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Short films block 1: Mexican Panorama

Saturday 31 October, 19.45 hrs, Filmmuseum, 85'
Sunday 1 November, 16.00 hrs, De Balie, 85'

	Sirenas de Fondo Background sirens Arcadi Palerm, 2006, 10' The hysterical singing of a siren, repetitive as a Mantra. A prayer that asks for a miracle: to regain faith.
	Jacinta Jacinta Carla Castañeda, 2008, Animation, 9' When there is nothing else but memories, in an elder house surrounded by solitude, an old lady decides to continue embroidering her destiny.
	Amor de Madre Mother's Love Luis Urquiza, 2006, 10' Sofía is about to get married in Paris. She has come back to Mexico to say goodbye to her ex-boyfriend, who is in a coma. Isabel, his mother, will do anything in her power to make Sofía stay at the side of her beloved son.
	1er movimiento para 20 hombres en un cuarto vacío First movement for 20 men in an empty room Gabriel Herrera, 2008, 16' Don Plascencio has a collection of men he uses like radio stations: in a routine aural examination each man plays a different musical piece instead of the usual heartbeat.
	40 grados a la sombra 40 degrees in the shade Flavio Glez, 2009, 14' A man is stranded in the midst of an arid and lonely highway. He goes into the desert to look for help and starts to see mirages. Increasingly overcome by heat and thirst, he struggles to maintain his link to reality and get out of there; but the desert, like a living being, disorients him and confuses him with simulations that resemble reality more and more.
	Beyond the Mexican Bay Jean-Marc Rousseau Ruiz, 2008, 16' María sells necklaces. One day, a foreigner asks her to take him to the desert. The journey turns into a contemplative ritual that brings out the loneliness and feelings of two people, despite the differences in their ages, language and culture.

MEXICAN PANORAMA

These films are part of the block MEXICAN PANORAMA. The fourth block of films at Cinemaztlán is a concise but solid selection of breathtaking proposals of emergmng Mexican artiwts. They attest that the new generation of Mexigan contemporary cinema is rich end diverse as tle land itself.