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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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En El Hoyo | In the Pit (México)Bob Bullock Texas State Museum, 7 PMAccording to a Mexican legend, the devil asks for one soul for every bridge that is built, as a guarantee for the bridge’s durability. In Juan Carlos Rulfo’s documentary In the Pit this old legend takes on new meaning. Made of more than 17 kilometers of asphalt, the Second Deck is a major urban project set to transform Mexico City. The most...

Madeinusa (Peru, Spain)7 PM, Regal Metropolitan Theater #14Madeinusa is a girl who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor from Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) until Easter Sunday, in which the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days, sin does not...

*This post comes from new Austinist contributor Matthew DeWitt.* It’s topical downer time at Cine Las Americas this weekend, with De Nadie (No One) likely to take home honors for Most Depressing Viewing Experience. The film takes a unique look at the immigration controversy—Central Americans crossing through Mexico to get to the U.S. Many don’t even make it to the US border, succumbing to exposure, starvation, robbery, or (at best) arrest and deportation by...

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Rebecca Onion.*

FRIDAY [21] [music] Sons of Hercules and The Bad Rackets at Woody's South (link) [music] Those Peabodys, Grand Champeen, Birds of Avalon (ex-Cherry Valence), Man Eaters of Tsavo at Emo's (link) [music] The Radiators at The Parish (link) [music] Blue October w/ People In Planes and Bril at Stubb's (link) [music] The Shells CD Release at End of an Ear (Free, 6pm) (link) [lecture] The Texas Observer presents David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover: How...

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Rebecca Onion.*

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Joey Seiler.*

*This review comes from new Austinist contributor Rebecca Reed.*