 AlamarMexico / 73 min / In Spanish and Italian with English subtitles Directed byPedro González-Rubio Employing a style that flows between narrative and documentary, filmmaker Pedro Gonzáles-Rubio tells a story of father-son bonding. A divorced Mexican man, before turning his young son to his Italian mother, takes the boy on a fishing trip. As critic David Lewis wrote, the film “chronicles in intimate detail a way of life, and touches us with a relationship that develops naturally, right before our eyes.”
Preceded by
Barko(Alison Craig, USA, 8 mins) Barko is a lonely, unloved, and abused dog who has established himself as the unwilling clown of a circus run by poodles. His seemingly random fear of hot dogs is rationalized by flashbacks that convey a former owner who occupies his time tormenting the poor pup with the processed snack. Yet, in the end, Barko suddenly finds himself in the arms of a caring boy who shows him that he can experience a little love after all. Screening of Alamar:
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