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2016
Latin America
The Mushrooms
Los Hongos
2014 - 103’- Spanish - Colour - Columbia
Director: Oscar Ruiz Navia
Producer: Guillaume de Seille, Titus Kreyenberg
Cast: Jovan Alexis Marquinez, Calvin Buenaventur, Atala
Estrada.
Screenplay: César Augusto Acevedo, Oscar Ruiz Navia
Cinematographer: Sofia Oggioni
Editor: Felipe Guerrero
Sound Designer: Leandro de Loredo, César Salazar and
Frédéric Théry
Music Composer: Zalama Crew, La Llegada Del Dios Rata,
Sebastián Escofet
Costume Designer: Ana María Acosta
Production Company: Contravía Films, Burning Blue,
Arizona Films and El Campo Cine, unafilm
World Sales Address: Embassy of Colombia
During the Arab Spring, street artists Ras and Calvin band together with other graffiti
artists to paint a tribute to student demonstrators.
Festival/Awards:
Locarno International film Festival (2014): Won (Special
Jury Prize)
Miami Film Festival (2015) (Nominated)
Nashville Film Festival (2015) (Nominated)
Rotterdam International Film (2015): Won (Dioraphte
Award)
Seville European Film Festival (2014): Won (New Waves
Award)
Director’s Biography
Oscar Ruiz Navia is a director, producer, and founder of the film
production company Contravia Films. He is one of the leading voices of
the contemporary Colombian film industry. His works as director and
producer have been domestically and internationally distributed, as well
as selected in major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno,
San Sebastian, and Rotterdam, among others.
Director’s Filmography
Solecito (short) (2013)
Crab Trap (2009)
En La Barra Hay Un Cerebro (documentary Short) (2008)
Al Vacío 1,2,3 (short) (2006)
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The Wind Journeys
Los Viajes Del Viento
2009 - 117’- Spanish - Colour - Columbia, Germany, Argentina, Netherlands
Latin America
Director: Ciro Guerra
Producer: Diana Bustamante, Cristina Gallego
Cast: Marciano Martínez, Yull Núñez, Agustin Nieves, Jose
Luis Torres.
Screenplay: Ciro Guerra
Cinematographer: Paulo Andrés Pérez
Editor: Iván Wild
Sound Designer: Ranko Paukovic
Music Composer: Iván Ocampo
Costume Designer: Camila Olarte
Production Designer: Angélica Perea
Production Company: Ciudad Lunar Producciones
Festival/Awards:
Bogota Film Festival (2009): Won (Golden Precolumbian
Circle)
For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo travels the villages of northern Colombia, playing
traditional songs on his accordion, an instrument said to have once belonged to the devil.
He eventually marries and settles in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But
after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows to never play the accursed accordion again,
and embarks on one last journey to return the instrument to its rightful owner. On the
way, Ignacio is followed byFermin, a spirited teenager determined to become his
apprentice. Tired of loneliness, Ignacio accepts the young man as his pupil and together
they traverse the vast Colombian terrain, discovering the musical diversity of Caribbean
culture. Hardened by a life of solitude, Ignacio tries to discourage Ferminfrom following in
his footsteps, but destiny has different plans for them.
Director’s Biography
Ciro Guerra (1981) is a director and writer, known for The Wind Journeys
(2009), Embrace of the Serpent (2015) and La Sombradel Caminante
(2004).
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Cannes Film Festival (2009): Won (Award Of The City Of
Rome)
Cartagena Film Festival (2010): Won (Colombian Cinema
Award, Golden India Catalina)
Santa Barbara International Film Festival (2010): Won (Best
Spanish Language Film)
Director’s Filmography
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
La Sombra del Caminante (2004)
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Blackthorn
Sin Destino
2011 - 102’- English, Spanish - Colour - Spain, France, Bolivia, UK
Latin America
Director: Mateo Gil
Producer: Ibon Cormenzana, Andrés Santana
Cast: Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea
Screenplay: Miguel Barros
Cinematographer: Juan Ruiz Anchía
Editor: David Gallart
Sound Designer: Fabiola Ordoyo
Music Composer: Lucio Godoy
Costume Designer: Clara Bilbao
Production Designer: Juan Pedro De Gaspar
World Sales Address: Embassy of Bolivia
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of
home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for
gangs and lawmen alike.
