Latin Canadian New Works II
October 29th - November 5th
ONLINE - VUCAVU
Duration: 1 hour 45 mins
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LINK TO VIEW: https://vucavu.com/en/latin-canadian-new-works
*ALL FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES*
Regular screenings are restricted to those 18 years of age or older according to the Ontario Theatres Act.
“We come from culture. Our weapons come from art.”
The second installment of our “Latin Canadian New Works” series, this program features five new films from contemporary Latino-Canadian filmmakers. This lineup brings together an array of creative minds and groundbreaking films, featuring stories of bravery, resistance, and the power of art. Perfect for film enthusiasts looking to see what is fresh in Latin-Canadian independent cinema from the past year. In this program, a variety of genres and styles are explored - there is a little bit of everything to enjoy and discover.
This program will be available to view online through VUCAVU.
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#OccupaMinCRJ
Juan Pinto
2018 - Canada - 34 mins - Documentary
World Premiere
#OcupaMInCRJ explores the process of collective living and the formations of the new politics of collaborative artistic resistance. The short documentary film provides an intimate look into the 111 days during which artists, activists, members of the cultural community came together to occupy the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture in Rio de Janeiro, in an act of resistance against the 2016 soft coup in Brazil. Drawing on participants’ testimonies, documentation of the events by the movement’s communication team and collaborators, as well as archival medial footage, #OcupaMInCRJ immerses the audience into a life changing movement striving towards an alternative view of social democracy.
The Angel Outside
Madi Piller
2019 - Canada - 28 mins - Experimental
World Premiere
Shot in Lima, Peru. The Angel Outside borrows imagery from culture, history, and migrations coming to Lima from rural Peru. The film examines syncretism and paradigms in modern times. The filmmaker re-creates the soft edges between life and death drawn in an indeterminate space and provokes memories and frustrations perpetrated in society.
Flux Cities: Horto
soJin Chun
2019 - Canada/Brazil - 10 mins - Documentary
World Premiere
Horto is a bicentennial community situated inside the Jardim Botanico neighbourhood, one of the most affluent areas of the Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Horto is unique in Rio de Janeiro as it is a peaceful area, without gang violence or drug trafficking that plague most impoverished neighbourhoods in the country. The residents from this humble community have a looming threat of eviction by the government. Real estate developers and the national media giant, Globo, have economic interests in this area for their real estate value.
Tracing back their history to the 15th century, the first wave of Horto’s residents came to work in plantations and later in the city’s Botanical Gardens. The city’s garden officials granted them legal rights to build their homes on this land. Two centuries later, the Brazilian authorities are accusing them of illegal settlement. In 2016, police kicked out one family from their home with the threat of tear gas while they were inside their home with their children. I have been working with this community since 2016 to bring to light the injustices that residents of Horto experience, similar to narratives of gentrification faced by underserved communities around the world.
Breathe the Night
Álvaro Girón
2020 - Canada - 18 mins - Fiction
World Premiere
Elisa finds herself in a challenging position: a new chapter of her life begins, but she must find her way through uncertainty. In a way she feels alone in Toronto, a city that although seemingly welcoming, she barely knows. But Elisa is also determined to take a daunting step, that of proving you can take care of something bigger than yourself.
Redbird and other birds
Julieta Maria
2019 - Canada - 12 mins - Documentary
Toronto Premiere
At a small airport in a suburban Toronto area, communications between aircraft become vital to avoid collisions while flying after the closing of the control tower. Calls and songs of birds that migrate through the green spaces in the area are drowned in air and ground traffic. Weaving together shot and found materials as well as fragments of interviews with a birder and a pilot, this piece imagines some of the parallels between the spaces of birds and planes and their vulnerabilities in the face of heightened urban development. Part performance and part document, the film follows the artist as she enters these spaces in fragmentary ways, sometimes as a spy, through listening to the plane communications using a radio scanner, or lurking behind a bush to record bird sounds.