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AMC RIVER EAST 21 THEATRES 322 E. Illinois St. Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 596-0333 TAKE CTA TO THE FESTIVAL 1-888-968-7282 transitchicago.com GET TO AMC RIVER EAST 21 THEATRES • Bus: #29 (State St. to Navy Pier) / #66 (Chicago Red Line to Navy Pier) / #65 (Grand Red Line to Navy Pier) • Rail: Red line to Grand Station, walk five blocks east to the theater. Blue Line to Grand, transfer to #65 bus. • Parking: Discounted parking available at River East Parking Garage (lower level of theater, 322 E. Illinois St.). $20 for up to 8 hours. Please pick up the discounted parking voucher at the Festival Information Table at the theatre. WHEELCHAIR ACCESS AMC River East 21 Theatres is wheelchair accessible

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FILM TICKETS FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE General Admission - $13 Film Festival T-shirt - $15 / $12 ILCC Member ILCC Members / Students / Seniors - $10 Film Festival Poster - $5 (Must present Valid ID) Merchandise can be purchased in the AMC River East 21 Mondays & Tuesdays - Only $10 Theatres’ lobby. Cash, debit and major credit cards are accepted. Checks are not accepted. All sales are final. FILM PASSPORT TICKETS TICKET & MERCHANDISE POLICY Film Passport: 12 General Admissions All sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges. ($46 Savings) / ILCC Member ($76 Savings) $110 $80 Must present valid ID and ILCC membership ID at time of purchase to receive discount. HOW TO BUY TICKETS • Tickets can be purchased at CLFF Box Office in the AMC River East 21 Theatres’ lobby. Box office opens one hour before first show of the day.Cash, debit and major credit cards are accepted. Checks are not accepted. All sales are final.

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INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP $60 • Ticket discount to every ILCC sponsored event. • Special invitations to private receptions & events. FESTIVAL DONOR $700+ • Weekly e-calendar of events sent throughout the year. • Same benefits of an Individual Membership. • Free access to the ILCC Film Library, which contains films from • Acknowledgment of your support in the Chicago Latino Film previous Film Festivals (individual/educational purposes only). Festival program book. • Two Film Passports for the Chicago Latino Film Festival (good for SENIOR/STUDENT MEMBERSHIP $40 24 films, a $312 value). • Seniors 65+ years and students up to 25 years of age receive • Two complimentary tickets to one of the Chicago Latino Film the same benefits of an Individual Membership (see above). Festival Galas of your choice (valued at $120). When purchasing a ticket for ILCC events, a valid ID and ILCC membership ID must be presented. To sign up for a membership call our office: (312) 431-1330 SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP $250 • Same benefits of an Individual Membership for you and a friend Or visit our website: or family member. LatinoCulturalCenter.org/join-us/membership • One Film Passport for the Chicago Latino Film Festival

MATINEE OUTREACH PROGRAM

Presently, in its 25th year, the Matinee Outreach Program, is a fundamental educational platform that continues to channel the cultural significance of film to elementary and high school students. The program began as an event that attracted 1,000 students and has grown to more than 5,000 Chicago area student attendees.

The Matinee Outreach Program provides students the opportunity to learn about the diversity of other cultures, the possibility to connect with their cultural heritage, and the prospect of meeting film directors/actors/producers to discuss viable career options in the arts.

The 2019 Matinee Outreach Program is supported by The Reva and David Logan Foundation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Allstate Insurance Company.

4 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 OPENING NIGHT GALA

YULI Cuba / Spain / United Kingdom / Germany / 2018 / 104 min. English and Spanish w/ English Subtitles Directed by Icíar Bollaín Genre: Drama

Spanish director Icíar Bollaín (“Even the Rain”) and her husband Paul Lafferty La directora española Icíar Bollaín (“Tras la lluvia”) y su esposo Paul Lafferty (Ken Loach’s longtime collaborator) try something completely different (colaborador frecuente de Ken Loach) intentan algo completamente diferente en esta with this adaptation of acclaimed Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta’s adaptación de la autobiografía del bailarín cubano Carlos Acosta. Yuli, el apodo que su autobiography. Yuli, the nickname given to Acosta by his father Pedro, runs padre Pedro le dio, corre en las calles de La Habana, donde participa en competencias wild in the streets of Havana where he participates in dance-offs with other improvisadas de baile con otros niños. Reconociendo el talento natural de Yuli, Pedro lo obliga a asistir a la Escuela Nacional de Danza. Yuli se muestra reacio al principio, kids. Recognizing Yuli’s natural talent, Pedro forces him to attend Cuba’s pero finalmente sucumbe al encanto de este mundo. Diecisiete años después, Acosta National Dance School. Yuli is reluctant at first, but is eventually seduced será el primer artista negro en bailar el papel de Romeo con el Royal Ballet de by this world. Seventeen years later, he would become the first black artist Londres. Combinando una narrativa sencilla con escenas dónde Acosta ensaya con to dance the role of Romeo in the Royal Ballet in London. Combining a su compañía coreografías basadas en su vida, “Yuli” ofrece una explosión de danza, straightforward narrative with scenes where Acosta is seen working with palabras e imágenes. his company on choreographies based on his life, “Yuli” is a moving fusion of dance, words and images. ADDITIONAL SCREENING (FILM ONLY): SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 7:00 PM

