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Ghassan Salhab Tribute Screening
TERRA INCOGNITA
Time: 16:00
Location: Cinemex La Luciérnaga.
Text by: Laila Hotait
One of Lebanese filmmaker and GIFF tributee Ghassan Salhab’s gifts is the way he portrays landscapes and turns these outdoor spaces into a reflection of his protagonists’ most intimate mood.
Terra Incognita portrays people on the edge at an emotional level and a city, Beirut, that is on the edge at a political, historical, economical and geographical level: at the edge of the sea, about to fall forever, about to sink even, but still afloat. Just like the characters that inhabit the movie; they seem to be on the edge of an abyss, always on their toes, yet never falling in. A tense situation which really helps his character creation and his directing of actors. It’s a highly recommended film, mostly as a portrait of a country and a city as attractive as Beirut and its people.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
Official Selection Mexico
GOLDEN MALIBU
Time: 16:00
Location: Centro Cultural “El Nigromante” (Bellas Artes)
Text by: Deusdedit Diez de Sollano
Golden Malibu is the night life and drug dealing seen through the eyes of a little girl. And yet it’s not crude about it. It renews well-worn narrative resources to show a sibling relationship that surprises due to its fun and Dynamic side. This relationship, despite what’s happening in the plot, becomes a bond of ambivalent collaboration. Filmmaker Natalia Bermúdez gives the film an unexpected twist that challenges what we usually encounter.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
Official Selection México
EL ÚLTIMO ROMÁNTICO
Time: 16:00
Location: Centro Cultural “El Nigromante” (Bellas Artes)
Text by: Deusdedit Diez de Sollano
In El último romántico Natalia García Agraz presents the life of Héctor, a simpleton who likes police novels and Works in a half-abandoned bowling alley. His life is based around pleasing the few people that come to this place, but his perspective changes when he sees a new female employee and falls in love while he learns about how awful it is to live there. This is a very entertaining story because Agraz uses Héctor’s fascination with telling a story that parallels his life by expressing his dreams and experiences through generic clichés, even using a scratched film filter, exaggerating Héctor’s fantasies to remind us of how sad his aimless life is.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
Official Selection Animation
RAYMONDE OR THE VERTICAL ESCAPE
Time: 20:00
Location: Centro Cultural “El Nigromante” (Bellas Artes)
Text by: Juan Ramón Velázquez
Sarah Van den Boom presents this entertaining and moving short film that, just like the old fables, uses animals to explore human circumstances. Raymonde is a bird-woman worn down by the years of living alone and the disappointments therein, cultivating her garden and dealing with the aphids that try to invade her properties. She has tried to remain virtuous, but this has not been enough for her to find love. In the end, weary of her monotonous life, decides to go directly to church and denounce the Virgin Mary for representing the female ideal as sterile, useless and prone to frustrations. Made with a careful stop-motion technique, Raymonde or the Vertical Scape proposes a candid and —we’re grateful for this— entertaining analysis on the roles that women play in our society.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]