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The Mural of Siqueiros

The Mural of Siqueiros (2011)

June 22, 2022 South America

David Alfaro Siqueiros, recognized Mexican muralist, travels to Argentina in the thirties with the purpose of giving a few conferences and paint a mural of revolutionary subject matter, which faces local political rejection. The press mogul head of the newspaper Critica, Natalio Botana, personal friend to the President of the Nation Agustín P. Justo, propose Siqueiros to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the diary and paint a mural in the basement of his Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros accepts and does that his wife the poet Blanca Luz Brum meets him, his arrival to Los Granados and his romance with Botana provokes the jealousies of his powerful anarchist wife Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Siqueiros himself, which turns the Villa almost in one of the scenes of the Ejercicio Plástico, how Siqueiros named his work.

River Inside Me

River Inside Me (2011)

April 1, 2022

Halis is in his 40s, he is one of his own, who makes a living by his own katmer shop. He and his wife, Ayla, have had the coldness for years now. Probably the only common points of Halis and Ayla are their daughters. Halis, who is also a municipal councilor, takes Meznun one day to run next to the katmer shop. Grateful to Halis for recruiting him in the beginning, Meznun crumbles the family’s tense but obscure mundane lives after a while. The privacy is up and the family is faced with the realities that are known but are afraid to speak …

In Darkness

In Darkness (2011)

March 20, 2022 Europe/World, USA/Canada

A dramatization of one man’s rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied city of Lviv. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lviv (formerly Poland).