ECUADORIAN SHOWCASE FROM COLECTIVO DOGMA CENTRAL – VFFF

• PEZ-UÑA / FISH AND NAILSLeo Espinoza / Ecuador / Fiction / 2012 / 4 min.Elisa tries to enjoy a nice day at the beach. She leaves her dress and sandals in the sand to begin her exercises. However, once she returns, she discovers that her favorite sandals have been stolen.

• MAMA BIÑA Wilmer Pozo / Ecuador / Mockumentary / 2012 / 8 min.A man is guided by a couple of children to a place where a strange event is about to happen. From this, the main character will be forced to search for an answer. In this inquiry, he will find out that everything is connected by a name “MAMA BIÑA”.

• HUELLAS / TRACESCristóbal Infante / Ecuador / Fiction / 2012 / 9 min.In a dark and strange place from the 1940´s, a young woman decides to run away with her lover not knowing she is being watched by her obsessive husband.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 5:40 PM | TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 min.• LUCY VS. LOS LÍMITES DE LA VOZ / LUCY vs. THE LIMITS OF THE VOICEMónica Herrera / Mexico / Fiction / 2012 / 10 min. (Courtesy of IMCINE)Lucy, a seven-year-old girl, is curious to know if the voice of a person can expire and if so, could that be the reason why her grandfather does not speak. To find the answer, she decides to undertake a risky experiment, defying the strict rules of Aunt Rosa.

• PIENSAS / WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? Rubén Sainz / Spain / Fiction / 2012 / NY Premiere / 8 min.Rule number one for getting along with your partner: never ask “the question”. You may not be prepared for the answer.

• SOLECITO Oscar Ruiz Navia / Colombia / Fiction / 2013 / NY Premiere / 20 min. (Courtesy of Black Velvet)It was during a casting session in their school that the two characters of this film met the director. Each separately told him the story of how they had broken up. And what if fiction allowed them to get back together again?

• EL AÑO PASADO EN MARDELPLÁ / LAST YEAR AT MARDELPLÁSantiago Korovsky, Celeste Contratti / Argentina / Fiction / 2013 / NY Premiere / 4 min.This is the story of a man who seeks a woman he believes to have met a year ago. Love, poetry, and absurdity are all featured in this tribute to a mythical French film.

• ARROZ / RICE Arturo Martinelli / Mexico / Fiction / 2012 / NY Premiere / 11 min.Rodrigo is going through a divorce and a midlife crisis. Late one night, he craves a bowl of rice; he searches his entire apartment for some rice with no luck, until it begins to appear in the most unexpected places, causing him great confusion and frustration.

• VOICE OVER Martín Rosete / Spain / Fiction / 2012 / 10 min. (Courtesy of Kimuak)The French voice of an old man jumps from one extreme scene to another, confused by the story that he is trying to tell us. Until he finally is aware of it…

• Y SI NO ES MAÑANA / IF IT’S NOT TOMORROWMartín Schuliaquer / Argentina / Fiction / 2013 / 14 min. (Courtesy of Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires)He wakes up in the morning. He doesn’t feel well. He brushes his teeth after he vomits. He goes through the house looking at drawings, a model, and a photo with writings that make him smile. He pins it back on the board of old family images. He makes breakfast for two. He waits.

• MAÑANA TODAS LAS COSAS / TOMORROW ALL THE THINGSSebastián Schjaer / Argentina / Fiction / 2013 / NY Premiere / 18 min.Courtesy of Universidad del Cine, Buenos AiresJulia and Diego spend a weekend looking after Diego’s nephew in a house far from the city. Everything seems to go by until Julia’s visit to the hospital changes the course of the relationship.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 7:30 PM - CLOSING | TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 91 min.• DISPLACED BUT NOT DEFEATED / DESPLAZADOS María Ceballos Paz / U.S. / Documentary / 2012 / 26 min. (Courtesy ByKids Foundation) María Ceballos Paz, a 16-year-old Colombian girl, has been living in displacement for the past nine years as a result of Colombia’s civil war. She directed, filmed and narrated this award-winning documentary that puts a human face on the statistics of displacement, as well as the cost of civil war and the drug trade.

