'Perez,' 'Martes,' 'Amapolas play Primer Corte

MADRID -- Alvaro Viguera's "Perez," Gustavo Trevino's "P martes a martes" and Juan Carlos Melo's "Area of Amapolas" unspool at Primer Corte, a films in first cut showcase at December's Ventana Sur. From 4-year-old Buenos Aires shingle Carrousel Films, which created Natalia Smirnoff's Berlin 2010 Competition player and purchasers hit "Puzzle," "Martes," an ethical drama, activates a lumbering factory worker who witnesses a rape. Probably the most socially-billed of Primer Corte photos, "Amapolas" can also be the very first feature to shoot within the Colombian region of helmer Melo's Narino, our prime flatlands close to the Ecuatorian border. Maja Zimmermann, whose "Porfirio" performed Cannes' Directors' Week, produces with Chirimoya Films' Alexandra Yepes. Presented inside a 15-minute cut at Locarno's Carte Blanche this August, "Amapolas" activates a boy along with a girl who romp in Colombia's beautiful countryside with puppy Rufino. The question "Amapolas" poses is when lengthy that may last. The boy's recently been displaced from his home village by paramilitaries. His father now toils for any drug baron his uncle intends to use him for any scam. "Amapolas" isn't a film about war," stated Melo. "The war is just a stage which existence, dreams and hopes will continue." But when there's a dominant problem in Corte photos this season, it's of more youthful decades of Latin People in america whose parents have unsuccessful them, and -- the grand theme of Latin American cinema -- the insidious impact of macro occasions on innocent lives. Co-created by Gregorio Gonzalez at Chile's Forastero, whose credits include Golden Globe-nominated "The Maid," "Perez" turns, for example, on the father's strained re-encounter using the 22-year-old daughter he's overlooked. Actress Elisa Zulueta composed "Perez," adapting her very own stage play. Helmed by Juan Sebastian Jacome, "Ruta p la luna" comes with an albino boy travelling from Panama And Nicaragua , to Panama for any bowling tourney, supported by his estranged father. "A Hidden Collection," from France-born but South america-based Bernard Attal, transfers Stefan Zweig's 1926 short story, a moving account from the results of Germany's depression, towards the south of Bahia, among destroyed cacao farms. In Uruguayan Guillermo Rocamora's "Solo," an Military trumpeter is abandoned by his wife, then flies towards the Antarctic, a visit that will change his existence for good. Co-funded through the Hubert Bals, Ibermedia and Icau funds, "Solo," at $a million, may be the greatest-allocated of Corte photos. Tested in the beginning cut, Corte game titles vie for any Haciendo Cine award, making certain publish-push services right through to a 35mm print, along with a new award, Copia . Included in Copia , U.S. exhibitor Cinemark will open the winning title in Argentina, Chile and Peru. "Latin American cinema has problems with exhibition all around the region. We must find solutions," stated Liliana Mazure, prexy of Argentina's Incaa Film Institute. Organized by Incaa and Cannes' Marche du Film, Ventana Sur runs 12 ,. 2-5. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com