The Condor Daughter La Hija Cóndor
Synopsis
High in a remote community in the Bolivian Andes, a tender Quechua song ushers a new life into the world. Young Clara has learned these songs, and the sacred ways of midwifery, from her adoptive mother Ana, with whom she cares for the pregnant women of the surrounding villages. Despite her sense of duty to her people and respect for their midwifing tradition, Clara is a smart and curious girl tempted by the outside influences creeping into the community. When she runs off to the city to become a singer, she leaves a dark void in her wake.
Álvaro Olmos Torrico’s mesmerizing tale of encroaching modernity in an Indigenous family is a film of stunning contrasts: the sweeping pastoral landscapes and lush warmth of the village against the decadent neon of Cochabamba nightlife; the windswept quiet against the cacophonous city streets; the sounds of Quechua and Spanish. Grounded by deeply affecting performances and a cinematic exploration of music and song, Clara’s poetic journey is one toward the self.
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- Álvaro Olmos Torrico, Cecilia Sueiro Mosquera, Diego Sarmiento Pagán, Federico Moreira, Iris Sigalit Ocampo Gil
- Álvaro Olmos Torrico
- Álvaro Olmos Torrico, Irene Cajías
- Nicolás Wong Díaz
- María Magdalena Sanizo, Marisol Vallejos Montaño, Nely Huayta
- Cergio Prudencio, Marcelo Guerrero
- Iris Sigalit Ocampo Gil, Aniceto Arroyo
- Empatía Cinema, Ayara Producciones, La Mayor Cine
Sponsors
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Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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The Currents Las Corrientes
Synopsis
Lina, an accomplished Argentinian designer and artist, walks alone around the wintery Swiss town where she has just received an award. In a sudden and dangerous impulse, she plunges from a bridge into the icy river, emerging unhurt but shaken. Back in Buenos Aires, she is confronted with a crippling phobia of water, yet she feels unable to admit to her loving husband and young daughter what she is going through. Estranged from the world she has built for herself, she begins to reach out to reconnect with a painful and distant past life that she had hoped to forever leave behind.
Milagros Mumenthaler crafts an intimate, emotional portrait of a woman coming undone—one that approaches trauma with profound empathy and paints Lina’s surreal interiority with the full breadth of its complexity. A haunting, lyrical meditation on identity, belonging, and motherhood, The Currents journeys through memory with delicate grace.
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- Alina Film, Ruda Cine
- Milagros Mumenthaler
- Gion-Reto Killias
- Gabriel Sandru
- Isabel Aimé González Sola, Esteban Bigliardi
- Alina Film, Ruda Cine
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John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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Emi
Synopsis
Emi, 18, is starting to spread his wings, asserting his independence by spending more time away from home. He finds freedom in his first job at a motorcycle repair shop where he works under the tutelage of the gruff but patient Rodolfo. To his parents, he might seem increasingly aimless as he spends more and more time hanging around the garage, drifting around Buenos Aires on his motorcycle, and stealing away with his boyfriend, but Emi is led by a secret curiosity. Guided by a faint memory, he becomes increasingly focused on puzzling out the story of the biological parents who gave him up for adoption at birth.
The many definitions of family are at the heart of this unique and deeply nuanced adoption story, centered around an empathic young man with a penchant for fostering connection and honesty among those he meets. Within a complex web of characters and relationships formed by bonds beyond blood, Emi carves a space for himself in the world.
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- Laura Mara Tablón, Coproducer: Federico Cetta
- Ezequiel Erriquez Mena
- Ezequiel Erriquez Mena, Pablo Riera
- Gustavo Schiaffino
- Benicio Mutti Spinetta, Mara Bestelli, Luis Ziembrowski, Sofía Palomino, Alejandro Scaravelli, Miriam Odorico
- Luciano Supervielle
- Laura Mara Tablón
- Rita Cine in coproduction with El Cielo Cine
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Leonora in the Morning Light
Synopsis
After iconoclastic artist Leonora Carrington trades English life for 1930s Paris, she falls in with giants of the Surrealist movement, including Salvador Dalí and André Breton. But it’s her passionate love affair with German painter Max Ernst that affects her life and work in the most profound manner. Their turbulent relationship sends her on a journey of self-discovery that will eventually take her to Mexico, where she finds a true sense of freedom—and her own unique artistic voice.
Working from the novel by Mexican author and artist Elena Poniatowska, directors Lena Vurma and Thor Klein chronicle key chapters in Carrington’s singular life, depicting the evolution of an artist with nuance and subtlety. Actress Olivia Vinall delivers a perfectly pitched performance as the story’s central figure, portraying Carrington both in her youth and as a more mature woman working in Mexico, where she emerged alongside Frida Kahlo as one of the country’s preeminent creative figures. With its insightful observations of a multifaceted talent whose distaste for the conventional enabled her to live as a true original, Leonora in the Morning Light gives Carrington her due.
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- Lena Vurma
- Thor Klein, Lena Vurma
- Matthieu Taponier
- Tudor Vladimir Panduru
- Olivia Vinall, Alexander Scheer, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Ryan Gage, Istvan Teglas, Luis Gerardo Mendez
- Maria Portugal
- Chris D’Cruz, Gatherer Entertainment, Originarium, Aristotle Andrulakis
- Dragonfly Films, Meli Melo, Randan, Framebreed, Ostlicht
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Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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Magellan Magalhães
Synopsis
In the 16th century, after convincing Spanish royalty to fund his expedition, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (played with harrowing intensity by Gael García Bernal) sets his sights on Southeast Asia. Charting a course for the Malay Archipelago, he embarks on a brutal campaign of religious conversion and colonial conquest, but obsession and madness begin to take hold.
Filipino auteur and “slow cinema” practitioner Lav Diaz helms this starkly beautiful biopic, an unconventional epic centering violence against a series of stunning, languid landscapes. Deliberately paced and endlessly absorbing, Diaz subverts the genre’s conventions at every turn, rejecting traditional mythmaking in favor of a more exacting, critical eye. The result is an awe-inspiring history that examines the sinister cruelty fueling the Age of Discovery.
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- Joaquim Sapinho, Marta Alves, Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Paul Soriano, Mark Viktor
- Gael García Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Amado Arjay Babon, Ronnie Lazaro, Hazel Orencio, Tomás Alves, Bong Cabrera, Baptiste Pintaux, Brontis Jodorowsky
- Rosa Filmes, Andergraun Films, Black Cap Pictures, Lib Films
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