Interesting fact: did you know that in the 1970s, Argentina was ruled under a dictatorship? During this time, the country was ruled by an oppressor military government, and many dissidents were tortured, killed, kidnapped and disappeared. This condemned many families to live with fake identities in order to preserve their lives. Film Movement’s December club film, Clandestine Childhood, which tells the story of a family’s struggle during this political time, has been selected by Argentina to represent the country in the category of Best Foreign Film at the 2013 Oscars.
Born in Rio de Janeiro in November 1979. She graduated from the Rio de Janeiro University in graphic design and at the Darcy Ribeiro Film School as a screenwriter. Julia Murat has made short-films, experimental videos, commercials and video-installations. DIA DOS PAIS her feature length documentary film premiered at Cinéma du Reel in 2008. She also has a long time experience working as an editor, assistant director, and camera assistant. HISTORIAS QUE SO EXISTEM QUANDO LEMBRADAS is her first feature length fiction film
Directed and written by Julia Murat with Sonia Guedes, Lisa Favero, Luiz Serra, Ricardo Merkin.
Synopsis:In Brazil’s Paraiba Valley, dotted with abandoned estates, ghost towns and vestiges of a short-lived coffee boom, lies the fictitious village of Jotuomba. Here, in a town that has been forgotten by the rest of the world, life rolls on at a languid pace for its elderly inhabitants. When young photographer Rita finds the town by following the unused railroad tracks, her presence, and her questioning of the locked cemetery gates, reveals the secret to Jotuomba’s mystery.
Synopsis This true story of the infamous Bastøy Boys Home correctional facility in Norway, begins with the arrival of seventeen-year-old Erling, a rumored murderer. He immediately clashes with the island facility’s governor (Stellan Skarsgård), who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment are the only methods that can turn the boys into honorable members of society. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling slowly rouses the rest of the boys out of their resigned existence, and encourages them to fight to lift up their spirits. When tragedy finally falls at the hand of the sadistic dorm master, Erling leads his comrades in a courageous and vicious rebellion that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
“Stellan Skarsgård is terrifying!” - indieWIRE
“This classically lensed tale about the misuse of power offers sweeping panoramas (and) stunning snowy landscapes” - Alyssa Simon, Variety
We’re proud to announce one of our two newest film acquisition :
AMADOR
A film by FERNANDO LEON DE ARANOA
“Well crafted and thoughtful. Successfully (…) blending black comedy, lyricism and social critique.”
–Jonathan Holland, Variety
SYNOPSIS
Marcela, a young immigrant with financial troubles, finds a summer job looking after Amador, a bed-ridden elderly man whose family is away. She thinks her problems are solved, but Amador dies shortly thereafter, putting Marcela in a predicament. His death leaves her jobless, something she can’t afford to let happen…
Faced with a difficult moral dilemma, Marcela will prove that death can’t always stop life.
We’re proud to announce one of our two newest film acquisition :
Free Men
A film by ISMAEL FERROUKHI
SYNOPSIS
1942, in German-occupied Paris. Younes, a young unemployed Algerian, earns his living as a black marketeer. Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspects the Mosque authorities, among which its rector Ben Ghabrit (played by Michael Lonsdale), of aiding Muslim Resistance agents, as well as helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates. At the Mosque, Younes meets the Algerian singer Salim Halali, and is moved by Salim’s beautiful voice and strong personality. A deep friendship develops, and soon after Younes discovers that Salim is Jewish. In spite of the risks it entails, Younes stops collaborating with the police, and gradually develops from being a politically ignorant immigrant worker into a fully-fledged freedom fighter.
Synopsis Young Manuel lives with his hard-working farmer parents in the remote, mountainous region of the Colombian countryside. While the adults in their lives try to avoid both the armed military and the guerrilla rebels fighting each other in the area, Manuel and his friend Julián are obsessed with playing soccer any chance they get. Shortly after his birthday, the new ball Manuel received as a gift gets kicked off to a minefield, and he, Julián and their albino friend Poca Luz will do everything in their power to recover their prized belonging—an essential part of their everyday lives and dreams.
Graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and one of the Sixth Generation directors. In 1993, he wrote and directed The Days, which garnered praise from Western film critics but was blacklisted by the China Film Bureau, along with the director himself. He submitted his next film, Frozen to various international film festivals under the name “Wu Min” (Anonymous). Other films include So Close to Paradise (1998), The House (1999) and Bicycling Beijing (2001). This last film won the Best Silver Bear and the Best Young Actor Awards at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival.
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