72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Velodrome
Velodrome
Fernando Trueba
 
128 min.
Bebo Valdés, the fabulous 85-year-old Cuban pianist, exiled in Stockholm for the last 40 years, travels to Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), where African music and religions have been preserved in their purest forms. There he meets Mateus, a Bahian musician who introduces him to life in the Afro-Bahian community, taking him to Candeal, a favela which, thanks to the initiative of Carlinhos Brown and the efforts of those who live there, has become a special community. There are neither weapons nor drugs in Candeal. What there is, however, is a music school, a health centre, and a studio to which artists from all of the continents come to record, attracted by the drums of Candeal. Using music as the driving power for all kinds of initiative, the people of Candeal have recovered their self-esteem and the hope that reality can be changed, that a better world is possible.
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
France 
80 min.
Blending humour with seriousness, innocence with wisdom, an African griot (keeper of oral tradition) uses the evocative language of myth and fable to relate the birth of the universe and the stars, the fiery beginnings of our planet and the appearance of life on Earth; but this is a true story, the story of us all. He tells us of time, matter, birth, love and death mainly starred by animals. Six years in the making for this second opus from the writer-directors of Microcosmos.
Robert Rodriguez
 
99 min.
Older and smarter than in the first instalment, Carmen and Juni Cortez will have to work at keeping their reputation as the best, given that they have new competition in the shape of sibling spy team, Gary and Gerti Giggles. In another race to save the world, the kids travel to the Island of Lost Dreams, which is populated by fantastical genetically altered creatures, brought to life by the mad scientist, Romero. However, on the mysterious island none of the kids? high-tech James Bond-inspired gadgets work, so they must rely on their own cunning.
M. Night Shyamalan
USA 
108 min.
A remote village has to face up to the surprising truth hiding right on its boundaries. Although the village first seems to be a haven of peace, in fact the inhabitants form a strong nucleus concealing a terrible secret: bloodcurdling creatures inhabit the forests surrounding the village. The omens are so bad that no-one dares to cross the village limits and enter the forest. But the curious and determined Lucius Hunt plans to delve into the unknown. His daring threatens to change the inhabitants? future forever.
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