Short is Better / Corto es mejor - Opening Gala
Jackman Hall
317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada
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Description
Following the film program, please join us for drinks and nibbles at Art Square Gallery & Cafe, 334 Dundas St W. (directly across from the AGO). Bring your valid ticket stub for entry.
Short is Better
As a medium, the short film is typically undervalued when compared with feature films or documentaries. It is a format that requires a lot of talent and technique to be able to tell a story in the most concise and epigrammatic manner. In actual fact, we often see fifteen minute productions that exhibit greater depth than films that last over two hours. This demonstrates that it’s not just the story you tell, but how you tell it. Thus, with a short, it's not just about the quantity of ideas but rather the quality of an idea that can be told in a concise, creative, innovative and risky manner.
By opting for a short film, the filmmaker produces a delicate, light, curious, and rich story that doesn’t require a lengthy exposition. Also, its brief nature gives the director the opportunity to carry out new experiments and find new paths, unhindered by the constraints of the conventional film industry. Short films stand as a renovating format and offer a number of possibilities. This is why in this year’s festival, aluCine wants to give this format all the prominence it deserves.
We love shorts!
Corto es mejor
El corto es un formato casi invisible y ha quedado en un segundo plano respecto a largometrajes y documentales. Aun asi podemos afirmar que el corto es un formato que requiere de mucho talento. Y es que en muchas ocasiones podemos ver una obra de quince minutos de mucha más calidad que en un largometraje de dos horas. No es sólo lo historia que cuentas, sino cómo lo dices. Con un corto, no se trata sólo de la idea grande. Se trata de la gran idea que puede ser contada de forma concisa creativa, innovadora y arriesgada.
Al optar por el cortometraje, el cineasta muchas veces consigue una ligera, curiosa y rica historia que no necesita alargarse. Asimismo, esta brevedad brinda al director la oportunidad de realizar nuevas experimentaciones y buscar nuevos caminos, siempre y cuando tenga libertad para poder trabajar sin las presiones de la industria. El cortometraje se erige como un formato renovador y de un sin número de posibilidades. Es por esto que en aluCine le queremos dar todo el protagonismo que se merece.
Este programa es parte del tributo que rendimos a ese formato arriesgado y maravilloso durante aluCine 2019.
Nos encantan cortos!
PROGRAMME:
Maria de los estereos
Director: Eugenio Gómez Borrero | Country: Colombia | Year: 2019 | Length: 19 min | Genre: Drama
Selección oficial ficción 10 Festival de Cine Corto de Popayán 2018
Synopsis: The story of a woman who, while extracting oysters from a mangrove, also unearths memories, songs and ghosts. But the mangrove that once was a larder of life has become the cemetery of those who refuse to leave the territory.
Carlito Leaves Forever / Carlito se va para siempre
Director: Quentin Lazzarotto | Country: France, Peru, Spain | Year: 2018 | Length: 8 minutes | Genre: Drama
Screened at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
Synopsis: Carlito, a quiet young man, leaves his home in the Indigenous village of Palma Real. His mysterious decision to run away brings to light a secret that Carlito has been hiding from his family and his community.
La Bonita
Director: Maria del Mar Rosario | Country: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain | Year: 2018 | Length: 18 minutes | Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: The beauty treatments women endure to fit normative feminine standards are violent in ways rarely recorded. La Bonita is an essential allegory about aesthetics that asks the audience to sit through a series of procedures, from fake nail removal to permanent makeup application to bikini waxing, and to sit with the accompanying pain that goes far beyond the physical. (Angie Driscoll)
Harina / Flour
Director: Joanna Cristina Nelson | Country: Venezuela | Year: 2019 | Length: 15 minutes | Genre: Drama
Synopsis: Roberto is a middle-class working professional trying to survive Venezuela's economic death spiral and current humanitarian crisis while maintaining his unemployed mother. An argument breaks out when she asks him to buy flour for her birthday cake and he reprimands her for not being resourceful with what he provides. In an effort to make amends, he resorts to the black market to buy the scarce food item. But before heading back home he is faced with a moral dilemma.
And That is How the Rivers Came To Be
Director: Miguel Araoz Cartagena | Country: Canada, Peru, USA | Year: 2018 | Length: 3 minutes | Genre: Animation
Synopsis: A long time ago, before there were rivers in the Amazon rainforest, a Kukama God stood poised in his canoe, holding aloft his bow and arrows. The arrows fell one by one creating vast, winding rivers, which the Kukama people have navigated until modern times.
Libre
Director: Anna Barsan | Country: USA | Year: 2018 | Length: 12 minutes | Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: For detained immigrants who can’t pay their bond, for-profit companies like Libre by Nexus offer a path to reunite with their families. But for many, the reality is much more complicated. “Libre” sheds light on one of the many hidden costs of reunification for immigrant families.
Fin De / End Of
Director: Federico Cuatlacuatl | Country: Mexico, USA | Year: 2014 | Length: 3 minutes 30 sec | Genre: Animation
Featured at:
-Headwaters Film Festival
-Athens Animfest
-Festival Cine Alter'Natif
-SISFF
-imagineNative
Synopsis: Jacobo, a premature bird, desires to fly but his failed attempts are unknowingly watched by a mythological Aztec bird who has the power to grant Jacobo’s wish.
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Start:
2019-10-03T19:00:00-04:00
End:
2019-10-03T21:00:00-04:00
Category
Film
Tickets
Opening Night Gala: Film & Reception
15.0
CAD
200
