TICKET TO PARADISE (World Cinema Dramatic) directed by Gerardo Chijona. Ticket to Paradise (Boleto al Paraiso) / Cuba (Director: Gerardo Chijona Valdes; Screenwriters: Gerardo Chijona Valdes, Francisco Garcia Gonzalez and Maykel Rodriguez Ponjuan) — A teenage girl running away from her father's sexual harassment meets a young rocker who has escaped to Havana with his misfit group of friends. Set in 1993, during a period of acute shortages in Cuba, the local AIDS hospice begins to look like an unlikely refuge to the hopeless teens. Cast: Miriel Cejas, Héctor Medina, Dunia Matos, Jorge Perugorria, Luis A. Garcia. International Premiere BOLETO AL PARAISO (TICKET TO PARADISE) Cuba, 1993. Eunice is a teenager running away from her father’s sexual harassment. Alejandro is a rocker who breaks into a drugstore and leaves for Havana with a couple of friends. When their fates meet on the road, they decide to travel together in search of a paradise. This will mark the rest of their lives. GERARDO CHIJONA Writer-Director Cuba Gerardo Chijona is a graduate of the University of Havana, where he majored in English and American literature. He worked as a film critic and assistant director in the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) before starting to direct award-winning documentaries. His first feature was ADORABLES MENTIRAS (ADORABLE LIES, 1992), which he developed at the Sundance Institute, attending screenwriting and directing labs. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and have received several awards internationally. His two other features, UN PARAISO BAJO LAS ESTRELLAS ( A PARADISE UNDER THE STARS,1999) and PERFECTO AMOR EQUIVOCADO (LOVE BY MISTAKE, 2004 ), were also premiered at Sundance. Those films have also been shown at Cannes, San Sebastian, Toronto, New York, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles (AFI), Chicago, La Habana, Mar del Plata, Cartagena, Cairo, New Dehli film festivals. He has just completed BOLETO AL PARAISO (TICKET TO PARADISE). He regularly offers screenwriting and directing workshops at the International Film School at San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
TICKET TO PARADISE (World Cinema Dramatic) directed by Gerardo Chijona: Cartel. Tyrannosaur / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Paddy Considine) — For Joseph, a man plagued by self-destructive violence and rage, a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker with a devastating secret of her own. Cast: Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman. World Premiere Vampire / Canada, U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Iwai Shunji) — On the surface, Simon seems like a fairly normal, average young man, devoted to his teaching job and ailing mother. Secretly, he is compelled to hunt through online chat rooms and message boards, searching for the perfect girl who will ensure his own survival. Cast: Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rachel Leigh Cook, Kristin Kreuk, Aoi Yu and Adelaide Clemens. World Premiere Not all of us those amongst us who crave blood are Vampires and not all Vampires crave blood. For those of you expecting anything remotely resembling Twilight, Nosferatu, or Bela Lugosi, VAMPIRE may not be your cup of red elixir… Simply put, VAMPIRE gives new meaning to the word, vampire.
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