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In this episode, we discuss the representation of bodies and sexuality in cinema.Gustavo Vinagre is a Brazilian director who, in 15 years of career, has directed more than twenty shorts and feature films with very different styles.He is one of the most important contemporary exponents of Brazil's Lgbtqi+ cinema. Through both fiction and documentary projects, he has portrayed queer characters who fight against the stigmatization of HIV, as well as the challenges faced by trans people and the Lgbtqi+ community. In 2023, his sixth feature film, Tres Tigres Tristes, won the Berlinale Teddy Award for Best Feature Film. His films have been showcased at festivals such as Rotterdam, IDFA, and Cinéma du Réel.Anahí Berneri is an Argentine director with twenty years of experience in film and television. Her debut feature, Un año sin amor, premiered in 2005 at the Berlinale Panorama, where it won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film.

Frameline has announced the line-up for the 48th San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, otherwise known as Frameline48, which runs June 19-29.

Among the event’s 120 screenings are 16 world premieres, five North American premieres, three international premieres and eight US premieres.

Opening night events include a screening of music documentary Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero. Alessandra Lacorazza’s debut feature, In the Summers, which was awarded Frameline’s Completion Fund Grant before going on the win the Grand Jury Prize US Dramatic at this year’s Sundance, will screen on the festival’s second night.

World premieres will include Daniel Ribeiro’s Perfect Endings,...

The 48th edition of the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival will honor Spanish actress Nathalie Poza with a City of Huelva Award, an acknowledgment whose previous recipients included filmmaker Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba (“Belle Epoque”) and actors Dario Grandinetti, Eduard Fernández and Edward James Olmos.

Running Nov. 11-18, Huelva 2022 will also homage young thesp Greta Fernández, a best actress winner at San Sebastian for Belén Funes’ “A Thief’s Daughter,” and Andalusian writer-director Juan Miguel del Castillo (“Food and Shelter”) with two Light Awards.

Meanwhile, Seville-born director Santi Amodeo will receive a Rtva Award for best Andalusian filmmaker.

Launched 48 years ago, Huelva represents Europe’s oldest confab dedicated exclusively to movies from Ibero-America: Spain, Latin America and Portugal, and a traditional launchpad for Latino filmmakers in Spain and Europe.

Over the years other festivals have been adding parallel sections of Latin American cinema, a symptom of its growing international relevance.

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Forum adds 10 more titles; Classics includes Godard, Pasolini, Russell.

New films from Jonathan Perel and Max Linz are among 17 new titles added to the Forum section at the 2022 Berlinale; while the Classics section has programmed seven digitally restored titles ahead of next month’s festival.

Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel will participate with the world premiere of documentary Camouflage, about a writer who embodies a man with an obsession with Argentina’s biggest military unit.

Perel’s previous films include Berlinale 2020 title Corporate Responsibility.

German director Linz is in the festival with the world premiere of his new film L’Etat Et Moi,...

Competition

“All the Dead Ones”

Caetano Godardo, Marco Dutra

Following up on their Locarno-prized “Good Manners,” genre auteur Dutra and Gotardo deliver a lushly turned-out family drama that converts ghostliness into political metaphor, conflating 1899 Sao Paulo with its high-rise present, asking if the uneasy relationship between Brazil’s white elite and black majority has essentially changed.

Sales: Indie Sales

Encounters

“Los Conductos”

Camilo Restrepo

Pinky, on the run from a sect, takes to squatting, making T-shirts for a living, taking drugs and spinning images of the Apocalypse, damnation, revenge. A spectral, crazed allegory of Colombian post-civil conflict reinsertion that won Mar del Plata’s 2019 Works in Progress.

Sales: Best Friend Forever

Panorama

“A Common Crime”

Francisco Márquez

Set in class-riven Argentina and packing, reportedly, a great finale and commanding performance from lead Elisa Carricajo as an Argentine university teacher who fails to help her maid’s son, with literally haunting consequences.

The strand’s 50th anniversary to open with a previously unfinished film by late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz.

The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 20-March 1) has revealed the 35 films in this year’s Forum line-up, including 28 world premieres.

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The strand aims to highlight challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.

This year’s Forum will open with The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror from late Chilean director Raúl Ruiz and his widow Valeria Sarmiento.

Ruiz – a four-time Palme d’Or nominee who won...

