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Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Regal Metropolitan 14, 3pm
All audiences
Memórias do cárcere is based on the diary of author Graciliano Ramos, an important figure in 20th-century Brazilian literature. In 1936, the openly leftist Ramos was arrested without being charged during the repressive and dictatorial administration of President Getulio Vargas. Winner of the International Critics’ Prize at Cannes in 1984, the film chronicles a year in the life of a Marxist protagonist who is imprisoned with no explanation, transferred to a correctional facility, and later sent to an isolated penal colony. Memórias do cárcere is considered an homage to the many who have suffered and struggled during military dictatorships. -JCRR, Cine Las Americas
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Director: Althea Wasow
Regal Metropolitan 14, 6pm
All audiences
1990. The Bronx. A young man dares to cross the line between reality and fantasy. What price should he pay? Based on a true story connected to a shooting at the legendary Palladium nightclub.
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Director: Cristina Kotz Cornejo
Regal Metropolitan 14, 6pm
All audiences
With summer approaching, 16 year-old América has two issues – or so she thinks. She hates school and Joey, her aunt Carolina’s alcoholic husband. She passes her days shoplifting, hanging out with her friends and trying to avoid Joey. But after a life-changing event, América, who speaks little Spanish, is sent from her home in Boston to Buenos Aires to live with her reclusive and anti-American grandmother. América struggles to find her place in Argentina with a grandmother she has never known and to hold onto a friendship with Sergio, a neighbor twice her age.
Director: Alexandre Fuchs
Regal Metropolitan 14, 8pm
Mature audiences
Hijos de la Guerra tells the story of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), an international street gang founded by Salvadoran civil war refugees in California, which the US government singles out as the fastest growing and most violent gang in the country. The film explores the individual motivations behind gang membership as well as the complex role of government policy in attempting to contain – and yet unintentionally encouraging – the spread of the gang. The institution of stern and increasingly systematic U.S. deportation policies, along with forceful, armed repression of the members by the Salvadoran government, radicalized the group and established its hold in Central America. Instead of reducing the gang's influence, these policies amplified its reach from the barrios of a single city to the cities of an entire continent. This is the first feature-length documentary film to recount the history of the MS-13.
Director: Simón Bross
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 9:45pm
Mature audiences
A nun convinced that faith and fasting can perform miracles. An anorexic mother ashamed of her daughter’s chubbiness. And her husband, a professor who lusts after a student with a healthy appetite. Bad Habits is the story of three women and the way that their eating habits dominate and determine their lives. Faith, love, and vanity are put to the test at the dining table.
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