CON LOS OJOS ABIERTOS

Dossier Scolaire / School Files, Andreas Bolm and Noëlle Pujol, France-Germany, 2012  By Roger Koza Who is the main character? The answer is clear: three youngsters who lurk in the halls of an abandoned school where classrooms are used now as rooms. Maybe the two girls set up the boy, who seems to want to escape that […]

Sueño y silencio / The Dream and the Silence, Jaime Rosales, Spain, 2012 By Roger Koza The invisible emotional work of mourning is not often filmed with precision; inevitable as its very causes, mourning is an imposed state of mind, a never-chosen experience. And without any doubt the most terrible mourning is that in which […]

Die Zeit Vergeht Wie Ein Brüllender Löwe / Times Goes by Like a Roaring Lion, Philipp Hartmann, Germany, 2013 By Roger Koza A filmic philosophical essay often poses a challenge: how to film an idea? Often, talking about a particular matter is confused with materializing it in front of the camera. That’s why Philipp Hartman […]

Calle López / López Street, Lisa Tillinger and Gerardo Barroso, México 2013 Por Roger Koza In the eyes of a foreigner practically any street of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico holds potential for a film. Life on the street deserves more than just the natural condition of observer anyone could have, it demands an extra attention. In […]

El ruido de las estrellas me aturde / The Sound of the Stars Dazes me, Eduardo Williams, Argentina, 2012 Por Roger Koza A hypothesis: young Argentinean director Teddy Williams —who on May, last year, was in Cannes with Pude ver un puma and premiered El ruido de las estrellas me aturde in Rome a bit later— is […]

San Zimei / Three Sisters, Wang Bing, China, 2012 By Roger Koza Wang Bing’s work is of capital importance. The most relevant documentary-filmmaker of the Sixth Genera tion, he’s been working in some sort of counter-history of the 20th and the early 21st centuries. His films insinuate and show a state of affairs and a genealogy. […]

Nichinasti Pa’ Am Lagam / Once I Entered a Garden. Avi Mograbi, Israel, 2012 Por Roger Koza In a glorious passage, Ali El Azhari, a Palestine professor of Arab, tells Philippe, Avi Mograbi’s —the renowned Israeli Jewish director— cameraman: “Imagine there were no conflict, could you live without it? After 63 years, music, poetry, prayers, laughter, […]

Life in  Shadows / Vida en sombras,   Lorenzo Llobet- Gràcia,  Spain, 1948 By Roger Koza Though festivals have the obligation to program new pictures, sometimes they also include secret movies, out-of-time titles, or simply perennial films such as Vida en sombras, the only feature by Lorenzo Llobet- Gràcia, starring the great Fernando Fernán Gómez (who […]