Films in Progress 27 / Toulouse 2015

A cidade onde envelheço (en)

Director: 

Marília Rocha

Country: 

  • Brésil
  • Portugal

Year: 

2015

Length: 

90 min

Francisca is a young Portuguese woman who’s been living in Brazil for a year. At her mother’s behest, she welcomes Teresa, a fellow citizen she’d lost contact with, into her home. While Teresa is enthralled, discovering the place where she means to settle and escape the crisis that has taken over her homeland, Francisca decides to go back to Lisbon. The film follows each woman’s adventures in the city and the deep bond of friendship that grows between them, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an unknown country and a relentless longing for home.

Desde allá (en)

Director: 

Lorenzo Vigas

Country: 

  • Venezuela

Year: 

2015

Length: 

90 min

In the chaotic Caracas, Armando (50), owner of a lab dentures, is looking for young men at bus stops and offers them money to accompany him home. At the same time, Armando has the habit of spying on an old man: he knows where he lives, what places he visits; something in the past of both tie them together.
One day Armando takes home Elder (18), leader of a small band of thugs. From this meeting will born a relationship that will change their lives forever.

Eva no duerme (en)

Director: 

Pablo Agüero

Country: 

  • Argentine
  • Espagne
  • France

Year: 

2015

Length: 

100 min

Evita Perón just died. She is the most beloved, but also hated political figure of Argentina. An expert is in charge of her embalming. After years of hard work, he achieves a remarkable work. Meanwhile in Argentina coups follow each other and some dictators want to remove Evita’s legacy from the people’s memory. Her body would become the stake of clashes for 25 years.
25 years during which Evita has been the most powerful figure than any other living politician.

Los Nadie (en)

Director: 

Juan Sebastián Mesa Bedoya

Country: 

  • Colombie

Year: 

2015

Length: 

85 min

A story of hate, broken promises, and the brotherly love of five friends who met in the streets of a hostile city. These is the story of young people who are eager to travel and who find refuge and opportunities in street art and music.

Maquinaria Panamericana (en)

Director: 

Joaquín del Paso

Country: 

  • Mexique

Year: 

2015

Length: 

90 min

It’s Friday morning at Panamerican Machinery Inc., a company specialising in machines for construction and destruction. The employees are already winding down for the weekend, when an unexpected turn of events shakes their monotony. Don Alejandro, the boss, lies dead. The discovery changes everything – the company is bankrupt, the elderly workforce have no prospects of employment elsewhere and no hope for any retirement funds. In a state of confusion, fear and grief they agree to lock themselves in their workplace.

NN (en)

Director: 

Héctor Gálvez Campos

Country: 

  • Allemagne
  • Colombie
  • France
  • Pérou

Year: 

2014

Length: 

90 min

The remains of a man disappeared during the political turmoil in Peru were exhumed, but no one has claimed them. The only element that Fidel recovers to find his family is a picture the dead had in his pocket. A single blurry photo, the symbol of a time and a memory...

Vida sexual de las plantas (en)

Director: 

Sebastián Brahm

Country: 

  • Mexique

Year: 

2015

Length: 

119 min

Barbara and Guille are in love and she just wants to have a child with him. But an accident changes his personality and she discovers that she feels no desire for this dimwit stranger. After a year mourning the death of love she gets involved with Nils, a man more plain than old Guille, who offers her a life like the one she planned, minus real passion. She takes on this new life but the memory of lost love still harrows her. She realizes that sometimes the best father is not the best husband.