According to the agenda, among the nations represented in this section are Brazil and Argentina with eight and six films, respectively, followed by Mexico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic with three.
Recurring themes such as love, family, infidelity, friendship, abandonment, murder, kidnapping, and reunions are intermingled with others of a social nature such as emigration and the impact of the current financial and economic crisis.
Films include “Terremoto en Chile” (Earthquake in Chile), by Juan Pablo Ternicier, which tells the story of a woman, an inmate, and a group of young people after the quake and tsunami that hit the south coast of the Andean nation on February 27, 2010.
Also on the list is “Bruna Surfistinha,” a Brazilian film directed by Mark Baldini, based on the biography of a 21-year-old young woman who under this pseudonym became a bestselling author after publishing a book about her sexual experiences as a prostitute for three years.
Meanwhile, the short-film section includes 24 films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
More than 500 works from 46 countries will be screened during the 34th edition of the Festival, which will honor youth and the centenary of Puerto Rican cinema.
The event’s agenda also includes a extensive retrospective from Puerto Rican cinema, and a diverse and large Spanish, Italian, Polish, Japanese, German, Canadian and Caribbean films, which will be attended by the President of the film festival of Trinidad Tobago. (PL)