“Quinografía,” a portrait of the famously timid Mafalda cartoonist Quino, and “Habana Libre,” a take on rebellious youth in Cuba, look like potential standouts at Ventana Docs, a selection of 12 doc features from across Latin America and Spain.
A notable number have been developed at prestigious labs, whether Sundance Festival programs or Spain’s Pompeu Fabra University. Two tell trans stories and with it, chart resistance and intolerance, main banes of other Ventana Sur titles.
Many are intimate stories, of the director’s battle with HIV (“How to Live With…”), or reconnection with his father (“Capitan”), or battle to accept his father’s suicide (“The Curve”). Some mix the personal and a larger political canvas, as in “Violent-House-Fiction” and “Family Politics” where the director reconnects with his family as his father battles for office representing ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori’s far right-wing Cambio 90 party.
At least a third of the doc features are co-produced with Spain,...
A notable number have been developed at prestigious labs, whether Sundance Festival programs or Spain’s Pompeu Fabra University. Two tell trans stories and with it, chart resistance and intolerance, main banes of other Ventana Sur titles.
Many are intimate stories, of the director’s battle with HIV (“How to Live With…”), or reconnection with his father (“Capitan”), or battle to accept his father’s suicide (“The Curve”). Some mix the personal and a larger political canvas, as in “Violent-House-Fiction” and “Family Politics” where the director reconnects with his family as his father battles for office representing ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori’s far right-wing Cambio 90 party.
At least a third of the doc features are co-produced with Spain,...
- 11/20/2024
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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