Magical Stories for Dealing with Trauma

Magical Stories for Dealing with Trauma – Focus on Latin America

December 8, 13:15
Forum cinema, 5 Legionowa Street
admission free

In certain places, magic and reality don’t have a clear limit in between. This is specially true in Latin America.

Kids, teenagers and youngsters grow up in a complex territory, where sometimes they have to face complex situations too early in their lives. The touching characters of these films use the power of imagination as a tool for transformation. The traumas they go through are transformed into magical realism stories, where we don’t know anymore what is real or what is not. In these films we enter a dreamy, sensorial place to observe and cope with hidden and layered emotions by beautiful and atmospheric tales.

Curator: Juanita Onzaga

Program (110′, 16+):
Our Song to War, Juanita Onzaga,Colombia/Belgia 2018, 14’
Selva, Sofia Quiros Ubeda, Costa Rica/Argentina/Chile 2017, 17’
The Summer of The Electric Lion, Diego Cespedes, Chile 2018, 22’
The Tale of Antonia, Jorge Cadena, Colombia/Switzerland 2016, 30’
Cilaos, Camilo Restrepo, France 2017, 13’
Guaxuma, Nara Normande, France/Brazil, 14’