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Spanish with English subtitles Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay |
Granville 7 Cinemas (GR 7) 855 Granville Street (at Robson) Pacific Cinémathèque (PC) 1131 Howe Street (at Helmcken) SFU Downtown Campus Harbour Centre (SFU-HC) 515 West Hastings (at Richards) SFU Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (SFUW) Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, 3rd Floor, 149 West Hastings Street (enter from the courtyard at the corner of Cambie and Cordova) |
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Asepsia • Gustavo Vinagre (Brazil/Cuba) Balanços e milkshakes • Fernando Mendes, Erick Ricco (Brazil) Cincuenta • Manuela Montoya (Colombia/Cuba) En aguas quietas • Astrid Rondero (Mexico) La ducha • María José San Martín (Chile) Lápis de cor • Alice Gomes (Brazil) Los Teleféricos • Federico Actis (Argent ina) Maniobra • Ricardo Fontana (Uruguay/Cuba) Mar Blindado • Gerard Uzcátegui (Venezuela) No es mucho lo que heredamos de nuestro abuelo • Fernando Domínguez (Argent ina) Noches de tungsteno • María Torres (Mexico) Teclópolis • Javier Mrad (Argentina)
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| No es mucho lo que heredamos de nuestro abuelo (It’s not Much that We Inherited from our Grandfather) Argentina, 2010 Spanish with English subtitles/ 15 min Director: Fernando Domínguez Two brothers receive a bag with some objects as the only inheritance from their grandfather. Among those objects is a camera with undeveloped film inside. While developing it, they try to reconstruct their grandfather’s ordinary but miraculous last afternoon. Monday , SEPTEMBER 5 | 7 Pm | PC |
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Teclópolis Once upon a time old magazines gently dance in the wind, a Super-8 camera crawls over a wooden table while an old carpet waves in and out. Suddenly, a mouse. Then, a whole civilization running towards its inevitable destiny. Plastic waste has reached the point where not even the most distant beaches are safe. Sunday , SEPTEMBER 4 | 1 PM | PC |
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Lápis de cor Cláudio is a poor boy who loves to draw. His father left some years ago and Cláudio thinks that drawing a colour portrait of his father will make him come home. But Cláudio doesn’t have coloured pencils. When he finally obtains 3 coloured pencils, his mother allows him to use only one colour per day. Wednesday , SEPTEMBER 7 | 7 PM | GR7 |
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Asepsia Marta lives in a small Cuban village. Her life consists of cooking and washing her clothes in an old Russian washing machine. However, nothing is what it seems, and the arrival of a cinema crew will reveal hidden things. Friday , SEPTEMBER 2 | 3 PM | PC |
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Los teleféricos The Cable Cars is a story looking for a way out, a desired final escape. It is a story about roads that come and go but never meet, like cable cars themselves. It is the story of Lucas who decides to help his grandfather and leave a city that always has the same grey scenery. Lucas’s grandfather needs a cable car; he is finding it hard to keep climbing. Thursday , SEPTEMBER 1 | 7 PM | GR7 (Opening night) |
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Balanços e milkshakes A love experienced by two children is remembered by a narrator. Friday , SEPTEMBER 2 | 7:15 PMC | PC |
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| La ducha (The Shower) Chile, 2010 Spanish with English subtitles/ 10 min Director: María José San Martín A couple separates. Elisa got a job outside the country and Manuela, who lived with her for five years, has decided not to accompany her. Unable to say goodbye, they spend the last morning together as refugees under the shower. Saturday , SEPTEMBER 3 | 1 PM | PC |
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Cincuenta In an old house in Havana, Marina gets a divorce to celebrate her fiftieth birthday. With the hope of speaking with her daughter in exile, Marina isolates herself in her bedroom. When it gets dark she finally decides to leave the bedroom: an encounter with the present marked by the abyss between generations and echoes of a happy past. Friday , September 2 | 5 PM | PC |
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En aguas quietas Ana is running away from her hometown while Mar, an old Friday, September 2 | 3 PM | SFU-HC |
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| Noches de tungsteno (Tungsten Nights) Mexico, 2010 Spanish with English subtitles/ 10 min Director: María Torres José and Juan begin a journey to see the stars with their grandfather, Sunday , September 4 | 7 pm | SFUW |
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Maniobra Torres, a lonely rookie, is afraid to go through with tonight’s manoeuvre. The Lieutenant takes advantage of the situation and sends him to accompany Sergeant Cairo on an assignment. Torres will find that something far worse than the manoeuvre awaits. Saturday, September 3 | 3 PM | PC |
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Mar blindado The sentry box in a bank holds within its walls a man and his story. Inside that dark and reduced space, reality is washed away by the surge of time. Layer-by-layer new sensations, situations and visions are unveiled. The closer we get, the more we realize in truth how far away we are from discovering the contradictions of this man, held in the shadow of this shelter turned prison… Sunday, September 4 | 5 pm | PC |
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