The Embassy of Venezuela in the Philippines collaborates with Instituto Cervantes de Manila in dedicating this month of July to a film cycle of contemporary Venezuelan films.
Contemporary Venezuelan Film Cycle Film Series
Free Movie Screenings
All Saturdays of July 2011
6:00 PM
Instituto Cervantes' Salon de Actos
855 T.M. Kalaw St.
1000 Ermita
Manila, Filipinas
July 2, 2011 (Saturday) - "Al Sur de la Frontera"
A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents.
There's a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn't know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chavez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nestor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raul Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region.
July 9, 2011 (Saturday) - "The Mountain of the Scribes"
The Mountain of the Scribes shows us part of the history of Mérida, Venezuela. Its principal plot are the dramatic events in 1785 surrounding the building of Saint Bonaventure Seminary of Mérida of the Knights, which gave origin of the University of the Andes. During the period of Spanish colonial domination in America, the power of the king was administered by a legion of scribes that took refuge in the walls of convents and monasteries. In 1785, a franciscano bishop got obsessed with the idea of building one of these convents in one of the most separated regions of Andes, this undertaking ushered in a terrible political struggle between the colonial authorities and the Spanish court that ended with bishop's life. This story allows us to know the world of conspiracies that knitted in the libraries and archives of the colonial convents, and shows us also how fascinating the art of the scribes and their passion for the mysteries of scripture. This is also a story of a young seminarian, his interest for the forbidden books and his tragic love story with a peasant in the surroundings of the monastery.
July 16, 2011 (Saturday) - "Florentino y el diablo"
Florentino is a young horseman and singer, a free spirit living in the open world without restrictions, in the Venezuelan plains. He confronts the devil in a duel of improvised verses. As time passes, these unspoilt plains start to change. Through Florentino's voice and actions, the plains cannot be conquered. Its culture defies the devil in the eternal fight between good and evil, between life and death.
July 23, 2011 (Saturday) - "Manuela Sáenz"
Herman Melville is a young sailorman who reaches the Peruvian port of Patia. There he discovers the legendary love story between Simón Bolívar and Manuela Sáenz, his great lover. Irreverent and controversial, this great woman was loved and hated, chased and abandoned, imprisoned and exiled all along the continent. Ahead of her time, her great passion led her to be part of the mythology of Latin American women.
July 30, 2011 (Saturday) - "El Caracazo"
The history is initiated in August of the 2002, in a meeting where Nicolas Petrov reads the sentence emitted by the Pan-American Cut of Human Rights, situated in Costa Rica, by means of which all State Venezuelan is ordered to compensate the relatives and victims of the events of February 27, to perform an effective investigation of the crimes and to identify the material heads and intellectuals of the judged facts To apply them the corresponding penal and administrative sanctions. Of all an endless number of situations are amused. They are very few the Venezuelans that do not have anything that to count on the 27F.
Admission to all the screenings is FREE on a FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED basis.
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