THURSDAY, MARCH 28TH DOORS OPEN: 5:30 PM | PROGRAM: 6:00 PM AMC River East 21 • 322 E. Illinois St.

TICKETS: $60 | ILCC Member $50 (Includes film, food & drinks) RECEPTION: SPONSORS Purchase at ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org or on CLFF Facebook page. FOLLOWING THE SCREENING AT Cocktail attire strongly recommended.

PARKING Discounted parking available at River East Parking Garage (lower level of theater, 322 E. Illinois St.). $20 for up to 8 hours. Discount parking Chez voucher available at CLFF Information Table at theatre. 247 E. Ontario St.

ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | March 28 - April 11, 2019 | 5 Pro Ecuador & The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago present a special screening of THE LONGEST NIGHT / LA MALA NOCHE Directed by Gabriela Calvache Ecuador / México

For the film’s full synopsis and additional screening dates, turn to page 18. MONDAY, APRIL 1ST Reception: 6:00 - 7:00 PM | Film Screening: 7:00 PM Ecuadorian culinary treats & beverages will be served

Tickets: $20 INSTITUTO CERVANTES ILCC & Instituto Cervantes Members: $15 31 W Ohio St. Purchase at ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org Parking adjacent to Instituto Cervantes $12 with validation

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PUERTO RICO Y CUBA SON DE UN PÁJARO... The Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center and the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago celebrate Puerto Rico and Cuba with two special screenings. These screenings are part of the SRBCC series: Bello Amanecer.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH | 7:30 PM TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH | 7:30 PM FILIBERTO HAVANA FROM ON HIGH

Puerto Rico / Venezuela - 75 min. For the film’s full synopsis Cuba / Canada / Venezuela / Spain - 80 min. For the film’s full synopsis Directed by Freddie Marrero Alfonso and additional screening Directed by Pedro Ruiz and additional screening Genre: Documentary dates, turn to page 23. Genre: Documentary dates, turn to page 16.

SHOWN WITH THE SHORT FILM: SHOWN WITH THE SHORT FILM: PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING! / ¡EVITA QUE PASE! WE’RE GOING TO PARIS / NOS VAMOS PA’ PARÍS Puerto Rico - 7 min. | Director: Joserro Emmanuelli | Genre: Drama Puerto Rico - 9 min. | Directed by David Norris | Genre: Comedy

SEGUNDO RUIZ BELVIS Tickets: $10 CULTURAL CENTER Purchase at srbcc.org 4046 W Armitage Ave.

6 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 CLOSING NIGHT GALA

EL REALITY Colombia / 2018 / 104 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles Directed by Rodrigo Triana Genre: Comedy

Rodrigo Triana, winner of the 23rd Chicago Latino Film Festival’s Audience Rodrigo Triana, ganador del Premio del Público en la edición número 23 Choice Award in 2007 for his comedy “A Ton of Luck” returns with this del Festival de Cine Latino de Chicago en 2007 por su comedia “Soñar no hilarious satire of such reality talent shows as “The Voice” and “American cuesta nada,” regresa con esta graciosísima sátira de “realities” de talento Idol.” Born with a silver spoon, Camilo discovers his passion for singing como “The Voice” y “American Idol”. Hijo de familia privilegiada, Camilo and pop music while studying abroad. It will be hard to convince his family descubre su pasión por el canto y la música pop mientras estudia en el that he wants to pursue a career in the music industry, though. So, he and extranjero. Sin embargo, sabe que será difícil convencer a su familia de a friend concoct a scheme: in order to audition in Colombia’s most popular que quiere seguir una carrera en la industria musical. A él y a un amigo se talent reality show, Camilo will pretend to be blind and poor and hire a les ocurre un plan: para audicionar en el reality de talentos más popular humble and charming family to pass off as his own family. But life is not a de Colombia, Camilo fingirá ser ciego y pobre y para ello contratará a una reality show. familia humilde y encantadora para hacerla pasar como propia. Pero la vida no es un reality.

THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH DOORS OPEN: 5:30 PM | PROGRAM: 6:00 PM AMC River East 21 • 322 E. Illinois St.

TICKETS: $60 | ILCC Member $50 (Includes film, food & drinks) RECEPTION: SPONSORS Purchase at ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org or on CLFF Facebook page. FOLLOWING THE SCREENING AT Cocktail attire strongly recommended.

PARKING Discounted parking available at River East Parking Garage (lower level of theater, 322 E. Illinois St.). $20 for up to 8 hours. Discount parking Chez voucher available at CLFF Information Table at theatre. 247 E. Ontario St.

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8 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 VENUE PARTNERS

The Chicago Latino Film Festival continues its connection to the community by partnering with educational institutions and organizations throughout the city. The Festival Venue Partners Program (FVPP) allows community members to view films that are otherwise inaccessible. This experience allows audiences to learn of the diversity of other cultures and hopefully connect with their own cultural heritage.

The 2019 Festival Venue Partners Program (FVPP) is supported by The Reva and David Logan Foundation.

The Chicago Latino Film Festival appreciates the support of our 2019 Venue Partners.

COLLEGE OF DUPAGE LAKE FOREST COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT In cooperation with College of DuPage - In Cooperation with Latino Unidos CHICAGO Latino Outreach Center McCormick Auditorium Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center Health Science Center 1234 555 N Sheridan Rd. Lecture Center B2 425 Fawell Blvd. Lake Forest, IL 60045 803 S Morgan St. Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 (847) 234-3100 Chicago IL 60607 (630) 942-2380 www.lakeforest.edu (312) 996-3095 www.Cod.edu www.latinocultural.uic.edu Thursday April 11 - 6:30 PM Tuesday, April 2 - 11:00 AM Esmeralda’s Twilight / Cría Puercos Wednesday, April 3 - 12:00 PM & I Am The People: Venezuela Mexico / 2018 / 90 min. 5:00 PM Under Populism / El pueblo soy yo: Directed by: Ehécatl Garage Huahua Venezuela en populismo ______Ecuador/ 2018 / 70 min. Venezuela / Mexico / 2018 / 87 min. Directed by: José Espinosa Anguaya Directed by: Carlos Oteyza PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST Thursday, April 4 - 12:00 PM & 5:00 PM Wednesday, April 3 - 7:00 PM College of Humanities, Education, and Social The Gazelle’s Dance / El baile de la gacela Amalia Sciences, CHESS Costa Rica / Mexico / 2018 / 90 min. Colombia / 2018 / 74 min. 2200 169th St. Directed by: Iván Porras Meléndez Directed by: Ana Sofía Osorio Ruiz Hammond, IN 46323 ______(219) 989-2272 www.pnw.edu PUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY 3000 N Elbridge Ave. In cooperation with Latino & Latin American Wednesday, April 10 - 5:00 PM Chicago, IL 60618 Studies, Modern Foreign Languages, Bernada (773) 342-8865 Spanish, Study of Women and Gender, and Spain / 2018 / 97 min. Praachicago.org the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Directed by: Emilio Ruiz Barrachina Martin Recital Hall ______Sunday, March 31 – 2:00 PM 7900 W Division St. Silence of the Wind / El silencio del viento River Forest, IL 60305 SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY Puerto Rico / Dominican Republic / France / (708) 524-6678 In cooperation with Student Activities at 2017 / 85 min. www.dom.edu Saint Xavier University Directed by: Alvaro José Aponte-Centeno McGuire Hall ______Saturday, March 30 - 5:30 PM 3700 W 103rd St. Decade of Fire Chicago, IL 60655 ELGIN LATINO FILM FESTIVAL USA / 2018 / 75 min. (773) 298-3974 OPENING NIGHT: Directed by: Gretchen Hildebran & www.sxu.edu Friday, April 5 - 6:30 PM Vivian Vázquez FILM TBA ______Wednesday, April 3 - 7:00 PM Elgin Community College Huahua Spartan Auditorium JOHN HANCOCK HIGH SCHOOL Ecuador / 2018 / 70 min. 1700 Spartan Drive In cooperation with Andrea Quito Directed by: José Espinosa Anguaya Elgin, IL 60123 Scholarship 4034 W 56th St. Saturday, April 6 - 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM Chicago, IL 60629 Sunday, April 7 - 3:00 PM & 5:00 PM (773) 535-0210 Marcus Theatres www.hancockhs.org 111 S Randall Rd. Elgin, IL 60123 Friday, April 5 - 6:00PM Thursday, April 11 - 6:00 PM Information & Tickets: The Gazelle’s Dance / El baile de la gacela LatinoFilmFestivalElgin.com Costa Rica / Mexico / 2018/ 90 min. (800) 344-0538 Directed by: Iván Porras Meléndez

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AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE FILM!

