Latin Canadian New Works I
Saturday, November 7th - 6:00 pm EST
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This program will be available to view for one week (November 7th, 6:00 PM - November 14th, 5:00 PM).
Duration: 1 hour 39 mins
Get Tickets | Price: $10 CAD
*ALL FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES*
Regular screenings are restricted to those 18 years of age or older according to the Ontario Theatres Act.
Note: This screening is only available in Canada.
Short films have the capacity to tell vibrant, groundbreaking stories within a brief span of time. Often bringing out immense creativity and highlighting unique voices, these films can share new, innovative perspectives.
The first installment of our “Latin Canadian New Works” series, this program features recent short films from Latino-Canadian filmmakers. Showcasing stories that take place both within Canada and abroad, these pieces are thought-provoking and insightful. The films in this program are documentary and experimental pieces with meaningful themes and subjects, works that will inspire and inform.
Dive into short-form cinema and experience outstanding artistry with these seven short films.
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My Gentrification
Marcos Arriaga
2020 - Canada - 29 mins - Documentary
World Premiere
My Gentrification is a documentary film consisting of two independent sections that explore the filmmaker’s experiences and observations about housing, urban living and the rapidly changing landscape of Toronto. These ideas are presented using personal film footage on Super-8 or 16mm and interviews with local residents which Arriaga has been collecting since late 1990.
Vaivén
Nisha Platzer
2020 - Canada/Cuba - 14 mins - Experimental Documentary
Toronto Premiere
Every day, 18 year old Nori walks to the Bauta station to listen, watch, and feel the vibrations of the passing trains. His playful imagination leads us through the space as we witness his obsession and his sensory experience of arrival and departure. A glimpse of adolescence in the Cuban countryside.
Aquí y Allá / Here and There
Lina Rodriguez
2019 - Canada/Colombia - 22 mins - Experimental Documentary
A poetic reflection on family as an emotional system that operates across generations, Aquí y Allá focuses on the passing of time, the possibilities of remembering and the construction of space as an ongoing historical and subjective process.
Topos ou la roue et l’escargot
Vivian Gottheim
2018 - Canada - 2 mins - Animation/Experimental
Toronto Premiere
The forced sharing of a territory between an artifact and a natural element engenders a multitude of actions and feelings.
Rhythms of Mother Earth
Karina Arbelaez
2019 - Canada - 2 mins - Experimental
Toronto Premiere
An experimental short film that merges documentary nature footage from Prelinger archives with video performances exploring the issue of exile. This combination creates a dreamlike atmosphere that is inspired by the loss of connection to the earth, bodies without roots and ignored rhythms.
Exits and Entries
Alexandra Gelis
2020 - Canada - 11 mins - Experimental
Toronto Premiere
Entries are Exit points to more complex Entries. Exits and Entries is a visual exploration, an assemblage of forces. The doings and undoings of my mother: a warrior.
This film is part of a large project “Doing and Undoing: Poems from within,” a series of art interventions created during my mother’s cancer healing process.
A su propio ritmo / At Its Own Rhythm
Jorge Ayala-Isaza (Click here to visit the filmmaker’s website)
2018 - Canada/Cuba - 20 mins - Documentary
A su propio ritmo (At Its Own Rhythm) is a documentary film that reinterprets the audiovisual legacy of the Cuban Revolution, as seen through the lens of the Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano (ICAIC Latin American Newsreel).
Emerging in the 1960s as newsreels all over the world were being replaced by television as the main visual source of news, a Cuban group of filmmakers and technicians under the direction of Santiago Álvarez reinvented the format. Produced under difficult conditions and with a sense of urgency, the Noticiero documented the revolutionary struggles of Cuba and other ‘Third World’ nations, while serving as de-facto film school in Cuba. Its original negatives were incorporated into UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register in 2009 and were restored and digitized at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) in France.
A su propio ritmo serves as a reminder of the powerful imagery created by ICAIC, and the role Cuba played in reshaping the iconography of the revolutionary movements of the 20th century.
