Cine Las Americas Daily Schedule: Thursday
Tonight, the Cine Las Americas film festival will screen four films, including the Argentinan drama XXY, Alejandro Springall's dramatic comedy Morirse está en hebreo (My Mexican Shivah), actor Diego Luna's legendary boxer doc JC Chavez and Lorena Giachino Torrens' doc Reinalda del Carmen, mi mamá y yo (Reinalda del Carmen, My Mother and Me). Follow the jump for tickets, trailers and more!
Regal Metropolitan 10, 7 PM
Mature audiences
Alex is a 15 year-old child with a secret. Shortly after birth, her parents decide to remove her to an isolated cabin in the suburbs of Piriápolis. The story begins with the arrival of a couple and their adolescent son. The inevitable attraction between the two children forces everyone to confront what they most fear.
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Regal Metropolitan 10, 9 PM
All audiences
According to Jewish belief, from the moment a child is born, he or she is accompanied by two angels – the angel of light and the angel of darkness. With the passing of the elderly Moishe, his family and friends gather to sit shivah, the seven-day Jewish mourning ritual. The spirit of Aleph and Bet, divine accountants, watch over the mourners’ actions and comment about the deceased to calculate which angel will accompany Moishe’s soul to the afterlife. Set in Polanco, a Jewish quarter of Mexico City, and filmed in Spanish, Yiddish and Hebrew, Morirse está en hebreo is a dramatic comedy about how the death of a man results in the celebration of his life.
Regal Metropolitan 11, 7 PM
All audiences
Actor Diego Luna (Y tu mamá también) gets behind the camera in this documentary about the life and career of Julio César Chávez. The film not only documents the achievements of the boxing champion, but permits a glimpse into the human and social aspects of one of the most famous personalities in recent Mexican history. Chávez is renowned in international boxing circles, with five world titles and an almost record-breaking 89 victories. But, like Muhammad Ali in the United States, he is more than a boxer in his native Mexico. He is considered a national hero and a symbol of rags-to-riches success. The film combines interviews with boxers, promoters, journalists, and politicians, with an intimate portrait of Chávez’s daily life and his role as a father. This film leaves space for personal conclusions – it is an exercise in attempting to understand the complex relationship between fame and politics.
Regal Metropolitan 11, 9 PM
All audiences
A triangulated story about memory, friendship, motherhood and women, this film is a telling reflection on loss. The director’s mother has lost her memory as she has aged. In this documentary the filmmaker tries to recover and rebuild the story of the relationship between her mother, Jacqueline, and Jacqueline’s college friend who was “disappeared” by the Chilean dictatorship while pregnant. By capturing visits to the past and testimonies from the present, the filmmaker tries to reconstruct past events and circumstances under which her mother’s friend vanished.
Lorena Giachino Torrens was born in Castro, Chile, in 1972. A journalist by training, she moved into filmmaking while earning a graduate degree in documenatry scriptwriting at Madrid’s Complutense University. She currently works as the executive producer of Chilenos Todos, a documentary series in the pre-production stage, which won the TV National Council Fund. Renalda del Carmen is her first feature documentary.
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