Hubert Bals Fund
Overzicht van films
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Bolivia
Israel Adrian Caetano | 75' | Argentina | None
Homesickness and xenophobia in Buenos Aires. Neo-realistic and melancholy drama about an illegal Bolivian immigrant who finds a job as a chef in a gri -
El Bonaerense
Pablo Trapero | 92' | Argentina | -
Trapero’s eye for the struggles, absurdities and small joys of working class Argentinean life continues in this follow-up to his strong début Crane Wo -
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Buena Vida Delivery
Leonardo Di Cesare | 93' | Argentina | World premiere
Pinteresque social comedy is of course a parable about survival in Argentina. A young man things he finds a nice girlfriend, but ends up with… -
Buud Yam
Gaston J.M. Kaboré | 100' | Burkina Faso | -
Folk fairytale with clarity about Wend Kuuni, title hero from the most popular African film of all time, who has grown up in this sequel.… -
By the Time It Gets Dark
Anocha Suwichakornpong | 105' | Thailand | None
Powerful second feature by Anocha Suwichakornpong, who won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane History, starts with the Thammasat University massacre of 1976 in Bangkok.… -
The Call of the Oboe
Claudio Mac Dowell | 120' | Brazil | World premiere
Fairy-tale film is a parable about life and death. A fatally ill oboe-player manages to bring a dead village in the interior of Brazil back… -
La carnada
Marianne Eyde | 103' | Peru | -
A surreal portrait of a fisherwoman in Peru. Maria was washed ashore on the coast and always retained a special bond with the sea. With… -
City Paradise
Tang Danian | 90' | China | World premiere
Dasheng is a window cleaner in the city, where he has substitute parents and a girlfriend. His real parents and his wife still live in… -
Ciudad de Dios
Victor Gonzáles | 77' | Argentina | World premiere
Argentine Poetic Realism inculcated with literary listlessness of almost Russian proportions. -
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Coraje
Alberto Durant | 110' | Peru | -
Biopic by María Moyano, founder of the Women’s Federation in a slum area of Lima, Peru, who was killed in 1992 by the Sendero Luminoso.…