Blade Runner 2049. Year of "miracle" by Roiz Elizondo, Alfonso

“…This event is discussed with philosophical overtones in the film Blade Runner 2049. From this, we reflect on the properties or fundamental elements of the conception of humanity from which the film is based. …”
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Cinema in the Vidigal School A philosophy of struggle and resistance in the favela by Fresquet, Adriana, Guedes, Marta

“…The article addresses a reflection steeped in the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agambem that arises from a daily school practice articulated with the community, the cinema, the film library and the university. The Djalma School of Cinema/CINEAD investigated, with its filmmaking action shared between the teacher and students, the history of the Vidigal favela, Rio de Janeiro. …”
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Nomadland and the negation of the predicate by Zabalza, Sergio

“…The indefinite trial, to which Emmanuel Kant appeals to resolve the antinomies that transcendent ideas imprint on reason, supports the subjective position that Chloé Zhao (director) and Frances McDormand (actor and co-producer) display in this exquisite film, where a loss serves as a pretext for addressing the meaning of life; the place of feelings; finitude; and the relationship with others, with stones and with nature.…”
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Notes on Alain Badiou and the cinema by Laso, Eduardo

“…The writing is organized in twelve sections: 1) cinema is a new art that was born in the 20th century; 2) cinema is a mass art; 3) cinema is an ontological art; 4) the cinema makes time visible; 5) cinema as the most-one of the other arts; 6) cinema is an impure art; 7) each film is a singular real object, which exposes the passage of an idea according to the shot and the montage; 8) the art of cinema as a visitation of an idea; 9) cinema as an ethical setting; 10) the three ways of talking about a film; 11) a film is a point-subject of an artistic configuration; 12) from tragic cinema to cinema as a moving image of eternity. …”
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Lisbeth Salander, a current hysteria by Bafico, Jorge

“…The Millennium literary trilogy on which the Swedish films The Men Who Loved Women, The Girl Who Dreamed of a Match and a Can of Gasoline and The Queen in the Palace of Drafts were based, stars Lisbeth Salander, a character who allows us to work on psychoanalytic concepts of hysteria, a clinical structure that not only works as an structure that groups different phenomena in the same logic and allows them to be differentiated from perversions and psychoses, but also refers to the way desire is transmitted. …”
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What burns in Candelaria is life by Virgilí Pino, Dalia

“…Logic and consequence of such definition unfold, also the resonances with some authors of difference feminism. The film Candelaria, a latin american co-production and directed by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza, is taken as a reference to account for the difficulties of capturing the feminine jouissance, either through the gaze or any instinctual aspect as well as through language.…”
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Kaleidoscopic Symposium: a multifaceted look at the beautiful bodies from Plato’s Banquet by Sain, Abril Sofía

“…We will contrast our thesis with certain scenic decisions of the film, according to which the body is devalued to the darkest sphere of the purely sexual detached from the philosophical character. …”
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From love as recognition, to courage in the face of castration by Laso, Eduardo

“…For Lacan, love is tested by facing castration. If in Cukor´s film, Amanda will put her husband to the test of offering his lack for love, she too will be put to the test by Adam to recognize that beyond the militancy of equal rights for women, it is required to admit in the erotic level a “tiny difference”. …”
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La relación ser-humano-naturaleza en el largometraje de Hayao Miyazaki: Nausicaä del Valle del Viento, desde el principio de armonía confuciano by Santiago, Omar

“…The present work proposes a reading of the human-nature relationship in the film developed by the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, through the Confucian principle of harmony, expanding the way in which the role of the moral agent in Miyazaki’s work has been understood in its relationship with nature.…”
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About “After Life”: A philosophical reflection on the notion of the moral experience of mourning by Lariguet, Guillermo, Rodríguez Alba, Jaimen

“…Faced with a subject detached from otherness, mourning allows, as can be seen in the filmic narrative, to understand the transition from a situation of moral deficit (self-centeredness, detachment from needs and bond with the other, etc.) to one of full morality. …”
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Put the pieces back together. Loss and mourning by Medina-Vicent, María

“…In this article we will try to walk this path, recomposing the pieces in which both characters, as well as the character of the grandmother, are decomposing throughout the film.…”
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Seventh art and empathy teaching in medicine students during pandemic cause by SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 by Chamorro-Plata, David, Fajardo-Orduña, Guadalupe

“…This is an observational study that explore the uses film documentaries to keep the level of empathy in medicine students of the first year. …”
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Argentina 1985, el juicio a las juntas by Mosca, Juan Carlos

“…Próximamente se estrena el filme “Argentina, 1985”, sobre el juicio a las juntas militares que gobernaron nuestro país durante la última dictadura militar. …”
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Network of neighborhood orchestras by Andrada, Susana

“…Therefore, while teaching and learning, community is woven, weaving together the efforts of different actors in the realization of rights.The audiovisual production was made by students of the "Elements of Social Psychology" course of the Film Career of the Faculty of Arts during 2019 as an activity of their course, and it was a significant contribution to give visibility to the Network from the voices of some of its protagonists. …”
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The banality of oblivion. Meta-memory in the 2020’s cinema by Roncero Villarón, Israel

“…In recent years, a series of films have emerged, in which the main characters are required to confront processes of historical consciousness, but in which they are also forced to confront other characters who are opposed to keeping historical memory alive. …”
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The Turing test in Ex Machina: Is Ava an intentional system? by Caycedo-Castro, Maria Paola, Pinto-Bustamante, Boris Julián

“…Some of the main perspectives in relation to the philosophy of mind are reviewed and the problem posed by the film is analyzed, as to whether Ava, the humanoid robot, passes the Turing test, based on three hypotheses: The mental states described by John Searle constitute the three dimensions of the psychic world and moral deliberation: the factual dimension of perception, the estimative dimension of values, and the pragmatic dimension of actions. …”
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Fictional and Real Cyborgs: Notes on Literature, Cinema, Technoscience, and Psychoanalysis by Suárez, Claudia

“…This article provides examples of "fictional cyborgs" in science fiction literature and film and highlights some psychological effects. It also recovers testimonies of “real cyborgs” from the documentary Cyborgs among us (Duran, 2017), and points out processes of identification and idealization. …”
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The missed opportunity. Comment to The lost daughter by Laso, Eduardo

“…The film can be read as a criticism to the social commandment addressed to women to dedicate themselves as wives and mothers. …”
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Regretting Mothers in The Lost Daughter by Lima, Natacha Salomé

“…Wenn Mütter bereuen by Orna Donath (2016) from the story developed by the film The Lost Daughter by Maggie Gyllenhaal (2021). …”
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Of Gods and Men. The Representation of the Osho Phenomenon in Wild Wild Country (2018) by Sanz, Álvaro Martín

“…To this plurality of versions is added the distance that the responsible filmmakers put to-wards the work (for example omitting the use of voiceover) in order to achieve a result free from external interference. …”
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