FILM SCREENING｜2014 Latin American Culture Festival - Woven Lives

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FILM SCREENING｜2014 Latin American Culture Festival - Woven Lives

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Jun

Organised by USJ Faculty of Humanities and MAPEAL (Macao Association for the Promotion of Exchange between Asia-Pacific and Latin America)

VENUE

Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph, Rua de Londres 16, Macau, China

Vidas Entretejidas｜Woven Lives｜編織生活｜( Mexico)

Date&Time: 18 June 2014, 19:00

Venue: Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph

Spanish with English Subtitle｜76 mins｜Director: Caroily n Kallenborn

Story: Drawing upon the richness of sights, sounds and beauty of the people and landscape of Oaxaca, Mexico, Woven Lives provides a fascinating look at contemporary Zapotec weavers from six different villages. This colorful documentary celebrates their extraordinary textiles and illustrates how the art of weaving cloth has helped the Zapotecs retain their culture and identity for thousands of years. The story traces the integration of ancient techniques with new technologies and explores how the artisans are now looking to the past to help them move forward into the future.

Viva Cuba｜古巴萬歲｜(Cuba)

Date&Time: 20 June 2014, 19:00

Venue: Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph

Spanish with Chinese Subtitle｜80 mins｜Director: Juan Carlos Cremata｜Award:² Junior Prize of the Cannes Film Festival, 2005

Story:Viva Cuba is a Cuban independent film that explores emigration and the effects it can have on children who have to leave friends and extended families behind. It won 34 national and international awards and it was the first Cuban film to be awarded the ‘Grand Prix Écrans Juniors’ for children’s cinema at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Malu and Jorgito are neighbors’ children that make the promise to be friends for life, even though their families hate each other because of the great contrast of the social statuses. When Malu’s grandmother dies, her mother decides to go and live abroad. From this decision, Jorgito and Malú decide to run away and set off for a new adventure of Cuba. In this movie, both Malu and Jorgito defend the right to contend with their neighborhood, to make their own friends, to attend school and to intensely sustain the friendship.

El Paseo 2｜The Trip 2｜大旅途2｜(Colombia)

Date&Time: 1 July 2014, 18:30

Venue: Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph

Spanish with Chinese Subtitle｜90 mins｜Director: Harold Trompetero

Story: The massive Calvo family, led by patriarch Lucho (John Leguizamo) decides to take a road trip to Cartagena for a much needed break from the daily grind. But when his wife Gloria’s ex-boyfriend shows up unexpectedly, the entire experience turns into a zany and entertaining series of misadventures punctuated by Lucho’s frustration. Bringing the physical comedy he made famous in Hollywood films, Leguizamo returns to Colombia for this comedic romp that redefines family vacation.

Diarios de Motocicleta｜The Motorcycle Diaries｜革命前夕的摩托車日記/哲古華拉少年日記

Date&Time: 3 July 2014, 18:30

Venue: Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph

Spanish with Chinese Subtitle｜126 mins｜Director: Walter Salles｜Award: Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song of the Academy Awards, 2005, USA; Technical Grand Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and François Chalais Award of the Cannes Film Festival, 2004; Best Film not in the English Language of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), 2005; Best Screenplay – Adapted of the Goya Awards, 2005

Story: In 1952, two young Argentines, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado, set out on a road trip to discover the real Latin America. Ernesto is a 23-year-old medical student specializing in leprology, and Alberto, 29, is a biochemist. The film follows the young men as they unveil the rich and complex human and social topography of the Latin American continent.With a highly romantic sense of adventure, the two friends leave their familiar surroundings in Buenos Aires on a rickety 1939 Norton 500. Although the bike breaks down during the course of their eight-month journey, they press onward, hitching rides along the way. As they begin to see a different Latin America in the people they meet on the road, the diverse geography they encounter begins to reflect their own shifting perspectives.They continue to the heights of Machu Picchu, where the majestic ruins and the extraordinary significance of the Inca heritage have a profound impact on the young men. As they arrive at a leper colony deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the two are beginning to question the value of progress as defined by economic systems that leave so many people beyond their reach. Their experiences at the colony awaken within them the men they will later become by defining the ethical and political journey they will take in their lives.

Aballay, El Hombre Sin Miedo｜Aballay, the Man without Fear｜阿布雷，一個無懼的人｜(Argentina)

Date&Time: 4 July 2014, 18:30

Venue: Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph

Spanish with English Subtitle｜98 mins｜Director: Fernando Spiner｜Award: Academy Award, 2011 (Nominated)

Story: Ten years after looking into the eyes of his father’s killer, a young man is on the hunt for the gang of outlaws that left him fatherless. With just a sketch of their faces he travels from town to town taking up odd jobs in exchange for shelter. Until one day the marauding gangs’ leader sets foot on the property he is staying at, igniting an undeniable urge to satisfy his vengeance. Hunting down each man, one by one, he’ll take his justice no matter the consequences!

Pescador｜The Fisherman｜漁夫｜(Ecuador)

Date&Time: 7 July 2014, 18:30

Venue: Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph

Spanish with English Subtitle｜96 mins｜Director: Sebastián Cordero｜Award: Best Actor of the Cartagena Film Festival, 2012

Story: Blanquito is a young fisherman in ‘El Matal’, a small village on the Ecuadorian coast. He dreams of leaving the village in search of his father. He is obsessed with Lorna, who lives alone in a luxurious house on the beach shore. One morning a series of wooden boxes appear on the beach. They’ve been dragged by the tide, filled with cocaine. Instead of selling the drug back to the drug traffickers, like everybody else in the village, he decides to follow his dream and starts a journey, accompanied by Lorna and the packages, that will let him discover his own spirit.

Rodencia y El Diente de la Princesa｜Rodencia and the Tooth of the Princess｜樂丹西亞：魔法王國的傳說｜(Peru)

Date&Time: 9 July 2014, 18:30

Venue: Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph

Spanish with English Subtitle｜87 mins｜Director: David Bisbano｜Award: Audience Award of the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2013

Story: Rodencia y El Diente de la Princesa is a 3D Animation Film: A magical adventure begins once upon a time, within a vast and wild forest there was a fantastic Kingdom called Rodencia, a place where wonderful creatures and powerful wizards lived. It’s the story of adventures and love of a small mouse called Edam, a clumsy magician’s apprentice and the beautiful and confident mouse Brie, who will have to face many dangerous obstacles in order to obtain the power of the princess’s tooth and defeat the troop of rats commanded by the evil Rotex who invades Rodencia (the peaceful kingdom of mice), in order to dominates them and takes their treasure. In the middle of the forest, the magic of the light and the darkness, the love and resentment will come together. Edam and Rotex will fight and only one will leave victorious.

Habanastation｜哈瓦那車站｜(Cuba)

Date&Time: 11 July 2014, 18:30

Venue: Speakers Hall, University of Saint Joseph

Spanish with Chinese Subtitle｜87 mins｜Director: Ian Padrón｜Award: Founders Prize for Best of Fest of the Traverse City Film Festival, 2011

Story: A experiences of two classmates during May 1: a story that reveals different sides of the Cuban reality, from the everyday life of a couple of kids in Havana today. Ink is a slum imaginary name, next to the Plaza of the Revolution. This will be the main stage where Mayito, a well-behaved boy, discovers another Cuba well away from his luxurious home in Miramar, and where his fellow schoolmate Carlos lives. After getting lost during the May Day Celebration, Mayito comes by accident to this peripheral community and has hitherto found it totally alien…..