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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; South American Cinema</title>
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		<title>Brasilia Film Festival Awards 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/brasilia-film-festival-awards-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2008 Brasilia Film Festival Awards 
2008 Brasilia Film Festival: November 18&#8211;25, 2008
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Kiko Goifman&#8217;s FilmeFobia / FilmPhobia, a mockumentary about all sorts of phobias &#8212; from fear of spiders and snakes to fear of penetration and buttons &#8212; received five Candango Awards at the 41st Brasilia Film Festival, including best film and best actor for Jean-Claude Bernardet, a real-life Brazilian cinema expert who in FilmPhobia plays the director of a documentary whose goal is to present &#34;the truth&#34; by placing phobia sufferers in some very difficult situations. Goifman &#8212; who was booed by the Cine Brasilia audience while accepting the best film award &#8212; co-wrote the screenplay with Hilton Lacerda. There were only seven Brazilian features &#8212; both narrative and documentary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BIRDWATCHERS Clip</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/brazilian-cinema/birdwatchers-marco-bechis-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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Marco Bechis&#8216; Italo-Brazilian co-production, La Terra degli uomini rossi / BirdWatchers, currently in competition for the 2008 Venice Film Festival&#8217;s Golden Lion, revolves around a sort of Romeo and Juliet romance that develops while agribusinesses and Indians fight in the Brazilian Mid-West. The English-language title refers to the tourists who flock to the area to take a peek at the local fauna.
Screenplay by Marco Bechis and Luiz Bolognesi, with collaboration by Lara Fremder. In the cast: Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli, Abrísio da Silva Pedro, and Ademilson Concianza Verga.
The original Italian title translates as &#34;The Land of the Red Men.&#34;
Official site.
Clip posted by CINEMAITALY.
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		<title>THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION: Q&amp;A with Cao Hamburger</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/cao-hamburger-interview-year-my-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Set in 1970, the year Brazil (or rather, the soccer team representing the country) won the World Cup, O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias / The Year My Parents Went on Vacation tells the story of a (away from) home-alone kid whose parents (Eduardo Moreira, Simone Spoladore) are on the run from Brazil&#8217;s brutal military apparatus. 
The boy, Mauro (Michel Joelsas), who believes his parents have taken off on a long vacation, is left at the home of his grandfather (veteran Paulo Autran) in the Bom Retiro district of São Paulo. The problem is that the old man died shortly before his grandson&#8217;s arrival. Now, who&#8217;s going to be taking care of the kid in this ethnically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dercy Gonçalves, 101, Dies</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/dercy-goncalves-101-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Dercy Gonçalves, a Brazilian superstar for nearly eight decades, died of pneumonia today at the São Lucas Hospital in Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s Copacabana district. She was 101.
 Dercy &#8212; can&#8217;t refer to someone like her as &#34;Gonçalves&#34; &#8212; was a film, stage, television, radio, and carnival star. She was known for her outrageous sense of humor, expletive-filled mouth, and an indefatigable determination to keep on going.
Among her best-known film vehicles, mostly popular comedies, are Feitiço do Amazonas / Naked Amazon (1954), Absolutamente Certo (Absolutely Right, 1957), A Grande Vedete (The Big Star, 1958), Minervina Vem Aí (Here Comes Minervina, 1960), and Cala a Boca, Etelvina (Shut Up, Etelvina, 1960).
