Program LIFFY 2017

                                                         Breaking borders through film

Nov. 15-19, 2017

Venue:  Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University (WHC).  53 Wall St., New Haven, CT. except Saturday at 10am in Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.)

Free and open to the public.  All films have English subtitles.

Wednesday, November 15

2:00 Short films from Spain (room 208 WHC)

Ella y él/ She and He.  Carmen Blanco. 2016. 2:05min.

Funky Lola. Julio Mas Alcaraz. 2017. 16min.

Areka. Axtur Animazio Taldea. Basque. 2017. 7:20min.

Mai. Marta González. Catalonia. 2017. 7:14min.

Eclipse. Santi Planet. 2016. 10min.

La habitación de las estrellas. Ilune Díaz. 2017. 16:12

3:00 Selected Shorts (room 208 WHC)

Fifi Patelito Goes to the DMV. Salvador Bolívar. USA. 2016. 15min.

Tango Dreams. Steven Salgado. Peru/USA. 2016 10min.

Arriba.  Adrian R. Hartill. Peru. 8:17min.

La mora y el cocuyo/The Blackberry and the Firebeatle. Isaías Pérez. Venezuela. 2017. 10min.

Panorama. Virginia Urreiztieta. Venezuela. 2016. 19:52min.

7:00 Opening Film Tamara , Elia Schneider. (Fiction) Venezuela. 2016. 110 min.

Introduction by Oksana V Chefranova

Q&A with Elia Schneider (director) and José Novoa (producer)

Opening Reception Following with Orquesta Tertulia (room 108)

Thursday, November 16

10:00am Los Fabulosos Ma’ Mejores. Carlos Manuel Plasencia. (Fiction/Family) Dominican         Republic. 2015. 80 min. (For New Haven Public Schools)

1:00 Short Films from Mexico (room 208, WHC)

La mentada de la Llorona/Women Hollowing Curse. Colectivo Mujeres en Espiral. Mexico. 2016. 27 min.

3 variaciones de Ofelia/3 Variations on Ofelia. Paulo Riqué. Mexico, 2015. 15 min.

 Luces brillantes/Shine a Light.  Alejandro Gerber Bicecci.  Mexico. 2015. 13 min.

2:00 Brazilian Films (room 208)

Piscina (Pool).  Leandro Goddinho. Brasil/Germany 2016. 30 min.

Sob águas claras e inocentes (Under Clear and Innocent Waters) Emiliano Cunha. Brasil, 2016. 18    min.

4: 00 Young Cuban Filmmakers’ Showcase at LIFFY I. Introduction by Nils Longueira.

Natural Phenomena (Fenómenos Naturales). Marcos Antonio Díaz Sosa. 2016. 15min.

Bateria (Batería) Damián Sainz.  (Doc.) 2016. 15min.

Night House (Casa de la noche).  Marcel Beltrán. Cuba.  2016. 13min.

Duel (Duelo) Alejandro Alonso. 2016. 12min.

Limbo Rafael Ramírez. 2016. 13min.

Q&A  

4:30 HoC Tea/Talk with Haitian/Dominican filmmaker Jean Jean at Benjamin Franklin College.

5:30 December Days (Días de diciembre) Carla Valdés León. (Doc.) Cuba. 2016. 45min.

Q&A with producer, Daniela Muñoz and Alex Halkin of Americas Media Initiative

7:00 25 hours (25 horas). Carlos Barba Salva.  (Fiction) Cuba/USA. 2017. 25 min. (World Premiere)

            Q&A with Carlos Barba Salva

Ya no es antes (Not Like Before). Lester Hamlet. (Fiction) Cuba. 2016. 95min.

Q&A Luis Alberto García (Leading actor)

9:30 Two Films by the Cuban Filmmaker Eliecer Jiménez

Now. (Doc.) 5 min. 

Para construir otra casa (To Build Another House). (Doc.) Cuba/USA. 15min. (World Premiere)

Q&A Eliecer Jiménez (director)

10:30 Nadie.  Miguel Coyula. (Doc.) Cuba. 2017. 70 min.

Friday, November 17

12:00 CLAIS Lunch Talk with the filmmakers and actors.  (Room 208. WHC)

2:00 Yerma. Emilio Barrachina. (Fiction) Spain. 2017. 90min.

Introduction by Prof. Leslie Harkema (Yale)

Q&A Susan Brickell (actor)

4:00 Amor con tufo a colonia (Love with a Colonial Scent).  Joelle G. Laguer. (Doc.) Puerto Rico. 64min.

