3rd Iberoamérican Images at MoMA

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Published on Friday, 25 November 2011 05:00

Written by L E Shannon

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) hosts its third Iberoamérican Images film series from December 1 - 15, 2011 in midtown Manhattan in New York City.

Ibermedia is a consortium of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries that "facilitates and finances co-productions of documentaries and fiction films between its...member countries, and grants money for international distribution and promotion."

The film of veteran auteur Manoel de Oliveira is El Extraño Caso de Angélica / The Strange Case of Angelica, starring Ricardo Trepa, Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Leonor Silveira.
A photographer is commissioned to take the last photo of a recently deceased young woman in her wedding gown.

Apart from veteran auteur Manoel de OliveiraOliveira, the series features newly-emerging filmmakers, some of whom are making their feature debuts, including:

Del amor y otros demonios / Of Love and Other Demons
dir. Hilda Hidalgo (Costa Rica/Colombia)
starring Eliza Triana, Pablo Derqui, Margarita Rosa de Francisco
A young girl in colonial Cartagena de Indias is bitten by a rabid dog and her father sends her to a convent for healing. Based on the novel by Gabriel García Márquez.

Las Malas Intenciones / Bad Intentions
dir. Rosario García-Montero (Peru/Spain/Germany)
starring Fátima Buntinx, Katerina D’onofrio, Paul Vega
A girl growing up in the terrifying days of 1980s Peru is convinced she will die the day her baby brother is born.

El Chico que Miente / The Kid Who Lied
dir. Marité Ugás (Venezuela)
starring Iker Fernández, Francisco Denis, María Fernanda Ferro
A 13-year-old boy searches for the mother who was carried off by a mudslide some ten years before -- but he has trouble telling the truth to anyone who asks.

Girimunho / Swirl
dir. Clarissa Camplina, Helvecio Marins (Brazil/Spain/Germany)
With Maria Sebastiana Martins Alvaro, Maria de Conceicao Gomes de Moura, Luciane Soares da Silva, Jr.
This semi-documentary is a character study of an 80-something widow in a small  Brazilian village as she copes with loss and a new life.

Vienen por el oro, vienen por todo / They Come for the Gold, They Come for It All
dir. Cristián Harbaruk, Pablo D'Aló Abbá (Argentina/Chile)
A Canadian mining company has been using vast quantities of water and cyanide to mine silver and gold in Patagonia. But the townspeople, half of whom live below the poverty line, want none of it and work to stop the mining. This documentary quotes a townsman: "Gold sustains oppression, hunger, and destruction of the people."

For more information, go to MoMA.org.

Iberoamérican Images
December 1 - 15, 2011

The Museum of Modern Art
11 W. 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
212-708-9400

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