Latin Shorts
Combined programme
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IFFR 2009
An unusual mix of moving folk tales from Mexico and Chile, but also from the lesser-known film nations Paraguay and Bolivia.
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El hombre muerto
Magic-realistic black-and-white short about a plantation worker who falls on his own knife and hallucinates. Strange mood sketch of loneliness and voi -
Entrevista con la tierra
Short gripping documentary about how people in a Mexican Indian village cope with death. -
Corredores de verano
Original short film without words about three adolescents who roam the streets at night and hang around together. How far does the friendship go? -
Chi si ferma é perduto
Beautiful mystical film with an alienating effect about a shoeshine who goes looking for his chopped off foot in the mountains of Bolivia. -
I Hear Your Scream
Observing short film from Paraguay in which a procession in twilight is shown as a shadow play against the dusk. Powerful in its simplicity.