Venezuelan Cinema program--Four short films (45 min) and a talk (25 min):

Presented by Haydeé Chavero G., Chair of the Cinema and Communications Department, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Founder Caracas Filmminuto and President Fundación Audiovisual FACIL.

Films to be screened:

Nostalgia (Gustavo Rondón, 2010, 18 min): Thomas, a man in his thirties looks at the deep plain of los "Llanos", accompanied by his young son Alberto, after the sudden death of his wife. In his first night alone, he sits in the yard to get drunk and mourn...

La Mula muerta (Rafael Velásquez, 2011, 12 min): Beatriz is a cheerful young woman involved in an affair with her boss, Nicolas, a married man. Although their meetings are brief and often of a sexual nature, Beatriz wants to bring Nicholas to a more committed and less casual relationship. She makes him a very simple request: to stay to sleep one night with her... 

Colmillo (Alvis Abreu, 2010, 19 min): An indomitable stray dog takes the territory from a beggar, Mateo, immersed in solitude. Mateo does not understand how he has been displaced by a dog and is determined to regain his place at any cost. What seemed simple to Mateo ends up in a great battle. Solitude and the company will play a role in the battle...

I Wanna Shine (Prakrity Maduro, 2011, 8 min): the story of a set of objects lying in a film warehouse.

Talk: The Cinema of Venezuela 1995-2015

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Duke-UNC Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía de Venezuela (CNAC), and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI). The Venezuelan series in collaboration with University of Pittsburgh, Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.