Photo courtesy of Pablo Ocqueteau and Berlinale 2019Below you will find our favorite films of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.AwardsFAVORITE Filmsdaniel KASMANHeimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (Frank Beauvais)Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow)Delphine and Carole (Callisto McNulty)Holy Beasts Years of Construction (Heinz Emigholz)Bait (Mark Jenkins)Giovanni Marchini CAMIASynonyms (Nadav Lapid)I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow)Just Don't Think I'll Scream (Frank Beauvais)The Blue Flower of Novalis (Gustavo Vinagre & Rodrigo Carneiro)The Portuguese Woman (Rita Azevedo Gomes)The Last to See Them (Sara Summa)Earth (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)Ms Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell)Jordan Cronki Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec...

The Blue Flower of Novalis

Gustavo Vinagre, Rodrigo Carneiro

The 40-year-old, unabashedly HIV-positive Marcelo (Vinagre) recounts his revealing “biography” — from his sexual adventures to his fears and frustrations — and recites German romantic writer Novalis’ “Heinrich von Ofterdingen.”

Brief Story From the Green Planet

Santiago Loza

A buddy movie with an alien, Argentine Loza’s 10th feature takes a look at three outsiders — trans Tani; Pedro, a voguing dancer; and Daniela, depressed after a break-up — tasked with returning an alien, a friend of Tani’s grandma, back to its planet. A low-fi road movie about friendship.

Divine Love

Gabriel Mascaro

Set in 2027 in a Brazil swept by evangelicism, immersed in disco hymns, drive-in confessionals and pregnancy detectors, a deeply religious divorced notary attempts to reconcile her faith, her job and her inability to conceive. Well received at Sundance. Sales: Memento Films Intl.

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Selection includes 39 titles and 31 world premieres.

This year’s Forum programme at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) will feature 39 films, including 31 world premieres.

The Forum brings together challenging and thought-provoking filmmaking that brings together film with visual art, theatre and literature.

Highlights include a Super 8 silent vision of Elfriede Jelinek’s ghost novel ’Die Kinder der Toten’ in a film of the same name by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, Ghassan Salhab’s “essayistic collage” An Open Rose for which the filmmaker has used the letters from prison by Polish Marxist Rosa Luxembourg, and the documentary Landless, the...

It’s only been around for five years, but The Art of the Real has already established itself as one of the world’s most essential showcases for game-changing, rule-breaking, genre-busting new cinema. Dedicated to films that blur the line between fact and fiction — or reveal to us how blurred that line is and always will be — this annual Film Society of Lincoln Center series is the kind of thing that makes you want to put quotation marks around reductive terms like “documentary” and “non-fiction.” These are unclassifiable works of freeform cinematic innovation, movies that are more accurately defined by their inclusion in this program than they are by any of the words we often use to describe them.

The 2018 edition of The Art of the Real is predictably stacked with strong work, from a movie about a tennis player that reimagines how we think about sports, to a movie...

This year at the 30th Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG30), the selection of projects in the 11th Coproduction Meeting was especially strong. With a broad mix of festival and “popular” type films, the jury chose the very films I would have chosen myself.

The Market focuses on writers and only chooses those with the strongest scripts. Prizes honor the best proposals and act to connect the producers with those who will become strong future collaborators. Among 295 projects submitted, 28 were selected. The selection is intended to give a new vision to the Latin American film scene.

Five out of the six winners are projects to be directed by women. Two are Cuban. Four others are Mexican, Colombian, Argentinean. And the winners are:

1. Meet Prize: Paid trip and entry to Meets, the Latin American Film Market of the International Film Festival de Panamá includes entry into the competition for Us$95,000 in cash

Winner: “1989," Directors: Sebastián and Rodrigo Barriuso (Canada, Cuba).

A standout project, even a possible future winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Rodrigo and Sebastian Barriuso’s “ 1989" won a paid trip and entry to Meets, the Latin American Film Market of the International Film Festival de Panamá whose competition for Us$95,000 in cash will be at stake.

Based on true events, the story is set three years after the nuclear explosion in Chernobyl, when the first patients to receive medical treatment for cancer arrived in Havana Cuba. Totally unprepared, forced to leave his family to do a job he is untrained to do, he finds storytelling a salvation when a child tells him the story of Chernobyl from his child’s point of view.

This character driven story of a father, forced to become a translator for the sick children and their mothers in hospitals throughout Havana tells how he copes with the separation from his family at the very time that the Russians have withdrawn all aid, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Cuba’s economic collapse, represents the sort of films the brothers Barriuso want to make about under-represented social issues.

