Santo Domingo has the best collection of movie houses in all of the Caribbean and Central America. Few cities in the Americas have as many deluxe movie houses as Santo Domingo.
This coming 11-20 April, Cinema Fine Arts and Caribbean Cinemas at Galeria 360 mall present the 15th International Film Show, with outstanding new films from Germany, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Russia, Great Britain, Taiwan and Venezuela. The DR will be represented by the documentary ?Memorias de un aragones,? and several short films.
The jury includes Cuban cinematographer Rolando Diaz, best known for his film ?Los pajaros tirandole a la escopeta (1984), that won prizes in London, Havana, Harare and Benalmadena festivals, and his documentary El largo viaje de Rustico (nominated for the Goya awards in 1993), and for films that include Melodrama (1995), Si me comprendieras (1999) and Cercanias (2006). The other members of the jury are Dominican producer Desiree Reyes, screenwriter Luis Arambilet and Mexican screenwriter Colbert Garcia and film critic Ernesto Diez Martinez.
The films include:
A Royal Affair (Denmark, 2012), historical romance, with the young Danish queen, who is married to an insane king, falling secretly in love with her physician – and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1276419/
Barbara (Germany, 2012), drama about a doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2178941/?ref_=sr_3
Blancanieves (Spain, 2012), Goya award-winner, that is a twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1854513/?ref_=sr_1
Cesare deve morire (Italy) is a drama about inmates at a high-security prison in Rome who rehearse for a public performance of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.”
www.imdb.com/title/tt2177511/?ref_=sr_1
After Lucia (Mexico, 2012), Certain Regard award in Cannes, drama about Alejandra and her dad Roberto who have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2368749/?ref_=sr_1
Gone Fishing (Argentina, 2012), drama. Marco Tucci, who is the standard tourist type, on his way to Puerto Deseado where he plans to go shark fishing. Or at least, that is the way it looks. But he is not well trained for game?
www.imdb.com/title/tt2379436/?ref_=sr_1
Elena (Russia, 2011), drama about how a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena’s potential inheritance, and her desperate plan.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1925421/?ref_=sr_4
Rat Fever (Brazil, 2011)
www.imdb.com/title/tt2200908/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt
http://cineceara.com/lang/es/febre-do-rato/
Hannah Arendt (Germany, 2012), a biographical drama on the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the Nazi war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1674773/
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (France, 2011), based on the book by Ernest Hemingway, A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the thieves brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1852006/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas (Mexico), drama and romance. On the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after several years. She plans to get to the United States.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2062575/
Vanishing Landscapes (Argentina, 2012), a fictional drama-documentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about a film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2327459/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Amour (Austria, 2012), winner of the Palma de Oro award at Cannes and best foreign film at the 2013 Oscars, Georges and Anne are in their 80s. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a heart attack. The couple’s bond of love is severely tested.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1602620/?ref_=sr_1
The opening on 10 April at 7pm takes place at Caribbean Cinemas at Galeria 360 in Santo Domingo.