Films in Progress 17 / Toulouse 2010

Asalto al cine (en)

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Director: 

Iria Gómez Concheiro

Country: 

  • Mexique

Year: 

2011

Length: 

115 min.

Asalto al cine tells the tale of four youth youngsters: Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata. Friends since childhood, the teenagers come from a block of floats in Mexico's Guerrero colony and have too much time on their hands. They start toying with the idea of robbing a cinema. Each has a different problem and finds his own reason to go ahead with the heist. The adventure brings them into a head-on-clash with their lives and threatens the only thing they have: their friendship. 

Distancia (en)

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Director: 

Sergio Ramírez

Country: 

  • Guatemala

Year: 

2010

Length: 

75 min.

Tomás Choc is two days and 150Km away of seeing his only daughter Lucía for the first time in 20 years. The Army kidnapped her during the Guatemlaan civil war, when she was only three years old. Despite the pain suffered by her absence Tomás kept a diary of this years of struggle, resistance and survival hoping that this diary will someday get to his daughter's hands.