Undertow Articles

Manolo Cardona, Cristian Mercado, Contracorriente / Undertow Javier Fuentes-León's Contracorriente / Undertow, winner of the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance 2010 and Peru's submission to the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, opens Friday, Nov. 26, at New York's Cinema Village and Los Angeles' Laemmle's Sunset 5 (actually in West Hollywood). Undertow's synopsis, via distributor The Film Collaborative, reads as follows: In this unique [...]

François Sagat in Bruce LaBruce's L.A. Zombie The 18th MixBrasil Film Festival of Sexual Diversity (a longer but much more appropriate moniker than "queer") will take place Nov. 11-18 in São Paulo and Nov. 26 (only one day) in Rio de Janeiro. MixBrasil will open with a screening of Javier Fuentes-León's Peruvian drama Contracorriente / Undertow, World Cinema (Dramatic) Audience Award winner at the 2010 [...]

Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona in Javier Fuentes-León's Undertow The 23rd edition of image+nation, Montreal's lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender film festival, will kick off with a screening of Javier Fuentes-León's Peruvian drama Contracorriente / Undertow at the Cinéma Impérial on Thursday, Oct. 28. The World Cinema (Dramatic) Audience Award winner at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and Peru’s 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission, [...]

Manolo Cardona, Cristian Mercado in Javier Fuentes-León's Undertow / Contracorriente (top); Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Tosar in Iciar Bollain's Even the Rain (middle); Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag's When We Leave (bottom) Oscar 2011: Best Foreign Language Film Predictions: BIUTIFUL, THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING, CARANCHO Here are a few other possibilities for the 2011 Oscar's Best Foreign Language Film list of semi-finalists: Iciar Bollain's También [...]