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| AFLFC Invites You to Children Films Under the Stars This Thursday at 8:30pm By StudentFilmmakers.com posted Jun 25, 2013, 10:21 |
FREE and Open to the Public
American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba and Havana Film Festival New York, in association with PR Dream Film Fest, Present "Children Films Under the Stars," at the 103rd Street Community Gardon between Park and Lexington Avenues.
Thursday, June 27 @ 8:30pm
HABANASTATION
Director: Ian Padron
Fiction / Cuba / Color / 85 min / 2011
Cuban director Ian Padrón describes his first feature-length film as "a fictional story about reality." Tracing the lives of two Cuban classmates with different upbringings, Padrón follows a privileged student who blindly enters into the dangers of Carlos' neighborhood, La Timba. What follows is an unforgettable journey full of discovery and the birth of a strong friendship. Featuring members of the internationally renowned children's theater company La Colmenita, Padrón's stylistic feature is guaranteed to warm your hearts.
Y SIN EMBARGO / AND YET
Director: Rudy Mora
Fiction / Cuba / Color / 84 min / 2012
A boy arrives late to his music class. He justifies his lateness with a lie that triggers turmoil among the students and worries his teachers. To save himself from being expelled from school, the boy is forced to make a pact with his teachers to tell the truth. With the performance of children's theater company "La Colmenita" and Laura de la Uz, Larisa Vega, Manuel Porto, Eslinda Nuñez, Osvaldo Doimeadios, among others. Music by Silvio Rodriguez.
Thursday, July 18 @ 8:30pm
SHORTS: EL ALMUERZO, AGUA, AND REINO PLASTICO
EL ALMUERZO / LUNCH
Director: Julio Contreras
Fiction / Colombia / 8 min / 2010
At Juliana's home there is nothing to eat. She decides to trick a friend who belongs to the community dining room's lunch program so her little sister may eat in his place.
AGUA / WATER
Director: Fabian Zarla
Fiction / Argentina / 1 min / 2008
A child's innocent and brilliant idea shows his mother her lack of consideration for the water problem.
REINO PLÁSTICO / PLASTIC KINGDOM
Director: Maximiliano Conteti - Guillermo Kloetzer
Docu-drama / Uruguay / 24 min / 2011
In this story we join Pet, the plastic bag, in its journey to find a vocation. Through its experience, we are shown the relationship we have with the trash we generate every day. Did you know that each bag gets used for about 20 minutes, and then has 100 years to do whatever it wants?
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