&#34;She didn&#8217;t believe in old age and criticized those who let themselves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA ANTENA d: Esteban Sapir</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/la-antena-d-esteban-sapir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Waterfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[La Antena / The Aerial (2007)
Direction and Screenplay: Esteban Sapir. Cast: Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, Julieta Cardinali, Valeria Bertuccelli, Ricardo Merkin
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Esteban Sapir&#8217;s silent, surrealist Argentinean production La Antena / The Aerial had its Canadian premiere to a very appreciative audience at the Fantasia Film Festival on July 4. From beginning to end, La Antena dazzled the eyes and stirred the emotions. As the credits rolled, everyone began clapping; the filmmaker was not in the audience, but everyone was so pleased by what they had seen they couldn&#8217;t help themselves. I&#8217;m sure some of them felt like jumping up and down, and running circles around the auditorium while yelping shouts of glee. Or at least that&#8217;s what I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torino GLBT Film Festival Awards 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/turin-gay-film-festival-awards-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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2008 Torino GLBT Film Festival Awards
2008 Torino GLBT Film Festival: April 17&#8211;25, 2008
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Santiago Otheguy (above, right) directed and wrote (from a story he&#8217;d co-written with Juan Solanas) the Argentinian drama. La León, winner of the jury&#8217;s best film award at the 2008 Torino GLBT Film Festival. Set in northern Argentina&#8217;s Paraná Delta, La León depicts the conflict that develops between a lonely gay river worker (Jorge Román) and the captain of a passenger-boat (Daniel Valenzuela), in what sounds like a revamped take on Billy Budd. In Variety, Jay Weissberg wrote, &#34;Beautifully textured b&#038;w widescreen lensing conveys everything La León wants to say about isolation and longing, visualizing the distances between people as surely as if helmer/scripter Santiago Otheguy had opted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE OFFICIAL STORY Clip</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/argentinean-cinema/the-official-story-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In Luis Puenzo&#8217;s masterful 1985 political drama La Historia oficial / The Official Story, co-written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik, Norma Aleandro stars as a teacher who discovers an unsettling connection between her adopted daughter and Argentina&#8217;s brutal military dictatorship. Hector Alterio plays the husband with a secret.
In the clip below (in Spanish, no subtitles), a family reunion becomes the stage for a series of personal recriminations. While Argentina suffered in the grip of its right-wing military and their sponsors, only those Argentineans with connections to the establishment managed to move up the social ladder. Alterio&#8217;s character was one of them.
Aleandro&#8217;s performance &#8212; one of the greatest in film history &#8212; earned her best actress awards in Cannes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiburon Film Festival 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/tiburon-film-festival-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The 2008 Tiburon (Calif.) International Film Festival (TIFF), set for March 13&#8211;21, will be showcasing more than 225 films from 94 countries. 
The festival will open with the US premiere of Miguel Angel Calvo Buttini&#8217;s political comedy Dos rivales casi iguales / Twins for President at 7 p.m. at the Playhouse Theater on March 13.
Twins for President follows twin brothers (Andoni Gracia) of different political stripes as they fight for the Spanish presidency. Calvo Buttini will attend the screening, which will be followed by a q&#38;a session. 
Among the 2008 TIFF tributes are those to John Wayne, with a screening of John Ford&#8217;s 1956 Western The Searchers (March 16 at 4:45pm), which some critics consider one of the greatest movies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ELITE SQUAD: The 2008 Berlin Film Festival&#8217;s Controversial Winner</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-elite-squad-berlin-festival-2008-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The second Brazilian production to win the Berlin Film Festival&#8217;s Golden Bear, José Padilha&#8217;s Tropa de Elite / The Elite Squad, a violent tale about Rio&#8217;s special police unit&#8217;s fight against slum-based druglords, was a controversial choice for the 2008 festival&#8217;s top award. Unlike the previous Brazilian winning entry, the considerably cozier Central Station back in 1998, The Elite Squad was greeted with strong reservations in certain quarters both in Brazil and elsewhere.
 &#34;The Elite Squad is a Hollywood movie spoken in Portuguese,&#34; wrote Plínio Fraga in the daily Folha de São Paulo. &#34;José Padilha&#8217;s effort is Hollywoodian when it comes to both its technical proficiency, and its social and esthetic conservatism. A quick-paced narrative, solid cinematography, impeccable sound, well-directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dercy Gonçalves Turns 100</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/dercy-goncalves-turns-100/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred Zinnemann, Fay Wray, Henri-Georges Clouzot, T.E.B. Clarke, Yves Allégret, Dan Duryea, Paula Wessely, Burgess Meredith, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Run Run Shaw, and the list of 2007 centenarians goes on. Some are being celebrated &#8212; Katharine Hepburn has just been honored with a DVD box set; Barbara Stanwyck is the star of a University of California Los Angeles retrospective &#8212; others are, whether deservedly or not, being thoroughly ignored.