Director’s Biography
Mateo Gil (1972) is a writer and director, known for his works such as
Vanilla Sky(2001), The Sea Inside (2004) and Open Your Eyes (1997).
Director’s Filmography
Dime Que Yo (short) (2008)
Nobody Knows Anybody (1999)
Allanamiento De Morada (short) (1998)
Soñé Que Te Mataba (short) (1994)
Antes Del Beso (short) (1993)
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Latin America
Where All Roads End
Donde Acaban Los Caminos
2004 - 82’ - Spanish - Colour - Guatemala
Director: Carlos García Agraz
Producer: Mendel Samayoa
Cast: Giacomo Buonafina, Herbert Ignacio,
Audra Magermans, Andrea Rivera
Screenplay: Reynaldo Leon, Mario Monteforte Toledo
Cinematographer: Ignacio Prieto
Editor: Alejo Crisóstomo
Sound Designer: Antonio Diego, Miguel Hernández
Music Composer: Eduardo Gamboa, Igor Sarmientos,
Jorge Sarmientos
Production Company: Fundación Mario Monteforte
Toledo
World Sales Address: Embassy Of Guatemala
Festival/Awards:
The film depicts an encounter of two different worlds that live together but remain
separated at the same time, since ancestral times. The doctor Zamora goes on a trip from
the city to a remote town in the lake Atitlán where this two parallel worlds converge
between the "Naturals" and the "Ladinos". Zamora won't take long before falling in love
with Maria Xahil, a "Natural", causing in the rest of the town and the villages a dilemma
between the different communities. It's a panoramic vision of the abuse of power,
repression and racism that collide in this diverse society surrounded by the calm of nature.
The adventure of Zamora and Maria will have a turning point marked by the personal
interest and conflicts of each separated worlds.
Director’s Biography
Carlos García Agraz was (1954) is a director and editor, known for Mi
querido Tom Mix (1992), Loving Ghosts (1994) and The Last Call (1996).
Trieste Festival of Latin-American Cinema (2004): Won
(Jury Prize)
Director’s Filmography
La paloma de Marsella (1999)
The Last Call (1996)
Algunas nubes (1995)
Loving Ghosts (1994)
Días de combate (1994)
Pueblo viejo (1993)
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Latin America
Southern District
Zona sur
2009 - 108’- Spanish, Aymara - Colour - Bolivia
Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia
Producer: Gabriela Maire
Cast: Ninón del Castillo, Pascual Loayza, Nicolás Fernández
Screenplay: Juan Carlos Valdivia
Cinematographer: Paul de Lumen
Editor: Ivan Layme
Sound Designer: Ramiro Fierro
Music Composer: Cergio Prudencio
Costume Designer: Roxana Toledo, Melany Zuazo
Production Designer: Joaquín Sánchez
World Sales Address: Embassy of Bolivia
Festival/Awards:
Lima Latin American Film Festival (2010): Won (Best Actor)
Miami Film Festival (2010) (Nominated)
For a rich upper-class family locked into their own little world, Bolivia's social changes
threaten to burst their bubble.
Director’s Biography
Bolivian - Mexican Film Director. His movies have participated in more
than 150 film festivals of renown in the world, he has received an
important number of awards and economic support some of the most
important film funds of the cinema world. Juan Carlos is a member of the
Association of Directors of Bolivia, the Mexican Cinematographic Arts
and Sciences Academy, the Directors Guild of Mexico, the General
Society of writers and the Actors National Association from Mexico.
Sundance Film Festival (2010): Won (Directing Award)
Tokyo International Film Festival (2009): (Nominated)
Director’s Filmography
Yvy Maraey (2012)
El Último Evangelio (2008)
American Visa (2005)
Jonah And The Pink Whale (1995)
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The human mind is an extraordinary thing. Despite making tremendous progress in neuroscience,
humanity has still not completely understood it. Throughout human history, every art form has
tried to fathom what goes inside the human mind. Cinema is no exception. From early on in its
history, people have created some extraordinary films about the human mind. This year at PIFF, we
showcase some old classics and some contemporary films in the 'Human Mind and Cinema'
section. German Expressionism was a movement in painting that tried to depict the complexities of
human mind on canvas. Cinema took inspiration from it and created the extraordinary 'Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari'. Its experimentation made people notice this newly emerging medium called Cinema
and made them aware that Cinema can be used to probe the depths of the human soul. Bergman
and Hitchcock have explored the human mind in multiple films that are now renowned classics in
World Cinema. Today's stress-filled life and fractured reality provide a lot of raw material to artists.
