Biarritz

We offer a ‘carte blanche’ to the Festival de Cinéma et Culture d’Amérique latine of Biarritz. A unique chance to get a sense of latino shorts awarded in Biarritz and a good way to celebrate the cities Ixelles and Biarritz, which have teamed up since 1959 !

Como un grito
Iván Porras Meléndez
Costa Rica
2011 – 11’00″ – Color

A man schemes to stop an eccentric group of people who scream as a form of therapy at a park outside his house.

Mar Blindado
Gerard Uzcategui
Venezuela
2010 – 11’00″ – Color

The sentry box in a bank holds within its walls a man and his story. Inside that dark and reduced space reality is wasted away by the surge of time.

Magnolia
Diana Montenegro Garcia
Colombia
2011 – 15’30″ – Color

Rafael, a lonely old man, writes women’s names on his window trying to catch the attention of a homeless woman. Unexpectedly, she will bring the light back to his life.

A Fábrica
Alysson Muritiba
Brazil
2011 – 15’06″ – Color

A prisoner convinces his mother to risk their own safety to carry a cell phone for him in the penitentiary

Vecino
Argenis Mills
Cuba
2010 – 11′ – Color

Samuel is a Latino immigrant who goes to Europe searching for a better life. Shortly after moving into his apartment, an upstairs neighbor complains about the noise and threatens to turn him in to immigration. As Samuel becomes more obsessed with not making any noise, he goes to great extremes to quiet each and every sound.

Cafe con leche
Mauricio Leiva Cock
Colombia
2011 – 10’33” – Color

Milk means many things for Pedro and his family. When his trusted cow ‘La Negra’ ceases to produce the precious liquid, Pedro is forced to decide between the welfare of his family and his mooing friend.