The two Cuban-Canadian Barriuso brothers reside in Canada, a great place for coproductions as it has the most coproduction treaties in the world. They look like twins but are three years apart as are the two little boys (one year old and four years old) in their projected film whose father is suddenly torn from his academic post as a professor of Russian literature and told by the Cuban government to work nightshifts in the cancer ward of the victims of the Chernobyl (Ukraine) accident (which will be commemorating the 30th anniversary in 2016).

Rodrigo is art-oriented, curating a show of Cuban artists in Toronto while his brother is business-educated. Their work has premiered and screened at prestigious festivals like Berlinale, Tiff, Miami, Slamdance and Marrakesh. Their work has a strong social and existential appeal and is strongly influence by the art world. This project was developed at Norman Jewison’s Canadian Center and then at the Tiff Studio, programmed by Hayet Benkara. It has already received a quarter of the budget in funds and the brothers are beginning to speak with international sales agents.

2. Churubusco Prize (Mexico’s oldest studio, Churbusco gives Us$100,000 in post-production services.

Winner: “Restos de Viento” (“Wind Traces”), Director: Jimena Montemayor (México). ♀

A family tries to recover after the sudden death of the father. The mother, a victim of depression, is incapable of accepting the loss and tells her children that their father will return. For her seven-year-old son this means a cadaver will return to fulfill the role of his father. The eleven year old daughter experiences a profound rejection of adult life. The two children accompany each other as they try to understand and process what death has brought into their lives.

“Wind Traces” explores the collision of two worlds through death. A child and an adult’s perspective on death shape the portrait of a family that is recovering after a loss.

"Wind Traces" is a coproduction between Mexican production companies Varios Lobos Producciones, with 14% of investment, and Conejo Media with 6%. So far it is a 100% Mexican film, but the filmmakers are looking to find a coproduction partner from other countries, especially from Latin America.

In early 2014, development stage began between the two production houses. In July 2014 the project participated in the International Pitching Market of the Guanajuato International Film Festival where it won the Lci Award, which covers the film insurance of the movie.

The filmmakers are seeking other funds and workshops that allow them to continue developing the project and refine the script. Among those they will apply to are the BaqLab, at the Barranquilla Film Festival and Meets at the Panama Film Festival.

The final funding will be through the Fiscal Stimulus Eficine 189.

Director Jimena Montemayor says that, “with ‘Wind Traces’ I would like to explore the stages of grief as well as the thoughts on a loss that will not go away because it leaves us with an emptiness that in time we learn to inhabit, both physically and emotionally.

I am interested in narrating this process from the child’s perspective. We were all children once, but we tend to forget as we grow older that the world can be an incomprehensible place when we try to communicate with it. Maybe that’s why we are unaware of how children deal with loss.

Their resilience and their ability to overcome adverse situations during childhood [includes] Death as something that they take with them]. The absence of that person lingers like a shadow until you overcome the loss. That is how Daniel, the seven year old, materializes his grief, in the company of a dead man in the house; a man he fears at first but that gradually becomes a companion that finally fulfills his destiny: to part from his father.

Death is also an injection of life, an unparalleled chance to approach it with a much greater understanding and fulfillment. People will empathize and be touched by this story, and not just those who have suffered a loss.

Whoever remembers those formative years knows that there are moments where nostalgia overcomes us; we remember certain scars and despite the fact they can never be erased we will forget them little by little as we head into adulthood, leaving their importance buried in our subconscious.

In ‘Wind Traces’ each character deals with death in the same way they experience life.”

3. New Art Digital Prize (Complete postproduction for a value of Us$ 43,000)

Winner: “Estática Milagrosa” (“Static Miracle”), Directors: Noelia Lacayo ♀ and Gustavo Vinagre Alves (Cuba).

The second Cuban film to win and the second winning film to be directed by a woman deals with the “miracle” in Cuba of houses still standing, propped up by scaffolding and about to collapse while still inhabited with multiple families. Their beauty and their sad shape are analogous to the lives of many people in Cuba as well. “Static Miracle” is the official term for all buildings in danger of collapsing

This film deals with the people whose “static miracle” is that they continue their lives in the midst of imminent disintegration. Eight year old Marion has a collage of Fidel Castro on his bedroom wall but the images deteriorate with the humidity of every rainfall. Seventy-six year old Patria treis to maintina the rules of her aristocratic past, but her mansion is now a hostel for tourists. Eighteen year old Yuri prepares to shoot the video clip that will launch him into stardom but he has not left his room in two years. Twenty-nine year old Nicolas, a foreigner without visa or money, films houses in Havana that move as they resist the passage of time.

