FiGa Films in Berlin
Proudly presenting at Berlin International Film Festival
EL DESPERTAR DE LAS
HORMIGAS
A film by Antonella Sudassasi
Costa Rica/Spain, 2019, 94 min
Isabel is a good mom, a good wife, a good daughter in law. When her family starts pushing her to have another child, she will have to confront herself, her environment, and her family.
CHÃO
LANDLESS
A film by Camila Freitas
Brazil, 2019, 108 min
In an occupied land belonging to an indebted sugarcane processing plant in bankruptcy process, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) fights to press the government into making land reform and settling the families encamped. A story about resilience against changing times and politics.
LA ARRANCADA
ON THE STARTING LINE
A film by Aldemar Matias
France/Cuba/Brazil/, 2019, 63 min
Jenniffer is a young sportswoman questioning her career as a national athlete in Cuba. Her mother, Marbelis, is the tough boss of a public fumigation center in downtown Havana. As her brother is getting ready to leave the country, Jenniffer struggles to find her place. This intimate family chronicle, seen from the perspective of two women, unfolds the portrait of a generation unsure of what’s next in Cuba.
TEMPORADA
LONG WAY HOME
A film by André Novais Oliveira
Brazil, 2018, 113 min
Juliana moves from her hometown to a bigger city to work for the disease eradication program of the public health system. On the job, she meets new people, makes friends and has new experiences that start little by little to change her life. At the same time, she feels she is losing touch with her husband, who she left in the backlands.
MARKET SCREENING
Feb 12 at 11 am CinemaxX 14
LUCIÉRNAGAS
FIREFLIES
A film by Bani Khoshnoudi
Mexico/Greece/Dominican Republic, 2018, 85 min
When Ramin hid on a cargo ship leaving Turkey, he never expected to end up in Veracruz, Mexico by accident. Having escaped persecution as a young gay man in his home country, Iran, he suddenly finds himself far from everything he knows, living the life of an exile in this nostalgic, tropical port where his past and future are constantly confronted by new relationships and revivified desires.
IN BERLIN FEB 7 - 15