Since 1993, a film has been chosen by film enthusiasts to receive the Audience Choice Award. Festival attendees determine who receives the publicly recognized award. Ballots available at all screenings.

FILL OUT THE BALLOT FOR A CHANCE TO WIN: • A film passport for the 36th CLFF ($110 value) • Two tickets to opening night & closing night at the 36th CLFF ($240 value)

Audience Choice Award winner for fiction, documentary and short film categories and the raffle winner, will be announced Monday, April 22, 2019.

10 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 ARGENTINA

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FEATURE FILMS All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.

MURDER ME, MONSTER / MUERE, MONSTRUO, MUERE Argentina / France / Chile / 2018 / 109 min. Genre: Horror Directed by Alejandro Fadel Spanish w/ English Subtitles

A young farmer stands in the middle of the field, blood La sangre fluye rápidamente de la herida que ha dejado spurting out of a gashing wound that has nearly severed a una joven agricultora parcialmente decapitada. Es la her head. She is the latest victim in a rash of murders in más reciente víctima de una serie de asesinatos en la Mendoza’s countryside. David, the prime suspect, claims zona rural de Mendoza. David, el principal sospechoso, to have a telepathic link with the monster responsible afirma tener un vínculo telepático con el monstruo for the killings. Cruz, the detective in charge of the case, responsable de estos asesinatos. Cruz, el detective is not fully convinced that David is the culprit; the fact a cargo del caso, no está completamente convencido that he is having an affair with David’s wife might also de que David sea el culpable; el hecho de que está be clouding his judgement. teniendo un romance con su esposa también podría estar nublando su juicio. Wednesday, April 3, 8:00 PM Friday, April 5, 9:15 PM

NOT QUITE ADULTS / TAMPOCO TAN GRANDES Argentina / 2018 / 79 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama / Road Movie Directed by Federico Sosa Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Winner of the Best Film Award at the Mar del Plata Film Ganadora del Premio a la Mejor Película en el Programa Festival’s Panorama Argentina Program and anchored by Panorama Argentina del Festival de Cine de Mar del superb ensemble work, Federico Sosa’s heartwarming Plata y con un excelente trabajo coral, este conmovedor road movie centers on 30-year-old Lola, who receives “road movie” de Federico Sosa se centra en Lola, de news that her father, who she thought had been dead, is 30 años, quien recibe noticias de que su padre, a quien now really dead. Along with former boyfriend Teo and his había dado por muerto, ahora realmente lo está. Junto sister, Lola takes off to Mar del Plata to settle her father’s a su ex novio Teo y su hermana, Lola se dirige a Mar del affairs. There she meets Natalio (Miguel Ángel Solá), her Plata para resolver sus asuntos. Allí conoce a Natalio father’s partner, who asks her to take him to Bariloche (Miguel Ángel Solá), el compañero sentimental de su to spread his ashes. padre, quien le pide a Lola que lo lleve a Bariloche para esparcir sus cenizas. Saturday, March 30, 6:00 PM Monday, April 1, 6:30 PM

THE QUEEN OF FEAR / LA REINA DEL MIEDO Argentina / 2018 / 107 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Robertina’s dream to produce her own one-woman El sueño de Robertina de producir su propio espectáculo show is about to become a reality. So, what is she unipersonal está a punto de hacerse realidad. Entonces, afraid of and why? She keeps making up excuses to ¿a qué le tiene miedo y por qué? Ella sigue inventando avoid rehearsals or delays the play’s production with excusas para evitar ir a los ensayos y retrasa la outrageous ideas. And to top it off, she flies off to producción de la obra con ideas extravagantes. Y como Denmark when she receives news that an old friend si esto fuera poco, vuela hacia Dinamarca cuando recibe is dying of cancer. Featuring a riveting performance noticias de que un viejo amigo se está muriendo de from Bertuccelli —who also wrote and co-directed the cáncer. Con una actuación deslumbrante de Bertuccelli, film— in the title role, “The Queen of Fear” captures the también escritora y co-directora de la película, en el rol essence of a woman facing her fears and insecurities. protagónico, “La reina del miedo” captura la esencia de una mujer ante sus temores e inseguridades. Tuesday, April 2, 8:00 PM Saturday, April 6, 4:00 PM

ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | March 28 - April 11, 2019 | 11 ARGENTINA / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL

