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27th Lima Film Festival
The 27th Lima Film Festival, organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, took place from 10–18 August 2023 in Lima, Peru. The awards were announced on 18 August 2023, with ''Tótem'' winning the Trophy Spondylus. Background On June 27, 2023, the Lima Film Festival officially announced its 27th edition under the motto "#LetsBeProtagonists" ( es, #SeamosProtagonistas). The festival took place from August 10 to 18, 2023, featuring both in-person and virtual screenings. Organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and presented by the BBVA Foundation in Peru, the Ministry of Culture of Peru, the Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú, and in collaboration with PromPerú, the complete programming and ticket sales were available starting from July 25, 2023. In its 27th edition, the film festival paid tribute to the careers of five distinguished personalities: Argentine filmmaker Lita Stantic, Peruvian actor Hernán Romero, Spanish film producer Esther García, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Green Wall
''The Green Wall'' ( es, La muralla verde) is a 1970 Peruvian drama film directed by Armando Robles Godoy. Robles Godoy also wrote the screenplay based on his short story by the same title. The film won the Golden Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1970 and was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. After being released in the United States, Roger Ebert named it the 5th best film of 1972. Cast * Julio Alemán as Mario * Sandra Riva as Delba * Raúl Martin (aka) Martin Giurfa as Rómulo * Lorena Duval as Madre de Delba * Enrique Victoria as Padre de Delba * Jorge Montoro as Jefe de tierras de montaña * Juan Bautista Font as Director de colonización * Escolástico Dávila as Escolástico See also * List of submissions to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Peruvian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Fund
Iván Fund was born in San Cristóbal, Argentina in 1984. He grew up in Crespo, Entre Ríos, where he graduated from high school. In 2002, he moved to Buenos Aires and worked as a cinematographer. In 2005 he directed his first short film, Vals, which was honored with a special mention from the Jury at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. In 2006 he directed the short films Sirenas and El Baile, and received, among other awards, a Georges Meliés Short Film Prize, awarded by Alliance Française. In 2007, he directed the short films Divergir and Un Punto Fijo, as well as the short feature Cicope, which he directed in collaboration with Patricio Toscano and which was a BAFICI Official Selection. In 2008, he began collaborating with Santiago Loza. In 2009, his first feature film, La Risa, was a BAFICI Official Selection. His film Los Labios won the Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard (, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eureka (2023 Film)
''Eureka'' is a 2023 drama film co-written and directed by Lisandro Alonso, starring Viggo Mortensen, José María Yazpik and Chiara Mastroianni. The film is narrated by Eureka, a woman who became a migratory bird to create a connection between the years 1870 and 2019 and the United States, Mexico, and the Amazon rainforest. The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2023. Synopsis Eureka is a bird that flies across different geographies of the American continent; in its flights, it also travels through time. The film is narrated in three distinct sections. It examines the indigenous peoples of the Americas and how they have inhabited their specific environments across the centuries. The film's first part, entitled 'Western', takes place in a lawless township on the US-Mexico border in 1870, with Viggo Mortensen playing the role of a father, Murphy, searching for his kidnapped daughter. Cast * Viggo Mortensen as Murphy * Chiara Mastroianni a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lila Avilés
Lila Avilés (born in 1982) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, actress and producer. Life and career Born in Mexico City, Avilés studied scenic arts with Ximena Escalante and José Caballero, and film scriptwriting with Beatriz Novaro and Paula Marcovich. After directing some shorts, she made her feature film debut in 2018 with '' The Chambermaid'', which premiered at the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival. With this film, Avilés won the Ariel Award for best debut work, and got a nomination for best director. The film was also chosen as the Mexican entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. Avilés' second feature film, ''Tótem'', was entered into the main competition at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Ecumenical Award for Best Film. For her film, she also won the Best Director award at the 2023 Jerusalem Film Festival. It was also selected for the Academy Award for Best International Feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Erection Of Toribio Bardelli
''The Erection of Toribio Bardelli'' ( es, La erección de Toribio Bardelli) is a 2023 black tragicomedy film written and directed by Adrián Saba. An international co-production between Peru and Brazil, the film stars Gustavo Bueno, with Gisela Ponce de León, Rodrigo Sánchez Patiño, Michele Abascal and Lucélia Santos. The film was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Synopsis Toribio Bardelli is an older man, who together with his four children, now adults, form a dysfunctional and failed family. About to turn 70, Toribio will pursue his only goal in life: to have an erection again. Cast * Gustavo Bueno as Toribio Bardelli * Gisela Ponce de León as Sara Bardelli * Rodrigo Sánchez Patiño as Silvestre Bardelli * Lucélia Santos as Celestine * Michele Abascal as Luz Bardelli * Coco Chiarella as Elderly Friend * Lizet Chavez as Malaga * Beto Benites as Ruben * Liliana Albornoz as Prostitute * Milena Alva as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amat Escalante
