Local Heroes Short Films
Saturday, October 5th - 5:00 pm
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Presenting the works of contemporary Latino-Canadian filmmakers , this is a program that epitomizes aluCine’s vision. From cinema vérité to experimental works, animation and performance, these are clear examples of the diversity of formal approaches to cinema and narrative by members of our community.
Estelas
Milena Salazar
2019 - Costa Rica - Canada - 20’ - Documental
José and Nora, an aging couple coping with Alzheimer’s, spend their afternoons tracing the routes of planes that take off and land in a nearby airport. After 60 years of marriage, their lives have settled into a gentle routine in their apartment in San José, Costa Rica. Together they read the paper, water their plants and look through old photographs. In these quotidian moments, glimpses of their past occasionally surface as planes fade into the distance.
La Bala de Sandoval
Jean-Jacques Martinod
2019 - Canada - 20’ - Documental
A near-death experience can be a Rorschach test for how much weight we place on coincidence. Two such incidents would make anyone consider the existence of fate. Jean-Jacques Martinod’s camera finds quiet contemplation in a tropical rainforest in Ecuador, while we hear death-defying Isidro Varga (and his brother) recollect the times when a bullet and a broken bottle nearly ended his life. The tone of Martinod's film hovers between carefree nonchalance and pensive caution: as if to say that chance and destiny are unexpected neighbours.
Venezuela In My Veins
Gricel Severino
2019 - Canada - 5 - Experimental
From the diaspora how we feel for Venezuela. Video dance for the camera.
Give Me More
Cassandra Martinez
2019 - Canada - 3’ - Experimental
A very queer short film
Belive me
Roberto Cantu
2018 - Canada/Mexico - 4’ - Experimental
In the midst of a revolution, where do LGTBQ people fit?
A doc essay about the struggles of queer people during the Mexican revolution.
