Title: El brindis / To Life
Location: Brava Theater for Women in the Arts
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Description: dir. Shai Agosin, 2007, Chile / Mexico, 100 min.

Start Time: 16:15
Date: 2008-11-09
End Time: 18:00

In this lighthearted tale about family, memory and love, Emilia, a young photographer, struggles to find meaning in her life. Though she lives a lonely life in Mexico, she reluctantly travels to Chile to visit her octogenarian estranged father, Isidoro, who is preparing for his Bar Mitzvah. There, she must deal with her extended paternal family, her unexplored Jewish roots, and her overall feelings of loneliness and resentment. While Isidoro is trying to make up for lost time with Emilia, she is learning that her roots run deeper than she had ever imagined when she met Rabbi David. Together they learn to practice life’s most “simple yet difficult” task: how to enjoy it. Dealing with each of the trio’s personal crises, love pangs, and leaps of faith, To Life’s toast announces that even though life is bittersweet, each moment of it is a priceless gift.

People`s Choice Award San Diego Film Festival 2008

 

 

En esta simple historia sobre la familia, la memoria y el amor, Emilia, una joven fotografa, lucha por encontrarle significado a su vida. A pesar de vivir una vida solitaria en Mexico, ella viaja a reganadientes a Chile a visitar a su distanciado y octagenario padre, Isidoro, quien se prepara para su Bar Mitzvah. Alli ella tiene que lidiar con su familia paterna, sus inexploradas raices judias, su soledad y resentimiento.  Mientras Isidoro trata de recuperar el tiempo perdido con Emilia, ella esta aprendiendo que sus raices son mas profundas que lo que ella imaginaba cuando conoce al rabino David. Ellos aprenden a practicar la mas simple y dificil tarea de la vida: como disfrutarla. Tratando con las crisis personales, los dolores del amor, y los saltos de fe de cada uno, El Brindis es una celebracion de la vida, dulce y amarga a la vez, en la que cada momento es un regalo invaluable. Esta pelicula recibio el Premio del Publico en el Festival de Cine Latino de San Diego, 2008.

Filed under: Chile, Feature Narratives/ Largometrajes de Ficción, Mexico |