Mafalda cartoonist Quino, and “Habana Libre,” a take on rebellious youth in Cuba, look like potential standouts at Ventana Docs, a selection of 12 doc features from across Latin America and Spain.
A notable number have been developed at prestigious labs, whether Sundance Festival programs (“Bleeding Heart,” “Violent-House-Fiction”) or Spain’s Pompeu Fabra University.
Two tell trans stories (“I Believe,” “Yren”) and with it, chart resistance and intolerance, main banes of other Ventana Sur titles.
Many are intimate stories, of the director’s battle with HIV (“How to Live With…”), or reconnection with his father (“Capitan”), or battle to accept his father’s suicide (“The Curve”).