SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
FICTION
MEMORIES IN THREE COLORS
MEMORIAS EN TRES COLORES
A couple that believes in pragmatic (but not) love is rocked by a cancer diagnosis. When one of them migrates from Venezuela to Chile, the partner that stayed behind is pushed to challenge this belief.
Director: Argenis Herrera Sanchez
Country: Chile - Venezuela
Year: 2021
SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Friday, June 16 @ 5:00 PM
TODAY IS NOT MY BIRTHDAY
HOY NO ES MI CUMPLEAÑOS
An Italian immigrant recounts how he and his countrymen worked hard to make a life in Venezuela and the traces they left on their way in the city of Valencia.
Director: Stuart Rivas
Country: Venezuela
Year: 2021
SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Friday, June 16 @ 5:00 PM
POCHO HUERTA
MENAHAN
Pocho Huerta is an unemployed stuntman waiting for his students to come to class, until he realizes that no one will come because he forgot to promote it. This leads him to wonder about his life, death, and overall purpose.
Director: Jely Reategui
Country: U.S.
Year: 2023
SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Friday, June 16 @ 5:00 PM
HAMLEYED
Wilderman García (Wild District, Narcos), performs this film inspired by the monologue from William Shakespeare's “Hamlet,” but with a contemporary twist. Hamleyed is a young man who desires a terrorist’s vengeance. His own reflection in a mirror rebukes him "to be or not to be…”
Director: Pedro Blanco-Uribe
Country: U.S.
Year: 2022
SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Friday, June 16 @ 5:00 PM
DEHATSI: I WAS ANOTHER PLACE
DEHATSI: EU ERA OUTRO LUGAR
Anush is a young Armenian woman who travels to Brazil without a return ticket. Once she is welcomed and inserted into the Armenian community in São Paulo, her biggest challenge is to adapt to the large and cosmopolitan city, so far from her roots.
Director: Tatiana Boudakian
Country: Brazil
Year: 2021
SHORTS PROGRAM 2
Saturday, June 17 @ 3:00 PM
1/4 ANTE MERIDIEM
Mabel (13) is attracted to Ambroz (10), whose mother forbids him to play with her because "she is older than him". The game between them takes place in secret and in a forbidden place. Ambroz's innocence prevents him from deciphering the dark mystery that surrounds Mabel's life.
Director: Alex Noppel Briseño
Country: Mexico
Year: 2022
SHORTS PROGRAM 2
Saturday, June 17 @ 3:00 PM
MARINA'S DREAM
EL SUEÑO DE MARINA
When Marina dies she remembers the happiest day of her life- a significant moment in the life of this young woman who came to Bogotá from the countryside in the 90s during a period full of violence in Colombia. Marina is transformed; pleasure turns into pain.
Director: Sebastián Botero-Páramo
Country: Colombia
Year: 2022
SHORTS PROGRAM 3
Monday, June 19 @ 6:30 PM
THIS TIME
ESTA VEZ
Natalia and Felipe have become a couple trapped in a routine because of the fear of being alone. The sudden notice of a pregnancy and Natalia’s intention of not having the baby, forces them into an inevitable confrontation seemingly impossible to escape.
Director: David Moncada Varele
Country: Colombia
Year: 2022
SHORTS PROGRAM 3
Monday, June 19 @ 6:30 PM
KARINA'S SUIT
EL TRAJE DE KARINA
Muete, an armed group deserter, travels to the city to visit his cousin Karina, a transgender woman who is a sex worker. Muete tries to convince her to return to their town because her mother is very ill. The only condition: she has to go as Leonardo, her former identity.
Director: Frank Benitez
Country: Colombia
Year: 2021
SHORTS PROGRAM 3
Monday, June 19 @ 6:30 PM
DESERT LIGHTS
ESTRELLAS DEL DESIERTO
In the middle of Atacama desert, Antay (12) sees his town disappearing due to the drought. Alongside his friends and their football team, they will try to hang on to the last sun rays, their childhood fragments, and ties with those who still resist.
Director: Katherina Harder
Country: Chile
Year: 2022
SHORTS PROGRAM 4
Consulate General of Argentina in NY
Wednesday, June 21 @ 5:30 PM