Maryse Sistach

Birth : 1952-09-10, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

History

Marisa Sistach (né Marysa Sistach Peret, born September 10, 1952) is a Mexican film director. Her films address themes of femininity and women's issues. She attended and graduated from el Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City, a film school founded by Mexico's National Council for Culture and Arts. According to Elissa Rashkin, Sistach was among a movement in the late 1980s of innovative female directors in Mexican cinematic history, along with Maria Novaro, Busi Cortés, Guita Schyfter, and Dana Rotberg. This movement was described as being "coming to terms with the past (with the past in images, with the past in the history of the country), the acknowledgement of one’s own sensitivity (romanticism recovered in a feminist way), and the emergence of magic realism as denaturalization of women’s world, as a way of making representation visible." Her first film was short live-action piece ¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto? in 1980, for which she won an Ariel (Mexican Academy Award). Other films she has directed include Perfume de violetas (2001), El cometa (1999), Anoche soñé contigo (1992), Los pasos de Ana (1990), La niña en la piedra (2006) and Los Crímenes de Mar del Norte (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Marisa Sistach Peret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Lluvia de luna
Lluvia de luna
Director
"Moon Rain" - Sometimes, when the moon is favourable and a mother is driven by a deep desire, she can pronounce the words given to enable the soul of her daughter out of limbo and ronde on Earth, as when she was alive. The spell is immediate and, in seconds, there is magic. The girl who has revived can fulfill her greatest wish and then return pleased the world of the dead and finish with the pain of thebroken dreams that left her death.
The Girl on the Stone
The Girl on the Stone
Director
Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she rejects him for the last time causing Gabino to plan a revenge against Maty.
El brassier de Emma
El brassier de Emma
Writer
It was the year of 1962 when I turned 12 and my breasts began to grow. Cecilia, my sister, went to study in Paris, I was left alone with my parents and their problems. I discovered that the breasts made men and women crazy, while mine began to draw the attention of my friends without adults realizing that I needed a bra.
El brassier de Emma
El brassier de Emma
Director
It was the year of 1962 when I turned 12 and my breasts began to grow. Cecilia, my sister, went to study in Paris, I was left alone with my parents and their problems. I discovered that the breasts made men and women crazy, while mine began to draw the attention of my friends without adults realizing that I needed a bra.
Violet Perfume
Violet Perfume
Writer
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
Violet Perfume
Violet Perfume
Director
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
The Comet
The Comet
Screenplay
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
The Comet
The Comet
Director
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
The Paternal Line
The Paternal Line
Director
Family movies, shot with a 9.5 mm Pathé Baby camera, let us know traditions, customs, joys and sorrows of a Mexican family from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Dreaming About You
Dreaming About You
Director
Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.
Los pasos de Ana
Los pasos de Ana
Director
A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
Director
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
Editor
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
Producer
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
¿Y si Platicamos de Agosto?
Writer
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.