Films showcase from the Mexican students of the National School of Cinematic Arts, the oldest film school in Latin America. Cycle 1 of 8About this Event
After more than two years of waiting, the Centre for Mexican Studies, UNAM - UK, presents the twenty-fifth Film Festival of the National School of Cinematic Arts of the UNAM. This showcase represents a great diversity of visions and interpretations of reality, representative of the concerns of a new generation of filmmakers.
In these films there are mysterious mermaids, young lovers, unsatisfied desires, arrogant butterflies, repressed memories and paper boats dreamed of by wooden toys. Just as Godard stated that one should expect from a good film, each of these film proposals simultaneously gives us a vision of cinema and a vision of the world.
This exhibition is an invitation to participate in the process that began long ago with a character, a sound or an idea. Now it is up to the spectators to look back and complete the open circuit that arises in each of these films.
The film cycle will include 8 cycles.
All the films will be in spanish with english subtitles.
This screening will thake place in KCL Waterloo Campus FWB G.72.
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Cycle 1
1 hour 40 min. long
No seré la vida de mi recuerdo
Writen and directed: Isabela Ripoll
After surviving three years as victims of sex trafficking, sisters Iris and Dulce recall their experience, reflecting on such topics as female companionship, re-meaning their bodies, and restoring dignity to their lives.
Qualia
Writen and directed: Valeria Diaz
Two lonely isolated characters in a big house: Zaida is an android created by Said, a lonely man, who designs her to resemble a real woman and become his partner. After sharpening her physical abilities, her creator will try to seduce her for the first time, generating in her the gentle awakening of her own consciousness.
Llamar a la puerta
Writen and directed: Isabel Barajas
Raúl, brother of Lucía and María, is in the hospital seriously ill with COVID -19. Without being able to do much, the sisters wait at home for a call that will give them news about the state of health of his brother.
Donde el frío quema
Writen and directed: Pau Verdalet
A woman arrives at her childhood home amidst a cloud of fog and intense cold. Restless, she visits this place to reconnect with her dead father and to be able to give the funeral ritual to his corpse. But the past overwhelms her, confronts her, those uncomfortable events of her childhood are relived, marked by her father's abuse of her which she has not managed to overcome.
Rondó por el placer
Writen and directed: Laura Miranda
A place that seems out of time for everyday life, a long line of women waiting. Three women in an empty room and a cello piece: three experiences of pleasure, of the body and of age.
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Event Venue
King's College London Waterloo Campus FWB G.72, Stamford Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00