Program Guide - Cleveland International Film Festival

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GREG GUND MEMORIAL
STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
FOCUS ON FILMMAKERS
CINEMA EN ESPAÑOL, WOMEN OF THE WORLD
Salma
Directed by Kim Longinotto
UNITED KINGDOM, INDIA 2013
90 minutes
Saturday, April 6 Monday, April 8
1:15 PM I Code SALM06 7:25 PM I Code SALM08
This groundbreaking film is a story of triumph over such
unimaginable adversity that it will take your breath away. SALMA
is a Tamil Muslim woman who was forced to leave school, then
locked up by her family for 25 years. Through dogged persistence,
she defied her village to become the most famous female
poet in South India. Salma and her female relatives speak
candidly with the filmmakers about their fates. When girls in
this culture reach puberty, they lose contact with the outside
world. Some hide their periods in an effort to stay free longer;
at 14, Salma was shut up in a basement with bars on the
windows. Forced to marry a village man who forbade her to
write, she took bits of the calendar and wrote in the toilet.
Her breakthrough came after she smuggled poems out with saris
in the laundry. SALMA is a window onto the everyday injustices
that sentence so many women to lives of quiet desperation.
(In Tamil with subtitles) —B.B.
Producer~Kim Longinotto Screenwriting~Ollie Huddleston Cinematography~
Kim Longinotto Editing~Ollie Huddleston
Print Source~Women Make Movies / kf@wmm.com / www.wmm.com
About the Director~Kim Longinotto studied camera and directing at England’s
National Film School. She is well-known for making films that highlight the plight
of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Filmography~“Pride of Place”
(1976), “Theatre Girls” (1978), “Eat the Kimono” (1989), “Hidden Faces” (1990),
“The Good Wife of Tokyo” (1992), “Dream Girls” (1993), “Shinjuku Boys” (1995),
“Divorce Iranian Style” (1998)—23rd CIFF, “Gaea Girls” (2000), “Runaway”
(2001), “The Day I Will Never Forget” (2002), “Sisters in Law” (2005), “Hold
Me Tight, Let Me Go” (2007), “Rough Aunties” (2009), “Pink Saris” (2010),
SALMA (2013)
A Secret World
(Un Mundo Secreto)
Directed by Gabriel Mariño
MEXICO, SWITZERLAND 2012
87 minutes
Wednesday, April 10 Thursday, April 11
9:35 PM I Code SECR10 11:45 AM I Code SECR11
Eighteen-year-old Maria (Lucia Uribe) is fed up with school in
Mexico City. She has a strained relationship with her mother
and harbors no plans for her future. The joyless sex she has
with guys is just something to do before they go to the movies.
Yet Maria has an introspective side. She even writes encouraging
diary entries to herself from an imaginary friend. One day
she leaves life behind and takes off hitchhiking across the
country. As she goes, she encounters a series of people whose
lives she rejects: a lonely single mom; a dirty old man; a sensitive
boy named Juan. It’s to Juan that she confides her wonderful
recurring dream of a whale waiting in the ocean for her
to climb aboard so it can take her to a place of warmth and
light. As Maria travels across Mexico, from the city to the
desert and onward toward the sea, we see her uncertain future
assuming a wider horizon. A SECRET WORLD is a lyrical journey
toward Maria’s self-awareness and ours. (In Spanish with
subtitles) —B.B.
Producers~Tatiana Graullera, Jesús Magaña Vázquez Screenwriting~
Gabriel Mariño Cinematography~Iván Hernández Editing~Pedro G. García,
Gabriel Mariño Principal Cast~Lucía Uribe, Roberto Mares, Olivia Lagunas,
Claudia Ríos, Jesús Magaña Vázquez
Print Source~Shoreline Entertainment / tom@slefilms.com /
www.shorelineentertainment.com
About the Director~Gabriel Mariño, born in Mexico in 1978, is a graduate of the
Centro de Capacitación Cinematografica, the public film school in Mexico City.
Filmography~A SECRET WORLD (2012)
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