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September 1
MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE
Dir.: Rodrigo & Ariel Dorfman / USA / 1997 / 18'
Based on Ariel Dorfman poem and story about two children who play "waiting for the enemy" under the shadow of a dictatorship.
PEQUEÑA HABANA
Dir.: Rolando Pardo / CUBA / 2007 / 70'
Twelve Cuban’s with dwarfism talk to the camera about sex, love, work and dignity, comprising a realistic and revealing portrait of the city of Havana.
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September 8
LA SOLEDAD
Dir.: Maxilmiliano González / ARGENTINA / 2007 / 90’
Cast: Miguel Franchi, Enrique Liporace, Florencia Vallejos, Maribel Aquino
Miguel, abandoned by his wife, travels to the small town where they once met and where his best friends live. At night, he hears moans of pain in the house next door and finds Lucy about to give birth to her child. Soledad is born with health problems. The only chance for her is to get an operation in another city.
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September 15
GUAIKURU ÑEMONDE
Dir.: Miguel Aguero / PARAGUAY / 2007 / 16'
A traditional festivity in honor to San Francisco Solano, that combines Christian faith, African folklore and Native Latin American roots. In Spanish.
NERUDA FUGITIVO
Dir.: Hugo Arévalo / CHILE / 2003 / 78'
Covering the thirteen months of clandestinity of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. The story is told by those who were in the locations where the facts happened.
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September 22
ME ARTE EN LA PARED
Dir.: Jorge Dalton / EL SALVADOR / 2003 / 11'
A tour of the Havana and San Salvador, sites that roams the work of the painter Cuban Salvadorian Gustavo Echeverria. In Spanish.
UM CEU DE ESTRELAS
Dir.: Tata Amaral / BRAZIL / 1996 / 70'
Cast: Alleyona Cavali, Paulo Vespucio García, Lígia Cortez
Dalva, a young working-class girl wins a trip to Miami in a hairdressing competition and tries to figure out how to tell her old-fashioned mom that she's finally leaving the nest.
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September 29
MUJERES DE LA TIERRA
Dir.: Jorge Cajar / PANAMA / 2007 / 15'
A video about a project that has improved the quality of life of thirteen women and their family of San José, Panama. In Spanish.
LA PACIENTE
Dir.: Mendel Samayoa / GUATEMALA / 2007 / 24'
A sordid story about Ramael life, which doesn’t want to live and -even worse- wets the bed.
GRACIAS A DIOS Y LA REVOLUCION
Dir.: Wolf Tirado - Jackie Reiter / NICARAGUA / 1981 / 50'
Shows the participation of Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution, before and after the triumph and union of Christians and Marxists in the Liberation fight.
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October 6
JOYA
Dir.: Gabriel Bossio / URUGUAY / 2007 / 97'
Cast: Jenny Goldstein, Moré, Alberto Rivero, Carlos Nípoli, Agustín Marichal.
A couple in their thirties moves on to a seaside in the desert coast because they don't have a job. They don't pay their rent due to the fact that a relative lends them the house and this is a beginning to resolve some problems. But during this wintry period, something will rise and change their relationship forever.
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October 13
uRANIO 238
Dir.: Pablo Ortega / COSTA RICA / 2009 / 28'
Shows the main risks about the soldiers' and the citizens' health in regards of the metal known as Depleted Uranium; it is used for nuclear weapon manufacturing.
MAESTRO ISSA
Dir.: Frantz Voltaire / HAITI-CANADA / 2009 / 54'
Describes the exceptional Maestro Issa carrier that was born in Petit-Goåve. During 1940's, he is going to cause a musical revolution in Haiti. Throughout his stay in the United States, he had experienced the jazz and Latin-jazz music influence that come from Cuba.
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October 20
PLAN B
Dir.: Alejandro García Wiedemann / VENEZUELA / 2006 / 80'
Cast: Fabiola Colmenares, Edgar Ramírez, Rafael Romero, Javier Paredes.
Susana wants to leave the country with her fiance, Felipe. Thomas and Gustavo plan an assault to get the happiness life doesn't give them. The Cerro Avila that surrounds Caracas, will be the scenery in which plans and destinies will change their course.
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October 27
ACCIDENTALLY SPRAYED
Dir.: Gonzalo Escobar / COLOMBIA-USA. / 2008 / 26'
A US aerial fumigation of coca crops in Colombia is canalized through the eyes of an immigrant artist and the people they met in a trip to the southern region of this country.
MIRRORS OF THE SOUL
Dir.: Tonatiuh Ramírez / MEXICO / 2006 / 56'
Is the mask a way of balance, a truth search or a lie that appears in the person who wears it or who looks at it? To wear a mask becomes in a necessity of changing a face, but also in the desire of having another one.
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November 3
UNA SOMBRA AL FRENTE
Dir.: Augusto Tamayo / PERU / 2007 / 135'
Cast: Diego Bertie, Vanessa Saba, Milena Alva, Nidia Bermejo.
Tells a story of a young engineer, committed in the construction of means of communication at the beginning of the twentieth century in Peru. After facing a devastating war at the end of the last century, the Peruvian Republic has begun a progress to far-off regions in an attempt to integrate the huge Amazonia to the rest of the country.
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November 10
LA SEPARACION
Dir.: Samanta Yépez / ECUADOR / 2005 / 52'
In 1999, Ecuador went through a deep economic crisis that produced a massive immigration to Spain. The video explores the experience of the obliged exile and rootless. In Spanish.
SHOPPING TO BELONG
Dir.: Irene Sosa / USA / 2007 / 30'’
The relationship between consumerism and the sense of belonging and citizenship in the Latino community in United States. It aims to explore the hypothesis that immigrants use shopping as a way to feel part of this country.
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November 17
I'M BOLIVIA
Dir.: Anche Kalashnikova / BOLIVIA / 2007 / 88’
Cast: José Miguel Lijerón, Georgina Quiroga, Friedrich Henners.
In Santa Cruz, four middle class guys get involved in the eight years old girl kidnapping… Will they report what’s happening? Or, will they try to get advantage of this situation? Four frustrated dreams will look for an opportunity in an uncertain future. In Spanish.
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November 24
LA ENEMIGA
Dir.: Francisco A. Rodríguez / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / 2006 / 4'
Short film that tells the story of a child who lost the attention of his sister, by a simple and wrist of plastic. In Spanish.
BAQUINE PARA UN MAESTRO
Dir.: Kino García / PUERTO RICO / 1985 / 20'
Shows the funeral of Rafael Cortijo, one of the maximum exponents of the Puerto Rican music. In Spanish.
THE BLACK MOZART iN CUBA
Dir.: Steve and Stéphanie James / GUADELOUPE / 2006 / 53’
Born in Guadeloupe in the 18th century, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges became one of Europe's best musicians. Over two hundred years later, Cuba welcomed the "Black Mozart" as "one of the great heroes of the Caribbean”.
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