In the official selection, the most important, there are up to four films are co-productions with countries in Latin America: “The apostate” by Federico Veiroj; “The King of Havana” Agusti Villaronga; “Eva does not sleep” by Pablo Aguero, and “Truman” by Cesc Gay.
In addition, Latin Horizons section entirely dedicated to Latin American cinema and hallmark of the contest , kicks off in style with “The club” by Pablo Larrain, Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.
The Chilean director who was nominated for an Oscar with “No” returns to delve into the wounds of the past in this film that exposes the misery of the Catholic hierarchy through the stories of four retired priests living under surveillance and to purge their sins.
Chilean representation is completed with “pearl button” screenplay award at the Berlinale, with Patricio Guzman continues its journey through the geography of the country, marked by the Pinochet dictatorship; and the documentary “Allende, my grandfather Allende,” Marcia Tambuttio.
With little time to have absorbed the Golden Lion at Venice will come Venezuelan Lorenzo beams with his debut “From there, “an intimate story with social background, supported by two Mexican Guillermo Arriaga in the script and in the production, Michel Franco.
Franco also compete in Horizontes Latinos as director “Chronic”, a film about the pain, illness and death, starring Tim Roth and won the award for Best Screenplay at Cannes.
And the British actor does double because on the other hand leads the cast of “600 miles” a “thriller” by Gabriel Ripstein, which debuts in the direction-on arms trafficking in Mexico.
From Argentina emphasizes “Paulina”, a film by Santiago Mitre distinguished in the Critics’ Week in Cannes, which tests the limits of idealism through the story of a brilliant lawyer who decides to park his career to be a rural teacher.
It is clear that this year’s Horizontes Latinos section competes in splendor with pearls-the traditionally dedicated to films awarded at other major festivals Europeans, but that does not mean that the organizers of the event have renounced their traditional discoverer vocation of transatlantic talent.
dedicated to the industry sections such as Coproduction Forum Europe and Latin America, which held its third edition, or Films in Progress, already It is on the twenty-eighth, still betting on light new projects and proof of its success has names.
This is the case of Colombia “Land and shadow” Caesar Augusto Acevedo, who was born in the Forum and this year competing in Horizontes Latinos after having taken the prize for best debut in Cannes.
O “The Chosen” by Mexican David Pablos, another project of the Forum, which deals with child prostitution, premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes and will land in competition this year at the event.
Among the films in competition which themselves are premiere highlights the Peruvian “Magallanes”, debut of Solar Salvador selected on project last year in Films in Progress.
This is the story of the encounter between a taxi driver and an old peasant, evoking the war against Shining Path and has in the deal with the Mexican Damian Alcazar, Argentine Federico Luppi and Peruvian Christian Meier and Magaly Solier.
The echoes of the Amazon and its struggle for survival come with “The embrace of the snake”, the Colombian Ciro Guerra; Carlos M. Quintela show an unfamiliar and bitter Cuba in “The work of the century” and Jayro Bustamante puts the focus on arranged marriages in “Ixcanul”.
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