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The city of Toulouse, in the southwest of France, renews its commitment to Latin America and its cinema. As every year, Cinelatino presents a competition for feature films, shorts and documentaries, as well as numerous meetings and sections dedicated to Colombian and Brazilian cinema and actresses-turned-directors. And in Paris, we will discover the Walter Astral, a hippie musical duo with a spatial and psychedelic universe.
Cinelatino de Toulouse is one of the most important festivals in France dedicated exclusively to Latin American cinema. There are 10 days in which almost 150 recent films are projected in different rooms in the city and its surroundings.
As always, the festival organizes numerous meetings, concerts and a competition in fiction feature films, shorts and documentaries. But it is also an opportunity to discover through cinema the complexity and cultural richness of Latin America.
Isolation in the Peruvian Andes
The competition in the fiction feature film category has 11 films. One of them is the Peruvian ‘Diógenes’, a black and white film that became a reality thanks to the Toulouse Festival.
This film transports the viewer to the Peruvian Andes, where two brothers are raised in the purest isolation by their father, a painter from Tablas de Sarhua. One morning, Diogenes does not wake up. Sabina and Santiago live for three days with the corpse of their father. This is Leonardo Barbuy’s first film, ‘Diogenes’ is a visual pearl of sublime contrasts, a film supported by the Toulouse Films in Progress platform, and which subtly speaks of Peru’s troubled history.
Cinelatino recognizes the ‘Realizactrices’
This year Cinelatino de Toulouse highlights the trajectory of four women who started out as actresses and later went behind the cameras. This is the case of the Chilean Manuela Martelli, who presented her first film as a director at Cinelatino.
The public discovered her in 2003 with ‘B-Happy’ and then with the successful ‘Machuca’ by Andrés Wood, films that were seen on Cinelatino. In 2023, Manuela Martelli came to Toulouse with a new role: that of being the filmmaker and screenwriter of ‘1976’, a film about the dictatorship, but from a feminine perspective.
Brazilian cinema and politics
Brazil and the political changes since the 1960s is one of the strong themes of Cinelatino this year. The festival presents a program dedicated to the Latin American giant, to understand how cinema has been a reflection of the history and complexity of that country.
Taking advantage of the political change with the return to the presidency of Lula Da Silva, Cinelatino composed this program with eight films that explore Brazilian production from the Cine Novo years, to more current films shot by Afro-Brazilians, stories of resistance, rebellion and fantasy.
Walter Astral, a spatial and psychedelic musical universe
Our musical specialist, Natalia Olivares, went to meet an eccentric duo from the French scene. The Walter Astral have burst onto the stage with a hippie and psychedelic style.
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