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Pelicula
Película (Spanish for a film; thin layer of any material) is a Spanish film festival held every October by the Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain to the Philippines. Created in 2002, this event shows award-winning Spanish and Latin American films. Due to the Película's yearly success, the festival made big changes during its eighth season in 2009. The duration of the festival was lengthened, and the number of venues was increased from one to three venues to accommodate more films. The festival's venues include the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), Greenbelt Cinemas, and the De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts. Aside from film screenings, supplementary cultural events were also organized based on the yearly theme of the festival. Photographic exhibits, cinema workshops, music and dance performances add color to the film festival. These events do not only showcase the classical and contemporary Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelicula Opening
Película (Spanish for a film; thin layer of any material) is a Spanish film festival held every October by the Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain to the Philippines. Created in 2002, this event shows award-winning Spanish and Latin American films. Due to the Película's yearly success, the festival made big changes during its eighth season in 2009. The duration of the festival was lengthened, and the number of venues was increased from one to three venues to accommodate more films. The festival's venues include the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), Greenbelt Cinemas, and the De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts. Aside from film screenings, supplementary cultural events were also organized based on the yearly theme of the festival. Photographic exhibits, cinema workshops, music and dance performances add color to the film festival. These events do not only showcase the classical and contemporary Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intacto
''Intacto'' (English: ''Intact'') is a 2001 Spanish thriller film directed and co-written by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and starring Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela, Mónica López, Antonio Dechent, and Max von Sydow. It was first released in Spain during November, 2001, and then internationally on the film festival circuit in 2002. Rooted in magical realism, the film depicts an underground trade in ''luck'', where fortune flows from those who have less to those who have more; the premise purports that luck can be amassed and transferred as any other commodity. The story follows several participants as they engage in literal games of chance, each one more risky than the last, to eliminate the unlucky. Plot A concentration camp survivor named Samuel Berg (Max von Sydow), a preternaturally lucky fellow, runs a European casino. One of his workers is Federico (Eusebio Poncela), a man who "steals" other people's luck merely by laying a hand on them (a similar concept is used in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Embrace (film)
''Lost Embrace'' is a 2004 Argentine, French, Italian, and Spanish comedy drama film, directed by Daniel Burman and written by Burman and Marcelo Birmajer. The picture features Daniel Hendler, Adriana Aizemberg, Jorge D'Elía, among others. The drama was Argentina's official choice for the 2004 Oscar Awards, Foreign Language film category. The comedy-drama tells of Ariel Makaroff, the grandson of Holocaust-era Polish refugees, who is currently on a complex search for his personal and cultural identity. Plot The episodes in the life of a Jewish family in the Once neighborhood of Buenos Aires and the other shopkeepers in a low-rent commercial gallery are depicted in the story. The narrator, Ariel Makaroff (Daniel Hendler), is the son of Sonia Makaroff (Adriana Aizemberg) who was deserted by her husband (Jorge D'Elía) when he went to Israel in 1973 to fight in the Yom Kippur War. Yet, the father is in touch with Sonia via telephone weekly and supports Ariel and his brother J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herod's Law
''Herod's Law'' (original Spanish title ''La ley de Herodes'') is a 1999 Mexican satirical black comedy political film produced by Bandidos Films; it is a political satire of corruption in Mexico and the long-ruling PRI party (notably the first Mexican film to criticize the PRI explicitly by name and carried some controversy and interference from the Mexican government because of it). The film won the Ariel Award for Best Picture from the Mexican Academy of Film. It was also awarded the Special Jury Prize in Latin American Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival. Plot One night, a corrupt mayor enters his office, kills the night watchman, and steals as much money as possible, presumably to disappear with the town's coffers and start a new life elsewhere. He flees into the night, pursued by an angry mob of villagers, who catch him as he stumbles. He pleads with the mob to spare him, but they behead the former mayor out of anger. The next day, The Governor of the PRI party crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Buena Estrella
