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Adhen
[Feature] - Spotlight on France
(Algeria, 2008, 93 min)
A French pallet factory is the setting for this lively, humour-filled exploration of religious hypocrisy and the immigrant experience. Mao (played by the film's director Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche) builds a mosque for his Algerian employees and chooses the imam without consultation. When the factory threatens to close, the workers must choose whether to fight for their jobs... More»
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The Age of Terror
[Feature] - History Held Accountable
(Algeria, 2002, 200 min)
Directors Jon Blair, Dan Korn and Polly Williams are responsible for this most timely four-part documentary chronicling the history of modern terrorism, beginning in 1946 in the Middle East and ending More»
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Algeria, Unspoken Stories
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features
(Algeria, 2007, 160 min)
Four people who lived through the Algerian war of independence show us their places and tell their stories. Jean-Pierre Lledo's fresh, elegant and profound act of staged remembering tells the most important truths about what has been lost and what has been forgotten in the passage from colonialist to socialist to fundamentalist times. More»
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An Algerian Dream
[Feature] - Changing the World
(Algeria, 2003, 106 min)
Jean-Pierre Lledo profiles the fascinating Henri Alleg, a French national of Jewish descent, publisher of Alger Republicain, Algeria's one truly independent newspaper during French colonial rule. As the now quite elderly man returns to Algeria to reminisce about his imprisonment at the hands of the French and his camaraderie with other resistance fighters, recent Algerian history is brought vividly to life. More»
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Under Another Sky
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Algeria, 2002, 78 min)
Samy (Nicolas Cazalé) is just the driver; he doesn't even know what the "merchandise" is. But then he runs a police roadblock and kills a cop... Shipped off to his mother's family in Algeria, Samy, pr More»
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Blessed by Fire
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2005, 100 min)
The first Argentinean film to deal directly with the effects of the war in the Malvinas (aka the Falklands), Tristan Bauer's powerful antiwar statement--also the first film to actually shoot on the Malvinas--flashes back to the story of three youthful Argentines caught in the hellish conditions amid the British assault. More»
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Café de los Maestros
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features
(Argentina, 2007, 90 min)
Delicious tango music--alternately exhilarating and heartbreaking--anchors Miguel Kohan's moving documentary that focuses on the reunion of an aging group of legendary Argentinean tango players in Buenos Aires. Think Buena Vista Social Club set in the Paris of the South. More»
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Captive
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2003, 115 min)
A FIPRESCI-Award winner, Gastón Biraben's sensitive directorial debut is an intelligent and emotional drama told from the point of view of a young woman forced to come to terms with the realization she is the illegally adopted daughter of architects who "disappeared" during the military dictatorship. More»
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Chamamé--Music, People, Poetry
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features
(Argentina, 2006, 104 min)
Chamamé is a lively, often melancholy strain of music from northern Argentina that has been gaining quite an international following lately. Cosima Lange follows four exemplary interpreters--Chango Spasiuk, Gicela Méndez Ribeiro, Monchito Merlo and Alberto Bofill--into their homes, bars and the open countryside. More»
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Common Ground
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2003, 112 min)
For Fernando, a Buenos Aires professor in his 60s who feels he still has a lot to teach, enforced retirement comes as a shock. What makes matters worse is that the city is more broke than he is, so he and his wife (Mercedes Sampietro) head off to make a new life in the country. Federico Luppi stars and veteran Adolfo Aristaraín directs, just as they did in the sister film of this, A Place in the World, one of the most popular in VIFF history. More»
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Copacabana
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features
(Argentina, 2007, 56 min)
Nuestra Señora de Copacabana, the festival from Buenos Aires' Bolivian immigrants, is a colourful celebration of song and dance. Martin Rejtman uses this as a starting point for a uniquely constructed documentary essay, a simultaneously detached and intimate communal portrait. More»
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El Bonaerense
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2002, 92 min)
A dim, rural locksmith, 35-year-old Zapa is going nowhere fast until his uncle arranges his training as a Buenos Aires cop. A frequently satirical study of innocence betrayed, Pablo Trapero's absorbin More»
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Family Law
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2006, 102 min)
A deft, witty and emotionally rewarding study of a thirtysomething man in his roles as father and son, Daniel Burman's intensely personal [film] features an outstanding Daniel Hendler and a script that fuses sharp observation with the intimacy of a lightly re-written autobiography... The film is thick with the flavours of Buenos Aires street life...--Variety More»
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Fantasma
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2006, 63 min)
After his bravura turn with Los Muertos, director Lisandro Alonso returns with this story of life and art intersecting. Inside a cavernous movie theatre in Buenos Aires, actor Argentino Vargas wanders through empty hallways, seemingly stuck inside an infinite film loop. But he is not alone... “Fantasma represents one of the most complex and sophisticated uses of sound in a movie I’ve heard in years...”--LA Weekly More»
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The Grönholm Method
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2005, 115 min)
A tale of excutive überdogs from director Marcelo Piñeyro (Kamchatka, VIFF 03) that possesses a truly savage bite. A group of masters of the universe corporate types are assembled to compete for one position using something called the Grönholm method, an system meant to separate the weak from the strong. But the weak may be more wily than they appear... More»
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The Hours Go By
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2005, 85 min)
A wonderful addition to the ranks of New Argentine Cinema, Inés de Oliveira Cézar's deliciously languid film examines 12 hours in the life of a family of four--mother Rene, father Juan, four-year-old Santiago and grandmother Virginia. With minimal dialogue but a keen eye for detail and the interactions between family members, the film speaks volumes about life's ultimate truths. More»
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I Don't Know What Your Eyes Have Done to Me
[Feature] - Latin Music
(Argentina, 2003, 64 min)
Unraveling the mystery of tango singer Ada Falcòn who retired in 1942 to live as a Franciscan and who refused to be photographed, give interviews or sing again, directors Sergio Wolf and Lorenzo Muñoz engage in an archeological reconstruction of her story and a compelling investigation of time. More»
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Kamchatka
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2003, 104 min)
By telling the story of the 1976 Argentinean military coup through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, the "disappearances" and horrors of the regime off-screen become all the more present and shocking in Marcelo Piñeyro's marvelously human and emotionally potent drama. More»
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Liverpool
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2008, 84 min)
Director Lisandro Alonso (Los muertos) returns with this story of a man drawn home to the family he abandoned years earlier. On every level, from the expressive capacity of natural image and sound to the emotional content of the characters onscreen, [the film] marks personal artistic progress and an impressive standard for others to match.--Variety More»
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The Magic Gloves
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2003, 90 min)
Martín Rejtman's dark and droll social comedy unfolds in a degraded Buenos Aires where psychologically and/or economically depressed characters interact with an odd internal logic, and where changes from outside--porn actors from Canada or "magic gloves" from Hong Kong--provide the only glimmers of hope. More»
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