• ALL ARE THE SAME Miguel Rueda / U.S. / Animation / 2013 / 6 min.When María and Ramón read their mail, their lives will be permanently changed as they will be forced to make a radical decision.

• CHIVAJulián Jiménez / U.S. / Documentary / 2012 / NY Premiere / 16 min.Carmen, a Colombian immigrant living in Queens, New York, pursues the American Dream by running a party bus.

• DANCE HORSEOscar Frasser / U.S. / Experimental / 2013 / 5 min. The film studies the concept of human-animal communication that has existed in civilization for longer than documented memoir. It has been a component of many myths and folk tales in numerous cultures. This is an attempt to interpret the communication between human and animal, which is a very profound, and trusting language.

• SÓLO SOY SOLOMON / ONLY SOLOMON LEE Alex Lora / U.S. / Fiction / 2013 / 15 min.Outskirts of the city... In the depths of a factory an alienated loner nurtures himself with the lives that he finds in stolen laptops. In his own obsession Solomon is looking for a miracle: connect with someone, run away from himself, and love.

• EL SENO DE LA ESPERANZA / MILK OF HOPEFreddy Vargas / U.S. / Fiction / 2013 / 16 min.Cheddy García plays Sonia Marmolejos, a young Dominican mother of five, who helped several orphan Haitian babies after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake in such a tender and unselfish way that it touched the hearts of everyone in the nation of the Dominican Republic and the world. Based on a true story.

• DESANIMADO / UNANIMATEDEmilio Martí / U.S. / Fiction / 2011 / 7 min.A cartoon character goes to therapy because he feels rejected by the real world. In its self-analysis he ponders about the social rule to adapt and the value of daring to be oneself.

Directors present for Q&A

Reception and party to follow with DJ Funkenstein

I T ’ S S H O R T T I M E !C O R T O C I R C U I T OC E L E B R A T E S

1 0 Y E A R SProduced & Organized by NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center

& Film Programmer Diana Vargas

O C T O B E R 1 0 - 1 2 , 2 0 1 3

With the support of: Dirección de Cinematografía de Colombia; Escuela de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños de Cuba (EICTV); Havana Film Festival NY (HFFNY); Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía(IMCINE); Casa Comal & Festival Icaro, Guatemala; Producciones de la 5ta Avenida, Cuba; Universidad del Cine de Argentina; Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC); QueensLatino.com; Enrola TV; PromoFest, Spain; Aguijón Films; Festival de Creación Audiovisual (VFFF), Ecuador; Kimuak, Spain; Empanadas Café.

Artistic Director, Programmer, Co-Founder: Diana VargasFestival Coordinator, Co-Founder: Laura TuréganoLogistics: Luis PérezTrailer Design: Miguel Rueda – Aguijón FilmsProgram, Postcard, and Poster Design: José Carlos CasadoWeb Design: Sebastián FrancoVideo Compilation: Juan RiverosProgramming Assistants: Lorena Ramírez-López & Aline Valdés

Thanks to: Adelfa Martínez, Elías Jiménez, Patricia Bernard, Marcela Alvarez, Gabriel Roldos, Wilson Reyes, Jorge Rey, Carlos Muñoz, María Marta Antín, Eduardo Machuca, CNAC, VFFF, IMCINE, EICTV, Universidad del Cine, HFFNY, Claudia Calviño, La 5ta Avenida Films. All Foreign Language Films Are Subtitled in English

Free and Open to the Public. Picture ID required

KJCC Auditorium: 53 Washington Square South

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 7:00 PM | TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 117 min.• LA CERCA / THE FENCE Rubén Mendoza / Colombia / 2004/ Fiction / 20 min.After years of silence Francisco and his father meet again to tear down the fence that divides their lives. In the sordid and violent Colombian countryside it’s impossible to forget and make up having a past full of murder, hate and resentment.

*This film was CortoCircuito’s closing night film ten years ago.

• LAS TARDES DE TINTICO / TINTICO’S AFTERNOONAlejandro García / Mexico / 2012 / Animation / 9 min. (Courtesy of IMCINE)Under the beautiful valley of Acapulco, a group of mosquitoes addicted to music tries, desperately, to restore happiness to an old and famous rumba instructor. Step in one and all and enjoy great musical numbers, talented performances and a lot of flavor! Awards: Best Animation - Guadalajara Film Festival.

