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Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, 7 PM
The last great shaman of the Inuit Avva and his beautiful and headstrong daughter Apak live on the verge of change in 1922. As the father is trying to resist encroachments upon his family and culture, a group of Danish scientists arrive to study and record his way of life. Explorer/adventurer Knud Rasmussen pays Avva a visit, accompanied by two fellow Danes: trader Peter Freuchen and anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen. Rasmussen hears and records Avva’s life story and that of his wife Orulu. Their son, Natar, impulsively agrees to guide Freuchen and Mathiassen north to Iglulik. After a celebration, Rasmussen leaves to head west while Avva, facing strong headwinds, sets out with his family and guests en route for home. His beautiful daughter, Apak, has troubling dreams about the road ahead. Based on the real story of the last great Iglulik shaman, Avva, recorded by the Danish adventurer Knud Rasmussen on his 5th Thule Expedition across the Canadian Arctic in 1922.
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Cocalero (Argentina, Bolivia)
Regal Metropolitan Theater #14, 7 PM
Bolivia, 2005: An Aymara Indian and union leader named Evo Morales launches a seemingly impossible bid to become his country’s first indigenous president. A must for anyone interested in Latin America’s present and future, this fly-on-the-wall documentary reveals the personalities and politics behind one of the region’s most astounding stories.Director Alejandro Landes was born in Brazil and grew up in Ecuador. He graduated from Brown University in 2003. After a stint writing for a U.S. newspaper and a weekly television show, Landes traveled to Bolivia to shoot Cocalero, his first feature film.
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Ghosts of Cité Soleil (Denmark, USA)Regal Metropolitan Theater #14, 9 PM
An epic portrait of a family and a culture torn apart by poverty and violence, Ghosts of Cité Soleil is a powerful and unsettling documentary that takes us inside the lives of the notorious gang leaders who dominate the Haitian slum of Cité Soleil, one of the most desperate communities in the Western hemisphere. Set to a score by Wyclef Jean, who also executive produced the film and serves as an inspiration to the young men of Haiti, the film follows two of the gang leaders, who happen to be brothers, and are also aspiring rappers. The foot soldiers of these gang leaders are known as chimeres (or “ghosts”) and it was those ghosts whom former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is said to have employed to silence his opponents. Filmed in the months leading up to Aristide’s overthrow in 2004, the film captures the smoldering tensions between the two rival gang leaders, and their love for the same woman, set in a city the United Nations has declared the most dangerous place on Earth.
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36 pasos | 36 Steps (Argentina)
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 9:45 PM
Six young women plan an important birthday party at a vacation home. Tension mounts as it becomes clear that their lives depend on the success of the celebration. The Virgin Suicides meets Battle Royale. Director García Bogliano’s first feature Habitaciones para turistas (Room for Tourists) premiered in 2005 at the Cine Las Americas Film Festival.
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