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• 04 / 12 / 2009

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The festival, which will take place until Sunday, July 13 in six movie theatres from Sao Paulo, will show a retrospective of the Cuban moviemaker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, in memory of the fortieth anniversary of Memories of Underdevelopment. The retrospective will include eight titles (Histories of the Revolution, The Death of a Bureaucrat, The Survivors, To some point, Letters in the Park, Strawberry and Chocolate, Guantanamera and Memories of Underdevelopment).

The festival is a production from the Latin American Memorial and the Sao Paulo Governement with the Brazilian moviemaker Joao Batista de Andrade as its curator, aiming to “discuss aesthetic singularity” of moviemaking in the region, reminded the Audio-Visual Assosiation, the organizer of the show.

There will also be paid a tribute to the Argentinean Fernando Solanas, with the exhibition of eight of his best movies. Solanas, marked by a trajectory of hard social critic and political questioning, will accompany the exhibition of his movies and will teach an aula magna, programmed for Saturday 12.

The movie chosen for the opening day has been Los uruguayos (The Uruguayans), by Mariana Viñoles, which questions what does it mean to be an Uruguayan through the stories of “the woman who changed the city for the fields, a small producer, a successful lawyer, an Italian emigrant and a student,” pointed out the Audio-visual Assosiation.

Other participating Cuban movies are the full-length fiction movie La noche de los inocentes (The night of the innocents), in the Contemporary Section and the documentary Bretón es un bebé (Bretón is a baby), in The Latin American exhibition, both of them by Arturo Sotto.

There will also be pieces by the Argentinean Eliseo Subiela (No mires para abajo (Don’t look Down)), by the Mexicans Paul Leduc (El cobrador (The Collector)), Arturo Ripstein (El lugar sin límites (The place with no limits)) and Miguel Littin (Actas de Marusia (Act from Marusia)) and by the Brazilians Eduardo Coutinho (Juego de escena (Stage Game)), Rogerio Sganzerla (Copacabana, mi amor (Copacabana, My love)) and Joao Moreira Salles (Santiago).

Despite the non-competing character of the Festival, the public and the critic will award the best movies in the Contemporary Section with the Latin American Memorial Trophy.

(Cubarte)