The Mediatheque Gerardino Adela, the Department of Foreign Languages \u200b\u200bat the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, cordially invites the World Film Festival, to be held every Monday and Wednesday, from 9 September to 18 November 2009, in that Mediatheque. Coordinates Prof. Camilo Gomide event. Interested in obtaining additional information can be communicated via email < camilogomides@yahoo.com >
RUSSIA
September 9
Movie: Vozvrashcheniye [ Возвращение] ( return) - 2003
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Subtitle: English
Drama
The father of two young Russians returning home after 12 year absence and takes them on vacation to a very remote island in northern Russia . This is where you will test parental maturity.
September 14
Movie: Italianetz [ Итальянец] (Little Vanya) - 2007
Director Andrei Kravchuk
Subtitle: English
Drama, Family
This story, based on a real case, presents Vanya, a Russian boy abandoned six years in a provincial orphanage run by a corrupt director and officer of the local adoption agency to which everyone calls Mme. Vanya decides to teach himself to read, so look at his record address and find his mother.
CHINA
16, September
Movie: Xizao (The shower) - 1999
Director: Zhang Yang
Subtitle: English
Comedy and Drama
Explore the cool attitude that assumes a businessman facing a difficult situation after their work is compromised because it is forced to care for their father who is elderly and his younger brother who suffers from his mental faculties. Now they can not manage public toilets.
September 21
Movie: Zhan . gu (The beat of the drum) - 2006
Director: Kenneth Bi
Subtitle: English
Drama
Sid, the son of a major Hong Kong crime boss, was forced to flee to the
mountains of Taiwan. There comes into contact with members of a small community that lives given to improve the mind and body as they train hard and discipline. They are also accomplished musicians drums zen, an ancient art that comes from China. Sid becomes one more this community until one day there is news of Hong Kong: his family is involved in a gang fight and you need it. Sid will have to choose ...
Arab-Muslim world Á N
September 23
Movie: Etz Limon (Lemon Tree) - 2008
Director: Eran Riklis
Subtitle: English
The story of a Palestinian widow who must defend his garden of lemon trees on the border of Israel and the West Bank where the new defense ministry threatened to destroy their trees.
September 28
Movie: Omaret Yacob ( Yacoubian Building) - 2006
Director: Marwan Hamed
Subtitle: English
Drama
The Yacoubian Building in Cairo, remains a fascinating building. Erected in 1934 and named the leader of the Armenian community, was long considered the ultimate in comfort and elegance. Freely inspired a popular novella Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswani, this film reflects a series of episodes in the lives of the residents of the building. One of its inhabitants is the aristocratic Zaki El Dessouki (Adel Imam), authentic playboy for women who are great weakness.
In one of his appointments coincide with its neighbor Bothayna (Hind Sabry), a young lower class. Required to fool around with the owner of the shop where he works to feed his family, the girl has to renounce the love of his life, Taha El Shazly, son of the Yacoubian doorman, who terminates the relationship so explosive.
Germany
September 30
Movie: Der Tunnel (The Tunnel to Freedom) - 2001
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Subtitle: English
Action, drama, history, suspense
A movie based on a true story about a group of East Berliners escaping to the west. Harry Melchior is prejudiced by the system, which had already imprisoned. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe tunnel, but the project went as expected.
October 5
Movie: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of others) - 2007
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Subtitle: English
A writer and his girlfriend are spied on by an agent of the Stasi (secret police of the former German DR). Soon, he hears and observes that the agent will not get too involved in the "Lives of Others
BRAZIL
October 7
Movie: Romance - 2008
Director: Guel Arraes
Drama
If the end is too tragic and happy ending is just a fantasy for us to stay calm and happy, is there a way to love and, in turn, be happy about it ? This is the love story of Anne and Peter, with the ups and downs, anger and laughter, and the "ghost" of the story of Tristan and Isolde chasing them from beginning to end.
Movie: Stomach - 2008
Director: Marcos Jorge
Subtitle: English
Drama
The world consists of those who eat and where they are eaten. The protagonist Raimundo Nonato finds an alternative: he cooks. Begins in a bar, then a Italian restaurant and ends up in jail. How did it get there? Love, sex, jealousy, food and murderers in the streets and prisons of Brazil.
