INTRODUCING CIFF LOVE LETTERS: Valentines day has come early! We’ve thought a lot this year about how we can build connections between audience members and filmmakers within a virtual space. One of the hardest things about this year for filmmakers, is that they have not been able to forge spontaneous connections with audiences and hear from them directly. If you’ve seen a film you have loved, click <a href="https://airtable.com/shrYRzigloM195wPc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a> to write a love letter to a filmmaker!

In Córdoba, far away from Argentina’s capital city, the end of a military regime promises a spring that doesn’t last long. “La Delpi” is the only survivor from a group of transgender women and drag queens, who began to die of AIDS in the late 80’s. In a catholic and conservative city, the Kalas Group made their weapons and trenches out of improvised dresses and playbacks. Today the images of a unique and unknown footage are not only a farewell letter, but also a friendship manifesto.

Playback

Memories woven through a unique footage where the Kalas Group's actresses resist trans genocide by turning the stage into a trench.

Shady River&nbsp;will screen virtually from October 2-12, 2020. This film will be only available to viewers in the United States. An image of a woman aiming a gun on the Argentinian patagonia develops in front of our eyes. The whir of a scanner unveils in great detail. This woman is pointing at something we cannot see or hear, because the town of Shady River does not allow women to come near their local coal mine. The film unfolds in the ether of absence and silence, with images and sounds of the mines triangulating between music-concréte, radio voice, and interference. These acoustic choices create a sensorial depiction of the culture of machismo predominant in this community, one that is both a ghost and frequency flowing through the thick wintery air. Tatiana Mazú draws the contours of this society with a clever use of archival materials, cartography, and an austere cinematographic language to render a modern history of the town, one which reveals itself slowly through 12 different chapters. Combining militant cinema and experimental flare, this film shakes audiences out of their comfort zones.&nbsp;(MG)&nbsp; Plays with PLAYBACK, directed by Augustina Comedi.&nbsp;

Shady River

How to film what we are forbidden to experience? How to state what we cannot say? How to record the sound of what does not sound? What place do women occupy in a mining town?

Q+A: Shady River with director Tatiana Mazú moderated by Violeta Ayala

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Shady River (plays with Playback) + Q&A with director Tatiana Mazu

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The 19th edition of the Camden International Film Festival will be held throughout venues in Maine from September 14-17 and online from September 18-25, 2023.

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