Spain, 2009, 35mm, 9’ (Italian premiere)

Director: Álv aro Alonso
Actors: J. Galván. Ma. Caro, A. Marín, J. Ternero, M. Torrent
Editing: Carlos Crespo y Paco R. Baños
Production: Agus Jiménez

Synopsis
Spain, 1949. Antoñito, a six-year-old child, has whooping cough. In a hard epoch full of needs, his father, worker of RENFE (Spanish National Railway Network), has devised a therapy coinciding with the Wednesday morning Express.

Biofilmography
Producer and Film Director. He initiated his career founding the production company Letra M, possibly the only Andalusian company that has produced shortfilms stably and constant in the 90s. He has exercised the labors of executive producer in a dozen of shortfilms that have obtained more than fifty national and international prizes and have discovered some of the most interesting new Andalusian talents. Also he has wide experience as director and cinematographer. As producer he has worked in several feature films (The Orange Girl, Aparecidos, Déjate caer, La zona, Dos rivales casi iguales, Lifting de corazón, Carlos contra el mundo…), a few of documentaries (La leyenda del tiempo, Por un puñado de sueños), five tv-movies (El partido, El viaje vertical, Asunto Reiner…) and several shortfilms (El tren de la bruja, Cinco contra uno, Pasemos al plan B…).

México, 2008, 35mm, 14’ (Italian premiere)

Director: Hatuey Viveros
Actors: Francisco Zuñiga, Fernando Acosta, Maria y Kevin Zuñiga
Editing: Hatuey Viveros
Production: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica

Synopsis
Chico, a man aged 60, lost his wife in a fishing accident. Since then he walks on the beach searching for some trace of her, accumulating individual objects that the sea yields. In his daily walks finds a crab that he adopts as a pet and that is, in some way, a metaphor for himself. One day the crab dies in its cage and with it Chico’s hope to continue living.

Biofilmography
Hatuey Vivero. A mexican filmmaker. He first started as a cinematographer (Elefante rosa – 2009, Canción de los niños muertos – 2008, Luna en la tierra – 2005). Tide is his first film as a director.

USA, 2009, 20’37’’ (World premiere)

Director: Francesco Levato
Editing: Francesco Levato
Musics: Richard Fammerée
Production: Francesco Levato

Synopsis
War Rug, the film, is based on a work of documentary poetics in the form of a book length poem. Multiple interwoven narratives explore life within zones of conflict as viewed through the lens of current warfare. The narratives range from passages inspired by journal entries, firsthand accounts, and new reports to poetic constructs collaged from military doctrine, Freedom of Information Act released government documents (like CIA interrogation manuals, and detainee autopsy reports), and numerous other sources. The film collages and juxtaposes archival source material with U.S Military footage in an exploration of alternative narrative interpretations of the source text.

Biofilmography
Poet, translator, and new media artist Francesco Levato is the executive director of the Poetry Center of Chicago. He is the author of three books of poetry: Marginal State; War Rug, a book length documentare poem; and Elegy for Dead Languages. His poetry-based video artwork has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere.