ciclo de cine: edición cuarentena

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...

ENLACE AL STREAMING:  https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/somos-cine/cambio-nada/5550452/ **Sí estás fuera de España, y quieres ver la película escríbame y te comparto la pantalla En Castellano TRAILER:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3qXCDkSmrI Darío y Luismi, adolescentes unidos por una fuerte amistad, empiezan a fraguar su futuro en los espacios de marginalidad que la sociedad les deja. Empujados por sus circunstancias individuales y familiares, comienzan a adentrarse en el mundo de la delincuencia y la marginación. Contenido disponible en España hasta el 7 de diciembre de 2028.

LINK TO STREAMING:  https://www.aflamuna.online/#saken  (Available until April 22) *In Arabic, subtitles in English. In the 1970's the Palestinian Revolution which was based in Lebanon, was fighting for the freedom of Palestine. In 1980 a young 18-year-old Palestinian fighter called Ibrahim Salameh left his family in Kuwait to join that revolution. Two years after joining the fighters in Lebanon, Ibrahim was shot while on duty leading to his paralysis, ending his dream of being part of the revolution.  Saken is a film about this fighter and his caretaker Walid. Walid, an Egyptian man who came to Jordan to find work, was unaware that his path would cross with Ibrahim’s, and that together they would experience one of the strongest bonds two human beings could share. Saken is a film about friendship and sacrifice, how some people’s destinies are linked and hard to be broken.

LINK TO STREAMING (until April 22nd 2020):  https://www.aflamuna.online/#a-world-not-ours * Arabic, subtitles in English A World Not Ours is an intimate, humorous, portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon. Based on a wealth of personal recordings, family archives, and historical footage, the film is a sensitive and illuminating study of belonging, friendship, and family. Filmed over more than 20 years by multiple generations of the same family, A World Not Ours is more than just a family portrait; it is an attempt to record what is being forgotten, and mark what should not be erased from collective memory.

LINK TO STREAMING:  aflamuna.online  and for PLAYTIME:  https://www.screenleap.com/365447514 * The Wall available online at aflamuna.online until 22 April. Arabic, subtitles in English. (24 mins) In Beirut suburbs, during civil war, my family and neighbors, used to hide in Mary's house, known to be the safest. It became so thanks to the salon wall that was built with reinforced concrete. 20 years after the war ended, the wall is about to fall unveiling loads of confessions and true emotions that kept neighbors close to each other in difficult times. **  Playtime  disponible en Filmin.es. Francés, subtítulos en Castellano. LINK FOR 22.30 CEST streaming uploaded at 22.20 Una película sorprendentemente moderna, irónica y magistral. Puro éxtasis visual que logra mantener la atención de un hipnotizado espectador que pasa de la carcajada a la sorpresa una y otra vez Un grupo de turistas americanas viaja por Europa. Al llegar a París se dan cuenta de que e...

ENLACE AL STREAMING:  https://www.screenleap.com/742405655 *En francés con subtítulos en castellano PELÍCULA DISPONIBLE EN FILMIN Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysxw1PmHxKY Considerada por la critica internacional como la comedia más célebre del prestigioso cineasta Jacques Tati. Una película protagonizada por el alter ego del realizador repleta de brillantez y frescura. Nominada al Oscar 1956 al Mejor Guión y a la Palma de Oro en el Festival de Cannes 1953. En un balneario de la costa atlántica, los veraneantes son incapaces de apartarse de sus rutinarias costumbres urbanas hasta que llega Monsieur Hulot al volante de su viejo cacharro y rompe la calma estival. Para gran alegría de los niños, Hulot ofrece a los huéspedes del hotel unas vacaciones inolvidables.

ENLACE AL STREAMING:  https://www.screenleap.com/362465534 *Film disponible en Filmin.es

* Film available in Filmin.es in Spain/ available on Itunes and Amazon Prime for purchase English/ subt. en Castellano. / Documental / 93mins Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKjkjntspfA Estreno en España de uno de los títulos más premiados del año centrado en la apasionante batalla entre la activista Jane Jacobs y el urbanista Robert Moses: una lucha por el futuro de NY. En 1960, el libro de Jane Jacobs 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' fue todo un hallazgo para la arquitectura por su investigación de las consecuencias que tendría la reconfiguración de las ciudades por parte de urbanistas y arquitectos modernos. Jacobs fue también una activista involucrada en muchos de los movimientos de mediados de siglo que surgieron en la ciudad de Nueva York para detener los planes draconianos de Robert Moses, un poderoso constructor con gran influencia política.

LINK TO STREAMING: https://www.screenleap.com/239896927 * Film not otherwise available online; I am streaming a personal copy Italian WITHOUT SUBTITLES! TRAILER:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrJDMOkSEYg Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! SUCH A BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL FILM!!! LINK TO FILM:  https://www.linktv.org/shows/5-broken-cameras/episodes/5-broken-cameras * Arabic with subtitles in English TRAILER:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_93nOqwmhU “5 Broken Cameras” is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker. Structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over six years of village upheaval. As the years pass in front of the camera, we witness Gibreel grow from a newborn baby into a young boy who observes the world unfolding around him with the astute powers of perception that only children possess. Bu...

