*Only selected Latin American Film Festival titles will be screened across the 3 participating cinemas throughout the Festival.

Dear Patrons,
Please note the following during the 22nd Latin American Film Festival 2024 screenings:

• Several movies will have selected scenes manually blocked based on the censorship report requirement issued by the Film Censorship Board, Ministry of Home Affairs in compliance with Malaysian censorship guidelines.
• All movies will be screened in their original languages, with English subtitles.
  “Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon” is presented in English.
  “Death of a Bureaucrat” is presented in its original Black & White theatrical presentation.

We thank you for your understanding for such disruptions during the screenings. We hope you enjoy the movies specially brought to you by the Organizers. 

My Masterpiece (Mi Obra Maestra)

Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Running time (min): 100
Rating: 18
Genre: Drama
Cast: Guillermo Francella, Luis Brandoni, Raúl Arévalo, Andrea Frigerio
Director: Gastón Duprat
Release year: 2018
Awards: Valladolid International Film Festival (2018)

• Winner – Audience Award

Synopsis: This is the  Spanish-Argentinian dramatic comedy which Gastón Duprat took a break from his fruitful collaboration with Andrés Cohn to direct it on his own. A ruthless satire on the world of contemporary art, the lies and falsehoods that sustain it, and the lack of scruples of those who manage it. Beyond this, on a second level, a beautiful story of unconditional friendship unfolds. Winner of the Audience Award in Valladolid, the movie relies on the acting duel between the Argentinians Guillermo Francella and Luis Brandoni, with the Spaniard Raúl Arévalo as the third vertex of the plot.

Movie trailer: https://youtu.be/R9bnoELc68A?si=9a7UbDKj15NR_QrK

THE MAN WHO COPIED (O HOMEM QUE COPIAVA)

Country: Brazil
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Running time (min): 126
Rating: 18
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Cast: Lázaro Ramos (André), Leandra Leal (Sílvia), Luana Piovani (Marinês), Pedro Cardoso (Cardoso)
Director: Jorge Furtado
Release year: 2003

Synopsis: André, who is relatively poor, falls in love with Silvia, a neighbor he spies on with a telescope. Falling more and more in love with her, he begins to follow her around the city and realizes she works in a clothing shop. He works in a Xerox place and makes a copy of a brand new $50-bill to buy a dress from her store. This becomes a vice and he begins to photocopy more and more money, until it gets out of control. Things go wrong when he decides that photocopying is not the only way to make money. 

Movie trailer: https://youtu.be/W-kIOdqvg1c?si=8GVMicUDxgOM--4p

Thursday till Sunday (De Jueves a Domingo) 

Country: Chile / Netherlands
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Running time (min): 96
Rating: 13
Genre: Drama
Cast: Santi Ahumada, Emiliano Freifeld, Paola Giannini, Francisco Pérez-Bannen, Jorge Becker, Axel Dupré
Director: Dominga Sotomayor
Release year: 2012
Awards: 

• Tiger award, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands, 2012.
• Special Mention Feisal Award, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (Bafici), Argentina, 2012.
• Young Jury Award, Opendoek Festival, Belgium, 2012.
• Audience Award, TarkovskyFest, Russia, 2012 
• Best Cinematography, Transylvania International Film Festival, Romania, 2012. 
• Grand Prize Feature Film City of Lisbon, IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012. 
• Best Film, Cines del Sur Film Festival, Granada, Spain, 2012.
• Honourable Mention, Los Angeles Film Festival, USA, 2012.
• Grand Prix, New Horizons Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland, 2012.
• Best Film, International Competition, Valdivia International Film Festival, Valdivia, 2012.
• Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Iquique International Film Festival, 2013.

Synopsis: Dominga Sotomayor's Tiger Award winning directorial debut “De jueves a domingo” (Thursday Till Sunday) centers around Fernando and his wife Ana, a well-to-do couple in their mid-thirties and their children, pre-teenager Lucia and Manuel, who is a few years younger. The movie opens with last minute predawn preparations for a trip from Santiago to the arid north of Chile in the family car. We witness family conversations in the car and soon we get hints that the couple is in the process of dissolution, a situation that Lucia senses and tries to understand with mixed success while Manuel, in his childish universe, is oblivious to the underlying tension. Through various happenings we learn a few things about the past and present of the couple. They run into Jorge, Ana's old friend (and possibly old flame) in a road stop and arrange to camp together. She obviously has serious issues with Fernando but hints are vague and sometimes contradictory. 

