If you are a lover of the seventh art or just want to see a different alternative to movies, you should go to the latest features that the EDOC international documentary film festival presents in its two headquarters in Guayaquil. Below we detail the films that will be screened at Mz14 and Muégano Teatro (Callejón Magallanes).
Films that will be screened in MZ14
The day this Saturday in mz14 will start at 3:30 p.m. with a block of Ecuadorian short films. will be screened first Bea, by Belén Miranda, in which she presents a sensitive encounter between a camera and voices that yearn to share words. Then it will be presented Garay and finally Noah, a film that expounds on humanized childbirth.
At 17:30 the film will be shown Charm bubblegumfrom Nira Burstein. The film presents an eccentric New York family, through some home videos. “Filmmaker Nira Burstein returns to her childhood home to see if she and her two sisters can reconnect with her parents,” the synopsis describes.
At 7:30 p.m. the film Madre en proceso, Educación perdida and independence charter, by Jimmy Rockertho. This last film presents Ivana, a transgender girl, who writes a letter addressed to her inner self, which she has struggled with since she was little.
Sunday
Sunday’s day will start at 3:30 p.m. with the short film Merry Christmas, from J. Morquecho. Later, the documentary will be screened. At least they’re alive by Mar Ibarra, who recounts the experiences of Venezuelan migrants residing in Buenos Aires, “from the expression of feelings, practices and daily vicissitudes that they go through after the physical separation from their family nucleus.”
At 17:30 the Brazilian film will be screened Aeneidfrom Heloisa Passos. The protagonist of this film is an 83-year-old woman, who can no longer bear the absence of her eldest daughter, whom she has not seen for 23 years. This is how Aeneida undertakes an odyssey ready to break the walls that divide the family.
At 7:30 p.m. will be the closing with the film I am free, from Lauren Portier. It tells of a young man’s search for freedom, whose rawness and unpredictable twists become universal metaphors.
The films that are projected in Mz14 are freely accessible.
Films that will be screened at Muégano Teatro
This Saturdayin the space muegano theater Two films will also be screened. The first tape will be screened at 18:00 and it’s called There’s no going home by Yaela Gottieb. The synopsis reads: In 1958, Robert Gottlieb was forced to renounce his Romanian citizenship to emigrate to Israel. 50 years later, his daughter Yaela (re) builds that route, but his father’s story does not match the ghostly places of his past.
The same day, at 7:45 p.m. the film will be presented As I Want, from Samaher Alkadi. The film presents the awakening of a woman, inspired by the courage of the feminist movement in Egypt.
Sunday
Sunday’s day it will also consist of two films. the dominican tape What is inherited from Victoria Linares will be screened at 4:00 p.m.. Her synopsis reads: When filmmaker Victoria Linares Villegas discovers that she is related to Oscar Torres, a little-known Dominican director, she embarks on an excavation into her role in Caribbean cinema and left-wing movements during the tyranny. of the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
The second film will be presented at 18:00 and it’s about The moon represents my heart, from Juan Martin Hsu, which follows the story of a young filmmaker who is haunted by the tragic death of his father. Of Taiwanese origin, he returns to Taipei to film the reunion with his mother.
The projections at Muégano Teatro will cost $5 general and $3.50 for students. More details at festivaledoc.org/programacion-2022/.
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Source: Eluniverso
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