DIRECTOR: FEDERICO VEIROJ
URUGUAY, 2010
After twenty-five years, Cinemateca Uruguaya’s most devoted director, Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds his inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the screen and seats of his beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling attendance and diminishing support force the theater to close its doors, Jorge is projected into a world he knows only through the lens of art—and is suddenly forced to discover a new, “real world” passion that transcends his once-celluloid reality. Stylishly framed in black and white with knowing performances, Veiroj’s sly and loving homage to the soul of cinema is a universally appealing charmer about life after the movies. (77 mins.)
This year’s Uruguayan submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.