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A cinematographic journey through Latin America from the Gijón Film Festival

2020-11-29T04:09:35.457Z


EL PAÍS is screening three films this weekend that present a new look at Latin American cinema, part of the official selection of the great independent film event in Spain


Still from 'Lluvia de Jaulas' by the director César González.

The nightly bustle of the streets of Rio de Janeiro are the setting in which Paulo, unemployed and recently divorced, fights an internal battle with his hopelessness and loneliness.

That

saudade

extends throughout his nights at the wheel of a taxi, a temporary job that allows him to listen to the personal stories of his passengers, their complaints and fears.

Fragments of other people's lives that make him reflect on his own fate in a country that goes from the festive extreme of its carnivals, to the abyss of its social fractures, political upheaval and economic crisis.

That is the portrait that the director Eryk Rocha presents in

Brief miragem de sol

, which is part of the official selection of the Gijón Film Festival and which is one of the three films that EL PAÍS will offer for 24 hours - from 9am in Mexico this Saturday - through its edition in America and Brazil.

Paulo's story reflects the drama experienced by 50 million Brazilians who overcome every day with precarious jobs, says Rocha in a conversation with the festival organizers.

"Brazil is a country of very radical social inequality, where there is class struggle and racism and the idea of ​​the film is to present those tensions," explains the director.

Rocha's film is part of Tierres en Trance, a section of the Festival that presents new views of Latin American cinema.

In this edition, 11 films by directors from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Bolivia and Cuba will be screened.

“Our perception is that many times in European festivals, when Ibero-American cinema is programmed, and especially when films made and produced in Latin American countries are programmed, there is a certain tendency towards a 'first world' look at the worst possible sense, very focused on the clichés of social black chronicle and with a sometimes condescending tone ”, says Fran Gayo, head of the festival's programming.

“Latin America continues to be a hotbed of new ideas, of young cinema that advances without looking back, a space where the most intimate, fragile and silent cinema continues to have an unusual force, and sometimes we feel that this type of cinema is not so interesting in European festivals.

This is where Tierres en Trance arises, from the idea of ​​proposing a space for the vindication of that other cinema that exists and is important, a cinema without fanfare and with a genuine look ”, he adds.

In addition to

Brief miragem de sol,

EL PAÍS will present this weekend

Lluvia de caulas

, by director César González, a chronicle of Buenos Aries marked by contrasts, among its shacks eaten away by misery and violence, but where the hope of children who, as defined by the organizers of the exhibition, are "a garden of amputated flowers, who with crutches on their backs, still grow and dance."

Mexico also has a presence at the Festival with

Howls are heard

, by director Julio Hernández Cordón, who achieved international recognition with his acclaimed

I promise you anarchy.

On this occasion, the director presents an autobiographical journey, with images of the places that inhabit the memory of his childhood, inspired by the rise of social networks such as Instagram, in which people are documenting daily snippets of their lives.

The film, says Hernández Cordón, “has to do with the oral histories that the family inherits from us, which are fascinating because they have a lot of fantasy and I wanted to do an exercise of that with my daughter, joke a little and create a myth about who I am.

The intention of the film is to play with the present, with memories and memory ”.

The 58th edition of the Gijón Film Festival takes place from November 20 to 28 virtually due to the coronavirus crisis.

Director Alejandro Díaz Castaño has explained that it is the only way to guarantee the health of workers, filmmakers, juries, journalists and the rest of the participants.

The event, considered the great event dedicated to

indie

cinema in Spain

, shows, according to its director, “a selection of the best contemporary independent cinema”, coupled with “an audiovisual dissemination and learning plan that takes place throughout the year.


Source: elparis

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