Festivals >> SSFF >> 2009 >> Horizontes Latinos

Daniel & Ana (Daniel And Ana, Daniel Y Ana) (Country: Mexico, Spain; Director: Michel Franco; Writer: Michel Franco; Cast: Dario Yazbek Bernal, Marimar Vega, Chema Torre)
Dramatisation of a true-life ordeal of a brother and sister at the hands of Mexico's underground porn trade. Full Review

Francia (Country: Argentina; Director: Adrián Caetano; Writer: Adrián Caetano; Cast: Natalia Oreiro, Lautaro Delgado, Milagros Caetano, Mónica Ayos, Mex Urtizberea)
Family tragedy.

Gigante (Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, Spain; Director: Adrián Biniez; Writer: Adrián Biniez; Cast: Horacio Camandule, Leonor Svarcas)
A store security guard becomes obssessed with a cleaner. Full Review

Huacho (Country: Chile, France; Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras; Writer: Alejandro Fernández Almendras; Cast: Manuel Hernández, Cornelio Villagrán, Alejandra Yañez, Clemira Aguayo)
Tradition comes into conflict with modernity for a family of peasants.

La Invencion De La carne (Country: Argentina; Director: Santiago Loza; Writer: Santiago Loza; Cast: Diego Benedetto, Umbra Colombo)
A woman who loans her body to medical students for cash embarks on an unusual relationship with one of them.

The Last Summer of La Boyita (El último verano de la Boyita) (Country: Argentina, Spain, France; Director: Julia Solomonoff; Writer: Julia Solomonoff; Cast: Guadalupe Alonso, Gabo Correa, María Clara Merendino, Mirella Pascual, Guillermo Pfening, Silvia Tavcar, Nicolás Treise)
Coming of age film involving, apparently, a magical floating motorhome.

Marea De Arena (Country: Mexico, Argentina; Director: Gustavo Montiel Pagés; Cast: Damián Alcázar, Carmen Beato, Edurne Ferrer, Daniel Kuzniecka)
An obssessive photographer sees his paternity threatened by the mother of his child.

Perpetuum Mobile (Country: Canada, Mexico; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Writer: Nicolás Pereda; Cast: Gabino Rodríguez, Teresa Sanchez, Francisco Barreiro)
A youngster's relationship with his mum changes after her own mother dies and the pair decide to keep it a secret.

Sin Nombre (Country: US; Director: Cary Fukunaga; Writer: Cary Fukunaga; Cast: Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Luis Fernando Peña, Diana García)
A teenage Mexican gang member manoeuvres to outrun his violent past and elude unforgiving former associates in this thriller set among Central American migrants seeking to cross over to the United States. Full Review See: Sundance Diary: Day Five

The Tree (El Árbol) (Country: Argentina; Director: Gustavo Fontán; Writer: Gustavo Fontán; Cast: Federico Fontán, Gustavo Fontán, Julio Fontán, María Merlino)
Returning to his childhood home, filmmaker Gustavo Fontán documents his parents' deliberations over a tree planted the day he was born. Simple questions that pass between them - Is the tree dead? Should we cut it down? - become meditations on history, memory, knowledge and the sensory symphony of daily life.

Undertow (Contracorriente) (Country: Colombia; Director: Javier Fuentes-León; Writer: Javier Fuentes-León; Cast: Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo, Cristian Mercado)
A closeted gay fisherman finds himself trapped in an unusual love triangle. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival 2010: Day Six - Buried, Winter's Bone, Bran Nue Day and Contracorriente

The Wind Journeys (Los viajes del viento) (Country: Colombia, Netherlands, Argentina, Germany; Director: Ciro Guerra; Writer: Ciro Guerra; Cast: Marciano Martínez, Yull Núñez)
The adventures of a wandering minstrel who is travelling Colombia to return his instrument to the man who taught him.

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