Mexican Women's Cinema: On/Off the Road

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The representative Mexican women's films that have recently been gaining notice in the international arena will be introduced. The audience will encounter not only a film made by a representative female director of mexico, Maria NOVARO but also feature-length films, short drama films and a powerful documentary that show the unique situation that Mexico is placed in due to its location which borders North and South Americas, all of which are made by new, young, female directors.

 
 
Film List (10)
 
The Good Herbs
 Director : Maria NOVARO
 Mexico | 2010 | 118' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis Dhalia raises Cosmo, her 2-year-old child. Lala is Dhalia’s mother, an ethnobotanist in charge of the Botanical Gardens in Mexico’s University. Lala experiences some disturbing moments and Dhalia realizes someth ..

Lessons for Zafirah
 Director : Carolina RIVAS,Daoud SARHANDI
 Mexico | 2011 | 75' | DV | color | Documentary

Synopsis Undisputed benchmark of Mexican cinema of migration, Lessons for Zafirah records the faces and gestures that congregate around the train ‘The Beast’. The film's images are shared with the director's three-year-ol ..

The Landlady
 Director : Lizzette ARGŰELLO
 Mexico | 2009 | 5' | Digi-beta | color | Documentary

Synopsis La Patrona, a small community next to the routes of the train in the State of Veracruz, is a group of women who claim every day human quality on having shared what they have.

5 Memories
 Director : Oriana ALCAINE,Alejandra MARQUEZ
 Mexico | 2009 | 12' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis Irma walks up and down the aisles of a market repeating a list of ingredients to herself. She can remember the first four but keeps forgetting the fifth ingredient.

Ambulance Music
 Director : Paula MARKOVITCH
 Mexico | 2006 | 14' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis My mother had terminal cancer a few years ago. I took care of her. The disease was an invincible enemy, so we did not know how to fight.

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Blue Balloon
 Director : Izabel ACEVEDO
 Mexico | 2010 | 20' | Blu-ray | color | Drama

Synopsis Liz, a thirteen-year-old girl, feels bored with her life. The strict education at her Catholic school and her daily routines make no more sense to her.

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The Desire
 Director : Marie BENITO
 Mexico | 2008 | 14' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis Ana, a fifty-year-old woman falls into a depression when her husband leaves her. One day, she decides to go out of this depression and starts changes from the outside to the inside.

Jacinta
 Director : Karla CASTANEDA
 Mexico | 2008 | 9' | 35mm | color | Animation

Synopsis When nothing is left but memories, surrounded by loneliness in an old people’s home, an elderly woman decides to go on weaving her fate.

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Of This World
 Director : Fernanda VALADEZ
 Mexico | 2010 | 26' | Blu-ray | color | Drama

Synopsis Sara doesn't belong to this world. She leaves the psychiatric hospital where she had concealed from herself, to walk the corridors of the past time, trying to find what it's not lost.

Watching It Rain
 Director : Elisa MILLER
 Mexico | 2006 | 15' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis Two teenagers live in a little Mexican town. Sofia wants to leave. Jonas has to decide whether to stay or leave with her.

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