ROJO Argentina / Brazil / France / Netherlands / Germany / 2018 / 109 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Benjamín Naishtat Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Cinematography and Ganadora del Premio del Jurado a la Mejor the Silver Shell for Best Actor and Best Director at last Cinematografía y la Concha de Plata al Mejor Actor y year’s San Sebastian Film Festival, Benjamín Naishtat’s Mejor Director en el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián, latest film is an impeccably shot and edited thriller set la nueva película de Benjamín Naishtat es un thriller in 1970s Argentina. The movie opens on an apparently impecablemente fotografiado ambientado en la abandoned house being stripped clean by the neighbors. Argentina de los setenta. La trama comienza en una Cut to a restaurant where Claudio (a pitch perfect Darío casa aparentemente abandonada y cuyo interior Grandinetti) is confronted by a complete stranger. The está siendo despojado por los vecinos. Luego, en un encounter ends with Claudio dumping the stranger’s restaurante, Claudio (un perfecto Darío Grandinetti) body in the countryside. Months later, a Chilean detective tiene un altercado con un desconocido. El encuentro (Alfredo Castro) arrives to investigate a disappearance. culmina con Claudio tirando el cuerpo del desconocido Friday, March 29, 6:45 PM en el campo. Meses después, un detective chileno Sunday, March 31, 8:30 PM (Alfredo Castro) llega para investigar una desaparición.

THE SNATCH THIEF / EL MOTOARREBATADOR Argentina / Uruguay / France / 2018 / 93 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Agustín Toscano Spanish w/ English Subtitles

The city of Tucumán is overtaken by riots as the result of La ciudad de Tucumán es sacudida por disturbios a police strike giving folks like Miguel, a “motochorro” producto de una huelga de policías, dándole a gente (a thief who snatches people’s belongings as he rides como Miguel, un “motochorro” (un ladrón que arrebata his motorbike), the opportunity to run free. His latest las pertenencias de las personas mientras viaja en su robbery, however, leaves Elena, an elderly woman, motocicleta), la oportunidad de hacer lo que quieran. seriously injured and with severe memory loss. Plagued Su último robo, sin embargo, deja a Elena, una anciana, by guilt, Miguel conceals his identity and after several gravemente herida y amnésica. Agobiado por su visits to the hospital becomes Elena’s caretaker. His past conciencia, Miguel oculta su identidad y, después de deeds eventually catch up to him and his lies. varias visitas al hospital, se convierte en el cuidador de Elena. Pero tarde o temprano tendrá que rendir cuentas por sus mentiras y fechorías. Sunday, April 7, 3:15 PM Wednesday, April 10, 8:15 PM

THE PROBLEM WITH DESIRES / LO PEOR DE LOS DESEOS Bolivia / Colombia / Mexico / 2018 / 93 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Claudio Araya Silva Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Roberto, the leader of Bolivia’s Federation of Drivers, is Roberto, el líder de la Federación de Conductores fighting a battle in two fronts. His “friend” Carlos Borjas de Bolivia, está librando una batalla en dos frentes. (Luis Felipe Tovar) is plotting to gain control of the union Su “amigo” Carlos Borjas (Luis Felipe Tovar) está while his wife Margot is pressuring him to mobilize his conspirando para hacerse con el control del sindicato, membership and block the city’s streets to protest a mientras que su esposa Margot lo está presionando government measure aimed at thwarting the smuggling para que movilice a sus miembros y bloquee las calles of vehicles into the country. Greed, ambition, betrayal de la ciudad para protestar una medida del gobierno and violence are the key ingredients of this combustible dirigida a impedir el contrabando de vehículos hacia el dog-eat-dog drama about who wields power in the país. La codicia, la ambición, la traición y la violencia streets of El Alto. son los ingredientes principales de este explosivo drama sobre el poder. Monday, April 8, 8:30 PM Wednesday, April 10, 8:30 PM

THE LAST CHANCE / A ÚLTIMA CHANCE Brazil / 2017 / 99 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Paulo Thiago Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

Fabio Leão’s rap sheet is long. Born in Rio de Janeiro’s A folha de rap de Fábio Leão é comprida. Nascido na Vila Kennedy favela, he started stealing at the age of 13 Vila Kennedy, favela no subúrbio do Rio de Janeiro, ele and by 17, he was a reputed gang leader. He discovers começa roubando aos 13 anos e aos 17 anos é líder his passion for martial arts and teaching during one of reputado de uma gangue. Ele descobre a sua paixão por his many prison stays. Against all odds, Fabio becomes artes marciais e ensino durante uma de suas muitas both a professional medal-winning MMA fighter and a estadias na prisão. Contra todas as probabilidades, teacher of Thai boxing (or muay thai). But temptation Fabio se torna num lutador profissional de MMA e is always around the corner; only those around Fabio, num professor de Thai boxing (ou muay thai). Mas a including his life-long girlfriend, can steer him on the tentação nunca está longe. Só as pessoas próximas de right path. Fábio, incluindo a sua namorada de toda a vida, podem orientá-lo para caminho certo. Sunday, March 31, 7:45 PM Wednesday, April 3, 8:15 PM