• CAMIONERO / TRUCK DRIVER Sebastián Miló / Cuba / 2012 / NY Premiere / Fiction / 25 min.In a boarding school, Raidel is witness to the abuse suffered by his schoolmate Randy.Awards: Best Short - Muestra de Jóvenes Realizadores, Cuba; Official selection Clermont-Ferrand.

• LINEAR / LINEARAmir Admoni / Brazil / 2012 / NY Premiere / Animation / 6 min. (Courtesy of PromoFest)The line is a dot that went for a walk. Awards: Best Short -Abu Dhabi International Film Fest; Best Brazilian Short- Anima Mundi, Brazil

• NGUTUFelipe del Olmo, Daniel Valledor / Spain / 2012 / NY Premiere / Fiction / 4 min. (Courtesy of PromoFest)Ngutu is a newspaper street vendor who hardly sells any copies at all. Resentful, he starts watching the passersby closely in order to make progress in his business. Awards: Best Short - Houston International Film Festival.

• A GALINHA QUE BURLOU O SISTEMA / TASTE LIKE CHICKEN? Quico Mierelles / Brazil / 2012 / Documentary / 13 min. In a factory farm a chicken has a vision: she becomes aware of the wheels that rule her life and her destiny. Even cloistered among millions of chickens, who don’t share her anguish, she believes a different life is possible. Awards: Best Short - Recife Film Festival, Guadalajara.

• SALON ROYALE Sabrina Campos / Argentina / 2012 / NY Premiere / Fiction / 14 min.Ana, who is going to a wedding with two friends, hopes to meet somebody. But her expectations change when one of them reveals that her ex- might be there. Awards: Best Short - Mar Del Plata Film Festival

• JOCELYN Y EL COYOTE / JOCELYN AND THE COYOTEPilar Coloma / El Salvador / 2012 / NY Premiere / Animation / 8 min.Jocelyn dreams of a better life in the United States, but a journey, marked by the deceitfulness of the Coyote, convinces her that in her own country she may also succeed. Awards: Best Animation- Icaro Film Festival, Guatemala.

• LUMINARIS Juan Pablo Zaramella / Argentina / 2012 / NY Premiere / Animation / 6 min. (Courtesy of PromoFest)In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things. Awards: Luminaris has received more than 20 international awards.

• LA BODA / THE WEDDING Marina Sereseski / Spain / 2012 / NY Premiere / Fiction / 12 min. (Courtesy of Madrid en Corto)Mirta is from Cuba and she lives in Madrid. Like many other immigrants she works cleaning. Today at 6 pm, her daughter gets married. But nothing goes as she planned. To arrive at that wedding will be more difficult than expected. Awards: Best Short - Hayah Film Festival.

Reception to follow

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 7:00 PM | TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 93 min.• PUCHA VIDANazly López / Cuba-Colombia / 2007 / Documentary / 15 min.Pucha, the model revolutionary, lives happily on a set that she devised herself, the wood of her house comes from the very heart of the Sierra Maestra, and everything has a place in her world. However, Rogelia is a woman conflicted about the difference between reality and ideals. Her beloved granddaughter lives in the enemy’s country and has changed her nationality.

• .SUB ..Jossie Malis Álvarez / Spain / 2012 / Fiction / 15 min. (Courtesy of Madrid En Corto)An African immigrant with communication problems faces the bureaucratic difficulties of a strange society in original version.

• CUANDO ESTALLE LA MAÑANA / WHEN THE MORNING BURST FORTH Pablo Suárez / Ecuador / 2013 / NY Premiere / Fiction / 12 min.Bakan, a young ecuadorian that lives in Barcelona, Spain, since he was a child. He and his friend got into a fight and Figths betwwen guilt and his accions wihen he runs away throug the city.

• EL PAPEL / THE PAPERFermín Pedros / Argentina / Fiction / 2013 / NY Premiere / 17 min. (Courtesy of Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires)Chen lives in Buenos Aires with his sister. Li Xai lives and works at the Sega factory in China. She dreams about him, though she never met him. Chen falls in love with her, but he´s never seen her.