PORTUGAL
19,
Movie: Ainda há shepherds? (Is there still shepherds?) - 2006
Director: Jorge Pelicano
Subtitle: English
Documentary
There are places that are almost nonexistent. No electricity, no sanitation, no roads. One such place is hidden in a secluded valley in the mountains of Portugal. This nation of shepherds has a problem: the elderly die and young people do not want to pursue this hard job. In the character of the young Herminio clarify the fate of this people.
October 21
Movie: Fados - 2007
Director: Carlos Saura
Subtitle: English
Drama
After more than two years of research on the Fado, Carlos Saura, the director, makes an important change in his approach to musical . If previous musicals, Iberia, Flamenco, Tango ..., Carlos Saura was based on dance, Fados argument makes an effort and image that reflects a unique and original music on the birth of a suburban, port, which is itself a synthesis of all the music born in the late nineteenth century.
Lusophone Africa
October 26
Movie: O Senhor do Napomuceno Testament (Testament) - 1997
Director: Francisco Manso
Subtitle: English
Drama
Napumoceno businessman is the most successful in the archipelago of Cape Verde. It is ambitious, intelligent, opportunistic, all his life known as the "eternal bachelor." Therefore, his illegitimate daughter discovers that he acquired his fortune and his many women in ways unorthodox and unbelievable.
October 28
Movie: Nha Fala (My Voice) - 2002
Director: Flora Gomes
Subtitle: English
Fiction / Musical
In Cape Verde, is celebrated all singing, weddings, funerals, meetings, separations, elections and inaugurations. The one who can not sing is the young Vita. Since ancient legend promises death to anyone in your family who tries to sing. Before traveling to France to continue studying with her mother again intone solemnly promise never any song. Once in Paris, Vita meets a boy musician, Pierre, who falls in love. The joy that flooded her humming makes
notes. Has a magnificent voice.
Italy
Movie: Nuovomondo (The land of great promise) - 2007
Director: Emanuele Crialese
Subtitle: English
Adventure, drama, fantasy and romance
beginning of 20 century in Sicily, Salvatore, a poor farmer and widower decides to emigrate to the U.S. with his family and even her mother. Before embarking, they meet Lucy, a woman who mysteriously wants to marry someone before returning to the U.S..
November 4
Movie: Giorni e nuvole (Sound of Music) - 2008
Director: Silvio Soldini
Subtitle: English
Elsa and Michele have a daughter almost twenty years. They have money to fulfill his dream Elsa, go back to school. But Michele just recognize that takes two months without working, since he was fired from the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes evil drink with energy, while Michele goes from hope to apathy during a fruitless search for work. The distance between them grows until
decide to separate. Only then will they realize that they are about to lose his máspreciado treasure: the love that unites them.
France
November 9
Movie: Molière - 2007
Director: Laurent Tirard
Subtitle: English
Comedy, history
Paris, 1644, Molière has been released from jail by a wealthy bourgeois Mr. Jourdain, who has paid the debts of the young actor to change that teach the art of interpretation. Jourdain, who wants to be famous, is infatuated with the delicious, but poisonous, Célimène, whose classroom is being in love and intellectuals. But the affair must remain secret so as not aware of Jourdain's wife, Elmira, a wonderful woman who falls in love with Molière.
November 11
Movie: Entre les murs (Between the walls) - 2008
Director: Laurent Catent
Subtitle: English
Drama
François is a young French teacher in a difficult school, located in a troubled neighborhood. Her students are between 14 and 15. Do not hesitate to deal with Esmeralda, Souleymane, a Khoumba and others in stimulating verbal battles, as if the language is at stake. But the learning of democracy may entail real risks.
Francophone world
November 16
Movie: Bon Cop, Bad Cop - 2006
Director: Erik Canuel
Subtitle: English
Action, comedy, crime, suspense
The appearance of a mysterious corpse right on the border between Quebec and Ontario resulting in two policemen from different provinces are forced to work together due to a special circumstance. The problems arise from large differences between the two, not only in their personal characteristics but also by the method of work they use.
November 18
Movie: Bamako - 2006
Director: Abderrrahmane Sissako
Subtitle: English
Drama
Melé sings in a bar, her husband Chaka is unemployed and the couple is about to break. The courtyard of the house they share with other families has become a courtroom, spokesmen for African civil society accuses the World Bank and International Monetary Fund of the ills that afflict Africa. And while following the statements of prosecutors, advocates and witnesses in the court life continues.
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