PELÍCULA DISPONIBLE EN FILMIN En la madrugada del 8 de noviembre de 1930, el abogado parisino y cineasta amateur Fleury salía en busca de la luz adecuada para completar una filmación paisajística en torno al lago Le Thuit. Ese mismo día, el abogado fallece en extrañas circunstancias. "Tren de sombras" se compone de las filmaciones estivales registradas en Le Thuit (Alta Normandia) por el singular pionero del cine amateur originan una indagación poética y detectivesca entorno a la imagen cinematogràfica.

FILM AVAILABLE ON youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYnzr_wVn9s *opción de subtítulos en inglés, portugués, castellano / French with subtitles in English, Portuguese, or Spanish This film is a study of a boy growing up in France. Daniel lives with his grandmother in  Pessac  outside the city of  Bordeaux , sharing a naïve and happy childhood with his friends. After one year of secondary school, Daniel has to go to the city of  Narbonne  to live with his mother. She is a seamstress living in a small apartment with her lover José, a married Spanish farm worker. Daniel would like to continue school. However, his mother cannot afford it and sends him instead to work as an apprentice in a moped repair shop. Daniel learns about girls from observing others in the cinema, on the street, and advice from other boys in town. When he visits his grandmother next year, he returns as a much more mature boy than his old friends.

FILM AVAILABLE IN  kanopy *En francés, con subtítulos en inglés This film, set in Paris, focuses on a group of random characters who intermingle in various ways when they come into contact with a piece of 18th-century china and a 19th-century painting. These objects are possessed, if but for a brief time, by thieves, a terrorist, a police chief, a teacher, punk  musicians, prostitutes, aristocrats and many others, with each character forced to reflect on existential dilemmas before the object passes to another.

FILMS AVAILABLE AT aflamuna.online/world UNTIL 8 APRIL 2020 FACE A, FACE B (2002) In 1978, my brother Manuel who had just arrived from Cuba, wrote lyrics to a song, and synchronized them to a Russian tune. We sang it till we memorized it, recorded it, and sent it to my brother Abu Salam living in the USSR at that time. COMING FORTH BY DAY (2012) Those who have fully enjoyed their bodies cannot be submissive. And those who never have? Can they survive the slavery of solitude and impotent acceptance of what they can't change or embrace? This is the every day story of two women taking care of their sick man.

PELÍCULA DISPONIBLE EN FILMIN Damas de la aristocracia, arribistas, hombres políticos, criminales de alto vuelo, periodistas, actores, nobles decadentes, prelados, artistas e intelectuales -auténticos o supuestos- tejen la trama de relaciones inconsistentes, todos envueltos en una Babilonia desesperada que se agita en los palacios antiguos, las inmensas villas, las terrazas más hermosas de la ciudad. Todos están allí. Y no tienen el mejor aspecto. Jep Gambardella, 65 años, escritor y periodista, indolente y decepcionado, la mirada perpetuamente empapada de gin tonic, asiste a este desfile de una humanidad hueca y descompuesta, poderosa y deprimente. Una atonía moral que da vértigo. Y en segundo plano, Roma, el verano. Espléndido e indiferente. Como una diva muerta.

PELÍCULA DISPONIBLE EN FILMIN Gran Premio del Jurado en Cannes, cruce naif entre Fellini y Kusturica, una delicada fábula en torno a una familia rural que se revela como un mágico ejercicio de la creación. A caballo (más bien a camello) entre la ensoñación y la realidad, entre la lágrima y la sonrisa, entre la vida rural y el fin de la misma. Con vitalidad y calidez, la italiana Alice Rohrwacher vuelve a sus propios orígenes a través de una inusitada mirada que parte de lo primitivo para abrazar lo imaginativo y brindarnos así un sentido canto del cisne hacia la vida rural, hacia el dulce oficio agrícola que puede suponer ejercer la apicultura en familia hoy día. Fin del verano en un pueblo de la Umbría italiana. Gelsomina vive con sus padres y sus tres hermanas pequeñas en una granja destartalada en la que se dedican a la producción de miel. Las chicas crecen alejadas de todos pues su padre cree que se acerca el fin del mundo y prefiere el contacto con la naturaleza. Sin embargo...

Arabic with English Subtitles LINK TO FILM (VALID UNTIL APRIL 8th, 2020):  https://www.aflamuna.online/world Semaan is leading a quiet life on his farm in the small village Ain el-Halazoun in the Lebanese mountains. The hamlet was completely emptied and destroyed in combats during the civil war in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990. Today, many years after an official reconciliation, its inhabitants which are all from one family regularly go back to the village to cultivate their plots of land or visit their houses and always leave before sunset.