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Ventana Film Festival Melbourne Filmoteca and Australian Multiplex Cinemas, in partnership with the Frankston City Council, are proud to present Ventana Film Festival. Running from the 3rd - 10th March in Frankston, the festival is Filmoteca's first collaborative effort screening Latin American and Portuguese films outside Melbourne CBD. Showcasing four films, the festival features the acclaimed Argentinian production 'Taxi, un encuentro', along with 'Goodnight Irene' from Portugal, two Australian premieres due to be screened at ACMI later this year. The other selected films are the well-known treasures 'La historia del baúl rosado' (Colombia - Mexico) and 'La edad de la peseta' (Cuba). Ventana Latina is a FREE event.
OPENING NIGHT GALA This is a story of a man in Buenos Aires, Gato (Diego Peretti), who is a car thief. He has a deal with a local chop shop to deliver stolen cars. His preference is taxicabs. Not content with merely stealing the car, Gato also works the taxi. He’s feeling pretty lucky until he picks up a very nervous young girl. She starts to give him directions, and then slumps over on the seat. He discovers she has been shot. His first instinct is to abandon the girl and the car, but he finds he just can’t leave her to die alone. He also can’t drive her to a hospital - there would be too many uncomfortable and dangerous questions. In the end he takes her home with him, to remove the bullet himself. What happens then?
Thursday, 4th of March 2010, 6pm Violeta is one of the many Spaniards who has always lived in Cuba, an old lady who retouches with wax crayons the faces of the people she has photographed. They are always women because “reality has to be adorned a bit”. One day she suddenly receives her daughter, Alicia, with her small child (Samuel) in her old house of La Habana after another one of her constant divorces. Free-spirited Violeta is not happy to be caring for Alicia again and seems no more enthusiastic about helping to raise her child, but she soon develops a rapport with Samuel as he develops a keen interest in her work.
Thursday, 4th of March 2010, 7.40pm Bogotá, Colombia, 1945: the body of a young girl is found inside an abandoned trunk at the central train station postal service. When this high-profile but difficult case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo (Edgardo Román), he has to deal with the tabloid reporter Hipólito Mosquera (Diego Vélez), who gets his information from Corzo’s fellow detective Rosas. While he works to solve this mysterious case, Corzo turns to beautiful bartender Martina (Dolores de Heredia) for help finding clues. Nobody knows who the girl is, much less who put her in the trunk. The plot thickens when Mosquera reports in the newspaper that the trunk is pink (when it’s actually brown and wooden). Find out if Corzo finds an answer to the question: Who killed the girl and why?
Wednesday, 10th of March 2010, 6pm An old and solitary failed English actor, Alex, records voice-overs for cheap travel videos, and drinks himself to sleep. Bruno, a reclusive young locksmith, devotes himself to his obsession: fighting the passage of time, by breaking into people’s homes to make a “record” of their lives, which he keeps in an archive at the back of his shop. They share an obsession for Irene, an attractive local painter, who has all the joy and passion for life that they lack. Then one day, Irene disappears, without a trace. Although initially hostile to each other, Alex and Bruno join forces to discover what happened to her. As they search Irene’s apartment for clues, they slowly move in, and a trusting friendship begins to develop between these two loners. |
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