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Le Département Cinéma à Filmar

©Mariano Llinás, 2008

The Film Department of HEAD - Geneva is proud to announce a new partnership with the FILMAR en América Latina Festival by inviting Mariano Llinás to the 23rd edition of the Geneva festival. In addition to presenting his film Historias Extraordinarias, the Argentine director will give a workshop on acting with film students.

A selection of films made during the Grand Atelier in Mexico with Carlos Reygadas in 2020 will also be screened during this edition. FILMAR en América Latina is the most important festival dedicated to Latin American cinema and culture in Switzerland.

Historias extraordinarias de Mariano Mariano Llinás

Witnessing a situation that is beyond him, X panics and kills a man. Elsewhere, Z is hired to oversee a small branch in the countryside and investigates his predecessor. Meanwhile, H embarks on a trip along a river to take pictures of monoliths. X, Z and H are the protagonists, without names or pasts, of three missions revealed little by little, which form three superimposed stories.

Screenings on November 20 at 3:30 pm and November 28 at 4:30 pm at Fonction:Cinéma.

La HEAD – Genève au Mexique

In 2020, the second year students of the HEAD Geneva will travel to Mexico to meet the filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. For three weeks, the students will immerse themselves in his mental and physical universe. This is an opportunity to discover the region, to meet the inhabitants and to make short films on the director’s land.

Screenings on November 21 at 4:15 pm and on November 28 at 2:15 pm at Fonction:Cinéma.

69120 caras

by Joséphine Berthou, Anaïs Durmort

  • 2020
  • Documentary
  • 14 min
  • Spanish
  • French
In 2017 a earthquake occurred in a village in the north of Mexico City. Waldo, a photographer, saves the faces of the inhabitants in his little studio.

Nuit de mars

by Pierre Barral, Loris Ciaburri

  • 2020
  • FictionDocumentary
  • 19 min
  • Spanish
  • French
In the Mexican countryside, a young man is about to leave his home village to find work elsewhere. He decides to go one last time to a football stadium lost in the middle of the mountains and remembers what he experienced there.

El sheriff mira al mono matar al cerdo

by Benjamin Goubet, Louis Rebetez

  • 2020
  • Fiction
  • 18 min
  • Spanish
  • French
In the last pueblo before the mountains, a woman is running by night. Gunshots. A stranger is looking for the door of the fifth dimension. In the speakers, the village hear that there was a disparition, dogs are prowling.

Hijo

by Lucie Goldryng, Valentin Lebeau

  • 2020
  • FictionDocumentary
  • 26 min
  • Spanish
  • French
Ocotitlán, a small village lost in the middle of the mountains and yet only a few dozen kilometers from Mexico City. 
Christopher, twelve years old, plays with his sister and helps his father on construction sites. 
He would like to leave for Mexico City, to become a ranchero, but maybe also to become a man like his father. 
HIJO, somewhere between a ficiton and a documentary, paints a portrait of this young boy who has dreams of leaving, without knowing if he will really decide one day.

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