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As put in stark relief by February's film series devoted to the Mexican filmmaker Nicolás Pereda, the line between fiction and documentary is becoming increasingly difficult to keep.  This new series delves deep into this concept, with screenings of four award-winning films from Latin America that find themselves somewhere between the two genres. Jean Gentil (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas, Mexico- Dominican Republic–Germany, 2010), Alamar [Sea Bound] (Pedro González-Rubio, Mexico, 2010), Las marimbas del infierno [Hell's Marimbas] (Julio Hernández Cordón, Guatemala–Mexico–France, 2010) and O Céu Sobre os Ombros [The Sky Over My Shoulders] (Sérgio Borges, Brazil, 2011).

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Alamar. Pedro González-Rubio / 73 min / 2010 / Mexico/Spanish with Spanish subtitles

Synopsis: Before being irrevocably separated, Jorge, a young man of Mayan ancestry, and Natan, his son by an Italian woman,set off on an ancestral journey on the open sea. 

>Click here to see the trailer for Alamar


Jean Gentil Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán / 84 min / 2010 / Germany, Dominican Republic, Mexico/Spanish with Spanish subtitles
  Synopsis: Jean Gentil, an unemployed foreign language professor, decides to burn allo of his documents and diplomas to stay warm in the middle of the jungle, sealing his fate, spelled out long ago, which will eventually lead him to the limits of human experience in the most extreme weather, exposed to the elements, where human reason becomes sharper and one's own existence is less and less important...
  >Click here to see the trailer for Jean Gentil  

Las marimbas del infierno. Julio Hernández Cordón / 73 min / 2010 / Guatemala, France, Mexico/Spanish with Spanish subtitles

Synopsis: Don Alfonso plays the marimba, a traditional instrument resembling a large xylophone. Blacko is a pioneer on the heavy metal scene in Guatemala and also a doctor, though no one wants to visit his practice he sports tattoos and long hair. Certain things transpire to bring them together and they decide to make a joint effort in the music world.

>Click here to see the trailer for  Las marimbas del infierno 

O Céu Sobre os Ombros. Sérgio Borges / 71 min / 2011 / Brazil/Portuguese with Spanish subtitles

Synopsis: An exercise in docu-fiction that follows the life, at first glance unremarkable, of three thirty-something men: a frustrated writer, a transexual academician and a football fan who is also a Hare Krishna. Theirs are stories of love, tolerance and a fight against prejudice.

>Click here to see the trailer for  O Céu Sobre os Ombros