''Lucky Star'' ( es, La buena estrella, links=no) is a 1997 drama film directed by Ricardo Franco and starring Antonio Resines, Jordi Mollá and Maribel Verdú. Critically acclaimed, the film won five Goya Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Antonio Resines), Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score. Ricardo Franco made just one more film; he died of a heart attack in 1998. Plot Rafael is a kind, good-hearted butcher. He has a lonely life after accidentally castrating himself while cutting meat several years before, but he longs to have a family life, a dream that seems unattainable for him. One early morning when he is driving his truck to his butcher’s shop, he sees a young man assaulting a woman. Rafael cannot help but intervene and jumps out of his vehicle to help her. Taking pity on the girl, he takes her to his home. Her name is Marina and the man who was beating her was her boyfriend, Daniel. Marina, nicknamed One-Eye (for she lost one eye in a childho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dias Contados
Dias or DIAS may refer to: * Desmoteplase In Acute Stroke, a series of clinical trials investigating the clinical efficacy of desmoteplase, a thrombolytic agent, in treating acute ischaemic stroke * Destruction in Art Symposium * '' Detaşamentul de Poliţie pentru Intervenţie Rapidă'' (Special Actions and Interventions Detachment), a former name of Romanian police rapid response units * Dias (surname), a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It is cognate to the Spanish language surname ''Díaz'' * Dias (Диас), a Soviet first name, which became widespread in honour to Spanish communist politician José Díaz * Dias (Lycia), a city of ancient Lycia * Direct Internet Access System * Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies * Viola (trawler), a steam trawler built in 1906 as the ''Viola'' and renamed ''Dias'' * Dias (Δίας), the Modern Greek name for god Zeus * Dias (ΔΙ.ΑΣ), a police motorcycle unit of the Hellenic Police * Reversal fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Your Eyes (1997 Film)
''Open Your Eyes'' ( es, Abre los ojos, links=no) is a 1997 Spanish film co-written, co-scored and directed by Alejandro Amenábar and co-written by Mateo Gil. It stars Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez and Najwa Nimri. In 2002, ''Open Your Eyes'' was ranked no. 84 in the Top 100 Sci-Fi List by the Online Film Critics Society. The movie's intersecting planes of dream and reality have prompted some critics to suggest comparisons to Calderón de la Barca's 1635 play '' Life Is a Dream''. An American remake entitled ''Vanilla Sky'', directed by Cameron Crowe, was released in 2001, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role. Plot A handsome young man wakes up to a female voice telling him to open his eyes. He drives to an empty city. He wakes again, this time to a woman in his bed. He tells her not to leave him messages on his alarm clock. From a prison cell in Madrid, the 25-year-old man, César ( Eduardo Noriega), tells his story to psychiatrist Antonio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suite Habana
''Suite Habana'' is a 2003 Cuban documentary directed by Fernando Pérez. The documentary was filmed with fictional cinema techniques depicting a day in a life of thirteen real people, from a ten-year-old child with Down syndrome to a 79-year-old lady who sells peanuts in the street. The film has no dialogue, using sound and image to evoke emotional effect. Several stories are juxtaposed to convey the plot points, an unusual approach in Cuban cinema, where spoken words are often used extensively. Critical reception After the film's premiere in Cuba, national critics ranked it as one of the best Cuban films in decades. The film gathered several awards at international film festivals. ''Variety'' called it "A lyrical, meticulously crafted and unexpectedly melancholy homage to the battered but resilient inhabitants of a battered but resilient city." Awards ;HAVANA FILM FESTIVAL - 2003 *Best Director *Best Music *Best Sound *Best Film Poster *FIPRESCI prize *Grand Coral - First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Primera Noche
''La primera noche'' (''The First Night'') is a 2003 Cinema of Colombia, Colombian film, directed by Luis Alberto Restrepo. The film won 18 International Awards and was Colombia's submission for the Academy Awards in the ''Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film'' category in 2004.Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano, ''Largometrajes Colombianos En Cine y Video: 1915-2004'' p. 213 Even though the movie was highly acclaimed, after being released in some festivals throughout the United States, it never made it to big theaters. After 3 years of theatrical release, the film was released on DVD in the United States on January 30, 2007. Plot ''La primera noche'' tells the story of a pair of farmers who have been displaced from their territory - a place isolated from this world, in which they have lived their childhood and their youth - and have been brutally sent to face the streets of an unknown city, enormous and ruthless. The conflicts of thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
