Plot
Anteojito is a poor orphan 10-years-old boy who lives with his Uncle Antifaz in an apartment house in a city named Villa Trompeta. Uncle Antifaz tries to invent an invisibility formula with Anteojito’s help, and Cachavacha, a witch and Uncle Antifaz’s neighbor who lives in the apartment right under his, tries to steal it as revenge for to his explosions destroying her apartment. Anteojito sells some balloons and meets his friend Buzoncito, a little red mailbox. The balloons he was selling escape when he argues with a group of brats who mocked him. The circus comes to town and he helps out a friendly clown and his sick daughter by posing as a second, singing, clown. Read More »
Spanish
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Manuel García Ferré – Anteojito y Antifaz en ‘Mil intentos y un invento’ aka Anteojito and Antifaz: A Thousand Attempts and One Invention (1972)
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Based on the novel Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement.
Special Mention – Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2021Read More »
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María Alvarez – Las cinéphilas (2017)
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Emilio Fernández – Enamorada AKA In Love (1946)
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Clarisa Navas – Las Mil y Una AKA The Thousand and One (2020)
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Lucía Garibaldi – Los tiburones AKA The Sharks (2019)
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10 Wins, 9 Nominations
2019: Sundance Film Festival: Best Director – Drama (World Cinema)
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Papu Curotto – Esteros (2016)
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Yulene Olaizola – Selva trágica AKA Tragic Jungle (2020)
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To escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.Read More » -
Iván Zulueta – Arrebato AKA Rapture (1979)
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A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.Read More »