• KENDO MONOGATARI Fabián Suárez / Cuba-Guatemala / 2012 / Fiction / 15 min.Lesbia has a hair saloon at her house. Mandy, her best friend, who helps her with the duties of the saloon, wants to leave illegally from the country. In certain moment, she will be forced to make some important decisions.

• ELLA Juan Montes de Oca / Spain / Animation / 2012 / 19 min. (Courtesy of PromoFest)In Palma de Mallorca, through 5 year old kid innocence, and common life coincidences, an Afro-American homeless remember his non-sense life going back 45 years in New York. All together makes his life change to find at last the way to happiness.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2:45 PM | TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 57 min.• CON LUZ CONOCÍ LA NOCHE / WITH LUZ I GOT TO KNOW THE NIGHTSarah Moreno / Colombia / Documentary / 2013 / NY Premiere / 8 min.This documentary tells the story of Sergio, a man who despite his disability, does not give up on love. He is ready to regain the love of Luz, the woman who changed his life.

• CARACAS EN MOTO / CARACAS ON MOTORCYCLE Daniel Ruiz-Hueck / Venezuela / 2012 / NY Premiere / Documentary / 10 min. Anger, impatience, and rage are just some of the few feelings that drivers in Caracas experience as they try and beat the rising use of vehicles while on a motorcycle.

• BAJO LA ALMOHADA / UNDER THE PILLOWIsabel Herguera / Spain / 2012 / NY Premiere / Documentary / 9 min. (Courtesy of Kimuak)Animated documentary that uses the voices and drawings of a group of children who live in a clinic in India. The guitar, the dances, a trip out to sea, the cats Sweety and Kitty and the sisters who look after them are just some of the treasures and dreams which the children keep hidden under the pillow.

• DESDE CHIQUITA / SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL José Luis Soto / Mexico / 2012 / NY Premiere / Documentary / 4 min. Fili lives in a society that has never understood what he has been since he was a little girl…

• UNA HISTORIA PARA LOS MODLINS / A STORY FOR THE MODLINSSergio Oksman / Spain / Documentary / 2012 / NY Premiere / 26 min. (Courtesy of Madrid En Corto)After appearing in the film Rosemary’s Baby, by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his family to a distant land, where they shut themselves inside a dark apartment for thirty years.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 4:00 PM | TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 94 min.• LA HERIDA DE LUCRECIA / LUCRECIA’S WOUNDSabrina Maldonado / Mexico / 2012 / Fiction / 10 min. (Courtesy of IMCINE)Lucrecia has overcome breast cancer, but not the loneliness she has been suffering for some time. The arrival of a stranger into her life shows her that there are wounds that cannot heal by themselves.

• AQUEL NO ERA YO / THAT WASN’T MEEsteban Crespo / Spain / Fiction / 2012 / 24 min. Being a soldier is not difficult: either you get used to it or they kill you. The hardest thing is getting used to living with your memories and being yourself again after doing what you have done.

• CARNADA / BAITCarlos Benavides / Costa Rica / Fiction / 2013 / 14 min.As the night reaches its loneliest hour, Rafa is anxiously looking for the woman he loves. She takes center stage under the neon lights of a strip club, seductively dancing. Rafa knows she belongs to him. But what he doesn’t know is that someone’s after him, and things won’t turn out as he expects.

• BISDairo Cervantes / Colombia / Fiction / 2012 / 4 min. Olor putrefacto a traición, peste de culpa... No hay amor más grande que el del traidor arrepentido.

• BEERBUG Ander Mendia / Spain / Animation / 2012 / 8 min. (Courtesy of Kimuak)Joe, who is busy running an old roadside petrol station, decides to take a break and have a beer. His efforts at enjoying his beer fail because someone is robbing him right under his nose.

• OSLO Luis Ernesto Dueñas / Cuba / Fiction / 2012 / NY Premiere / 13 min. Amanda’s yearning for snow pushes her to dangerous extremes. Worried, her husband Raul decides to bring the winter to their home.

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