Women from developing countries face the challenges of being in morally conservative societies
while living a modern lifestyle not available to previous generations. As the gamut of human rights
expands, the minds of differently abled people pose new moral challenges to Western societies.
How do film-makers approach these aspects of life today? The women-centric contemporary films
included in this section may provide some answers.
Symboisis
Presents
Human Mind
and Cinema
2016
The Cabinet
Zona sur
2009 - 108’- Spanish, Aymara - Colour - Bolivia
Human Mind And Cinema
Director: Robert Wiene
Producer: Rudolf Meinert, Erich Pommer
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil
Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger
Screenplay: Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
Cinematographer: Willy Hameister
Music Composer: Giuseppe Becce
Costume Designer: Walter Reimann
Production Designer: Walter Reimann, Walter Röhrig,
Hermann Warm
World Sales Address:
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist
cinema. It tells the story of an insane hypnotist who uses a somnambulist to commit
murders. The film features a dark and twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms,
oblique and curving lines, structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles,
and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets. The film thematizes brutal
and irrational authority; Dr. Caligari represents the German war government, and Cesare
is symbolic of the common man conditioned, like soldiers, to kill.
Director’s Biography
Robert Wiene(1873 – 1938)was a writer and director. He was a former
stage actor, writer and director, graduate of Vienna University, who first
worked in films from 1913. He had a reputation as a director of
melodramas, before his making his most famous picture, The Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari (1920), one of the best examples of German expressionism.
His other noteworthy effort in the same vein was the horror film The
Hands of Orlac (1924).
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Director’s Filmography
Ultimatum (1938)
A Night In Venice (1934)
Polizeiakte 909 (1933)
Panic In Chicago (1931)
Eight Days Of Happiness (1931)
L'autre (1939)
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Decor
Décor
2014 - 116’- Arabic - Colour - Egypt
Human Mind & Cinema
Director: Ahmad Abdalla
Producer: Zein Kurdi
Cast: Khaled Abol Naga, Maged El Kedwany, Horeya
Farghaly, Samar Morsi, Mahmoud Hamdy
Screenplay: Mohamed Diab
Cinematographer: Tarek Hefny
Editor: Sara Abdallah
Music Composer: Khaled Al Kammar
Production Designer: Asem Ali , Nihal Farouk ,Nihal
Farouk
Production Company: New Century Production
World Sales Address: Visit Films 173 Richardson Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
World Sales Phone: +1 718 312 8210
World Sales Email: info@visitfilms.com
This unique black and white film is a psychological drama about an Egyptian production
designer named Maha. The film takes an unnerving turn when she finds herself
transported into a completely different persona-a married housewife. This original piece
remarkably captures the loneliness faced by some sufferers of mental illness, as well as
the challenges faced by their loved ones. Filmmaker Ahmad Abdalla (Rags and Tatters, LFF
2013) fashions a beautiful tribute to the golden era of 1940s and 1950s Egyptian cinema.
Abdalla shows plenty of aesthetic invention that has rightly seen him hailed as the leader
of the critically acclaimed new independent Egyptian cinema.
Director’s Biography
Born in Cairo and Graduated from Music Education, Ahmad Abdalla
began his film career editing room, where he worked in montage
Kmuinter feature films since 2003. His films have participated in many
international festivals and won several awards, including the Golden
Tanit at the Carthage Festival in 2010 (Microphone) and the Golden
Antigone Award for best feature film in the movies Mediterranean
Montpellier Festival in 2013 (Rags And Tatters).
