OVID.tv, the streaming service for independent feature films, global cinema, animation, social issue and documentary films from around the world, has announced the digital release of three Latin American films on Tuesday, September 15: the 2009 Chilean film Tony Manero by Pablo Larraín, and the Brazilian films The City of the Future (2016) by Maríllia Hughes and Cláudio Marques, and Cinema of Tears: A Century of Latin American Cinema (1995) by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos.
Cinema of Tears is the personal view of Latin American cinema by Brazilian director Pereira dos Santos, based on an adaptation of a novel by Silvia Oroz. In this way, using two protagonists, a 65-year-old and a 25-year-old, a wide cross-section of Latin American cinema is shown, especially those turning on the subject of different stories of love and melodrama.
Larraín’s Tony Manero hailed as "an indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie." (The New York Times) follows the 5-something Rául Peralta (played by Alfredo Castro), who goes to the same bar outside his native Santiago on weekends, and, with friends, dances to the hits from his favorite film, "Saturday Night Fever." When he gets wind of a TV contest seeking the best imitation of Tony Manero, the main character from the film, he becomes fixated on winning. But as Raúl becomes involved in nefarious activities—including murder—to complete his Tony Manero transition, he puts his friends and himself at risk.
Set in In Serra do Ramalho, Brazil, The City of the Future follows young teacher Milla finds herself pregnant by her colleague Gilmar. Gilmar is in a relationship with Igor, but Milla asserts that the baby will belong to all three of them. Despite some initial conflict between the three, and in defiance to their community’s reaction, they form an unconventional but remarkably uncomplicated family. Billed as the ‘city of the future’, Serra do Ramalho was constructed in the 1970s in order to rehouse thousands of citizens that had been forcefully relocated. The location forms an important backdrop for this elegant, gentle film which is full of hope for a new generation building their own family of the future.
