10.11.2022, 17:30, Maxx 5
EN UT + Q&A
12.11.2022, 13:00, Maxx 3
EN UT + Q&A
Life in the Andean nations is full of contrast and contradictions. Circumstances vary greatly both between and within countries. Among the region’s major weaknesses are extreme inequality and a lack of social protection. This programme explores the tension between the centuries-old reality of poor governance, exploitation, and impunity, on the one hand, and the awareness of an undeniable need for change, on the other.
Pithole
Miguel Hilari / Bolivia 2019 / 22'3" / DCP / colour/black & white / Spanish / Doc
Potosí, the colonial mining town. At the pithole, faces of the workers leaving the mine. These faces, turned into still images, are looked at by children. Images of other times?
Open Mountain
Maria Rojas Arias / Portugal/Colombia 2021 / 25'47" / DCP / colour/black & white / Spanish / Exp/Doc
On 19 July 1929, in a town in Colombia, a group of shoemakers fought to improve living and working conditions in the country. They were called The Bolsheviks of Líbano Tolima. Their revolution lasted only one day, and its traces were almost completely lost. The women of this village share with Aura, an anarchist grandmother, a feeling that their rebellion is still going on.
Vertical Shadow
Ananké Pereira/Felipe Elgueta / Chile 2022 / 13'26" / DCP / colour / Spanish / Doc
«Vertical Shadow» is a visual journey through the intimacy among migrant residents of a mega-building in Santiago. The pandemic forces them to spend their days locked in close quarters.
#YA
Ygor Gama/Florencia Rovlich / Argentina/Germany 2015 / 15'1" / DCP / colour / English/Spanish / Fic/Exp
First it's paint bombs, followed by riots. Tweets proclaim what is to be done. Resistance is everywhere. Something has to give. Two young activists meet amid turbulent events. They dance. The city belongs to them.
Interferencia
Juan Carlos Soto Martínez / Chile 2020 / 11'51" / DCP / colour / Spanish / Doc
A documentary filmmaker investigates a bizarre crime that occurred 47 years ago. But the Covid-19 pandemic breaks out, forcing her to leave the investigation unfinished. Isolated in quarantine, she speculates on possible solutions to the mysterious case.
Alerta . Alerta . Alerta
Alexandra Gelis / Peru/Canada 2020 / 2'10" / DCP / colour / Spanish / Exp/Doc
Marching politics: a tribute to the feminist struggle in Latin America. Recorded at the Women's March in Lima, Peru, in 2019.