Film Screening
Best of aluCine
Saturday, June 18th
DOORS OPEN: 6:30 PM ET
EVENT STARTS: 7:00 PM ET
Small World Music Centre (180 Shaw St.)♿
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*ALL FILMS WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES*
Note: This event is restricted to people ages 19+
After more than twenty years of aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival, we’ve seen and featured a lot of incredible films. We have given out hundreds of awards over the last two decades, celebrating and honouring the works of independent filmmakers from around the world, both emerging and established. From this list, our programming team has carefully curated six of our favourite short films from the past! Spanning from 1994 to 2017, and featuring a range of genres and countries, this program is a fun look into our festival’s history.
Opening the program, we will have a live sound and media performance by Edgardo Moreno, aluCine alumni and acclaimed composer.
Firefly Project
Edgardo Moreno
20 mins - Live Sound Design Performance
Firefly is a solo multimedia storytelling project by musician/composer Edgardo Moreno. Using live electronics, Latin American folk instruments, and video, Edgardo has created a performance experience that blends visual poetry, storytelling, and music. The repertoire is inspired by music and stories from Latin America, both personal and universal, its turbulent history and the nostalgic longing and search for a lost home.
Corazon Sangrante - Astrid Hadad
Ximena Cuevas
1995 - Mexico - 4 mins - Music Video
“In this humorous short, Astrid Hadad, dressed in traditional folkloric costumes and religious garments, sings and performs to a Chilean love ballad before a painterly background of fantastic landscapes. Her hyperbolic posturings enact the song’s tale of a woman’s heartbreak. This satirical presentation of femininity references pathos and the role of the victim. Cuevas’s use of animation and video montage adds a playful tone to the heartfelt melodrama of love songs, familiar touchstones in all cultures.” - Courtesy of Video Data Bank
Crucero / Crossroads
Ramiro Puerta
1994 - Canada - 28 mins - Fiction
This comic tour of Latino life in Toronto centers on Verdecchia’s stage persona: the Argentinian-born Toronto actor Guillermo, and the inflated stereotype of Wideload. Guillermo is caught between fixed borders and alienating cultures; he is displaced from his history, his surroundings and himself. Wideload ponders “Saxonian” attitudes, offers comparative histories, examines myth and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing. Based on the play Fronteras Americanas by Guillermo Verdecchia.
LUMINARIS
Juan Pablo Zaramella
2011 - Argentina - 6 mins - Animation
In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things.
Arriba
Adrián Hartill Montalvo
2017 - Peru - 8 mins - Fiction
From the radio cabin "Yuyay Estéreo," Jose Carlos's voice accompanies his family and neighbors daily routine: thousands of people beholding an economic growth they don't belong to, in the middle of a city full of dreams and contradictions, voraciously rising under their feet.
Salon Royale
Sabrina Campos
2013 - Argentina - 14 mins - Fiction
Ana heads with two friends to a wedding. She has the illusion of meeting someone, but her expectations change when one of them reveals to her that her ex seems to be going to the party.
Linear
Amir Admoni
2016 - Brazil - 6 mins - Animation
"A Line is a dot that went for a walk." (Paul Klee)