12 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 BRAZIL / CHILE

QUIETNESS / A VOZ DO SILÊNCIO Brazil / 2018 / 108 min. Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by André Ristum Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

Several lives cross paths in the huge and rather Várias vidas se cruzam em São Paulo, cidade enorme impersonal city of São Paulo. Rachel dreams of being e impessoal. Raquel sonha em ser cantora, mas acaba a singer but makes ends meet as a pole dancer in a fazendo strip-tease numa boate decadente. Sua mãe, seedy bar. Her mother María spends her days drinking Maria passa os dias bebendo e assistindo TV. Rui, um and watching TV. Rui, a retired radio announcer, is dying locutor de rádio aposentado, está morrendo de câncer; of cancer; his daughter Neusa, a real estate agent, fears sua filha Neusa, uma corretora de imóveis, teme perder losing her job. Their lives will be shaken to the core o emprego. Suas vidas serão abaladas pela próxima Lua by the upcoming Blood Moon, for many a sign of the de Sangue, para muitos um sinal do começo do fim dos beginning of the end times. tempos.

Sunday, March 31, 8:15 PM Tuesday, April 2, 5:45 PM

RESISTANCE / LEGALIDADE Brazil / 2018 / 120 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Zeca Brito Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

Brazil, 1961. The country is on the verge of a civil war, Brasil, 1961. O país está à beira de uma guerra civil, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros depois da renúncia do presidente Jânio Quadros e o and the movement to keep vice-president João Goulart movimento para impedir o vice-presidente João Goulart from taking office. Using the radio transmitter from de assumir o cargo. Usando um transmissor de rádio his improvised bunker, Leonel Brizola, governor of Rio improvisado, Leonel Brizola, governador do Rio Grande Grande do Sul, sets up the Resistance movement to do Sul, organiza o movimento Resistência, para garantir ensure Goulart’s right to the presidential chair. Caught o direito de Goulart à presidência. No meio dessa in the crossfire, two brothers who are in love with the turbulência política e social, dois irmãos que estão same woman unite to fight alongside Brizola. apaixonados pela mesma mulher se unem para lutar ao lado de Brizola. Wednesday, April 10, 8:30 PM Thursday, April 11, 8:30 PM

CHILEAN CINEMA / CINE CHILENO Chilean cinema notched another triumph last year when El cine chileno obtuvo otro triunfo el año pasado Sebastián Leilo’s “A Fantastic Woman” became the first cuando “Una mujer fantástica” de Sebastián Chilean film to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Leilo se convirtió en la primera película chilena Film. This year, we can look forward to a series of new, en ganar el Oscar a la Mejor Película Extranjera. Este año, anticipamos disfrutar de una serie de exciting projects, including Pablo Larraín’s most recent nuevos y emocionantes proyectos, como la tercera collaboration with Gael García Bernal; “Araña,” Andrés colaboración entre Pablo Larraín y Gael García Wood’s latest film; and “Lemebel,” Joanna Reposi Bernal; “Araña”, la última película de Andrés Wood; Garibaldi’s documentary about the controversial artist y “Lemebel”, el documental de Joanna Reposi Pedro Lemebel. The films showcased at this year’s Garibaldi sobre el polémico artista Pedro Lemebel. Festival thanks to the friendship and partnership that Las películas presentadas aquí, gracias a la amistad bind the Chicago Latino Film Festival, the Consulate y alianza que unen al Festival de Cine Latino de General of Chile in Chicago and the Cultural Division of Chicago, el Consulado General de Chile en Chicago y la División Cultural del Ministerio de Relaciones, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reflect the sheer energy reflejan la energía y la diversidad del cine chileno and diversity of contemporary Chilean cinema. contemporáneo.

