LA COMPAGNIA
MORIVIVÍ
Directed by: David Enrique Aguilera (Colombia, Cuba, 2018, 36’)
Brayan and Kiki are the third and fourth generations of their Cuban household. Situations of violence are the daily bread. Sometimes they have to take the role of the adults to avoid problems between real adults. In the middle of the countryside where the children live, they entertain a close relationship with nature. They breed animals that serve not only as food or pets, but also for the Santeria rituals they practice regularly.
Monday, November 5th, La Compagnia, 3:30pm
VER A UNA MUJER
To See A Woman
Directed by: Mònica Rovira (Spain, 2018, 60’)
When you see someone and he or she dazzles you, you are suddenly filled with the other and no longer see anything. You just feel intensely every moment as it fades away. From the uncertainty, you, vulnerable, look persistently for any hint of reality. Trying to see Sarai, her first girlfriend, becomes the film that Mònica Rovira wants to make. A film that shows what emerges at the threshold of her gaze.
Monday, November 5th, La Compagnia, 3:30pm - With the director in-person
90 SECONDS IN NORTH KOREA
Directed by: Ranko Paukovic (Netherlands, Croatia, 2018, 15’)
A pair of lovers riding on a bicycle through the forest, school children crossing the street, men playing football on the beach, women playing with inflatable toys in the shallows, a father carrying his young child in the park. This is the other side of life in North Korea, a world away from army parades, speeches from the leader, oppression, and fear. This is a poetic, observational documentary about ‘normal life’ in the world’s most secretive state, revealing a human facet of the country that we are not allowed to see.
Monday, November 5th, La Compagnia, 5:30pm – With the director in-person
NATIONAL NARRATIVE
Roman National
Directed by: Grégoire Beil (France, 2018, 60’)
On the video chat “Periscope” the exchange of images can be enriched with text messages and/or a flow of hearts allowing people who are streaming their video live to see strangers’ comments on their appearance or their conversations. Made only of these exchanges, this film probes the exhibitionist norm of the enhanced selfie. Far from inciting derision, this montage instead highlights the users’ self-derision and the paradoxical coyness of a space where people claim to show everything, from breasts to vomit. How does the immediacy of a chat between strangers integrate the incommensurable horror when a tragic event intervenes into its playful and intentionally exaggerated daily dimension? Is reality definitively condemned to remain off screen?
Monday, November 5th, La Compagnia, 5:30pm
GAME GIRLS
Directed by: Alina Skrzeszewska (France, Germany, 2018, 86’)
Game Girls follows Teri and her girlfriend Tiahna as they navigate their relationship through the chaotic world of Los Angeles’ Skid Row, aka the “homeless capital of the U.S.” A dilemma fuels the tension between the two women: while Tiahna seems comfortable being a player in the underground economy of Skid Row, Teri is driven by a powerful desire to get out. Together with other women from the neighborhood, they attend a weekly Expressive Arts workshop where they are looking to reflect, dream, and heal. Can their love survive the violence of their past and their current environment?
Monday, November 5th, La Compagnia, 7:30pm - With the director in-person
JOHN MCENROE: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION
Directed by: Julien Faraut (France, 2018, 95’)
“Cinema lies, sport doesn’t”. This quote from Jean-Luc Godard ushers us into the Roland Garros of the early eighties with tennis player number one: John McEnroe. An educational 16mm movie reveals the problematic coexistence between a per fectionist champion and perfectible referees, a greedy audience, and a film crew who wanted to capture any move of the ill-tempered American tennis player.
Monday, November 5th, La Compagnia, 9:30pm - With Ubaldo Scannagatta ("Ubitennis") in-person