| One-Week Engagement
LA SAGRADA FAMILIA/THE SACRED FAMILY
(Sebastián Lelio, Chile, 2005, 99 min.)
This film about mounting tensions between members of a well-to-do family
during an Easter holiday weekend has won prizes at more than a dozen international
film festivals including the FIPRESCI Prize and the Grand Prix at the
Toulouse Latin America Film Festival and the SIGNIS Award at the Buenos
Aires Independent Film Festival. A Global Film Initiative (www.globalfilm.org)
release.
Friday, November 9, 7pm*; Saturday, November 10, 3pm; Sunday, November
11, 9:15pm; Monday, November 12, 5pm; Tuesday, November 13, 3pm; Wednesday,
November 14, 5pm; Thursday, November 15, 9pm.
*Q&A with filmmaker
Contemporary Film Showcase
EN LA CAMA / IN BED
(Matías Bize, Chile/Germany, 2005, 86 min.)
Set in an aging Santiago motel room over the course of one night. Directed
by Matías Bize, one of Chile's most promising young filmmakers,
In Bed has won numerous festival prizes, including the FIPRESCI prize
for Best Actress at the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2006,
was nominated for a Goya for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film 2007 and
was Chile's official selection for the 2007 Academy Awards.
Saturday, November 10, 7pm*; Monday, November 12, 9:15pm.
*Q&A with filmmaker.
MI MEJOR ENEMIGO / MY BEST ENEMY
(Alex Bowen, Chile/Argentina/Spain, 2004, 100 min.)
Set during the Beagle conflict of 1978, this absurd comedy follows
a ragtag Chilean border patrol unit lost in Argentine Patagonia. When
they inadvertently set up camp 100 yards from an Argentinean platoon,
their tense anticipation of the looming war quickly turns to mutual understanding
as they put down their guns and pick up a soccer ball. My Best Enemy was
a box-office smash in Chile, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and
was nominated for a Goya for Best Spanish-Language Foreign Film 2006.
Saturday, November 10, 9:15pm; Thursday, November 15, 5pm
LA HIJA DEL GENERAL / THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER
(María Elena Wood, Chile/Spain, 2006, 59 min.)
New York Premiere
In 2006 Michelle Bachelet made history by becoming Chile's first woman
president, despite being a socialist, single mother and agnostic in arguably
one of South America's most conservative nations. Filmmaker María
Elena Wood spent one year following Bachelet as she traveled through Chile
on the campaign trail.
Friday, November 9, 9:30pm*; Thursday, November 15, 7pm
*Q&A with filmmaker
ÜXUF XIPAY / EL DESPOJO / THE PLUNDER
(Dauno Tótoro, Chile, 2004, 73 min.)
An engaging and empowering documentary that examines the proud history
and traditions of the indigenous Mapuche Indian communities, Tótoro's
film has screened at numerous festivals and was the Indigenous Award Winner
at the Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Video Documental Independiente in
Mexico.
Tuesday, November 13, 7:30pm; Thursday, November 15, 3pm.
SE ARRIENDA / FOR RENT
(Alberto Fuguet, Chile, 2005, 109 min.)
Based on the director's hit novel of the same name, the debut
feature of this renowned writer was one of the most successful local productions
of 2005.
Friday, November 9, 3pm; Monday, November 12, 7pm
PADRE NUESTRO / OUR FATHER
(Rodrigo Sepúlveda, Chile, 2006, 100 min. In Spanish with English
subtitles)
Both funny and tender, this unconventional road movie finds ailing
Caco (Jaime Vadell) struggling to make amends with his family before he
passes. Our Father was awarded the Best Actor prize for Jaime Vadell's
performance at the Cartagena Film Festival and is Chile's official
selection for the 2008 Academy Awards.
Sunday, November 11, 5pm; Wednesday, November 14, 7pm.
WELCOME TO NEW YORK
(Bettina Perut & Iván Osnovikoff, Chile/Italy/Spain, 66 min.)
An exercise of inverted ethnography - from South to North - in
which the directors show an irreverent vision of the "Capital of
the World" within the frame of the 2004 Presidential Campaign, in
which George W. Bush was reelected. A reflection on the contemporary human
being, his inescapable animal nature and tragic fate.
Sunday, November 11, 7:30pm; Wednesday, November 14, 3pm
Short Films Program
CERCANOS / AROUND (Jerónimo Rodríguez, Chile, 12
min.) A car threads its way through the streets of Santiago,
Chile, carrying two laconic siblings. The two run their daily errands
as the cityscape washes over them. Understated and discreet, Cercanos
is an examination of a family in transition.
DEBAJO / UNDER (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile, 17 min.) Jaime,
who's been away from the city of his own free will, invites his family
to watch an eclipse at his house in the mountains. The first tensions
in the group, slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among
the eclipse's darkness.
LAS PELUQUERAS / THE HAIRDRESSERS (Maite Alberdi Soto, Israel
Pimentel Bustamante, Chile, 28 min.) Ana Luisa is single and
has been tending to the salon in her living room for over 60 years. She
sees a chance to reinvigorate business, but is reluctant to the idea of
bringing in customers that, in her view, are ruining her neighborhood.
