The 10th edition of the “La Plata International Independent Film Festival” - FestiFreak - will take place between October 10-19, 2014. The festival has become one of the most important and massive cultural events of the City of La Plata, capital of the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina). For the last ten years, with the premise of screening and showing what rarely makes it to the commecial circuit, it has discovered emerging talents and revisited forgotten authors, always focusing on those titles created on the margins. This spirit of quest and experimentation that characterizes each and everyone of the festival’s editions, is relflected in this Special, that reunites some of the features and short films that they have screened in past years.
Fiction
Salsipuedes
Mariano Luque
Fiction | 2012 | 66 min
Small mountains. Trees. Camping. A couple in a tent. They're having a sunny day, and luckily, there are not many tourists. Right away there are signs that say they’re not equals. The man holds more power. The woman is trapped.
Today I felt no fear
Iván Fund
Fiction | 2011 | 123 min
"Today I felt no fear" is two movies at once. The first one portrays two sisters in their everyday lives, and the second one abandons lineal narrative to explore freely with the textures of images and sounds.
Documentary
Los Boys
Javier Zevallos
Documentary | 2012 | 82 min
If breakdance was a cultural resistance dance of the African American community in the US, maybe this documentary shows some continuity within Northern Argentina's adolescence. The Boys Street is a breakdance group known through their presentations in the TV reality show Argentine Talent, where they made in to the finals.
Brides - Godmothers - Sweet 16
Diego Levy & Pablo Levy
Documentary | 2011 | 61 min
The Levy brothers portray a world they are very familiar with: a silk shop owned by their father, “Negro” Levy, located in the Once neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
What are you now?
Gustavo Galuppo & Mariano Goldgrob
Documentary | 2011 | 62 min
This story recovers the happy years of band "Pequeña Orquesta Reincidentes", the songs, and the voices of those who don't forget, because they still carry them in their hearts.
Tekton
Mariano Donoso
Documentary | 2009 | 73 min
Three decades later, the project for the reconstruction of the Civic Center of the province of San Juan is back on track: the bureaucratic machine combines with the cranes and human strength and the megalomaniac desire that such a venture implies. There, in the monumental recovery of lost dreams and projects that suddenly come back to life, Mariano Donoso sees a film.
Mono
Mauro Andrizzi & Mariano Goldgrob
Documentary | 2008 | 81 min
"Mono" is an experimental documentary about a renovation in the Argentinian musical scene. Twelve new bands, and the power of live performance.
Big for the City
Andrés P. Estrada & Juan Schnitman
Documentary | 2007 | 82 min
“No solos, what matters is the melody” says one of the members of Astroboy, a Uruguayan brit pop band. This film documents the recording sessions of their second album, Big for the City.
Dreams of Polvorón
Gabriel Alijo
Documentary | 2006 | 70 min
From Los Polvorines, Guillermo Solis turns into Willy Polvorón, a lumpen songwriter and guitarist who tries to infiltrate in the world of music’s high society.
Opus
Mariano Donoso
Documentary | 2005 | 88 min
In July 2002, an American Producer comissions director Mariano Donoso a documentary on the state of Education in San Juan, the province where he was born. On the first day of filming, a teachers’ strike begins, paralyzing classes in the whole province, and – indirectly – the film itself.
Encyclopedia
Mariano Cohn, Adrián De Rosa, Gastón Duprat
Documentary | 2000 | 96 min
This film adopts the structure of an encyclopedia, with several scenes that aren't linked in any way, and produces a sort of X-ray of the argentinian society of the nineties.
Short Films
Constitución
Melisa Aller
Short Films | 2013 | 3 min
No insides and outsides. The margins do not exist. Constitution is an intensive burst which does not seek individuals and forms, but seeks the different speeds and slownesses.
Yo y Maru 2012
Juan Renau
Short Films | 2013 | 11 min
“The ability to write letters must have brought the world a terrible disturbance of souls. Because it’s a relationship with ghosts – and not only with the phantom of the recipient, but also with the own. Who can think it’s possible to maintain relationships through correspondence!” Letter from Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1920.
Primera sangre
Ramiro Longo & Leo Gracés
Short Films | 2012 | 10 min
In Argentina no train operator concludes his years of work without running over or killing somebody.
Desert
Melisa Aller
Short Films | 2012 | 3 min
The empty places. The lost childhood. Light trees. The abandoned gardens.
7:15 pm. Rosa Cherñajovsky
Hernán Weisz
Short Films | 2012 | 5 min
Rosa Cheñajovsky is 80 years old, and the news of having to wear glasses seems to surprise her as if she were a child.
The House
Paola Michaels
Short Films | 2012 | 30 min
This is a surreal tale about strange happenings in an abandoned house. The voiceover becomes the thread of the story in an incredible and lonely place. It's up to you to recreate the actions and characters narrated there.
Rastros
Jeymer Gamboa y Franco Castro
Short Films | 2010 | 14 min
A man makes a car trip with a dark purpose, and he will try to erase the traces he left behind.
