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PRESS RELEASES
For immediate distribution - Tuesday, August 6th, 2002
LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA
26th WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA
Montr�al, August 6th 2002. Every year the MWFF presents an important selection of Latin-American films which reveal the dynamism and great vitality of those cinemas. Nearly a half of this selection are first feature films. This year one film from this continent is with thw Official Competition : EL ULTIMO TREN.
Argentina
UN OSO ROJO (RED BEAR) Argentina - France � Spain / 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 94 min / Dir. Israel Adr�an Caetano After seven years in prison, Oso finds his wife and young daughter living with an unemployed gambler, and he's determin / Dir.ed to give them a better life even if it means a return to crime.
SUDESTE (SOUTHEAST) / 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 90 min / Dir. Sergio Bellotti
A young fisherman buries his father and sets off along the Paran� River to find his freedom, but crime and casual violence interrupt his journey.
NO SABE, NO CONTESTA (NS / NC) / 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 90 min / Dir. Fernando Musa
Joaqu�n spends one long, eventful but moral-less weekend, with his friends in Buenos Aires.
SAMY Y YO (SAMY AND I) / 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 85 min / Dir. Eduardo Milewicz
TV writer Samy is about hit the big Four Oh and he's determin / Dir.ed to get his life back on track. Meeting Mary isn't at all what he had in min / Dir.d, but Mary needs Samy to get her own life back on track. Are they travelling on the same track ?
Brazil
DURVAL DISCOS (DURVAL RECORDS) 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 96 min / Dir. Anna Muylaer
Durval and his mother Carmita, who run a sleepy record store, hire a maid but she disappears after only two days, leaving a little girl behind. Carmita has no intention of calling the police.
ROCHA QUE VOA (STONES IN THE SKY) 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 94 min / Dir. Eryk Rocha
When the leftist regime of Joao Goulart was overthrown in Brazil in 1964, Glauber Rocha decided to �fight back� with his films. His years of exile in Cuba in 1971-72 were marked by intense political ferment.
O INVASOR (THE TRESSPASSER) 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 97 min / Dir. Beto Brant
When Estav�o, their old friend and senior partner, threatens to pull out and sink their construction company, Ivan and Gilberto hire a hit man to solve their problem the time-honoured S�o Paulo way. They get more than they bargained for.
UMA VIDA EM SEGREDO (A HIDDEN LIFE) Brazil 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 95 min / Dir. Suzana Amaral
When he father dies, teenaged Biela is taken from the farm to live with cousins, but hs erefuses to conform to the �civilized� manners her aunt tries to inpose on her.
Chile
INVICTOS (UNBEATEN) 2002 / Vid�o / Couleur / 84 min / Dir. Jorge L�pez Sotomayor
A group of teenagers in a typical high school deal with drugs, romance, friendship and all the other �illnesses� of adolescence. Then rumour changes their lives forever.
Colombia
BOL�VAR SOY YO (I AM BOLIVAR) 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 93 min / Dir. Jorge Al� Triana
The star of a popular TV soap opera about from Simon Bolivar, walks out on the show to protest the bad scripts. He is determined to recruit the true Bolivar to rewrite the show and return Colombia to glory.
Cuba
VIDEO DE FAMILIA / 2001 / Vid�o / Couleur / 48 min 2001 / Video / Colour / 48 min Humberto Padron
Raulito's family gather together to make a video and send it to him abroad for his birthday. Everything goes well until his sister reevals a well-hidden family secret.
Mexico
CUENTO DE HADAS PARA DORMIR COCODRILOS (BEDTIME FAIRY TALES FOR CROCODILES) 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 100 min / Dir. Ignacio Ort�z Cruz
When Arc�ngel, who suffering from insomnia, gets a call from his long-estranged brother telling him his father is dying, he travels to their hometown to see the old man. What he finds when he arrives is at once a new mystery and solution to an old one.
EL GAVIL�N DE LA SIERRA (THE MOUNTAIN HAWK) 2002 / 35 mm / Colour / 100 min / Dir. Juan Antonio de la Riva
When Gabriel Nevarez is shot dead in the Durango mountains, his brother Rosendo returns to their hometown where he receives conflicting reports on who exactly Gabriel was.
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