In Brazil, one who is not being ignored is the much-fêted Dercy Gonçalves, a film, stage, radio, television, and carnival star, in addition to being a gay icon, a cancer and tuberculosis survivor, a topless advocate, an environmentalist, and the owner of the most expletive-filled mouth in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Remaining Seats 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The Los Angeles Conservancy will present the 21st Annual Last Remaining Seats series every Wednesday at 8 p.m. from May 23 &#8212; June 27, 2007. The series is held at historic movie palaces in the Los Angeles area &#8212; the precious few still in existence, that is.
This year, the following film classics will be screened:
North by Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s movie-movie from an absurd screenplay by Ernest Lehman. The good thing is that Lehman doesn&#8217;t take his tale at all seriously; the not-so-good thing is that we must suspend disbelief (and most other brain functions as well) from the moment we see Jessie Royce Landis (born 1896) playing mommy to Cary Grant (born 1904) up to and beyond the Mount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/mar-del-plata-film-festival-awards-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards &#8211; 2007
The 22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival Award was held between Mar-8-18, 2007.
The 22nd Mar del Plata Film Festival Award winners were announced on Mar. 18, 2007.
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Directed by Cesc Gay, Fiction tells the story of a film director who, while resting at a friend&#8217;s home in a small mountain village, meets a violin player with whom he develops a delusional relationship. Gay and Tomás Aragay penned the screenplay. In the cast: Eduard Fernández, Javier Cámara, Montse Germán, Carmen Pla, Ágata Roca
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OFFICIAL COMPETITION
 Golden Astor for Best feature
FICCIÓ (Spain, directed by Cesc Gay)
 Special Mention
JARDINS EN AUTOMNE (France-Italy-Russia, directed by Otar Iosseliani) 
 Silver Astor for Best Director (tie)
MARINA SPADA (Come l&#8217;ombra, Italy)
HONG [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thessaloniki Film Festival 2006 Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/thessaloniki-film-festival-2006-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The top winner at the 2006 edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which wrapped today, was Kim Tae-yong&#8217;s Korean drama Gajokeui Tansaeng / Family Ties, about different relationships within a dysfunctional family.
In addition to the Golden Alexander Award for Best Film (worth 37,000 euros), Family Ties won a joint Best Actress award (for Moon So-ri, Goh Doon-shim, Kong Hyo-jin and Kim Hae-ok), while screenwriters Sung Ki-young and Kim Tae-yong shared the Best Screenplay award with Maurício Zacharias, Felipe Bragança, Karim Ainouz for the dramatic comedy O Céu de Suely / Suely in the Sky, the story of a woman (Hermila Guedes) from the Brazilian Northeast who dreams of a better life elsewhere. (Last month, O Céu de Suely won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival Awards 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/huelva-ibero-american-film-festival-awards-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2006 Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival Awards
2006 Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival: Huelva, Andalucia, Spain, between November 18-25, 2006
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 Colón de Oro for Best Feature / mejor largometraje: El violín / The Violin by Francisco Vargas Quevedo (Mexico)
Special Jury Prize / Premio Especial del Jurado: Páginas del diario de Mauricio by Manuel Pérez (Cuba, Spain and Mexico)
Colón de Plata for best director / mejor director: Alejandro Doria for Las manos / The Hands  (Spain and Argentina)
Carabela de Plata for best new director / mejor director novel: Jorge Durán for Proibido Proibir / Forbidden to Forbid  (Brazil, Chile and Spain)
Colón de Plata for best actor / mejor actor: Jesús Aranda for Chicha tu madre (Peru and Argentina)
Colón de Plata for best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rio de Janeiro Film Festival Awards 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/rio-de-janeiro-film-festival-awards-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2006 Rio de Janeiro Film Festival Awards
