The aluCine Latin Film and Media Arts Festival is back for its 12th year as it brings Toronto another exciting year of edgy short films, animations, documentaries, installations, and art from across Latin America and the world. aluCine will kick off with a five-day art performance by multi-disciplinary artist Rosa Mesa beginning November 15 at Coffee and All That Jazz Café. The official program will take place November 17, 18, and 19 at the Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue.
“Our twelfth annual festival is an homage to the idea of seeing things differently,” says Sinara Rozo, festival director. “This year’s festival promises to be an exceptional one that will bring people together to laugh, cry, and reflect on our cultural and artistic differences.”
Not to be missed is the North American premier of Carlos Santa’s incredible feature length animated feature, Los extraños presagios de León Prozak (The Mysterious Presages of León Prozak.) The festival will also feature Edison Cajas’s dramatic Pinochet-era short, Titanes (Titans) and O ceu no andar de baixo (The Sky Downstairs), a beautiful animated film by Brazillian filmmaker Leonardo Cata Preta.
All films are screened with English Subtitles
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Opening Night Premiere
The North American Premier of renowned artist, sculptor and filmmaker Carlos Santa’s Los extraños presagios de León Prozak (The Mysterious Presages of León Prozak). The experimental film took roughly 10 years to create and is a stunning collage of animation techniques as well as an allegory of recent Latin American socio-political issues.
Love, Life and Death in the Streets of Brazil
In their own unique way, each of the Brazilian films in this series explore often-unheard voices of desire, longing, discomfort and survival. Characters cling to a strand of their identity in order to endure every day life, push through and prove valiant. One of the festival’s most stunning and provocative films is Pétala (Petal), which captures the darkest moments in what should be a happy time for a pregnant mother-tobe.
Business of Spaces
We become familiar with certain spaces, attach emotion to these places and get lostwithin them both mentally and physically. This collection of Canadian films featuresJorge Lozano’s silent film about the physical, social and political boundaries in our lives and Madi Piller’s Left to Paradise that delved into the haunting notion of finding that ideal
place and if it exists or not.
Art – 9 to 5
Interdisciplinary, experimental artist rosa mesa will become a part of her art as she
debunks the notion of artists living outside the Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 routine. Starting
Tuesday, November 15 at 9am, mesa will be working for five days on an art installation
at Coffee and All That Jazz Café at 72 Howard Park Avenue, around the corner from the
Revue Cinema.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets range from $10 – $6 for adults and $8 – $4 for seniors and students. aluCine Full
Access Festival Pass is available for $30.
For the complete schedule, list of programs and ticket info, please visit:
www.alucinefestival.com
Trailers for some of the short films coming to Alucine:
Topo Gigio is Dead from Arlene Muller on Vimeo.
Caffeine from Alejandro Valbuena on Vimeo.
No es mucho lo que heredamos de nuestro abuelo from Fernando Dominguez on Vimeo.
7 Voltas/7 Turns from rogerio nunes on Vimeo.
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