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Bob Bullock Texas State Museum, 7 PM
According to a Mexican legend, the devil asks for one soul for every bridge that is built, as a guarantee for the bridge’s durability. In Juan Carlos Rulfo’s documentary In the Pit this old legend takes on new meaning. Made of more than 17 kilometers of asphalt, the Second Deck is a major urban project set to transform Mexico City. The most impressive attribute of this elevated freeway possesses is its ability to impact the lives of so many people. Award-winning filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo has made a deeply-felt documentary about the hands and minds behind this work of concrete, steel, and asphalt. Mostly shot in high-definition digital video, In the Pit also features time-lapse scenes filmed in 35mm. The score—composed of the cacophony of cranes, jackhammers, handsaws, and voices of the workers—forms a singular musical story reflecting the drama of the enterprise.
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Qué tan lejos | How Much Further (Ecuador)
Regal Metropolitan Theater, 7 PM
Qué tan lejos narrates a journey of self-discovery, as two girls in their mid-twenties travel through the Ecuadorian mountains and coastline. Esperanza and Trizteza will not find postcard views or true love, but their journey will open them to a world beyond such illusions.
Director Tania Hermida was born in Cuenca, Ecuador. From 1988 to 1991 she studied Film Direction at the San Antonio de los Baños International Film and TV School. In 2002 she acquired an MA in Cultural Studies from the Universidad del Azuay in 2002. Since 1996 she has taught film as a Professor at San Francisco de Quito University in Ecuador.
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Tatuado | Tatooed (Argentina)Regal Metropolitan Theater, 9 PM
Tatuado is a thoughtful family drama about Paco, a teenager with a chip on his shoulder. His life with his father Alvaro, now happily married to his second wife Viviana, is rife with alienation and resentment. His biological mother disappeared from his life when he was still a child, leaving Paco with a mongoose tattoo on his forearm and lots of questions. Alvaro agrees willingly to help Paco find his mother and resolve the question of her disappearance. This visit into the past turns out to be fraught with many painful truths.
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¿Quién Mató A La Llamita Blanca? | Who Killed the White Llama? (Bolivia)
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 9:45 PM
Jacinto and Domitila, an indigenous Bolivian couple, are the most wanted criminals in the country. ‘El Negro’ hires them to carry 50 kilos of cocaine from El Alto, the highest city in the world, to the Brazilian border on the Amazon jungle. Disguising Domitila as a pregnant farmer, with the cocaine hidden in her false womb, their journey starts in the snowy mountains of Bolivia and leads them across the entire country, through deserts, coal-mines, valleys, cities, and rainforests. Days later, the President of Bolivia approves an immunity law that protects all US citizens who commit a crime in Bolivia. ‘El Negro’ is awarded a medal of honor for his achievements against drugs.
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