La Mirada - Jewels of Spanish Cinema

Sun 11 Mar 5pm Australian Premiere

Between Us

(Entre Nosotros)

Dario Stegmayar, 23 min, Spain 2005, Drama.

As Dali was well aware, time is like a jelly; it changes shape, melts, transforms, alters, moves continuously, and not always forwards. Cinema too knows more than a little about time. Darío Stegmayer, director of El balancín de Iván , recipient of over 40 festival awards, mixes the Alterio family (with Malena and Ernesto from his previous short alongside the Bottos, seemingly demonstrating that he's quite at home with family offspring) and Mariví Bilbao to tell the tale of a brother and sister, or two tales of a brother and sister who are one and the same person, or maybe three people, at a moment depicted as indefinite and timeless right from catching our very first sight of the old Renault in which the two set out to collect an inheritance and get lost - or maybe found.

Cast:
Ernesto Alterio, Héctor Alterio, Malena Alterio, Mariví Bilbao, Pascale Louange

Australian Premiere

Cut! (Corten)

Mario Iglesias, 3. 29min, Spain, 2002

Multi-awarded animation film in which things are not what they look like…

Australian Premiere

Invulnerable

(Invulnerable)

Alvaro Pastor, 25 min, Spain 2005, Drama.

Elías, a young high school teacher, has just discovered he is HIV positive. This is shortly after beginning a relationship with Pedro, a colleague. He hides his secret because of the fear of rejection.

Cast:
Antonio Naharro, Andres Waksman

Australian Premiere

Ivan's See-Saw

(El Balancin De Ivan)

Dario Stegmayar, 20 min, Spain 2002, Drama.

Ana, a woman in her thirties, returns to the house that was her childhood home during the 1976 Argentine dictatorship. She recalls the last moments she spent there with her parents and brother Ivan.

Cast:
Malena Alterio, Juan Diego Botto, Maria Botto, Ernesto Alterio, Juana Migliore, Blas Migliore

Australian Premiere

The Natural Route

(La Ruta Natural)

Alex Pastor, Spain, 11 min, 2004

When Divad wakes up after a strange accident in the shower, he can’t remember anything, not even his own name. His home, his supposed wife… absolutely everything is unknown to him. Although he can’t pin it down, there’s something wrong and sinister about this new world that surrounds him. Soon he will find out that his destiny is already written and that he can’t do anything to change it. Maybe the answers he needs lie in his past.

Cast:
Pere Ventura, Silvia Servan, Albert Lopez, Begona Guillen

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