...AND SUDDENLY THE DAWN / ...Y DE PRONTO EL AMANECER Chile / 2017 / 195 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Silvio Caiozzi Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Chile’s submission to this year’s Academy Award for Best La selección de Chile al Oscar a la Mejor Película Foreign Language Film, Silvio Caiozzi’s first film in 13 Extranjera este año, el primer largometraje de Silvio years is inspired on a trip he made with Chilean novelist Caiozzi en 13 años está inspirado en un viaje que realizó Jaime Casas to the latter’s native Chilean Patagonia. con el novelista chileno Jaime Casas a su cuna en la Arts and entertainment reporter Pancho Veloso returns Patagonia chilena. Pancho Veloso, un reportero de artes to the island of Chiloé 45 years after leaving it against y entretenimiento, regresa a la isla de Chiloé 45 años his will. He wants to write something with meaning and después de ser forzado a salir. Quiere escribir algo expects to find inspiration among the friends and people con significado y espera encontrar inspiración entre he left behind. Moving back and forth between three los amigos y personas que dejó atrás. Moviéndose different time periods, “…And Suddenly the Dawn” is en tres tiempos, “...Y de pronto el amanecer” es literary in scope as well as intimate, political, poetic and literaria en escala y a la vez íntima, política, poética y Sunday, April 7, 4:00 PM heartbreaking. sentimentalmente desgarradora. Tuesday, April 9, 6:30 PM

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BROKEN PANTIES / CALZONES ROTOS Chile / Argentina / 2018 / 101 min. Genre: Black Comedy Directed by Arnaldo Valsecchi Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Five women live in a large hacienda in rural Chile: Cinco mujeres viven en una casona en el área rural de matriarch Matilde, her three biological daughters and Chile: la matriarca Matilde, sus tres hijas biológicas y an adopted one. Any resemblance to Federico García una adoptada. Sin embargo, cualquier parecido con Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba,” however, ends “La casa de Bernarda Alba” de Federico García Lorca there. On her deathbed, Matilde confesses to the village termina ahí. En su lecho de muerte, Matilde le confiesa priest that she killed her husband 40 years ago and al sacerdote del pueblo que ella mató a su esposo hace buried him inside a chest in the garage …a chest that 40 años y lo enterró dentro de un cofre en el garaje contained another body. The news shocks the entire ... un cofre que ya contenía otro cuerpo. Las noticias household and secrets long buried will now be made conmocionan a toda la familia y secretos enterrados public in this dark comedy. durante mucho tiempo saldrán a la superficie en esta comedia llena de humor negro. Monday, April 8, 8:30 PM Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 PM

DAMN KIDS / CABROS DE MIERDA Chile / 2017 / 118 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Gonzalo Justiniano Spanish w/ English Subtitles

The working class neighborhood of La Victoria in El barrio obrero de La Victoria en Santiago de Chile fue Santiago de Chile was a focal point for the resistance un punto focal para la resistencia contra la dictadura against Pinochet’s dictatorship during the early 80s. de Pinochet a principios de la década de los 80. A esta Into this community walks American missionary Samuel comunidad llega el misionero estadounidense Samuel Thompson who wants to spread the good word while Thompson para difundir la palabra de Dios y documentar documenting with his camera how this community con su cámara cómo esta comunidad logra sobrevivir. Él makes ends meet. He is taken in by Gladys “La es acogido por Gladys “La Francesita”, miembro de la Francesita,” a member of the resistance who teaches resistencia, quien le enseña que la salvación es mucho him that salvation is more than securing a nice spot más que ganarse el favor divino en el más allá. “Cabros in the after life. “Damn Kids” portrays a community de mierda” retrata el diario vivir de una comunidad que that goes about its daily life while fighting against an lucha contra un régimen opresivo. Friday, April 5, 6:00 PM oppressive regime. Sunday, April 7, 5:45 PM

JOHNNY 100 PESOS: 20 YEARS AND A DAY LATER / JOHNNY 100 PESOS: 20 AÑOS Y UN DÍA DESPUÉS Chile / 2017 / 113 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller / Action Directed by Gustavo Graef Marino Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Gustavo Graef Marino returns to the Festival with this Gustavo Graef Marino regresa al Festival con esta action-packed sequel to his cult classic “Johnny Cien secuela llena de acción de su clásico de culto “Johnny Pesos.” Twenty years ago, Juan García, a.k.a. Johnny Cien Pesos”. Hace veinte años, Juan García, alias Cien Pesos, became a legend in the annals of Chilean Johnny Cien Pesos, se convirtió en una leyenda en los crime when a heist gone wrong turned into a media anales del crimen chileno cuando un atraco que salió event. Now a free man, Johnny faces a world that mal se transformó en todo un circo mediático. Ahora, changed without him, and a son, also named Juan, he como hombre libre, Johnny se enfrenta a un mundo que barely knows. Johnny Cien Pesos will now have to use cambió sin él, y a un hijo, también llamado Juan, que all his wiles to save his son and girlfriend Bárbara from apenas conoce. Johnny Cien Pesos ahora tendrá que a powerful hoodlum. usar todo su talento y experiencia para salvar a su hijo y a su novia Bárbara de un poderoso matón. Friday, March 29, 9:00 PM Sunday, March 31, 5:45 PM