2006 Rio de Janeiro Film Festival: September 21&#8211;October 6, 2006
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Première Brasil Sidebar
Melhor Longa-Metragem Ficção / Best Feature Film: O Céu de Suely / Suely in the Sky, by Karim Aïnouz
Prêmio Especial do Júri / Special Jury Prize: O Cheiro do Ralo / Drained, by Heitor Dhalia
 Melhor Longa-Metragem Documentário / Best Feature Documentary: À margem do Concreto / At the Margin of Concrete, by Evaldo Mocarzel
 Melhor Direção / Best Direction: Karim Aïnouz (O Céu de Suely / Suely in the Sky)

 Melhor Ator / Best Actor (tie): Selton Mello (O Cheiro do Ralo / Drained) and Sidney Santiago (Os 12 Trabalhos / The 12 Labors)
 Melhor Atriz / Best Actress: Hermilla Guedes (O [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gramado Film Festival Awards 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/gramado-film-festival-awards-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2006 Gramado Film Festival &#8211; Brazilian and Latin Cinema 2006 Kikito Awards
2006 Gramado Film Festival Awards: August 19, 2006
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I&#8217;ve finally added the list of Kikito winners at this year&#8217;s Gramado Film Festival of &#34;Brazilian and Latin Cinema.&#34; The Kikitos were handed out on Aug. 19 in the small town of Gramado, located in the Brazilian south.
The Best Brazilian Feature award was given to two films: the semi-documentary Serras da Desordem (literally, &#34;Hills of Disorder&#34;) and the social drama Anjos do Sol / Angels of the Sun. 
Directed by Andrea Tonacci, Serras da Desordem follows a nomad Indian who, after surviving an attack by local landowners, spends ten years roaming the hills of the Brazilian mid-west. Tonacci also took home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EL AURA by Fabián Bielinsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[El Aura / The Aura (2005) 
Direction and screenplay: Fabián Bielinsky. Cast: Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Pablo Cedrón, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Jorge D&#8217;Elia< 
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THE OTHER SIDE
I had high hopes for writer-director Fabián Bielinsky&#8217;s second feature film, El Aura / The Aura &#8212; Argentina&#8217;s 2005 submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award and the winner of the Argentinean Film Critics&#8217; Association Silver Condor Award. I had found Bielinsky&#8217;s clever, labyrinthine 2000 caper thriller Nueve reinas / Nine Queens one of the most intriguing examples of the genre. 
Unfortunately, El Aura &#8212; which, like Nueve reinas, offers a harsh look at contemporary Argentina &#8212; didn&#8217;t live up to my expectations.
 Although this somber psychological thriller provides several solid dramatic and suspenseful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[21st Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards &#8211; 2006
The 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival Award was held between Mar. 9-19, 2006.
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Ricardo Benet&#8217;s Noticias lejanas / News from Afar tells the story of a man who returns home to confront his past. 
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OFFICIAL COMPETITION
Golden Astor for Best Film: Noticias lejanas (Mexico), by Ricardo Benet
Special Jury Prize: Molly&#8217;s Way (Germany), by Emily Atef
Silver Astor for Best Director: Marco Martins (Portugal), Alice
Silver Astor for Best Actor: William H. Macy (U.S.), Edmond
Silver Astor for Best Actress: Justine Clark (Australia), Look Both Ways 
Silver Astor for Best Screenplay: Sarah Watt (Australia), Look Both Ways 
 Silver Astor for Best Ibero-American Film (tie): Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus / Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures (Brazil), by Marcelo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More of Those Damned Brazilian Movies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More &#34;Malditos Filmes Brasileiros!&#34; (Damned Brazilian Movies!) in October, this time at the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. 
