Directed by Josué Méndez, Días de Santiago is about a young man trained for nothing but fighting that finds himself back in normal life after service in the army. Skillfully interweaving black and white and colour footage in a way that both heightens the film's realism and the sense of despair and frustration of his protagonist, this young Peruvian director makes very palpable the way the young man's training has circumscribed his life. A close and following camera, tight compositions and an intermittent voice-over, positions the audience close to our hero, and the frustration, anger and tragedy of the situation is brought vividly to life.
“El laberinto del fauno” nos sitúa en el año 1944 y cuenta el apasionante viaje que emprende una niña de 13 años (Ofelia) con su madre convaleciente y el marido de ésta, un cruel capitán del ejército franquista, a un pueblo en el que encontrará las ruinas de un laberinto. Allí se encuentra con un fauno, una criatura que le hace una increíble revelación: Ofelia es en realidad una princesa, última de su estirpe, a la que los suyos llevan mucho tiempo esperando. Para poder regresar a su mágico reino, la niña deberá enfrentarse a tres pruebas que poco a poco irá superando.
In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.
Directed by Fernando Sariñana, Todo el poder centers around the politics and corruption that shroud the Mexican police system. Featuring Demián Bichir as Gabriel, a filmmaker whose career has left him assaulted and robbed in broad daylight more times than he cares to remember, the film itself was inspired by Sariñana's personal experience with urban crime oftentimes perpetrated by the police themselves (Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide).
Historias de fútbol portrays the life, love, and passion involved in soccer, one of the twentieth century’s most important rituals, through the lives of three different characters. The star player of a small neighborhood team from Santiago de Chile is offered a bribe and the possibility of playing professional football. A boy from Northern Chile wins a classic neighborhood pichanga football contest. In the process, however, he loses the few pesos he had gained from pawning one of his mother’s last items of value. A kid from the city finds himself stranded in a remote corner of the southern island of Chiloé on the day of the World Cup qualifying match for the Chilean National team. The only television in the area is at the house of the old Serón sisters, where the kid finds himself in the middle of more than he bargained for.
A desperate group of people wait at a rundown Cuban transit station for the next bus to arrive. The problem is, it never shows up. While a number of busses pass by the station, and others that are either full or at the end of the line stop by, it soon becomes obvious that the bus everyone was waiting for has left them high and dry. While one of the would-be passengers, Emilio, uses his downtime to win the affections of the beautiful Jacqueline, most of the rest decide that if they're stuck without anywhere to go, they might as well make the station a better place to wait, and they begin forming a plan to turn the decrepit bus terminal into a showplace that people would look forward to visiting.
Año 1993. Una guagua rota en una terminal de ómnibus. Emilio, Jacqueline y el resto de los protagonistas de esta historia, en el afán de buscar soluciones, no sin contratiempos, hacen más cálidas sus relaciones, trabajan por el bienestar de todos y cumplen sueños aplazados por los agobios de la vida cotidiana. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOztEsyv2M
Director : Juan Antonio Bayona Executive producer : Guillermo Del Toro 2008.
Plot summary:
The former orphan Laura raises her adopted son Simón with her husband Carlos in an old house and former orphanage where she was raised. Simón is HIV positive and tells Laura that he has five invisible friends, and she believes they are fruit of his imagination. Laura decides to reopen an orphanage for handicapped children in the location and during the opening party, Simón calls her to show the little cabin of his friend Tomás. The busy Laura does not gives much attention to her son; then she sees a mysterious masked boy and Simón vanishes. Laura feels the presence of other persons in the house and months later, the desperate Laura invites a team of parapsychologists to try to unravel the mystery.
LA TRAMA.
Laura vuelve 30 años después al Orfanato, en el que estuvo, con el objetivo de convertir el edificio en un centro de acogida pra niños discapacitados, tarea que piensa hacer con la ayuda de su marido y en compañía de su hijo de 7 años Simón.
El edificio ya de por sí, dá bastante miedo, y como he leído en otros comentarios de esta película tiene bastante similitud con la película los Otros, nos encontramos con una ambientación de Asturias, bastante siniestra.
La trama empieza con los amigos invisibles de Simón, de repente y en cuanto entra en la casa, los cambia por nuevos amigos, que van a ser el eje de la trama, obviamente no me gusta destripar películas y menos a estas alturas, así que poco más voy a contar, desde luego la música y el saber que la película en mayor o menor medida es de terror, provocará en nosotros mucha ansiedad y que nos llevemos más de un susto.