Q&A Joelle G. Laguer  (director)

5:30 God Willing, Yuli (Si Bondye vle, Yuli./Si Dios quiere, Yuli). Jean Jean. (Doc.) Dominican Republic/Haiti. 2016. 71min.

Q&A Jean Jean (director)

7:00 The Animal´s Wife (La mujer del Animal).  Víctor Gaviria. (Fiction) Colombia. 2016. 116min.

Introduction by Prof. Juana Suárez (NYU, Tisch School of the Arts).

Q&A Víctor Gaviria (director). 

9:30 Our Land (Namuy Nu Piro). Antonio Dorado. Colombia (Doc.) 25 min.

Girls of Uchituu (Niñas de Uchituu). Helena Salguero. Colombia (Doc.) 28 min.

10:30 Mark´s Three Worlds (Tres mundos de Marcos). Flora Pérez Garay. (Fiction) Puerto Rico. 2016. 52min.

Saturday, November 18

10:00am Los Fabulosos Ma’ Mejores. Carlos Manuel Plasencia. (Fiction/Family)Dominican Republic. 2015. 80 min.     (Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave.)

12:00 Portuguese short films (room 208 WHC)

          O Caso J./The Case of J.  José  Filipe Costa. (Fiction) Portugal, 2017, 20’.

                   Campo de Víboras .Cristèle Alves Meira. 2016, France, Portugal, 20’

1:00 All of us are stars (Todos somos estrellas). Patricia Wiesse Risso. Perú. 2017. 78min. (room 208 WHC)

3:00 Dominó. Eduardo del Llano. (Fiction) Cuba. 23min.

Q&A Luis Alberto García (Leading actor/ Nicanor)

4:00 Olancho. Chris Valdés & Ted Griswold. (Doc.) Honduras. 2017. 70 min.

Q&A Chris Valdés and Ted Griswold (directors)

5:30 Sowing (Siembra). Angela Osorio. (Fiction) Colombia. 2015. 82min.

Q&A Angela Osorio (director)

7:30 Such is Life in the Tropics (Sin muertos no hay carnaval).  Sebastián Cordero. (Fiction) Ecuador. 2016. 100 min.

Q&A with actor Víctor Arauz

10:00 Days and Nights Between War and Peace (Días y noches entre guerra y paz). Uli Stelzner. (Doc.) Colombia/Germany/Guatemala. 2017. 75min.

Sunday, November 19

11:00am Animated Shorts. Presented by Miguel Rueda (Colombia) (WHC Room 208)

Q&A with Miguel Rueda

Vicenta. Carla Valencia Dávila, Ecuador, 2014.  5:15min.

Naranja. Hanna Isua Barrantes. Colombia.2017.  2:42min.

La máquina (The machine). René David Reyes García. México. 2015. 4:02min.

        “Rise” by Nuf Said. Miguel Rueda.

          Rabbit Movers, Special Cargo. Miguel Rueda.

        La ballerine. Miguel Rueda

12:00 Andres Reads and Writes (Andrés lee i escribe). Daniel Peralta. (Fiction) Chile. 2016. 92 min.

2:00 Your Parents Will Come Back (Tus padres volverán).  Pablo Martínez Pessi. (Doc.) Uruguay. 2015. 81min.

3:30 Great Rivers of the Great Homeland (Ríos de la Patria Grande). Joaquín Polo. (Doc.) Argentina. 2016. 58min.

Introduction by Prof. Moira Fradinger (Yale)

5:00 Young Cuban Filmmakers’ Showcase at LIFFY II

Introduction by Celia Rodríguez Tejuca (UMass Amherst)

The Fisherman (El pescador). Ana A. Alpízar. (Fiction) 2016. 14 min.

Tilín tilín Cuba. Violena Ampudia. (Fiction) 2016. 3min.

An Instant (Un instante) Marta María Borrás. (Fiction) 2016. 15min.

The Half of this Story(De esta historia la mitad). Deymi D’Atri. (Fiction) 21 min.

Eyes Half Shut. Deymi D’Atri. (Doc.) 28 min.

Against the Wind (En contra del viento). Lenia Sainiut. 27 min.

Q&A with Ana Alpízar and Deymi D’Atri

      7:30 Closing Film Nadie nos mira (Nobody is Watching). Julia Solomonoff. (Fiction).    Argentina/USA. 2017. 102   min.

Introduction by Prof. Moira Fradinger (Yale).

Q&A Julia Solomonoff (director)

Closing Reception (WHC room 108)

All films have English subtitles.  Free and open to the public.

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