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Short films block :
Sexuality

Friday 30 October, De Balie, 20.00 uur, 91'

The selection made for this block is as complex and challenging as the processes around sexuality themselves. Surprising, conflicting, even hazardous, these films give a glimpse into present-day life in Mexico.

	Los monstuos sí existen Monsters do exist Alex Guerrero, 2007, 6' Miguelito appears to be just another kid who dreams of monsters in hisbedroom at night... At school he is told that monsters do not exist; yet he knows there is one coming at his very house.
	Con lujo de detalle With luxury of detail Héctor Falcón, 2007, 10' As usual, Rita serves coffee at a restaurant. Her boyfriend Sergio shows up to hear every detail of a dream she had. Rita can't help but drag him into a vivid narration, and herself with it.
	Tristeza Sadness Pierre Saint-Martin, 2007, 4' A bridge tells the story of a young couple whose love falls apart.
	Pescador Fisherman Daniela Schneider, 2007, 9' Alhelí, a beautiful young lady with sparkly eyes, drives along a highway in northern Mexico without having slept for days. She is in search of an invisible borderline; finding herself in life, in death, in a stranger boy and in a distant place.
	El recreo School break Masha Kostiurina, 2008, 2' During the break in a high school a teenager discovers her sexuality in an unexpected way.
	El deseo The desire Marie Benito, 2008, 14' Ana, a fifty-year-old woman falls into a depression when her husband leaves her. One day she decides to take her life back into her hands and find sexual desire once again. A process of change is started in which Ana rediscovers her new sexuality.
	Cocó y Nicó Cocó & Nicó Alejandro Cantú, 2007, 5' A unique romance between a woman and a very strange character. Play, dream, love
	La purísima Blessed Virgin Carlos Muñoz, 2008, 12' In a provincial town, a man who makes wooden saints goes bankrupt when it is discovered that he also carves erotic figures. Some prudes accuse him of the alleged pregnancy of a wooden virgin. The fanatics burn down his workshop, discovering what was growing under the virgin's robes.
	Encuentro Encounter Pepe Caudillo, 2004, 2' A young man anxiously wants to meet his neighbour. Nervous and desperate, today he will confront her.
	Fin de trayecto End of the line Acán Coen, 2007, 11' A couple of lovers who know nothing about one another begin to change the nature of their relationship when she starts to arrive with bruises on her body.

SEXUALITY

These films are part of the block SEXUALITY. The selection made for this block is as complex and challenging as the processes around sexuality themselves. Surprising, conflicting, even hazardous, these films give a glimpse into present-day life in Mexico. Related to this block is the debate Hard Sex: the development of sexuality and violence in Mexico and Mexican cinema at the University of Amsterdam.