Festival/Awards: Carthage Film Festival (2014)
(Nominated)
Director’s Filmography
Rags & Tatters (2013)
18 Days (2011)
Microphone (2010)
Heliopolis (2009)
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Dora - The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents
Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern
2015 - 90’- German - Colour, B&W - Germany, Swizterland
Human Mind & Cinema
Director: Stina Werenfels
Producer: Karin Koch, Samir
Cast: Victoria Schulz, Jenny Schily, Lars Eidinger, Urs Jucker
Screenplay: Boris Treyer, Stina Werenfels
Cinematographer: Lukas Strebel
Editor: Jann Anderegg
Music Composer: Peter Scherer
Production Company: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion
AG
World Sales Address: WIDE 9, rue Bleue 75009 Paris
World Sales Phone: +33 1 53 95 04 64
World Sales Email: infos@widemangement.com
Festival/Awards:
Swiss Film Prize (2015) (Nominated: Best Film, Best
Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Music)
After her mother decides that eighteen-year-old mentally disabled Dora no longer has to
take sedating drugs, the young woman begins to blossom. But when pleasure-loving Dora
discovers her sexuality, her striving for independence becomes increasingly risky. Her
mother struggles to protect her. Dora becomes pregnant, which is strange for her mother
who would like to have a second child. This event causes tremendous upheaval in their
lives.
Director’s Biography
Stina Werenfels Earned a degree in Pharmacology and later started
working as a freelance journalist and screenwriter. In 1991 she
enrolled in the graduate program of film and television at New York
University.
Director’s Filmography
Going Private (2006)
ID Swiss (Documentary) (2000)
Pastry, Pain and Politics (Short) (1998)
Fragments from the Lower East Side (Short) (1994)
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Persona
Persona
1966 - 83’- Swedish - Black & White - Sweden
Human Mind & Cinema
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Producer: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook,
Gunnar Björnstrand
Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Editor: Ulla Ryghe
Music Composer: Lars Johan Werle
Costume Design: Mago
Production Design: Bibi Lindström
Production Company: Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
World Sales Address:
Festival/Awards:
BAFTA Awards (1968) (Nominated)
Persona's story revolves around a young nurse named Alma and her patient, a well-known
stage actress Elisabet Vogler, who has suddenly ceased to speak. The Latin word persona
originally referred to the masks worn by actors on stage.Persona has been labelled a
psychological drama and modernist horror, and was subject to cuts because of its
controversial subject matter. The film is shot and set in Sweden and deals with the themes
of illness, bleakness, death and insanity.Persona is considered one of the major works of
the 20th century. Critics have described it as "one of this century's great works of art". In
the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound's poll, Persona was ranked the 17th greatest
film ever made in the critics' poll (tied with Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai") and 13th in
the directors' poll.
Director’s Biography
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (1918 –2007) was a Swedish director, writer
and producer who worked in film, television, and theatre. He is
considered one of the most accomplished and influential auteurs of all
timeand is most famous for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957),
Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972),
and Fanny and Alexander (1982).He directed over sixty films and
documentaries, most of which he also wrote. He also directed over
170 plays. His work often dealt with death, illness, faith, betrayal,
bleakness and insanity.
Guldbagge Awards (1967): Won (Best Film, Best Actress)
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (1968)
(Nominated)
National Board of Review, USA (1967): Won (Top Foreign
Film)
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (1968): Won
(Best Film, Best Actress, Best Director)
Director’s Filmography
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Face to Face (1976)
The Touch (1971)
The Passion of Anna (1969)
Shame (1968)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
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Psycho
Psycho
1960 - 109’- English - Black and white - United States
Human Mind and Cinema
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh
Screenplay: Joseph Stefano
Cinematographer: John L. Russell
Editor: George Tomasini
Music Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Costume Designer: Rita Riggs
Production Company: Shamley Productions
Festival/Awards:
18th Golden Globe Awards - Best Supporting Actress
Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Best film
Marion is on the run after stealing $40,000 and she stops at a motel but is mysteriously
murdered in the shower. Now, her sister visits the same motel looking for her, will she be
the next victim?
Director’s Biography
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, (1899) was an English film director and
producer. He pioneered many elements of the suspense and
psychological thriller genres. Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature
films in a career spanning six decades and is often called as 'The Master
of Suspense'.
Director’s Filmography
Family Plot (1976)
Frenzy (1972)
Torn Curtain (1966)
North By Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
Rear Window (1954)
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