ONE DAY IN MEXICO
One Day Film Festival
In Association with
Kerala Chalachitra Academy,
Mexican Embassy
C-Hed, Corporation of Cochin
Nazarin
Director - Luis Bunuel
In this film Bunuel has the master cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. Nazarin, a priest who lives by his beliefs, tries to live a very Christian life, but as always there are people that do not accept this. He wanders through many places preaching his Christianity but finding, most of the time, people that do not accept him. But besides the splendid story, it is always interesting to try to interpret the enigmatic messages that Bunuel sends us throughout the picture in scenes that make you shiver.
Tristana
Director - Luis Bunuel
Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, the protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women
Santo and Blue Demon in Atlantis
Director – Julian Soler
The film has a lot of fun with a comic book-like plot that has an ex-Nazi scientist headquartered on Atlantis planning on taking over the world. During the course of the movie the Blue Demon is brainwashed and he and el Santo throw down, just like the heroes in a Marvel comic book, before teaming up to beat the bad guys
Silent Light
Director – Carlos Reygadas
Silent Light revolves around a Mennonite family, whose stability is at stake when the head of the family Johan falls into an adulterous relationship with a Marianne. Supported by his friend Zacarias, Johan believes Marianne to be his soul mate. Will the pious family man be able to ignore this belief and remain with his loved one, or will his passion for Marianne overpower his desire to abide by the laws of God?
Cumbia Con
nection
Director – Rene U Villarreal
Downtown high rises hem in a pedestrian zone, where La Cori 17, window shops with a concentration bordering on obsession. Her tempestuous dark beauty draws stares of passers-by, their interests heightened by her two-toned hair, tattoos, body piercing and broad swaths of makeup. Sharing her taut sensual sexuality is her lover, El Guiripi slightly older. For it is the young slum dwellers of Monterrey – Mexico’s industrial capital and third largest metropolitan area that have developed a distinctive “Colombiano” style that all is their own.
Tristana
Director - Luis Bunuel
Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, the protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women
Santo and Blue Demon in Atlantis
Director – Julian Soler
The film has a lot of fun with a comic book-like plot that has an ex-Nazi scientist headquartered on Atlantis planning on taking over the world. During the course of the movie the Blue Demon is brainwashed and he and el Santo throw down, just like the heroes in a Marvel comic book, before teaming up to beat the bad guys
Silent Light
Director – Carlos Reygadas
Silent Light revolves around a Mennonite family, whose stability is at stake when the head of the family Johan falls into an adulterous relationship with a Marianne. Supported by his friend Zacarias, Johan believes Marianne to be his soul mate. Will the pious family man be able to ignore this belief and remain with his loved one, or will his passion for Marianne overpower his desire to abide by the laws of God?
Cumbia Con
nection
Director – Rene U Villarreal
Downtown high rises hem in a pedestrian zone, where La Cori 17, window shops with a concentration bordering on obsession. Her tempestuous dark beauty draws stares of passers-by, their interests heightened by her two-toned hair, tattoos, body piercing and broad swaths of makeup. Sharing her taut sensual sexuality is her lover, El Guiripi slightly older. For it is the young slum dwellers of Monterrey – Mexico’s industrial capital and third largest metropolitan area that have developed a distinctive “Colombiano” style that all is their own.