4. Equipment & Film Design Prize (Efd) (A package of 7 days of filming with a value of Us$ 23,000).

Winner: “Cuando se silencien los fusiles” (“When the Guns are Silenced”), Director: Nathalia Isabel Orozco Rojas (Colombia). ♀

This documentary will shoot in Havana and Colombia as it concerns the current ongoing negotiations of Farc, the Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia and the government of Colombia which are taking place now in Havana. After half a century of armed struggle, Farc, the oldest guerilla force in the world, is preparing to silence its weapons. This doc follows Farc’s military strategist and commander, Pablo Catatumbo, who has been part of the war for 40 years. His story and the complex relations with other commanders and rebels reveal the difficulties and challenges for the fighters in their final battle: the transition to democracy.

The Colombian filmmaker and independent news correspondent, Nathalia Isabel Orozco Rojas has won the Cpb Journalism Award 2014 for Best TV interview in 2013 and twice has won the Simon Bolivar National Journalism Award (in 2011 and 2010). Natalia has a B.A. in journalism, a Masters in political science and a Masters in international cooperation from the Sorbonne.

5. Lci Seguros Prize (Discounted Insurance of 50% up to Us$ 50 million).

Winner: “Julia Privada” (“Intimate Julia”), Directors: Karina Mirujin y Mariana Fonseca (Argentina). ♀

This Argentine fiction feature takes place in Buenos Aires in 1989. During the grave economic crisis of the time, the young woman Julia cleans and interfaces with the public for a reclusive boss. The comfort of silence between them from the first day makes her feel good although it is rather odd and mysterious. She is permitted full liberty except for entering his bedroom and writing studio. Curiosity about that makes this apartment, where she originally sought shelter and security, a possible cage.

Honorable Mention: (Support by Churubusco Studios of Equipment & Film Design, New Art Digital y Lci insurance).

Winner: “Donde se quedan las cosas” (“Where Things Remain”), Director: Daniela Silva Solórzano (México). ♀

This documentary is about Federico Solorzano, a paleontologist born in Guadalajara, Mexico. After a lifetime of collecting fossils, teaching and researching, opens the only science museum in the state of Jalisco. He shares his fossil collection, the largest in the country along with his memories through the eyes of his dranddaughter who goes through the more than 50 collections he has kept in perfect condition which creates a collective past of a city, a time period and a generation of more than 70 years.

Director Daniela Silva, born in Guadalajara, Jalisco is the granddaughter of the sculptor Federico Silva and niece of the famous cartoonist Jis. Twenty-two years of age, she has already produced “The Cloud Factory” last year and directed “Good Night, Lucy”.

The winners were selected by the following jury members:

Maru Farías (Director of New Projects at Equipment& Film Design with over 15 years working in the film industry). ♀

Javier Beltramino (Production Manager at Telefónica Studios in Argentina).

Bosco Arochi C. (Technical and Production Director at Estudios Churubusco S. A.).

Raymundo Osorio García (General Director at New Art Digital with 27 years work in publicity, television, and film in Mexico)

José Antonio Asencio (Adviser at Lci Seguros, producer, and Director of Photography of 150 documentaries, shorts, as well as 30 features).

Berlin -- The Berlin film festival's Panorama sidebar is coming back loud and proud this year with a lineup packed with films examining gender identity and the gay movement.

The 2010 Panorama opens Feb. 11 with the Russian film "Jolly Fellows," director Felix Mikhailov's look at the drag queen subculture of a Moscow club.

This year's lineup also features Cheryl Dunye's thriller "The Owls," in which aging lesbians try to get away with murder; and Jake Yuzna's "Open," a series of intertwined love stories featuring gay and trans-gendered partners.

Several of Panorama's documentary selections explores related themes -- such as Crayton Robery's "Making The Boys" about Matt Crowley's ground breaking gay play "The Boys in the Band;" "Cuchillo de Palo," Renate Costa's expose of persecution of homosexuals during the Paraguayan dictatorship and the German doc "Rock Hudson – Dark and Handsome Stranger" from directors Andrew Davies and Andre Schaefer.