Association Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine de Toulouse (ARCALT)
Víctor González, a former sugar-cane cutter, has become a film director for his village. Within 3 years he has made 19 films, all set in Villapaz (a village with 90% Afro-Colombians) and his actors are the locals. His melodramas and horror films, tinged with humour, exalt what is local, denounce injustices, and show the traditions and beliefs of his community.
Endry Cardoña is the first Transgender in a Colombian Prime Time Telenovela: a story of rape and violence in the life of a transsexual prostitue from the slums of the Caribbean coast.
Trapped by this gritty glamour, Endry tries to keep true to herself while the nation is watching her.
Balke a young man, appears floating in the middle of the ocean, after a car accident he had with the love of his life. Balke takes us through his procession towards survival and through his memories shows us his life before the accident. He’ll need to fight his demons to survive the limbo he is in.
Several storylines intertwine when Luis, an aspiring musician, inspires the people of his rural village in Colombia to risk their lives to defy the decades long onslaught of armed groups.
A tale of a wolf-boy created among men. Clara, a woman from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by Anna, a resident of the downtown area, as the nanny of her unborn child. When the baby is born earlier than expected and Clara is surprised by a tragedy, she must learn to be a mother.
Deep in the jungles of southern Mexico, an indigenous language is on the verge of extinction. Manuel Segovia, 77, and his neighbor Isidro Velazquez, 70, are the last men known to speak Ayapaneco fluently. As of today, they refuse to speak to each other because of a lasting grudge between them.
With the testimony of a wide-range of everyday people mixed with scenes of daily life, the film explores the socio-psychological underpinnings of the language conflict in Catalonia.
Emilio (39), a divorced architect, oversees the construction of a tourist complex in a forest snowy in the South of Chile. His daughter Antonia (16) accompanies him for a few days. While his father works, Antonia dedicated the greater part of the time to ski, to swim naked in the heated pool and writing in her diary of life. Emilio, who want to know more about her daughter, reads the diary of life of Antonia secretly, where she has written that she wants to lose her virginity on this trip. Vicente (28), an instructor of ski of the place organized them a trekking to the mountain. This trip is the beginning of sexual life of Antonia and the reunion between father and daughter.
Agustín comes back to the hills and waits for the beginning of the judgment where he is accused of killing his parents. There he meets Leila, who arrives by chance in a storage truck.
Johnny, a dealer’s helper and Miguel, a skater, are lovers. Johnny lived in miguels house because Miguels mothers worked there as housekeeper. They always steel drug from Johnnys chief, and he sells it in the skate park. They make a big mistake, so Miguel runsaway to texas.
Mauricio Catalán (45) is a lawyer. A NGO asks him to help a Mapuche community. in their land are rich iron deposits, which will be exploited by a transnational. A young Mapuche dies. The lawyer will discover that nothing can be done in the face of corporate machinations.
A dissident Cuban family, have been living for 7 months camping in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a central square in Madrid, they demand from the autorities a home, jobs, and economic help.They came through an agreement signed between both governments and now anybody agrees to take up their case. Their behavior reveals the defeats and successes of communist system in their country of origin.
A taciturn widower becomes the manager of his ten year old daughter when she accidentally discovers the power to find water underground. Expectations of better welfare cause irreversible changes in the family.
Tea Time is a documentary that tells the story of six old friends, meet for tea once a month for sixty years. This world of female intimacy refuses to disappear, although they are inevitably dying.
Glossaire des films Cinéma en Développement (en espagnol)
Glossaire des films Cinéma en Développement (en anglais)
