spanish is L’habitaciòn (The House). As the original title suggests, the film narrates how Mexico’s tumultuous history has transformed a house in Mexico City and the lives of…
