2010 Sydney Latin American Film Festival

Country: USA

HAVANA SURF

Rodrigo Diaz McVeigh

12 Sep 2010 - 8:00pm, 12 Sep 2010 - 10:00pm, 2009, 2010, Documentary, Cuba, Spain, USA, 55min, Spanish with English subtitles

The story of six young Cuban surfers and legendary Australian surfer, Bob Samin, who has made his home in Baracoa, Cuba.

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MEMORIES OF OVER DEVELOPMENT

Memorias de Desarrollo

Miguel Coyula, 2010, 2010, Experimental, Cuba, USA, 113min, Spanish with English subtitles

Sergio Garcet, an aging Cuban novelist, lives in New York, alone and alienated. Once active in the Cuban Revolution, he is now a minor college professor repulsed by the rampant capitalism he once defected to and frustrated by his publisher’s lack of interest in his new novel.

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Cubama

Juan Fischer, 2009, 2009, Short, Colombia, USA, 13min, Spanish with English subtitles

Hombre vs Meteorito

Man vs Meteorite

Gabriel Balanovsky, 2009, 2009, Short, Argentina, USA, 10min, Spanish with English subtitles

Así es

Risa Mara Machuca, 2008, 2009, Short, Mexico, USA, 14min, Spanish with English subtitles

When Clouds Clear

One remote community's radical resistance to a proposed mine. FREE entry, followed by panel discussion.

Danielle Bernstein, Anne Slick, 2008, 2009, Documentary, Ecuador, USA, 77min, Spanish with English subtitles

The Healing

La Curacion

La Curación is an exploration of the human body as "a porous and permeable subject" through a prism of Ecuadorian narratives, songs, and folk tales.

Yoni Goldstein, 2008, 2009, Documentary, Ecuador, USA, 56min, Spanish / Quechua with English subtitles