Latinoamérica—The Time and the People: Memories, Passion, Work and Life
• October 9–14 [Venue] Yamagata Citizens’ Hall (Small Hall)
In the 1960s, many legendary filmmakers emerged from Latin America in the “Third Cinema” (Tercer Cine in Spanish) movement, which explored new forms of cinema. With the rise of dictatorships, filmmakers who found it difficult to create in their homelands crossed national borders to complete their works with assistance in other countries, in an atmosphere of international solidarity. “Third Cinema” also refers to a new form of cinematic exploration that materialized in the so-called Third World (Asia, Africa and Latin America). In view of the great difficulties our society faces today, the YIDFF has programmed films from throughout Latin America that transcend national and island boundaries, not only present day works, but 1960s and ’70s explorations aiming at social reform through film, that encourage an examination of our contemporary society from the perspective of Third World resistance.
A series of Cuban films demonstrating the first signs of Third Cinema were presented at YIDFF 2011. In response to the Cuban movement, Glauber Rocha advocated Cinema Novo in Brazil. Fleeing military dictatorship and censorship, Rocha produced films, including documentaries, in places like Cuba, Chile and Portugal. Another Brazilian filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho, who passed away suddenly at the end of 2013, was also present at the beginning of this new movement in film. In Argentina, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino issued the statement “Towards a Third Cinema,” and produced the legendary The Hours of the Furnaces (1968). From the Department of Experimental Cinema at the University of Chile, Raúl Luis, Miguel Littín, and Carlos Flores and others showed a glimpse of their talents. Patricio Guzmán, whose latest work will be presented in the International Competition this year, completed his Battle of Chile (1975–78) in Cuba. In the same period, Colombian directors Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva made experimental works on the rights of indigenous people. Also in Colombia, Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina and others came to be known as “Caliwood” for starting a movement in the city of Cali that included film production, a ciné-club, and film criticism. Writer Gabriel García Márquez, for his part, contributed greatly to cinematic production in Latin America. In 1986 he co-founded the International Film and TV School (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión or EICTV) in Cuba where Argentine film director Fernando Birri, producer of many films beginning in the 1960s, served as the school’s first Director. The festival will present some 25 programs from across Latin America accompanied by talks, including works produced by EICTV. As you bathe in the dazzling heat of people’s passion toward filmmaking in Latin America, its recurrent explosions of solidarity will surely bring fresh revelations and discoveries.
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Tire Dié Dir: Fernando Birri, and the students at the Instituto de Cinematografía of the Universidad Nacional de Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina / ARGENTINA / 1960 / Spanish / B&W / 35mm / 33 min
Sensitivity (“La sensibilidad”) Dir, Script, Photography, Edition: Germán Scelso / ARGENTINA / 2012 / Spanish / Color, B&W / Blu-ray / 60 min
The Shout (“El Grito”) Dir: Leobardo López Aretche / MEXICO / 1968 / Spanish / B&W / 16mm / 101 min
Invasion Dir, Producer: Abner Benaim / PANAMA, ARGENTINA / 2014 / Spanish / Color / Blu-ray / 94 min
PROPAGANDA Dir: Christopher Murray and others / CHILE / 2014 / Spanish / Color / Blu-ray / 61 min
Insolent and Disheveled (“Descomedidos y Chascones”) Dir, Script: Carlos Flores Delpino / CHILE / 1973 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 75 min
The Tree (“El árbol”) Dir, Script: Gustavo Fontán / ARGENTINA / 2006 / Spanish / Color / 35mm / 62 min
