Festival di sine (25-31 yuli 2011) E sinenan ta di diferente genero. Tur sine ta interesante.
Pa esnan ku ta interesa den historia di e Revolushon Haitiano di 1792 por wak e sine Simparele. Simparele ta un sine teatral ku ta mustra detayenan di e ritual ku a inisia e lucha di libertad na Haiti.
Entrada pa e anochi di apertura di e festival ku ta 25 di juli ta F10,-
Pa tur otro anochi ta F15,- pa anochi. Pa henter siman ta F50,-.
Adhuntu mi ta manda e skema di e sinenan, den e skema por mira e orarionan di e festival sine.Pa mas informashon por tuma kontakto ku Teatro Luna Blou 462-22209.
SPECIAL SHOWCASE ABOUT HAITI. SYNOPSIS OF THE FILMS
Title: HAITI TREMBLES
Director: CLAUDE MANCUSO
Length: 12 minutes
Synopsis: Images and retelling of the disaster that took place on February 12th, 2010 in Haiti.
Title: COUSINES
Director: RICHARD SENECAL
Length: 95 minutes
Synopsis: Jessica is a Haitian woman whose quiet life in Port-au-Prince gets upside-down when her father dies out of a sudden. Without him to pay the bills, she will soon find herself on the street. But she has herself deceived by her friend Juana, a woman who earns her luxurious life thanks to the “generosity” of her many lovers. When Juana is hospitalized, Jessica remains with some difficult decisions to make. Is she going to succumb to temptation of Juana’s life style and to the promises of a rich and handsome suitor, or is she going to embrace a simple life and the love of her partner Bobby? Surrounded by the exuberant Haitian landscape, this is about an all-round look to temptation and decisions some people have to make in order to survive.
Title: MASTER ISSA
Director: FRANTZ VOLTAIRE
Synopsis: The clarinetist, arranger and orchestra conductor of Palestine origins, Issa El Saieh, travelled during his youth from Haiti to the USA to study music, and when he returned to Port-au-Prince he created his own band. From this valuable artist’s testimony, the great documentary Master Issa establishes a retelling about music and context back on the 40’s and 50’s decades, making particular emphasis on the constant flow of musical exchange between Haiti and Cuba. Among these bands there are some of the best Haitian musicians and Cuban artist like Celia Cruz, Bebo Valdés and Dámaso Pérez Prado.
Title: DEAR HAITI
Director: CLAUDIO DEL PUNTA
Length: 99 minutes
Synopsis: Set at the “bateyes” (shanty town settled by the sugar cane plantations in the Dominican Republic), the film captured cane cutters’ life and the conditions they have to bear. Most of them are immigrants from Haiti who have run away from misery and violence in their country, looking for a new life. However, it has turned out to be a modern form of slavery. Jean-Baptiste (Valentin Valdez) and Magdaleine (Yeraini Cuevas) are married and they work in these plantations. After their baby died of starvation, they start considering going back home, even when their families had been killed by the army.
Title: SIMPARELE
Director: HUMBERTO SOLÁS
Length: 30 minutes
Awards: Selected among the most significant short films of the year. Annual Selection of the Critics. Havana City, Cuba / First Prize Concha de Oro. International Film Festival in Saint Sebastian, Spain / Bronze
Medal. Barcelona International Film Festival, Spain.
Synopsis: Music, singing, theater and dance mix up to tell the story about the struggles of the Haitian people since the last years of the XVIII Century.
Title: TIGA
Director: ARNOLD ANTONIN
Length: 52 minutes
Title: POTO MITAN
Director: RENEE BERGAN/ MARK SCHULLER
Synopsis: Through the stories of five valorous and hardworking Haitian women’s life, Poto Mitan describes the global economy, a human face. Each woman explains, through her personal story, the neoliberal globalization: what it is, and how it affects Haiti. And while Poto Mitan offers a deep comprehension of Haiti, his approach to women, subjugation, workers’ exploitation, poverty and resistance, he shows that those are all global struggles.
Title: DEW’S GOVERNORS
Director: MAURICE FAILEVIC
Synopsis: When the young Haitian Miguel returns to his motherland, he finds his community buried in a huge drought and divided by the hostility between two families. Manuel finds a natural flow of ground water and tries to bring together the rival families, but he is killed for jealousy. The union between his girlfriend and his mother avoids revenge and brings harmony to the community that starts building together the canal.
Title: PORT AU PRINCE IS MINE
Director: RIGOBERTO LÓPEZ
Production date: 2000
Length: 57 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Awards: Great Cora Coralina Award, International Environmental Films and Videos Festival, Goias, Brazil, 2000
Synopsis: The film shows the image of a city under siege. Port au Prince, the capital of the Republic of Haiti, is nowadays victim of overcrowding, lack of urban infrastructure and environmental degradation. The documentary provides a picture of a city under siege
Title: DOES THE PRESIDENTE HAVE AIDS?
Director: ARNOLD ANTONIN
Production date: 2006
Length: 110 minutes.
Genre: Feature film
Synopsis: Dao is the star of most Haitian films. He calls himself “President of the Rhythm”. Women fall for him and men imitate him. He feels invincible and he has a star life –sex, drugs and alcohol– but it is getting too hard for him to keep the secret about the disease that threaten to put an end to his career. Despite the pressure made by his agent, he denies to have some tests run, as he starts getting involved in rituals, magic spells and the church. During one of his concerts, he recues Nina from the suspicious proposals of Larieux, a wealthy and powerful business man to whom her mother wishes to marry her. A romance emerges between Dao and Nina. Larieux plans to take revenge.
Principals: Jimmy Jean-Louis, Ricardo Lefevre y Jessica Geneus.
Monday 25 juli 2011
19.30 Haiti Trembles 12 minuten. Documentaire over de aardbeving op Haiti
20.00 Cousines 106 minu
Tuesday 26 juli 2011
19.00 Master Issa 52 minuten. Film over de palestijn Issa El Saieh en de beinvloeding van cubaans haitiaanse muziek.
20.00 Dear Haiti 106 minuten Film
Thursday 28 juli 2011
19.30 Simparele 32 minuten. Korte film over allerlei aspecten zoals geschiedenis, godsdienst etc.
19.30 Tiga 28 minuten Documentaire over een kunstenaar.
20.00 Poto Mitan 52 minuten
Saturday 30 juli 2011
19.00 Dew’s governors 107 minuten
20.30 Port au prince is mine 57 minuten. Documentaire over overbevolking en het leven op Haiti
Sunday 31 juli 2011
15.00 Does the President have Aids 120 minuten. Een filmster wordt ziek en probeert het verborgen te houden. Ondertussen ontstaat er een verboden romance.
LA PRENSA
