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SOUTH AMERICAN FILMS
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Maria, Llena Eres de Gracia
(Maria Full of Grace)
Joshua
Marston
Colombia -
2004 |
In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria
(Catalina Sandino Moreno) supports her family with her salary working in
a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of
finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug
mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach.
Once in New York, things do not happen as planned. |
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Diarios de Motocicleta
(The Motorcycle Diaries)
Walter Salles
Argentina -
2004 |
"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader
of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he,
and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by
motorcycle in the early 1950s. |
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El Hijo de La Novia
(The Son of the Bride) |
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow
of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother,
his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he
has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a
minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend,
who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past and look at the present in new
ways. |
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Juan
Jose Campanella |
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Argentina –
2001
Nominated
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Sexo Con Amor
(Sex With Love)
Boris Quercia
Chile -
2003 |
In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex
with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes
about sex education to the youngsters. Luisa is a young independent
woman that is split between the love for her also young mate, the
painter Valentín (Francisco Pérez-Bannen), and for her experienced
lover, the middle-age father of one of her students and successful
writer Jorge. Jorge still lives with his wife Mónica, but their marriage
ended and they do not even talk to each other, but his affair with Luisa
is limited to sex. In the meeting, the parents are divided in groups,
and Luisa stays with Jorge, and the couples Álvaro and his pregnant wife
Elena and the butcher Emilio and his frigid wife Maca. Álvaro is a wolf
man, harasses all the beautiful women that he meets for one night stand,
unfaithful and neglecting his wife at home. |
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La Historia Oficial
(The Official Story) |
Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a
well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the
"junta militar" that had taken over the government since 1976. She has a
husband, Roberto, who is a succesful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted
daughter. |
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Luis Puenzo |
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Argentina –
1985
Winner
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Camila
(Camila)
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In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named
Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several
failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ultimately succumbs to
her. The two later escape to a far off, secluded village where they
assume new identities as husband and wife and begin running a children's
school. After several months of relative happiness, the couple's
identity is discovered by a local priest. Under moralistic pressure from
both Camila's family and the Catholic church the authorities apprehend
the lovers, and imprison them for sacrilege. |
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Maria Luisa Bemberg |
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Argentina –
1984
Nominated
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Machuca
(Machuca)
Andres Wood Chile -
2004 |
In 1973, in Santiago of Chile of the first socialist president
democratically elected in a Latin-American country, President Salvador
Allende, the principal of the Saint Patrick School, Father McEnroe
(Ernesto Malbran) makes a trial of integration between students of the
upper and lower classes. The bourgeois boy Gonzalo Infante (Matías Quer)
and the boy from the slum Pedro Machuca (Ariel Mateluna) become great
friends, while the conflicts on the streets leads Chile to the bloody
and repressive military coup of General Augusto Pinochet on 11 September
1973, changing definitely their lives, their relationship and their
country. |
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Bolivia
(Bolivia)
Adrián Caetano
Argentina
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2001 |
There are movies that shows you how hard can life be for people
considered different or out of place. This movie shows clearly how
can individual tragedies be part of social discrimination. Considered as
"Nuevo Cine Argentino", Caetano's filmography should be watched
carefully, being a good director that tells simple but deep stories.
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Lugares comones
(Common Grounds)
Adrián
Aristarain
Argentina
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2002 |
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain
with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the
leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in
the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his
pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new
job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a
small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes
up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume
industry.
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