This year, aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival will heat things up for 10 days with a vibrant and festive explosion of Hispano American culture. The festival returns to Toronto with a varied and tantalizing lineup of films for all interests, and all ages.
aluCine will run starting tonight, April 3 until Saturday, April 12 featuring gallery installations, short and feature film programmes, performances, artists’ talks, panel discussions and workshops. This year, aluCine will celebrate Mexico’s rich and vibrant culture, with a showcase of exciting, contemporary Latin-American cinema and media arts.
Opening Gala Screening: Quebranto/Disrupted
Thursday, April 3rd, 8pm
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
This documentary is in memory and testimony of two characters: Fernando García, known as Pinolito, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Doña Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came out as a transsexual some years ago, and now calls herself Coral Bonelli. They live together in Garibaldi yearning for their past in the movies, while Coral bravely comes to terms with her gender identity. They both still perform, though whilst some would assume it would be for https://www.shemalehd.sex/ it is not the case.
Quebranto · Disrupted · Trailer from Julián Hernández on Vimeo.
Short Films Presentation
On Identity: Politics and Human Rights
Friday, April 4th, 9pm
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
The compilation of short films aim to make you reflect upon realities that affect us all: Dictatorships, complex relationships, and nostalgia for the abandoned motherland. Diverse in style and content, each film offers a particular vision of the Latin American continent.
The programme includes films from Perú, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, as well some co-productions with other European nations.
Shorts for Shorties I & II
Saturday, April 5th, 11:30am & 2:30pm
Wychwood Theatre, Artscape Wychwood Barns
Programme II is for children 9 to 12 years of age, and feature subtitles. This programme showcases animated and live-action shorts that will sure captivate the imagination and create some thought-provoking questions.
MI ABUELA teaser from HIERROanimación on Vimeo.
Matar Extraños / Killing Strangers
Saturday, April 5th, 5:30pm
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
This film is a collaboration betweenof Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolás Pereda and Danish editor Jacob Secher Schulsinger. It tells the story of three young men who try to join the Mexican revolution in 1910, and get lost in the desert north of Mexico. On their journey, they face each other’s fears and their unrealistic dreams and hopes.
The festival also offers other great programming including Art Installations, Performances, Artists’ Talks, and Workshops. I’d like to point out a couple, which have piqued my interest as well.
Opening Reception & Artist Talk
Los Libros De Espera / The Books of Waiting
Autorretrato Apropiado / An Appropriated Self-portrait
Sunday, April 6th, 2:30pm
Toronto Arts Council Gallery – 568 Richmond Street West
Livia Daza-Paris’ The Books of Waiting is a series of diaristic videos projected onto three hand-made books that capture kinesthetic responses to childhood memories about state organized violence. The starting point for María José Alós‘ An Appropriated Self-Portrait is the conviction that the film fragment is to word, what audiovisual material is to vocabulary, and what the film archive is to language. Both artists use their works to deal with memories, personal histories in an experimental narrative.
The Book of Waiting, Canto three: On Antigone Steps from Livia Daza-Paris on Vimeo.
ChocoSol Presents The Story of Chocolate
Wednesday, April 9th, 1pm
Bavia Art Gallery – 898b St. Clair Avenue West
How many of you know where chocolate comes from? Do you know much about cacao? Its history, tradition, and modernity. Special attention is also paid to ChocoSol’s own process involving close partnerships with Mexican farmers of raw, sustainably produced and fairly traded cacao.
As always, these are but a few, carefully chosen picks to entice to come out to aluCine and explore more about our Latin American culture. For the complete schedule, list of programs, box office and ticket info, I direct you to visit alucinefestival.com.
**Para mis amigos de habla Hispana, les invito a leer más acerca de aluCine en su página web y en Facebook también.
