Tanya Valette

A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

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Breath is a creative documentary about human existence and the mysteries of life and death, seen in the everyday life of a small village in the middle of nowhere, in the countryside of Brazil, where families have lived for years, almost completely isolated from contact with the outside world. Wind, dust, mountains, silence and time… Man and nature live together there in both harmony and conflict, amidst what is and what could be, in the vastness of a landscape grander than vision can grasp.

Rafael, an old butler of a decadent farmhouse, lives with his landlord in that space. He develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume a life and a glorious family past. These actions and gestures will become the only way of sustaining that home and those lives humbled in memory. With the decline of that environment, Rafael will be underdog of his place and his own story, and will be forced to leave in an uncertain trip, towards the last of his possessions.

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In 1997 the Argentine filmmaker Fernando Birri returned to his home country to film a documentary on the 30th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara and the relevance of utopias at that time. Carmen Guarini decided to record those moments. A rough edit of this film was hidden away on a fragile VHS tape for twenty years. Today, these images come to life and shed some light on the life of this Latin American poet and master filmmaker, who, at the age of 92, still refused to give up on his own utopias.

filmed in La Romana, República Dominicana in the year 2020.

Cristiano Bruno is a young man that resides in one of the poorest slums in the highlands of Santo Domingo. He was raised by his mother, Maritza Bruno, after the incarceration of his father Marcos Ramirez for allegedly being involved in dirty business, and drug dealing years before Cristianos birth. Cristiano grew up surrounded by a difficult and precarious environment, leaning, like his father before him, towards the business of selling and trading narcotics. Cristiano falls into what seemed to be a lucrative business but gets betrayed and entangled in the maze of envy and deceit that leads to the tragical resolution of this story.