Movie trailer: https://youtu.be/nttjF-RCZqk?si=U3stfwx7PIQbl9Cx

THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN (LOS COLORES DE LA MONTAÑA)

Country: Colombia
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Running time (min): 94
Rating: 16
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hernán Mauricio Ocampo, Nolberto Sánchez, Genaro Aristizábal
Director: Carlos César Arbeláez
Release year: 2010

Synopsis: Manuel, 9, has an old ball with which he plays football every day in the countryside. He dreams of becoming a great goalkeeper. His wishes seem set to come true when Ernest, his father, gives him a new ball. But an unexpected accident sends the ball flying into a minefield. Despite the danger, Manuel refuses to abandon his treasure... He convinces Julián and Poca Luz, his two friends, to rescue it with him. Amid the adventures and kids' games, the signs of armed conflict start to appear in the lives of the inhabitants of 'La Pradera'.

Movie trailer: https://youtu.be/nu0pOFuoBkI?si=u2K9DJG0JGFsjr35

Death of a Bureaucrat (La muerte de un Burócrata)

Country: Cuba
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Running time (min): 84
Rating: 18
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Gaspar de Santelises, Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera, Carlos Gargallo, Miriam Ramos 
Director: Tomás Gutierrez Alea
Release year: 1966
Awards: 

• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1966: Special Prize of the Jury
• Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 1994
• Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 1994
• Official Selection Hong Kong International Film Festival 2021

Synopsis: Death of a Bureaucrat is a classic Cuban film restored in 2019. Presented in its original "Black & White" theatrical presentation, this 1966 comedy film by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea pokes fun at the bureaucracy and red tape and how it affects the lives of the common people who have to waste time and overcome hurdles just to get on with their ordinary lives. This is astonishing and still, by contemporary standards, an extremely fresh critique of bureaucracy with emphasis on red tape ritualism and inertia.

Movie trailer: https://youtu.be/-QLf9XW8Cgc?si=DQC_-3f0n6_sUSbO

Illusions S.A (Ilusiones S.A)

Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Running time (min): 92
Rating: 13
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jaime Camil, Adriana Louvier, Silvia Mariscal, Roberto D'Amico, Marina de Tavira, Daniel Inigo      
Director: Roberto Girault
Release year: 2015

Synopsis: A group of professional actors who are dedicated to pretending to be real-life situations are hired by a wealthy man to pretend to be his grandson's family, thus avoiding great pain for his wife, who is anxiously waiting for them after receiving a letter.

Movie trailer: https://youtu.be/nJh5NgX-a54?si=_bPCrCpEvCsQp5bI 

AINBO: SPIRIT OF THE AMAZON 

Country: Peru
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Running time (min): 85
Rating: 13
Genre: Animation
Cast: Lola Raie, Naomi Serrano, Bernardo De Paula, Alejandra Gollas        
Director: Jose Zelada, Richard Claus
Release year: 2021

Synopsis: In the spirit of Moana and Frozen, "Ainbo – Spirit of the Amazon" is the epic journey of a young hero and her Spirit Guides who embark on a quest to save their home in the spectacular Amazon Rainforest. Ainbo was born and grew up in the deepest jungle of the Amazon. One day she discovers that her homeland is being threatened. With the help of her spirit guides “Dillo” a cute and humorous armadillo and “Vaca” a heavy-set tapir, Ainbo embarks on a journey to save her homeland. As she fights to save her paradise against the greed and exploitation by illegal miners, she struggles to reverse this destruction and the impending evil of the “Yacaruna”, the darkness that lives in the Amazon. Guided by her mother’s spirit, Ainbo is determined to save her land before it’s too late.

Movie trailer: https://youtu.be/j1PmmI-EljU?si=CUutLILpVG0WL1pv

FAMILY ALBUM (TEMAS PROPIOS) 

Country: Uruguay
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Running time (min): 92
Rating: 16
Genre: Comedy
Cast: DIEGO CREMONESI , FRANCO RIZZARO , VALERIA LOIS , ALFONSO TORT , VICENTE PIERRI , ROBERTO SUAREZ , ANGELA TORRES     
Director: Guillermo Rocamora
Release year: 2023
Awards: Uruguay Critics Association 2023

• Best Sound Direction 
• Best Editing 
• Best actor - Franco Rizzaro 
• Best supporting actress - Valeria Lois

Synopsis: Manuel is 18 and passionate about music, but he's in the midst of a vocational crisis. César is 45 but acts like a teenager. He is an immature father who feels liberated and rejuvenated since the separation. Virginia is 49 and teaches English in her kitchen. She is a mother overwhelmed by work, her teenage children, and the separation. Agustín is 15 and is on the verge of being expelled from school. Amid the family storm, César and Manuel come up with the idea of forming a band, a dream that César was unable to fulfill. But the generational clash between them makes the family band unsustainable. Temas Propios is a comedy that explores the challenging journey of becoming an adult, the relationship between parents and children, and the world of rock bands.

Movie trailer: https://youtu.be/9C6i5taZlxc?si=8WFY6111wxRgm3uh