CONECTA 11 presents a new selection of Latin American documentary feature films that will be part of this edition, focused on projects that are in the editing, post-production phase or that have completed their production during this year.
🎬 The selected projects are:
🔴 ARCHAEOLOGY OF TORTURE
▶️ Countries: BRAZIL – URUGUAY – FRANCE
▶️ Dir: CARLA GALLO
▶️ Prod: RAFAELLA COSTA, MICAELA SOLÉ, CARLA GALLO & FLORE DE FONTAINIEU
▶ ️ Storyline: As they excavate the premises of DOI-Codi, the main apparatus of repression during Brazil’s military dictatorship, a group of archaeologists unearths some of the darkest chapters in the country’s history. Interwoven with the excavations, archival materials and silenced stories evoke the political memory of the era and the dreams of a nation.
🔴 LIKE A FLAME BURNING IN THE DARK NIGHT
▶️ Countries: COSTA RICA – ECUADOR
▶️ Dir: CAROLINA ARIAS ORTIZ
▶️ Prod: MICHELE FERRIS DOBLES
▶ ️ Storyline: As public healthcare comes under threat, I return to Hospital Without Walls, the utopia my grandfather pioneered in Costa Rica’s mountains. Through archives and the voices of women and rural communities, I explore the contradictions of a doctor, poet and patriarch, and an enduring dream: healthcare as a right for all.
🔴 THE CRIMINAL RECORD OF MADAME WITTMANN
▶️ Country: CHILE
▶️ Dir: NICOLÁS VIDELA
▶️ Prod: KEVIN MAGNE TAPIA, NICOLÁS VIDELA & EVELYN WITTMANN
▶ ️ Storyline: The return to Chile of the legendary transsexual vedette Evelyn Wittmann (73) will see her face her criminal record, while searching a lost documentary from 1969.
🔴 MIGRATORY STARS
▶️ Countries: MEXICO – COLOMBIA
▶️ Dir: GIAN CASSINI
▶️ Prod: DAMIAN CANO Y BRENDA HINOJOSA CAMPOS
▶ ️ Storyline: Bety and Vero are two migrants cast as non-professional actors in a film about the violence that drug cartels inflict upon migrants crossing through Mexico. This experience acts as a catalyst, prompting them to confront their pasts and embarking them on a journey where embracing their own identity becomes their greatest strength.
🔴 LEGACY
▶️ Country: BRAZIL
▶️ Dir: ANA ARANHA
▶️ Prod: MARIANA GENESCÁ
▶ ️ Storyline: A family rebuilds itself after the patriarch is murdered for exposing the harms of pesticide use. His firstborn lives torn between both sides of his legacy: the fear of following his fate and the desire to build a better world for her daughter, with health issues from contamination.
🔴 THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF A FILM WE NEVER SAW
▶️ Country: PERU
▶️ Dir: CHRISTINE MLADIC JANNEY Y CLAUDIA CHÁVEZ LÉVANO
▶️ Prod: CLAUDIA CHÁVEZ LÉVANO Y CHRISTINE MLADIC JANNEY
▶ ️ Storyline: Nora de Izcue, Peru’s first female filmmaker, is searching for the original reels of Runan Caycu (1973), a documentary censored by the dictatorship. The film connected her with Latin American activist filmmakers, with whom she founded EICTV in Cuba. Today, her search takes on new urgency amid renewed threats of censorship in Peruvian cinema.
🔴 DEMOLITIONS
▶️ Country: URUGUAY
▶️ Dir: MARIANA VIÑOLES
▶️ Prod: CAROLINA CAMPO LUPO
▶ ️ Storyline: After the news of the demolition of the house where she tried to build her own family, the director intends to revisit her story, marked by a violent childhood.
Digging into the family’s photo album and videos she began filming at a very young age, she realizes that her life mirrors that of her mother.
🔴 MOTHER
▶️ Country: PANAMA
▶️ Dir: ALEJANDRA GARCÍA PEÑA
▶️ Prod: SAID ISAAC
▶ ️ Storyline: Forty years after her mother left Mexico to build a family in Panama, a filmmaker travels back with her, hoping to make the silence between them smaller and find the courage to reveal the part of herself she has always feared her mother might not accept.
🔴I WILL DIE A CHILEAN
▶️ Country: CHILE
▶️ Dir: RAFAEL VALDEAVELLANO
▶️ Prod: CAROLA FUENTES & SASJA OPDAM
▶ ️ Storyline: Fifty years after the car bomb that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier a mile from the White House, his four sons reconstruct his last three months of life: the summer of 1976, when, from exile, he mobilized the world against Pinochet, unaware that the dictatorship had already given the order to kill him.
ℹ️ About CONECTA
CONECTA is an international meeting place for the documentary industry, addressed to filmmakers and producers from Latin America who have documentary projects in the development, editing, post-production or completed stages and who do not yet have a committed premiere.
CONECTA is an event that brings together leading representatives of the audiovisual sector, both national and international, including professionals from funds, markets and festivals, distributors, sales agents, exhibitors, producers, programmers of television platforms and channels, among others.
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