Sundance at MoMA 2006
November 8–13, 2006
Through its international workshops, the Sundance Institute identifies and supports promising and unique filmmakers in a wide range of regions with emerging film industries, including Central Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil. Through a variety of activities, the Sundance International Initiative and film professionals in the host countries seek out and nurture new generations of filmmaking talent. This year’s Sundance at MoMA is a snapshot of a few of the impressive fiction and documentary features and shorts that have been through workshops and developed with the assistance of the Sundance Feature Film and Documentary International Initiative. With some works that are older, others newly finished, some internationally well known, and still others rarely screened, this exhibition reflects the range of Sundance Institute’s international collaborations.
This fourth installment of Sundance at MoMA is organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film; Cara Mertes, Director, Documentary Film Program, and Michelle Satter, Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute.
Crónicas. 2004. Mexico/Ecuador. Directed by Sebastián Cordero. With John Leguizamo, Lenor Watling. 2002 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award Winner. From the producers of Y tu mamá también comes a shocking thriller about the power of the media. A tabloid TV reporter, on the trail of a story about a serial killer who strikes in a small town in Ecuador, is convinced this could be the “big one.” However, the closer he gets to the truth, the more his carefully planned story spins dangerously out of control. In Spanish, English; English subtitles. 108 min.
Wednesday, November 8, 6:00; Saturday, November 11, 4:00. T1
Mekudeshet (Sentenced to Marriage). 2004. Israel. Directed by Anat Zuria. 2000 Recipient of Production Funds from the Sundance Documentary Fund. Nominated for a Silver Wolf at IDFA (International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam). Three Israeli women fight for their right to divorce in Israel, where all divorces take place under the auspices of Jewish Rabbinical courts. In Hebrew, English subtitles. 65 min.
Wednesday, November 8, 8:00; Sunday, November 12, 4:00. T1
La Ciénaga. 2001. Argentina. Directed by Lucrecia Martel. With Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán. 1999 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award Winner. Martel’s feature debut depicts the decadence of the Argentine middle class through the story of fifty-year-old Mecha and her cousin Tali. The pair must endure a summer from hell with their families near the town of La Ciénaga (The Swamp) at a long-faded country estate aptly named La Mandragora (The Mandrake, a plant sometimes used as a sedative). In Spanish, English subtitles. 102 min.
Thursday, November 9, 6:00; Saturday, November 11, 6:00. T1
Shorts Program
The Ball. 2001. Mozambique. Directed by Orlando Mesquita. Developed at a Sundance-cosponsored workshop in South Africa. A soccer ball, improvised. 6 min.
Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe (Plastic People of the Universe). 2001. Czech Republic. Directed by Jana Chytilova. 1998 Recipient of Production Funds from the Sundance Documentary Fund. The Czech underground rock group Plastic People of the Universe and their unintentional political influence in Eastern Europe. In Czech, English subtitles. 74 min.
Crni-Gavrani (Ravens). 2001. Serbia and Montenegro. Directed by Zelimir Gvardio. 2000 Recipient of Production Funds from the Sundance Documentary Fund. One man’s loss in a small Serbian town transforms him from nationalist to aggrieved father. In Serbian, English; English subtitles. 15 min. Program 95 min.
Friday, November 10, 6:00; Sunday, November 12, 6:00. T1
Story of a Beautiful Country. 2004. South Africa. Directed by Khalo Matabane. 2001 Recipient of Development Funds from the Sundance Documentary Fund. 2004 Recipient of Production Funds from the Sundance Documentary Fund. Matabane travels with a hand-held camera throughout nine provinces of South Africa as several fellow passengers discuss their feelings and impressions of the new, post-Apartheid South Africa with the “beautiful country” as a backdrop. In English, Sepedi, Sesotho, Afrikaans; English subtitles. 73 min.
Friday, November 10, 8:00; Monday, November 13, 6:00. T1
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