《阿拉亚》是委内瑞拉传奇女导演玛戈·贝纳塞拉芙唯一一部纪录长片,它在拉美影史上占有相当重要的位置,是委内瑞拉民主后第一部获得国际声誉的电影,当年在嘎纳它与阿伦·雷奈的《广岛之恋》共同分享了国际评论家奖,也都获金棕榈提名却最终未果,尽管名气不如《广岛之恋》和《黑人奥菲尔》那么大,但在专业人士眼中此片一直都是研究拉美女性电影所必修的经典,影片出色的摄影时常被人们所赞美,是与卡拉托佐夫的《我是古巴》齐名的诗意电影杰作,法国著名导演让·雷诺阿在看过影片后称赞《阿拉亚》是他所见过最完美的纪录片之一。贝纳塞拉芙就像是委内瑞拉影坛的特吕弗和亨利·朗格鲁瓦,她不仅是第一位毕业于巴黎电影学院(IDHEC)的拉美导演,而且在1966年创办了委内瑞拉电影资料馆,虽然由于资金短缺问题,她个人的导演生涯并不顺利,作品也很少,但却为新委内瑞拉电影的发展成立基金会,并曾获得世界各...
A documentary that explores the regime of Venezuelan dictator, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and how he continuously violated Human Rights through his political police, all while developing in great measure the infrastructure of Caracas
Story of a Day begins as an observation of the tranquil existence of farmers living somewhere in rural Latin America. The day begins. A woman touches up her eyebrows. A man shaves. The chickens are let out and goats are fed. Little or nothing is said, but the soundtrack gradually evolves into a subtly rich combination of environmental and added sounds. This observation takes on...
An exiled Venezuelan director returns home to make a fiction film based on his own self-destructive father, who is cast to play himself. Father and son venture to the Amazon jungle to reenact the father's crazy misadventures of the past in illegal gold mining. Meant to bring them together, the film begins to conjure Father's deep-set pains of the present and a future devoid of ...
Miami Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Audience Award Best Documentary
Alberto Arvelo Mendoza
To Play and To Fight presents the captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra System - an incredible network of hundreds of orchestras formed within most of Venezuela's towns and villages. Once a modest program designed to expose rural children ...
In a country famous for its success in international beauty pageants, three young women are fighting to participate in their nation's most celebrated cultural institution. But obtaining a place in the Miss Venezuela contest is no easy task. Women must endure grueling diets, consent to intensive plastic surgery, and find the resources necessary to transform themselves from ordin...