Amat Escalante (born 28 February 1979) is a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter. He is most well known for directing the controversial Mexican crime thriller ''Heli'' for which he was awarded the best director prize award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and for directing the 2016 Mexican drama '' The Untamed'' for which he received the Silver Lion for best director at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. Biography Escalante was incidentally born in Barcelona, Spain while his parents — a Mexican father and an American mother — had been living in Norway. He spent most of his early years in Guanajuato, Mexico, but moved to Spain in 2001 to study film editing and sound at the Center for Cinematographic Studies of Catalonia (''Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya, CECC'') and apply for Spanish citizenship; which he failed to secure. After his stint in Barcelona, he joined the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Havana, Cuba an insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost In The Night
''Lost in the Night'' ( es, Perdidos en la noche, links=no) is a 2023 mystery thriller film directed by Amat Escalante from a screenplay he co-wrote with Martín Escalante which stars Juan Daniel García alongside Ester Expósito, Bárbara Mori, and Fernando Bonilla. It is a Mexican-German-Dutch-Danish international co-production. Plot The plot follows a boy of humble origins (Emiliano) who enters to work for the well-off Aldama family to find out whether his missing mother's corpse is in the family's property. Cast Production The film is a Mexican-German-Dutch-Danish co-production by Bord Cadre Films, Cárcava Cine, Match Factory Productions, Pimienta Films, and Snowglobe Films. Shooting locations included Guanajuato. Release The film was presented in the 'Cannes Premiere' section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2023. It also made it to the main slate of the 27th Lima Film Festival. Reception According to the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Salaviza
João Salaviza (born João Salaviza Manso Feldman da Silva; 19 February 1984) is a Portuguese film director, screenwriter, editor, producer, and former actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including the Short Film Golden Bear, the Short Film Palme d'Or, and the Un Certain Regard. Biography João Salaviza was born on 19 February 1984, in Lisbon, Portugal. His father is José Edgar Feldman, a film director, and his mother is a producer. He studied at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and at the Universidad del Cine de Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His film ''Arena'' won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, his film '' Rafa'' won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. Salaviza worked as assistant editor in Manoel de Oliveira's Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl. Filmography Short films * '' Duas Pessoas'' (2004) * ''Arena'' (2009) * '' Casa Na Comporta'' (2010) * ''Hotel M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Catacora
Óscar Catacora (18 August 1987 – 26 November 2021) was a Peruvian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Biography Catacora was born on 18 August 1987 in the town of Ácora, Department of Puno. In 2007 he directed and acted in the medium-length film ''El sendero del chulo''. Two years later he entered the Professional School of Arts at the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno (UNA) to specialise in Theatre, but eventually dropped out to enlist in the Peruvian Army. In 2011 he began studying Social Communication Sciences at the UNA with the aim of specialising in audiovisual production. Two years later, in 2013, he wrote and directed ''La venganza del Súper Cholo'' (2013). That same year Catacora won a grant of 400,000 soles from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture in the National Film Competition to carry out his project '' Wiñaypacha''. The film – "the first Peruvian feature film shot entirely in Aymara" – is his debut feature and was presented by Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yana-Wara
''Yana-Wara'' is a 2023 Peruvian Mystery film, mystery Drama (film and television), drama film written and co-directed by Óscar Catacora along with Tito Catacora. It is the posthumous work of Óscar Catacora, following his death on November 26, 2021, while filming in El Collao Province due to appendicitis. Synopsis The communal justice system accuses Don Evaristo, 80 years old, for the murder of his granddaughter Yana-Wara, 13 years old. During the hearing, everyone learns the tragic story of this young girl. Cast Release ''Yana-Wara'' had its world premiere on August 13, 2023, as part of the Fiction competition at the 27th Lima Film Festival, then screened at the 9th University of Lima Film Week on 12 November 2023. It will be part of the main competitive selection of the 27th Málaga Film Festival on March 6, 2024. Distributed by V&R Films, it will be released theatrically in Peru on 4 April 2024. Accolades See also * List of Peruvian films References External links< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipibos Stories
''Shipibos Stories'' ( Spanish: ''Historias de shipibos'') is a 2023 Peruvian Shipibo-language drama film written and directed by Omar Forero. Synopsis A Shipibo boy is raised by his grandparents in direct contact with the Amazon forest and its inhabitants, whom he respects; he is considered part of their social environment. Growing up and coming into contact with urban life, the child denies his culture to avoid discrimination. Cast Release ''Shipibos Stories'' had its world premiere on August 14, 2023, as part of the Fiction competition at the 27th Lima Film Festival. Accolades See also * List of Peruvian films A list of films produced in Peru in year order. For a list of films A-Z currently with an article on Wikipedia see :Peruvian films. 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shipibos Stories 2023 films 2023 drama films Peruvian drama fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diógenes (2023 Film)
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