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Cine Las Americas Daily Schedule: Friday
In addition to all the films screening at Cine Las Americas on this beautiful Friday evening, tonight is also Brazil Night (which is code for "party till you drop"). From 10pm until question mark, Academicos da Opera Samba School and DJ Boris will be spinning Brazilian and World Contemporary Music at the Copa Bar & Grill on Congress. Admission is free with Film Pass or festival ticket stub.
But you'll want to go see some movies first. A complete list of showtimes, trailers and info is after jump!
Regal Metropolitan 10, 7 PM
Mature audiences
Déficit, the first feature from director Gael García Bernal, follows Cristóbal, the son of a corrupt politician. He is a twenty-something, over-privileged snob, and an opportunist. When his father is forced to flee Mexico to escape corruption charges, Cristóbal exploits the situation by arranging a huge party at his parents’ country house. On arrival he finds his sister, her hippy friends, and the family who live and work there as groundskeepers. What follows is a clash of ego, class and politics, as the glaring schisms in Mexico’s social structure are laid bare over the course of one chaotic night of excess and indulgence.
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Regal Metropolitan 10, 9 PM
All audiences
Ten reais is enough money to pay for a taxi ride, to buy a hot dog, or to bribe someone who can’t afford to buy food. Each character does what he can with it. A tale about power and money in the capital of Brazil.
Regal Metropolitan 10, 9 PM
Mature audiences
Not by Chance tells the story of two control-obsessed characters: Enio, a supervisor at a traffic control centre, and Pedro, a snooker player who seeks absolute mastery of his technique. Both find fulfillment in life by submerging themselves in a mathematical mindset that leads them towards the feeling of control they long for. But all this is thrown to the wind one day when both Pedro's wife and Enio's ex-wife die in a car accident. Descending into the jagged world of his obsessive mind, Pedro despairs until he meets Lucia, a young woman with whom, in a parallel to his snooker techniques, he tries to re-live the same exact moments he once lived with his wife. Enio, on the other hand, is forced to confront his loss through the mysterious appearance of his unknown daughter, who forces a clumsy relationship with him by deciding to look after him. Eventually, however, the two men must decide between their own obsessions and the new opportunities life has given them.
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Regal Metropolitan 11,7 PM
All audiences
To the band of followers growing around Mexico’s Santa Muerte (Saint Death), she is a beacon, a source of hope and reassurance. Criminals, victims, gang members, transvestites, addicts, the poor and the sick alike look to her as a saint. But to the Catholic Church, she is reviled, and considered a satanic figure. Aridjis’ documentary examines this dichotomy, exploring the origins, complexities and significance of this unusual cult.
Regal Metropolitan 11, 9 PM
All audiences
Sisters Bianca and Lorena were just ten and eleven years old when they made the dangerous trip across the US-Mexico border. They settled in Oregon with their mother so they could have everything that she did not: a life beyond marriage, better education, more career choices. Now, as they approach high school graduation, they have important decisions to make. But in the turbulent US sociopolitical climate, amid strong opinions about immigration and “illegal aliens,” will it even be possible for the girls to realize the potential that lies within them?
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Regal Metropolitan 11, 9 PM
All audiences
La americana is an intimate film following Carmen, an undocumented immigrant who journeys from Bolivia to New York City and back, struggling to support the disabled daughter she left behind. When she begins the seemingly impossible struggle to legalize her immigration status in the US, personal and political tragedies converge.
Filmed in three countries and told in a compelling cinema vérité style, Carmen’s unforgettable and all too familiar story is woven into the current immigration reform debate in the United States, putting a human face on the divisive issue of “amnesty.”