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (“Crónica de un niño solo”) Dir: Leonardo Favio / ARGENTINA / 1965 / Spanish / B&W / 35mm / 70 min
The Hour of Furnaces (“La Hora de los Hornos”) Dir, Script: Octavio Getino, Fernando Solanas / ARGENTINA / 1968 / Spanish / B&W / 35mm / 260 min
Listen, Look (“Oiga Vea”) Dir: Luis Ospina, Carlos Mayolo / COLOMBIA / 1972 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 27 min
The Vampires of Poverty (“Agarrando pueblo”) Dir, Script, Producer: Luis Ospina, Carlos Mayolo / COLOMBIA / 1978 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 28 min
- Chilean Short Films of the 1960s and 70s
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Valparaiso (“. . . À Valparaíso”) Dir: Joris Ivens / Script: Chris Marker / CHILE, FRANCE / 1963 / Spanish, French / Color, B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 35mm) / 28 min
Child Malnutrition (“Desnutrición Infantil”) Dir, Script, Editing, Sound: Álvaro Ramírez / CHILE / 1969 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 13 min
Message from Chile (“Recado de Chile”) Dir: José Román, Diego Bonacina / CHILE / 1970 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 20 min
The Suitcase (“La Maleta”) Dir: Raúl Ruiz / CHILE / 1963 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 21 min
Por la tierra ajena Dir: Miguel Littin / CHILE / 1965 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 7 min
We Shall Overcome (“Venceremos”) Dir: Pedro Chaskel, Héctor Ríos / CHILE / 1970 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 17 min
Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future (“Nuestra Voz de Tierra, Memoria, y Futuro”) Dir: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva / COLOMBIA / 1973–81 / Spanish / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 110 min
María Sabina, Woman Spirit (“María Sabina, mujer espíritu”) Dir, Script: Nicolás Echevarría / MEXICO / 1979 / Spanish / DVD (Orginal: 16mm) / 80 min
The Battle of Chile: the Struggle of an Unarmed People Part 1, 2, 3 (“La batalla de Chile 1, 2, 3”) Dir, Producer: Patricio Guzmán / CHILE, CUBA, FRANCE / 1975–1978 / Spanish / B&W / Digibeta (Orginal: 16mm) / 263 min
Stones in the sky (“Rocha que voa”) Dir: Eryk Rocha / BRAZIL / 2002 / Portuguese, Spanish / Color / Blu-ray / 94 min
Mexico: The Frozen Revolution (“México, la revolución congelada”) Dir, Script: Raymundo Gleyzer / ARGENTINA / 1973 / Spanish / Color / Blu-ray (Original: 16mm) / 65 min
The Brickmakers (“Chircales”) Dir: Marta Rodríguez, Jorge Silva / COLOMBIA / 1972 / Spanish / B&W / Blu-ray (Original:16mm) / 42 min
Santiago Dir: João Moreira Salles / BRAZIL / 2007 / Spanish, Portugues / Blu-ray / 80 min
Toponymy (“Toponimia”) Dir: Jonathan Perel / ARGENTINA / 2015 / Spanish / Color / Blu-ray / 82 min
- Short Films from EICTV
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Open String (“Cuerda al aire”) Dir: Marcel Beltrán / CUBA / 2011 / Blu-ray / 33 min
The Big House (“La Casona”) Dir: Juliette Touin / CUBA / 2013 / Blu-ray / 24 min
ABC’s (“ABECÉ”) Dir, Photography, Editing, Producer: Diana Montero / CUBA / 2013 / Blu-ray / 15 min
The Tree (“Derakht”) Dir, Script: Roya Eshraghi / CUBA, IRAN / 2014 / Blu-ray / 14 min
The New Man (“El hombre nuevo”) Dir: Aldo Garay / URUGUAY, CHILE / 2015 / Spanish / Color / Blu-ray / 79 min
Master, A Copacabana Building (“Edifício Master”) Dir: Eduardo Coutinho / BRAZIL / 2002 / Portuguese / Color / DVCam / 110 min
- Talk Events
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- Documentary in Latin America [Admission Free]
- Panelists: Carlos Flores Delpino, Nicolás Echevarría, Julia Pesce, Marta Rodríguez, Luis Ospina, Roya Eshraghi
- Special Live Concert
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- Yamagata Special Concert by Tomi Lebrero—the next generation from Buenos Aires, Argentina
- [Date] October 12 (Mon) Start: 20:00
[Venue] FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
[Admission] Advance Tickets: 2,500 yen / Door Tickets: 3,000 yen