Filmar en América Latina (Geneva) has now established itself as the Swiss rendezvous with high quality film productions from Latin America and also the opportunity to have a panoramic vision of its contemporary filmmaking.
It is difficult to track something like a trend, but we can say that affirmative filmic statements, often loaded with straightforward political claims, are certainly well balanced with more personal, even intimist portraits, which reveal the strong thread of a humanist tradition.
In our meticulous selection – 10 reviews of which 5 on new discoveries at the festival – we want to highlight the works by Argentinian
Agustina Comedi and Bolivian
Diego Mondaca, respectively:
El silencio es un cuerpo que cae - review by Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie
Chaco - review by Jean Perret
Beside
Silence Radio (no longer in the 2020 online edition of Filmar en América Latina), here are the films in the festival selection that Filmexplorer has already discussed:
Canción sin nombre, by Melina León - review by Pamela Jahn
Ema y Gastón, by Pablo Larraín - review by Silvia Posavec
Lina de Lima, by María Paz González - review by Jodie McNeilly-Reinaudie
Los silencios, by Beatriz Seigner - review by Giuseppe Di Salvatore
