Screening of “The Prize” and “Silent Light”

Screening of “The Prize”: Fri 05 Apr 2013, 7 pm
Screening of “Silent Night”: Sat 06 Apr 2013, 7 pm
Goethe Institut

From Goethe Institut:
With The Prize by Paula Markovitch (2011) and Silent Light by Carlos Reygados (2007) the Goethe-Institut shows two artistically remarkable films which were supported by the Berlinale World Cinema Fund. Both films have won several international awards and were screened at many festivals such as the Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) in November 2012. If you missed them then, catch these special films now.

Each year, the Berlinale with its World Cinema Fundsupports selected film projects from non-European directors and with grants and by helping to find co-producers. The Prize and The Silent Light have been screened at festivals, including Berlinale, and have won international prizes.

THE PRIZE
Director: Paula Markovitch, Mexico, 2011

A seven-year-old girl and her mother move from the capital to a remote village on the coast: the military dictatorship rules in Argentina, and the father, like thousands of others, has been disappeared and probably murdered. The mother warns her daughter to tell nothing to anyone. But one day when soldiers come to the village school and hold an essay contest, the girl makes a mistake that brings herself and her mother in mortal danger.

Paula Markovitch

Paula Markovitch was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1968. She has taught screenwriting at the Center of Cinematographic Capacitation (CCC) and is writer and director of the short films Perriférico and Ambulance Music. She has also served as an adviser for the Fundación Toscano-Sundance Lab, the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE) and the National Fund for the Arts and Culture (FONCA). The Prize is her first feature film.

SILENT LIGHT
Director: Carlos Reygados, Mexico, 2007

The film takes place in the vastness of northern Mexico, with the Mennonites, a Christian denomination with archaic beliefs and customs. Families live, despite modern technology, according to the same strict rules as 500 years ago. The whole of life is pre-planned. Disobedience is not permitted. When Johan falls in love with another woman, there can be no future for this love. This drama in wonderful images, told very slowly and with a surprise ending, has been showered with international awards.

Carlos Reygados

Carlos Reygadas, who was born 1971 in Mexico City, is a Mexican filmmaker known for the four filmsJapan (2002), Battle in Heaven(2005), Silent Light (2007), andLight After Darkness (2012). Owing to Battle in Heaven, he has become somewhat notorious for the raw depiction of sex and the physically unflattering use of actors. Reygadas’ films explore spirituality and the sublime through the interior lives of men suffering existential crises. With Silent Light, Reygadas competed once more for the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and has become one of the most prominent writer–directors of modern Mexican cinema.Reygadas received the award for Best Director at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his film Light After Darkness.

Languages: Original language, with English and Vietnamese subtitles.

Free entrance.

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