Ventana Docs Painting Mafalda Creator Quino, Intolerance, Intimacy

“Quinografía,” a portrait of the famously timid Mafalda cartoonist Quino, and “Habana Libre,” a tackle rebellious youth in Cuba, appear like potential standouts at Ventana Docs, a choice of 12 doc options from throughout Latin America and Spain.  

A notable quantity have been developed at prestigious labs, whether or not Sundance Pageant applications (“Bleeding Coronary heart,” “Violent-Home-Fiction”) or Spain’s Pompeu Fabra College. Two inform trans tales (“I Imagine,” “Yren”) and with it, chart resistance and intolerance, important banes of different Ventana Sur titles. 

Many are intimate tales, of the director’s battle with HIV (“The best way to Stay With…”), or reconnection along with his father (“Capitan”), or battle to just accept his father’s suicide (“The Curve”). Some combine the non-public and a bigger political canvas, as in “Violent-Home-Fiction” and “Household Politics” the place the director reconnects along with his household as his father battles for workplace representing ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori’s far right-wing Cambio 90 social gathering.

A minimum of a 3rd of the doc options are co-produced with Spain, quickly rising as a go-to-partner for Latin American titles, whether or not fiction or non-fiction.

A drill-down on titles: 

“Bleeding Coronary heart,” (Antonio Romero Zurita, Ecuador)

The movie makes use of private archives and testimonies to reconstructs the reminiscence of Elena, a lady who died of AIDS in 2013, addressing household silences and societal stigma surrounding her sickness and demise. Produced by Runga Arte Experimental, backed by the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund (2020), IFCI Screenplay Fund (2020), a Walden Residency (2022) and Bolivia Lab (2019).

“Capitan,” Laura Otálora Pardo (Colombia, Spain)

Playlab Movies and Tomato Content material produce this documentary about Efrén, a lifelong mariner who now spends his days in a residence for Alzheimer’s sufferers. Efrén can also be director Laura Otálora Pardo’s father, and this movie is their story of reconnection. Earlier honors as a challenge embrace the FDC Growth Grant in Colombia, finest challenge at DokLab Nabarra and the general public award at Punto de Vista Pitch. Subsequent cease is the Miradas Pageant in Medellín, kicking off at the moment.

“The Curve,” Agustin Flores, (Uruguay, Spain)

Structured as a co-production between Uruguay’s Trapecistas Producciones and Spain’s Zona Cielo Movies and Insumisa Movies, a doc interweaving the story of Jorge Firpo, a legendary horse coach who retires after a life devoted to creating champions, and the story of the director, confronting the ache of his father’s suicide. Chosen for the Laboratory for Editorial Help of Artistic Documentaries (LABED) of Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra College, Spain’s gold commonplace for doc growth.

“Emergency Measures,” (André Bomfim, Brazil)

A doc characteristic depiction of the Maria da Penha Patrol in Brazil’s In Maceió which battles to interrupt the cycle of violence towards girls, defending victims, some at life-threatening dangers. Bomfilm feedback that below feminine command, the Patrol has by no means misplaced a lady. “Nevertheless, sustaining this purpose is a gigantic job in a society and establishment riddled with sexism,” he provides. Arrange at São Paulo’s Mirafilmes, a part of DocSP 2023, the place it gained the Chile Conecta Award.

“Household Politics,” Martín Rebaza Ponce de León (Peru)

Co-produced by La Unión Cine and Animalita Cine, this movie tells the story of Martin, a Germany-based filmmaker who returns to the Peruvian Amazon to reconnect along with his household throughout his father’s marketing campaign for workplace as a consultant of ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori’s far right-wing Cambio 90 social gathering. The characteristic was financed with backing from the Peruvian Ministry of Tradition and gained the FICVIÑA Award on the Lima Worldwide Movie Pageant in 2023.

“Habana Libre,” Lina María Rivera (Colombia)

This mixed-media doc options three younger skate boarders in Havana, Cuba who seek for freedom and private achievement by redefining socialist monuments as skate parks. Its story examines the pissed off goals and each day private revolutions that defy social and financial constraints in Cuba. Cineopia Artwork Home, which focuses on mixing genres and codecs, produces the documentary, which guarantees to be something however typical.

“The best way to Stay With…,” (Luisa García Alva, Peru)

A challenge with an extended historical past, with García Alva first mentored on it by Hernán Musaluppi again in 2016 and offered not too long ago on the Lima Fest’s Mañana WIPs. Autobiographical, it traces the director’s odyssey from her HIV prognosis to her expertise of residing with HIV in a contemporary world. The primary characteristic title from Projazz, a younger Peruvian manufacturing firm.    

“I Imagine,” Florencia Wehbe (Argentina)

In largely catholic Argentina, the Virgin of La Rosa Mística manifests herself within the residence of María Belén Ochoa, a trans girl from a village in Córdoba who grew to become the primary trans mom in Argentina in 2010 after being visited by the Virgin in a dream. María Dolores Chaig and Darío Mascambroni produce for Lumina.

“Quinografía,”(Mariano Donoso y Federico Cardone, Argentina, Spain)

Oneof the largest business packages at Ventana Docs, a portrait of the famously timid cartoonist Quino, creator of the Mafalda cartoon, translated into 30 languages, which is shot in six languages and 4 nations. Produced by Argentina’s Curandero Producciones And Spain’s El Gatoverde Producciones and picked up by Spanish pubcaster TVE, the doc characteristic has “a collection of open traces and conversations for broadcast on platforms in Latin America,” says producer Ciro Néstor Novelli.

“Vicissitudes of Mild,” Marcel Beltrán (Cuba)

Beltrán’s disturbing view of Cuba through the revolution has acquired backing from Go Cuba! World Cinema Amsterdam, the Norwegian Enjoyable for Cuban Cinema, Miradas Doc in Spain and DocsMX in Mexico. Expressed by the genius, censorship and delirium of Chinolope, a photographer cherished and hated by the Cuban institution, the movie paperwork the encounters and misunderstandings contained in the artist’s claustrophobic residence because the revolution he knew collapsed outdoors its partitions.

“Violent-Home-Fiction,” María Ruiz García, (Venezuela, Spain)

A inventive hybrid doc blurring the traces between actuality and fiction to painting the lack of the director’s grandparents’ home in Caracas—an occasion marked by violence, intimidation, police abuse and extortion. Produced by Dos Margaritas, based mostly on Margarita Island, Venezuela, and

Una caza en el abismo in Valencia, Spain, and put by a Sundance Collab Workshop headed by David Finch and Maya Cueva. 

“Yren,” Tania Cattebeke Laconich (Paraguay)

Pororó Movies produces this story of trans activist Yren Rotela in conservative Paraguay, the place the life expectancy for a trans individual is roughly 35 years. Yren and her friends work to ascertain self-sustainability for the Casa Diversa, the one TLGBQ+ residence shelter within the nation. As a piece in progress, this 12 months the movie has already screened at Malaga, the Latino GuadaLAjara Movie Pageant and the Austin Movie Society.