Shorts for Shorties 1 (ages 4-9)
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Description
As integral members of their communities, the following films incorporate a child’s viewpoint in their narrative approach. The children at the centre of this program are virtuous storytellers, condensing epic tales about their cultural origins (Otomi: El inicio del mundo como lo conocemos) and magnifying facets of their daily lives (Las aventuras de Itzel y Sonia). Yet, instead of iterating stories, they are retold with the flair only a set of curious eyes, ears and minds can achieve.
PROGRAMME:
TSELTAL EL ORIGEN DEL SOL Y LA LUNA
Director: COMBO
Country: Mexico Year: 2016 Lenght: 1’05’’
Genre: Animation
Synopsis: Short from the series “68 voces - 68 corazones”
They say a long time ago, a young man named Xutil persuaded his mother to go up the firmament because he knew he didn't belong in this world. They started walking on the roof of their house, and the more they walked the more the house grew. When they were far enough from the Earth, Xutil told her mother it was time to part ways. She should not cry, because they’d always see each other. She would be the Moon lighting the Earth at night; he’d go further to become the Sun that warms the Earth and men. That’s how we got the Sun and the Moon.That’s how the Tseltales tell it.
LAS AVENTURAS DE ITZEL Y SONIA
Director: Fernanda Rivero
Country: Mexico Year: 2016 Lenght: 58’
Genre: Animation
Synopsis: Itzel, an 8-year-old girl, and her best friend Sonia the frog embark on a mission to find the guardians of the water, before the city runs out of water. With the help of her grandmother they will seek in the most remote of Mexico, while the faceless being stalks them.
OTOMÍ EL INICIO DEL MUNDO COMO LO CONOCEMOS
Director: COMBO
Country: Mexico Year: 2016 Lenght: 1’05’’Genre: Animation
Synopsis: Short from the series “68 voces - 68 corazones”
They say many years ago Zithú, the mean one, owned the Earth. And during that time, there was also a boy chased by the bad guys. One day while the boy was looking for a place to hide, he was shot with an arrow. The bad guys asked a rooster to keep an eye on him and to let them know if he was trying to scape. But the rooster didn't sing until the fourth day, when the boy was so far away he was climbing a tree through the sky. From the tree, drops stared to fall fertilizing the world and seeding corn. By the time the bad guys came back, the boy had turned into the Sun. That's how the world we know now came to be. That's how the Otomis tell it.
MAYO EL ORÍGEN DEL FUEGO
Director: COMBO
Country: Mexico Year: 2016 Lenght: 1’05’’ Genre: Animation
Synopsis: Short from the series “68 voces - 68 corazones”
They say many years ago every animal wanted fire, but it was on top of the highest mountain. So they suggested the frog went looking for it, he wouldn't get burn since he lived in water. It took the frog a while to get there, and when he finally grabbed a hot coal, the water on his mouth put the fire out. Then, the fox suggested the chicken should go with him so every time the fire was about to extinguish, the chicken would blow on it to rekindle the flame. They made it back but the coal fell on the tlacuache's tale, making him run scared around the mountain leaving traces of fire everywhere. Thanks to these animals we now have fire and the Tlacuache's tale looks the way we now know. That's how the Yoremes tell it.
LOS CUATRO REYES / THE FOUR KINGS
Director: Reynaldo Quijada
Country: Panama Year: 2016 Lenght: 16’’
Genre: Drama/Family/Social
Synopsis: 'The Four Kings' is a story about the magic of believing from the perspective of a small innocent, through a unique card trick. It shows that there are no barriers to love when you believe strongly.
VICENTA
Director: Carla Valencia Dávila
Country: Ecuador Year:2014 Lenght: 5’Genre: Animation
Synopsis: This is a simple and common story. Vicenta is a woman from the countryside who was born in Bolivia and migrated with her grandmother to Chile searching for a better life. She washed clothes in a salt mine to earn her living. She faced poverty while becoming a single mother and although she was illiterate, she worked and supported her recently formed family. Years later the whole family faced the military dictatorship and Vicenta lost her eldest son who was detained. Vicenta, a woman like many, like Silvia, Ana, Javiera, Juana. She was a woman from the countryside, a migrant, a mother, a militant, a Chilean, an Argentinian, an Ecuadorian, a Bolivian. This is a real story. Vicenta was my great-grandmother.
KUYCHI PUCHA
Director: Segundo Fuérez
Country: Ecuador Year: 2014 Lenght: 8’16’’
Genre: Fiction
Synopsis: The journey of a little girl that encounters the spirit of her dead mother. Kuychi Pucha is a ritual and a journey through a rainbow where life and death meet.
MAYA LA ÚLTIMA DANZA
Director: Gabriela Badillo
Country: Mexico Year:Lenght: 2’30’’Genre: Animation
Synopsis:Short from the series “68 voces - 68 corazones”
…There was a conversation with my father that I keep within me: “Daughter, I often dream of your mother. She is always young when I see her, the years just don’t go by for her.” “And what does she say? I haven’t seen her in a long time.” “You’re now older than she is, that’s why you can’t see her. I’m thinking of going after her, I don’t want to be too old for your mother. She still likes me, in my dreams we take walks in different places, we remember all the dances we did together.” “You would really go with her? What about me?”. “You’ll stay here. I have planted in you the seed of the dances and you will make it multiply all around the world. We were only instruments so you could exist." “This is like the seed of life, it is necessary that its face be buried in the ground; it is necessary that it performs the death dance. If it succeeds, its sprouts will see the surface. It will grow in the form of a plant, it will be strong and it will bear fruits, it will always bear fruits because it learned to succeed before it was born.This is why you have to think that people that are gone, are not gone in vain, think about your kind and when the moment comes for you to go, you must be ready.” When my father lay down to rest that night, he never woke up. But I knew that he would be happy because he had gone to meet my mother. I created “the dance of death” and not knowing when my last day will come, I sing it until the words that come out of my mouth melt or when a strong wind extinguishes the sound of my voice.
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Start:
2017-06-10T12:30:00-04:00
End:
2017-06-10T14:00:00-04:00
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Film
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Children
8.99
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11.09
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79.34
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