Cine Las Americas Daily Schedule: Sunday
Director: Ernesto Livon-Grosma
501 Screening Room, Noon
All audiences
Cartoneros documents the work of the thousands of unemployed who come daily into the city of Buenos Aires in order to sort the garbage that residents leave on their doorsteps every evening. The documentary, which took two years to film, shows the process of classifying and selling the trash collected by cartoneros that work independently as well as by those who have created co-ops in order to protect themselves from abusive middle management. The film follows the trash from the neighborhood sidewalk all the way to the paper mill.
Director: Kevin Papatie
501 Screening Room, 1pm
Four generations. Three residential schools. Two cultures. One extinction.
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Un poquito de tanta verdad | A Little Bit of So Much Truth
Director: Jill Freidberg
501 Screening Room, 1pm
All audiences
In the summer of 2006, a nonviolent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st Century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that erupted when tens of thousands of schoolteachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, and students took over 14 radio stations and a TV station, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice. Constructed with audio and video recordings from the broadcasts of the occupied media outlets, the film delivers an intimate, visceral account of a revolution that WAS televised.
501 Screening Room, 3pm
Mature audiences
The journey of a young woman, who travels to Uruguay in search of what really happened to her family during the darkest years of the Uruguayan dictatorship. Through her father’s eyes and her seven aunts and uncles’ confessions, she tries to understand why they kept their memories silent for so long. From the French Bask country to South America, she follows their steps and explores their individual struggles, whether these were through union or legal political actions, or through clandestine activities within an urban guerrilla organisation called the Tupamaros. A silence that has left so many wounds yet to be healed.
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Director: Chanouk Newashish
501 Screening Room, 5pm
All Audiences
A horseshoe throwing contest in Wemotaci one Saturday afternoon, as seen by Chanouk Newashish.
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Making the River
Director: Sarah Del Seronde
501 Screening Room, 5pm
All audiences
By the time Jimi Simmons was 24 years old, he had spent less than six months in the free world. Lacking knowledge of his tribal identity or a sense of community, Jimi aligned himself with the Indian Brotherhood within prison. These Indian brothers provided Jimi with his first true sense of belonging and introduced him to cultural teachings and beliefs that would help him to transcend the prison walls. On June 12, 1979, a young Native American prisoner was killed in the Washington State Penitentiary for a twenty-five dollar debt. Three days later, a prison guard, Sgt. William Cross, was killed during a fight with Indian inmates. This led to the longest lockdown in Washington State history and an inmate class-action lawsuit against the state. George and Jimi Simmons were charged with first-degree murder for the death of the guard; the state sought execution by hanging. In solitary confinement for more than two years, and facing the death penalty, Jimi Simmons embarks on a quest for freedom. Making the River is his story.
Director: Francisco Franco Alba
Regal Metropolitan 10, 2pm
Mature audiences
In a colonial town in provincial Mexico, Sebastián and Helena live with their dying mother. Trapped in a huge decaying house, the only thing that sustains them is their symbiotic relationship. The death of their mother and the arrival of Juan, a lower class teenager from the seashore, triggers a painful confrontation between the siblings which forces them to define their attitudes toward love, sex, friendship, power, betrayal, and even life itself.
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Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Regal Metropolitan 10, 4pm
All audiences
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas is hailed as a stunning masterpiece, and the cornerstone of Brazil’s Cinema Novo. The film is set in Brazil’s Northeast in the early 1940’s and chronicles two years in the life of an impoverished cowhand’s family who long to escape their unceasing hardship and misery. The film was banned after Brazil’s 1964 military coup for its realistic portrayal of hellish poverty and police brutality.
Pereira’s contribution to the national debate over land reform was the winner of the OCIC Award at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival (tied with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and nominated for a Palm d’Or. - JCRR, Cine Las Americas
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Regal Metropolitan 10, 6pm
All audiences
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El talento de las moscas | The Talent of Flies
In the summer of 1944, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, of the French Air force, parachutes into the backyard of a mother and her son, a “Little Prince.” Amid the desolation of war, the three share a precious but ephemeral moment.
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Peter, a wannabe comic book artist, has just proposed to his girlfriend. Instead of saying “yes,” she gives him an ultimatum: “Give up comics and get a real job, or we’re through.” The pressure is on. Peter must choose by the end of the workday between his girl and his passion for comic books.
