Shorts Programme
The Journey
+ Q&A with director Manuel Muñoz
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BSL INTERPRETER
The journey is a passage and reflection, a departure and arrival. In the selection of short films journeys cross the border between life and death, between self and others, between vibrant stories and attentive ears and between intergenerational rituals. The point of arrival is the surface of the water that in all selected shorts leaves characters with questions, doubts and a promise of different beginnings. Once confronted with the current, past, present and future merge and we, as characters, or spectators remain the anchor points, held together by the act of viewing.
Screenings & Bookings
Friday 18 September 8.45pm
Filmhouse
Manuel Muñoz is a filmmaker based in Spain. His work as a film director to date explores a local geographic area that is familiar to him (the region of Andalusia), with special attention to the aesthetics and poetics of the landscape and the photogenic value of the human face, all along with a hybrid approach that aims to transcend the labels or conventions of genre (fiction or documentary) and privileges what we could call "cinema of presence" in front of the "cinema of representation". His first feature film EL MAR NOS MIRA DE LEJOS premiered in 2017 in BERLINALE, in the FORUM section.
ABOUT THE FILMs
Aqueronte
Scottish Premiere
26 min
Spain
Manuel Muñoz
Original Language Spanish
On board a ferry, a series of passengers cross a river from one riverbank to theother. Some of the travelers chat, perhaps to liven up the voyage and speed uptime. Some others wrap themselves in silence and observe the unfamiliar fellowtravelers or contemplate the scenery. The journey on the waters seems to expand,the destination shore is unexpectedly postponed, the magnitude of space is blurred.
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Chilapa girl
UK Premiere
17 min
Colombia
Juana Lotero López
Original Language Spanish
Through observation, discover the story of Yulieth (10-13), a fishing girl, chilapa, brave and rebellious,who is transitioning into adolescence. She faces the difficulty of growing up in a wild territory on theborder between Colombia and Panama, where natural beauty coexists with the hostility ofmachismo. Despite the warnings, Yulieth becomes a teenage mother, while her developing identity iscaught between the impulses of her dreams and her reality.
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The Garbage Man
11 min
Portugal
Laura Gonçalves
Original Language Portuguese
On a hot August afternoon, the family gathered at the table remembers uncle Botão: the Colonial War, emigration to France, where he lived and worked thirty years as a garbage man. Memories of each are crossed to tell the story of a man who lived a hard life through humor and fantasy, like when he returned to Belmonte, in a van full of trash, turned into a real treasure.
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Voices from the Abyss
Scottish Premiere
23 min
Mexico
Irving Serrano & Victor Rejón
Original Language Spanish
An intimate look at the La Quebrada Cliff Divers in Acapulco, Guerrero, who earn their living diving 100 feet into the sea from a dangerous cliff as part of a thrilling show, featuring an original poem recited by them and testimonies on faith, life, and death.
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