Who are the guests of the next Cinélatino festival in Toulouse?

Cinélatino regulars still remember the smile of Teresa Sanchez, generous Mexican actress and guest of honor of the previous edition. This year, from March 21 to 30, the focus will be on indigenous peoples.

“This focus is built with films, fictions and documentaries, short and feature films, made by artists from indigenous communities, those who populated America from Mexico to Patagonia before colonization,” explain the members of ARCALT (Association of Latin American Cinema Meetings of Toulouse. “More than four hundred social groups, with their languages, their myths, their cultures have resisted the policies of discrimination and destruction. Becoming a tool to tell their own experiences, revitalize their identity and curb dominant colonial discourses, cinema acts to transmit the heritage of orality and preserves the historical root of each people. The focus only shows a tiny part of the multitude of filmic creation, far from the. traditional standards of cinema, avoiding any colonialist or anthropological connotation”. This cinematographic journey entitled “Miradas y voces indígenas” (“Indigenous looks and voices”) will follow the Andes Cordillera and will extend from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean.

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Two guests of honor

This year, the festival will highlight two atypical artists: the Algerian-Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz and the Argentine filmmaker Albertina Carri who will be present.

Born in 1966 in Fortaleza (Brazil), Karim Aïnouz studied architecture in Brasília and cinema at New York University. His family comes from the Kabyle village of Taguemount-Azouz, in the Tizi-Ouzou department in Algeria. Her first feature film “Madame Sata” (2002) was selected for Un Certain Regard before receiving multiple awards around the world. “O Céu de Suely” (2006) as well as “Viajo Porque Preciso”, “Volto Porque te Amo”, co-directed with Marcelo Gomes (2009), were invited to the Venice festival. His latest film “Motel Destino” is still showing in certain theaters in the department. But more than his notoriety, his attachment to the struggles against all forms of power can be seen in the diversity of his worlds.

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Less known in Europe, the Argentinian director Albertina Carri was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires. She is one of the figures of New Argentine Cinema of the 2000s but also a radical artist who does not cheat. “I am a woman, Latin American, orphan, lesbian mother and daughter of the disappeared, among other things, I am all these identities”, recalls the one who was inspired by pornographic cinema for certain films or black detectives for others . His works are unclassifiable and his encounter promises to be rich.

Due to the closure of the Toulouse Cinematheque for work, the festival village will be set up in the courtyard of the ENSAV-CROUS and the screenings, in addition to the traditionally partner cinemas, will be spread out at the Cave Poésie, diversity room, ENSAV and Seneschal room. The program will be revealed at the end of February.