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De pura cepa | From the Roots
After 60 years in the US, Puerto Rican-born Sam finds himself working in a small cubicle in Fostoria, Ohio. During an ordinary day at work, Sam discovers that he is the lucky winner of an all-expense paid trip to his homeland, and leaves immediately. But when Sam arrives, he’s kidnapped, blindfolded, and led to a secret hideaway. There he meets a group of young Puerto Ricans who set out to remind him that his past has more to do with his present than he could ever have imagined.
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The Stone Child
After a painful divorce, Mathew, an 11 year-old Lakota boy, goes out to eat with his father, Ray, at an all-white restaurant in rural South Dakota, when all hell breaks loose. Old wounds rupture, and Ray pushes Mathew further and further away, into the freedom of a new terrain – the Badlands. Desperate acts finally bring Mathew face to face with his own inner strengths, and with this discovery come the tools to build the kind of home previously only glimpsed in dreams.
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Camión de carga | Cargo Truck
Upon learning of her terminal illness, single-mother Anabel decides to keep the diagnosis a secret from her family. She instead embarks on the dangerous and inhumane trip from Central America to the United States, where she hopes her only son will have a stable future.
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Bleiben
A naturalistic narrative, Bleiben follows its middle-aged protagonist’s attempts to come to terms with loneliness, alienation, and desire in the pursuit of a normal, decent life.
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María desaparecida | Missing Maria
Based on the mysterious disappearances and tragic murders of hundreds of girls and women in Juárez, Mexico, María desaparecida examines the grief of one family as they attempt to make sense of the senseless.
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Director: Xavi Sala
Regal Metropolitan 10, 8pm
All audiences
During the broadcast of the Pope’s visit, Vicente’s television is broken. In desperation, he decides to make a homemade parabolic dish.
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La señal | The Signal
Dircetor: Ricardo Darín, Martín Hodara
Regal Metropolitan 10, 8pm
Mature audiences
Argentina, 1952. Eva Perón lays dying, but small-time private-eye Corvalán has other concerns. Hired by a beautiful woman for a seemingly routine surveillance job, he finds himself in a world of betrayal, greed and violence, where victim may turn executioner, and one wrong move could lead to a most tragic fate.
Director: Bill Brown
Regal Metropolitan 11, 2pm
All audiences
The Other Side is a 2000 mile documentary road trip along the US-Mexico border, which filmmaker Bill Brown considers as the historical and political geography of aspiration, insecurity, and transition. He talks to undocumented immigrants who have risked their lives to cross over, and to border activists whose politics have put them at odds with the guardians of homeland security.
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Mexiphobia
Director: Nevie Owens
Regal Metropolitan 11, 2pm
All audiences
In the name of national security, the historic Mexican border-crossings of Boquillas, Santa Elena, and Paso Lajitas were closed, devastating the communal bonds that had existed on both sides of the Rio Grande for generations. These aggressive policies contrast sharply with those implemented to secure the United States’ northern border. Would this be the case if Canada were our neighbor to the south?
Director: Pamela Sporn
Regal Metropolitan 11, 4pm
All audiences
Con el toque de la chaveta takes viewers into the legendary cigar factories of Cuba where we witness the unique tradition of “la lectura de tabaquería,” the collective reading of literature while tabaqueros roll habanos.
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JC Chávez
Director: Diego Luna
Regal Metropolitan 11, 7pm
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.
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Director: Cristina Leal
Regal Metropolitan 11, 6pm
All audiences
Ilimunados is a portrait of some of Brazil’s greatest cinematographers: Dib Lutfi, Edgar Moura, Fernando Duarte, Mario Carneiro, Pedro Farkas and Walter Carvalho.
Cristina Leal’s documentary examines their work and place in the history of world cinema, both through their own words, and through those of their friends and colleagues. It also offers them a playful challenge – to film the same scene, each to their own taste, using the various creative tools at their disposal. The results are, appropriately, highly illuminating.
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Regal Metropolitan 11, 8pm
All audiences
A magical thriller that celebrates the rituals of Candomblé. A young man, charmed at birth to be impervious to all physical injury, becomes a kingpin in the underworld of Rio’s slums. The story is told troubadour-style by a blind street singer from Caxias, a violent Rio de Janeiro suburb. - New Yorker Films
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