Between October 6-9, the Cinemateca will present the series &#34;The Most Important Classics of the Boca do Lixo&#34; (&#34;Boca do Lixo&#34; could be loosely translated as &#34;Trash Alley&#34;), including Rubens da Silva Prado&#8217;s 1970 &#34;feijoada&#34; Western Sangue em Santa Maria / Blood in Santa Maria (1970); Luiz Gonzaga dos Santos&#8216; 1979 bizarre softcore tale, Patty, a Mulher Proibida / Patty, the Forbidden Woman, about the attempts of a perverted children&#8217;s clown (Dilin Costa) to seduce one of the divas of Brazil&#8217;s pornochanchadas, Helena Ramos; and the 1979 cop thriller Os Depravados / The Depraved Ones, directed by Tony Vieira, who also stars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falklands War Film Opens in Argentina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via AlertNet: A Reuters article by Mary Milliken discusses the new Argentinian film Iluminados por el fuego / Blessed by Fire, which depicts Argentina&#8217;s disastrous military campaign to take over the Falkland Islands (known in Argentina as Las Malvinas) from Britain in the early 1980s.
Directed and co-written by Tristán Bauer, and starring the excellent Gastón Pauls (the younger con man in Nueve reinas / Nine Queens), Iluminados por el fuego is based on a book by Edgardo Esteban, who was one of the underarmed and underfed conscripts sent to fight the much better equipped British army in the inhospitable archipelago.
&#34;When you are 18, you don&#8217;t think about death,&#34; says Esteban, currently a TV journalist. &#34;But ever since this war, death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nordesterns &#8211; Damned Brazilian Westerns!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The film series &#34;Malditos Filmes Brasileiros!&#34; (Damned Brazilian Movies!) continues in September at the Casa França-Brasil in downtown Rio de Janeiro. The theme of the month is the Brazilian &#34;nordestern,&#34; also known as the feijoada Western: shoot-em-up flicks shot (no pun intended) in the arid and lawless Brazilian Northeast, where men were born to kill or die, and women were born to get raped and do crochet.
Among the scheduled screenings are Carlos Coimbra&#8217;s epoch-making A Morte Comanda o Cangaço (Death Rules the Lawlessness, 1960), a well-received nordestern that became a sizable box-office hit in Brazil; Wilson Silva&#8217;s Nordeste Sangrento (Bloody Northeast, 1963), about religious fanaticism in the holy city of Juazeiro; and Tião Valadares and (an uncredited) Rajá de Aragão&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damned Brazilian Movies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2005 01:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malditos Filmes Brasileiros! (Damned Brazilian Movies!) a film series currently being presented in Rio de Janeiro. Genres include "feijoada" Westerns, pornochanchadas, science-fiction, horror, and cop thrillers, among them Bacalhau (Bacs), Seduzidas pelo Demonio, and Escalada da Violencia.]]></description>
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		<title>Gramado Film Festival Awards 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2005 Gramado Film Festival Awards 
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Director Tizuka Yamasaki has won both the Best Film and Best Director Kikito awards at this year&#8217;s edition of the Gramado Festival of Brazilian and Latin films, which is held annually in this small town in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil&#8217;s southernmost state. 
Gaijin &#8211; Ama-me Como Sou / Gaijin &#8211; Love Me As I Am, Yamasaki&#8217;s follow-up to her well-received 1980 drama about Japanese immigrants in Brazil, Gaijin &#8211; Os Caminhos da Liberdade / Gaijin &#8211; Roads to Freedom, won the festival&#8217;s top two awards despite having been mostly dismissed by critics. 
Additionally, the new Gaijin received a Best Supporting Actress nod for Aya Ono and the Best Score award for Egberto Gismonti. 
Twenty-five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premiere Brazil! at MoMA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Premiere Brazil series at New York City's Museum of Modern Art will screen a number of Brazilian films, including Lucia Murat's Quase Dois Irmaos / Almost Two Brothers, Helena Solberg's Vida de Menina / Diary of a Provincial Girl, Marcos Prado's Estamira, and the Carmen Miranda vehicle Alo Alo Carnval, co-directed by Adhemar Gonzaga.]]></description>
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