ciclo de cine: edición cuarentena

STREAMING: free at aflamuna.online until May 6th  Arabic w/ subt. in English July 2006. A war breaks out in Lebanon. A new war, but not just one more war. A war that crushes the hopes of peace and the momentum of our generation. We no longer know what to write, what stories to recount, what images to show. We ask ourselves: “What can cinema do?” That question, we decide to translate it into reality. We go to Beirut with an “icon”, an actress who, to us, symbolizes cinema, Catherine Deneuve. She will meet our preferred actor, Rabih Mroué. Together, they will drive through the regions devastated by the conflict. Through their presence, their meeting, we hope to find the beauty which our eyes no longer perceive. It is the beginning of an unpredictable, unexpected adventure...

LINK TO VIEWING: vimeo. doblado en castellano (gratis) vimeo. w/ subtitles in English (small fee) Promises  is a 2001  documentary film  that examines the  Israeli–Palestinian conflict  from the perspectives of seven children living in the Palestinian communities in the  West Bank  and Israeli neighborhoods of  Jerusalem .  Promises  has been shown at many film festivals and received excellent reviews and many accolades. The film follows Israeli-American filmmaker  B.Z. Goldberg  as he meets with seven Palestinian and Israeli children between the ages of nine and thirteen, seeing the Middle East conflict through their eyes. It allows "ordinary" kids to develop natural bonds of affection by simply playing games with each other - bonds which go beyond the clutter of  prejudices  that they have heard from their parents and others around them.

ENLACE AL STREAMING: caducado * disponible en Filmin.es En Castellano "Informe General II" trata la dimensión política, económica, social y ecológica de la crisis desde la perspectiva de las redes y de la cultura. Portabella propone la segunda parte de uno de sus títulos históricos, el “Informe general sobre algunas cuestiones de interés para una proyección pública”, que en 1976 se asomaba al inicio del proceso de transición política tras la muerte de Franco. Este segundo “informe” se realiza en el marco de una grave crisis sistémica, de orden cultural, económico-financiero, político y energético. Pero sobre todo constata cómo surge de la crisis un nuevo protagonismo ciudadano, que consiste ni más ni menos que en una recuperación de la política por la gente común.

ENLACE AL STREAMING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkFAjEVk0yA En castellano

ENLACE AL STREAMING: caducado * disponible en  https://www.cinematropical.com/everything-else EVERYTHING ELSE / TODO LO DEMÁS A film by Natalia Almada (Mexico, 2016, 72 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) Selected as one of the best films of the year (Amy Taubin,  Artforum ), and winner of the Golden Gate Award for Best Film at the San Francisco Film Festival,  Everything Else  stars Academy Award–nominated actress Adriana Barraza ( Amores Perros ,  Babel ) as Doña Flor, a 63-year-old bureaucrat living in Mexico City. Natalia Almada's debut fiction film explores the interior life of Doña Flor as she awakens from her bureaucratic malaise and yearns to become visible again. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s idea that bureaucratic dehumanization is a brutal form of violence, the story ultimately becomes a mesmerizing contemplation on solitude. A beautiful film! Highly recommended as an exercise in empathy and the poetics of minimalist cinema. Yet, t...

LINK TO STREAMING (Good all month!):  https://www.cinematropical.com/cinema-tropical/daily-recommendation-a-man-maked-for-death-twenty-years-later * Portuguese, with subtitles in English. " Named the best Brazilian documentary of all-time by the Brazilian Association of Film Critics, Eduardo Coutinho's  Twenty Years Later  is a landmark of Latin American cinema, and hailed as one of the greatest metadocumentaries ever made. “In 1964, Eduardo Coutinho was at work on a film about João Pedro Teixeira, who was murdered by the police as a result of his efforts to organize farm workers in northeast Brazil. The director cast non-actors in the production, including Teixeira’s widow, who plays herself, but shooting was cut short in the wake of the military coup that same year; footage was seized, a number of participants imprisoned. The project was resumed 20 years later, as the country was transitioning to a democracy, but had begun to take a rather different shape: Coutinh...