LOBOS DE LA FERIA FLUVIAL / SEA WOLVES AT THE
RIVER MARKET (Ilán Stehberg, Chile, 20 min.) Three children
wander around a city and its river as if they were bound to meet each
other, but they arrive at a different time at the same river market.
DESDE LEJOS / FROM AFAR (Alejandro Fernández Almendras,
Chile, 18 min.) In the days previous to Christmas, a man travel
from the city to the countryside to spend a day with his mother.
Saturday, November 10, 5pm; Wednesday, November 14, 9pm |
Chilean Auteurs
Chile has seen the emergence of notable filmmakers such as Alejandro
Jodorowsky, Raoul Ruiz, Patricio Guzmán, and Miguel Littín,
among others. This sidebar to Cinema Chile contextualizes the work of
the younger generation of filmmakers with the longer tradition of Chilean
cinema.
FANDO Y LIS
(Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico, 1968, 96 min.)
Alejandro Jodorowsky's first feature film that caused a riot after
its screening when it premiered at the Acapulco Film Festival.
Tuesday, November 13, 9:15pm
CHILE, MEMORIA OBSTINADA / CHILE, OBSTINATE MEMORY
(Patricio Guzmán, 1997, Canada/France, 58 min.)
Years after the bloody coup of September 11, 1973 Guzmán
returns to Chile to screen his landmark film The Battle of Chile in his
homeland for the first time, and to explore the terrain of the confiscated
(but maybe reawakening) memories of the Chilean people.
Sunday, November 11, 3pm
EL CHACAL DE NAHUELTORO / THE JACKAL OF NAHUELTORO
(Miguel Littín, Chile, 1969, 88 min.)
Considered one of the key films in the history of Chilean cinema, Miguel
Littín's El Chacal de Nahueltoro is based on a true story of
a crime that shocked Chile in 1960.
Friday, November 9, 5pm
JULIO COMIENZA EN JULIO / JULIO BEGINS IN JULY
(Silvio Caiozzi, Chile, 1979, 120 min.)
Screened at Directors Fortnight at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, Silvio
Caiozzi's film is a tour de force that marked a milestone in Chilean
cinema.
Tuesday, November 13, 5pm
All films in Spanish with English subtitles |
Panel Discussion on Contemporary Chilean Cinema
Join us for a panel discussion on recent Chilean cinema, its vitality, its
successes and its challenges, with our guest filmmakers.
NEW CHILEAN CINEMA:
AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH 3 EMERGING FILM DIRECTORS
Friday, November 9, 7-9 pm
New School University
66 West 12th Street Room 510
Free and Open to the Public
http://www.cinemachile.com/
Over the past few years, Chilean cinema has gone through a
vibrant and exciting reemergence. A generation of young filmmakers venture
into uncharted territory both aesthetically and thematically trying to
find more accurate narratives that reconcile the turmoil of the country's
past with the complex and intricate nuances of the present. These novel
directors are challenging how Chile has traditionally been represented
and perceived both at home and abroad. Join us for an intimate conversation
with three of Chile's most cutting-edge, up-and-coming directors.
Sebastián Lelio (LA SAGRADA FAMILIA), María Elena Wood (LA
HIJA DEL GENERAL) and Matías Bize (EN LA CAMA) speak about the
making of their films, the state of film in Chile and the social and political
landscape for filmmakers, artists and storytellers. This panel-style event
will be moderated by NY1's film critic Jerónimo Rodríguez.
About the filmmakers:
Matías Bize was born in Santiago, Chile in 1979.
At 23, and prior to graduating from the Chilean School of Cinema, he directed
his first feature film Sábado, which premiered at the International
Competition at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival where it received
four awards, including the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Award. His second
feature, En la Cama, a Chilean-German production, premiered at the Locarno
Film Festival, and won the Espiga de Oro award at the Valladolid Film
Festival, making Bize the youngest filmmaker to receive this award. To
date, En la Cama holds more than 35 international awards from numerous
film festivals. Bize recently finished his most recent film Lo Bueno de
Llorar.
Sebastian Lelio (formerly Sebastián Campos) graduated
from Chile's Escuela de Cine and has made several digital films, including
Ciudad de Maravillas (2001), one of the stories featured in Fragmentos
Urbanos. His short films include Carga Vital (2003), and he has made documentaries
and programs for television. The Sacred Family is his first feature film.
Maria Elena Wood is a journalist from Universidad Católica
de Chile, she has worked as editor, columnist and adviser in content development
for diverse communication media. She has lead programming projects for
major Chilean television broadcasters and pay TV channels. The numerous
challenges she has taken on include implementation of the Research and
Development department of Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN, 2001
-2003), executive production of the documentary series Our Century (1999),
and executive co-production of the feature film El Último Grumete
de la Baquedano (1982). In 2006 she directed the documentary feature film
La Hija del General (The General's Daughter) on Michelle Bachele's
journey to the presidency of Chile.
Moderator:
Jerónimo Rodríguez Naranjo was born in
Santiago, Chile. Jerónimo moved to the U.S. after graduating from
law school. He works as host/critic on the film review television program,
Take One, on NY1 in New York City, and contributes as a film columnist
for various publications, like People Magazine and Capital Magazine. |
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