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17th BAFICI  April 15-25, 2015

17vo Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente

RETROSPECTIVAS Y FOCOS

Perú: Radiografía Fílmica de un País

"Las (obras) que comprenden Perú: Radiografía Fílmica de un País son películas que no se han ido, sino que se nos acercan cada vez más. Hermoso es comprobar que, con el pasar el tiempo, se han revelado como piezas representativas de su época, cual vestigio de su histórica vigencia, y han ido construyendo una memoria que se solidifica manteniendo incandescente el recuerdo de lo que alguna vez fuimos. E, incisivamente, bosqueja cómo somos ahora."

- John Campos Gómez

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Juan Alejandro Ramírez participa en esta selección con:

•  Me Dicen Yovo  •  Solo un Cargador  •  Nadie Especial  •

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HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AMERICAN CINEMA

By Peter H. Rist

Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

English © 2014

To read a condensed summary of both film work and biographical information about Juan Alejandro Ramírez as it appears in the entry of the HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AMERICAN CINEMA (Rowman & Littlefield), please click over the picture on the right.

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A L G U N A   T R I S T E Z A

(Some Kind of Sadness)

© 2006

A group of seemingly unrelated vignettes emerge as both personal and distant, but always intensely emotional in tone .  .  .  ultimately, shaping up as a sketch-book on some features that seem to mark the lives of those who grow up poor in poor countries. This personal narrative offers neither formulas nor solutions: rather, it is a random pursuit for answers that unravels into a series of powerful, lyrical epiphanies. A sharp eye for detail and a stirring poetic narration turn the images of this film into a moving metaphor for all kinds of inequities.

"A darker, more troubling, but no less transcendent philosophical exercise  . . .  Porter, by Juan Alejandro Ramirez, is about one fictionalized cargador, brought to life in an uncannily penetrating first-person voiceover constructed by Ramirez from various accounts by these peasant laborers.

In this intensely subjective, stream-of-consciousness monologue . . . (a porter) shares his often astonishingly acute thoughts about his low place in the world, his hopes and failings, and his invisibility to the gringos who are so dependent on him, however briefly.

This is not a sentimental, self-satisfied story celebrating a group of unfortunates. Ramirez does something very different by having the porter, the Other, seemingly take control of the storytelling and the images, making him a true subject, and not the object of either scorn or pity. The effect of hearing this voice is devastating, pointing out as he does the chasms in understanding between people."

-Elizabeth Helfgott  FILM COMMENT  May-June 2004

GRAND PRIX COURTOUJOURS
Rencontres Cinémas d'Amérique Latine
STERLING AWARD BEST SHORT
Silverdocs / American Film Institute Film Festival
GRAND JURY PRIZE BEST SHORT
Indianapolis International Film Festival
BEST SHORT FEATURE AWARD
Human Rights Nights International Film Festival

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
San Diego Latino International Film Festival

BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
Jornada Internacional de Cinema da Bahia

BEST SHORT FEATURE AWARD
Las Americas International Film Festival

GRAND PRIX DU NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Festival International du film de d'Autrans
GRAND PRIX DOCUMENTAIRE
Festival International du Film d'Aubagne
GRAND JURY SPECIAL MENTION
Belo Horizonte International Film Festival
GRAND JURY HONORABLE DISTINCTION
International Film Festival in Drama
PRIX TEUEIKAN MENCION SPECIELE
Terres en Vues Montreal

WINNER AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Anthology Film Archives New Filmmakers. NEW YORK

- IN SHOWS. Performance and Films

Muy Lejos de Aqui      •      Me Dicen Yovo      •      Todo y Nada

M E   D I C E N   Y O V O

(I'm a Yovo) © 1995

“I’m a Yovo unveils a rare picture of the Third World as seen from the Third World.”

- Michael Schmitz. WAS DUSSELDORF

.  MONTREAL  .  SAN SEBASTIAN  .  MANNHEIM  .  OBERHAUSEN  .  FRIBOURG  .  CORK  .  CHICAGO  .  FESPACO  .  COPENHAGEN  .  FILM FRA SOR  .  BOMBAY  .  BERLIN ETHNOFILMFEST  .   VILA DO CONDE  .  NEW YORK AFRICAN DIASPORA  .  SAO PAULO  .  TOULOUSE  .  GOTTINGEN  .  BEELD VOR BEELD  .  BAHIA

T O D O   Y   N A D A

(All and Nothing) © 1993

" . . . this film succeeds in permeating the audience with a feeling of longing for the past that all men - whether fortunate or not - radiate when far and away from their origins."
                                                                                                           
- Julia Cabale. LA TRIBUNA DEL FESTIVAL. LA HABANA

.  MONTREAL  .  LA HABANA  .  BERLIN  .  BAHIA  .  TOULOUSE  .  NEFF  .  MONTEVIDEO  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  CHICAGO  .

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