'Perez,' 'Martes,' 'Amapolas play Primer Corte

MADRID -- Alvaro Viguera's "Perez," Gustavo Trevino's "P martes a martes" and Juan Carlos Melo's "Section of Amapolas" unspool at Primer Corte, a films in first cut showcase at December's Ventana Sur. From 4-year-old Buenos Aires shingle Carrousel Films, which produced Natalia Smirnoff's Berlin 2010 Competition player and customers hit "Puzzle," "Martes," an ethical drama, triggers a lumbering factory worker who witnesses a rape. Most likely probably the most socially-charged of Primer Corte photos, "Amapolas" may also be the initial feature to shoot inside the Colombian region of helmer Melo's Narino, our prime flatlands near to the Ecuatorian border. Maja Zimmermann, whose "Porfirio" carried out Cannes' Directors' Week, produces with Chirimoya Films' Alexandra Yepes. Presented in the 15-minute cut at Locarno's Carte Blanche this August, "Amapolas" triggers a boy together with a woman who romp in Colombia's beautiful countryside with puppy Rufino. The question "Amapolas" poses happens when extended that could last. The boy's lately been displaced from his home village by paramilitaries. His father now toils for just about any drug baron his uncle expects to make use of him for just about any scam. "Amapolas" is not a movie about war," mentioned Melo. "The war is simply a stage which existence, dreams and hopes continues.Inch However when there is a dominant condition in Corte photos this year, it's more youthful decades of Latin Us citizens whose parents have not successful them, and -- the grand theme of Latin American cinema -- the insidious impact of macro occasions on innocent lives. Co-produced by Gregorio Gonzalez at Chile's Forastero, whose credits include Golden Globe-nominated "The Maid," "Perez" turns, for instance, around the father's strained re-encounter while using 22-year-old daughter he's overlooked. Actress Elisa Zulueta composed "Perez," adapting her own stage play. Helmed by Juan Sebastian Jacome, "Ruta p la luna" posseses an albino boy travelling from Panama And Nicaragua , to Panama for just about any bowling tourney, based on his estranged father. "A Concealed Collection," from France-born but South usa-based Bernard Attal, transfers Stefan Zweig's 1926 short story, a moving account in the outcomes of Germany's depression, south of Bahia, among destroyed cacao farms. In Uruguayan Guillermo Rocamora's "Solo," an Military trumpeter is abandoned by his wife, then flies for the Antarctic, a trip which will change his existence permanently. Co-funded with the Hubert Bals, Ibermedia and Icau funds, "Solo," at $millions of, might be the finest-allotted of Corte photos. Examined at first cut, Corte game game titles vie for just about any Haciendo Cine award, making sure publish-push services through to some 35mm print, together with a brand new award, Copia . Incorporated in Copia , U.S. exhibitor Cinemark will open the winning title in Argentina, Chile and Peru. "Latin American cinema has issues with exhibition all over the region. We should find solutions," mentioned Liliana Mazure, prexy of Argentina's Incaa Film Institute. Organized by Incaa and Cannes' Marche du Film, Ventana Sur runs 12 ,. 2-5. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com