PETIT FRÈRE Chile / Haiti / 2018 / 70 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Roberto Collío, Rodrigo Robledo Spanish & Creole w/ English Subtitles

Films can introduce us to worlds unknown to us. El cine nos puede introducir a mundos totalmente Roberto Collío’s and Rodrigo Robledo’s fragmented, desconocidos para nosotros. Ese es el caso de este free-associative documentary debut about Chile’s debut fragmentario y asociativo de Roberto Collío y Haitian community is one such film. Petir-Frère Wilner, Rodrigo Robledo sobre la comunidad haitiana de Chile. a gas station attendant and editor of a magazine for the Petir-Frère Wilner, empleado de una gasolinera y editor Haitian community, is our guide to this strange land he de una revista para la comunidad haitiana, es nuestro and his compatriots now call home. Collío and Robledo guía por esta tierra extraña que él y sus compatriotas not only document every aspect of Wilner’s life, including ahora consideran su hogar. Collío y Robledo no solo the birth of his first son, but also the lives of some of the documentan todos los aspectos de la vida de Wilner, community’s most vibrant characters. incluyendo el nacimiento de su primer hijo, sino también a algunos de los personajes más pintorescos de la Friday, March 29, 6:00 PM comunidad. Sunday, March 31, 3:45 PM

14 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 COLOMBIA

AMALIA Colombia / 2018 / 74 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Ana Sofía Osorio Ruiz Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Cristina and Julián have built a perfect life in northern Cristina y Julián han construido una vida perfecta al Bogotá along with 17-year-old Amalia, Cristina’s norte de Bogotá junto con Amalia, de 17 años, hija del daughter from a previous marriage. Cristina and Julián matrimonio anterior de Cristina. Julián y ella esperan anxiously await the birth of their first son. Cristina’s ansiosos el nacimiento de su primer hijo. El embarazo pregnancy is high-risk and she has been living like a de Cristina es de alto riesgo y ha estado viviendo como prisoner in her bed. But when an explosion occurs at prisionera en su cama. Pero cuando le llegan noticias the park where Amalia is supposed to be, Cristina, from de una explosión en el parque donde se supone que her bed, tries to find out what happened while keeping debe estar Amalia, Cristina, desde su cama, trata de at bay the anxiety and the stress that may impact her mantener el estrés y la ansiedad que pueden afectar su health. frágil salud y la del bebé al margen, mientras averigua dónde está su hija. Friday, March 29, 8:15 PM Sunday, March 31, 6:00 PM

THE ENDLESS LOVE OF SALOMÉ / EL INFINITO AMOR DE SALOMÉ Colombia / 2018 / 90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Pierangeli Llinas English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Secretly abused and abandoned by her former husband, Abusada secretamente y abandonada por su ex marido, 50-year-old Salomé, a painter, raises their only child, Salomé, una pintora de 50 años de edad, cría sola a Joseph, by herself. Salomé tries to hide from her painful su único hijo, Joseph. A través de su arte, Salomé se past through her art. She takes on Eddy, the deaf- esconde de su doloroso pasado. Ella acepta como mute son of her neighbor, as a student. Their lives are estudiante a Eddy, el hijo sordomudo de su vecino. Pero suddenly altered with the arrival of Marta, Salomé’s sus vidas son repentinamente alteradas con la llegada niece, and Myriam, a beautiful young woman who falls de Marta, la sobrina de Salomé, y Myriam, una hermosa for Joseph, a relationship which will help unearth some joven que se enamora de Joseph, relación que ayudará scarring family secrets. a desenterrar algunos secretos familiares.

Saturday, March 30, 6:45 PM Monday, April 1, 8:30 PM

THE MISSED ROUND / EL PIEDRA Colombia / 2018 / 89 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Rafael Martínez Moreno Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Reynaldo Salgado “El Piedra” is a 40-year-old Afro- Reynaldo Salgado “El Piedra” es un boxeador Colombian boxer who works as a bait in boxing matches afrocolombiano de 40 años de edad que trabaja como while moonlighting as a taxi driver. His memory is not cebo en los combates de boxeo y como taxista. Su what it used to be after so many blows to the head. memoria no es lo que solía ser después de tantos golpes The appearance of Breyder, a 12-year-old boy with big en la cabeza. La aparición de Breyder, un niño de 12 dreams who claims to be his son, gives Reynaldo a new años con grandes sueños que dice ser su hijo, le da a purpose in life. Unlike other boxing films that focuses on Reynaldo un nuevo propósito en la vida. A diferencia de the winners, “The Missed Round” shows us the people otras películas de boxeo, “El Piedra” nos muestra a las who sweat and toil behind the scenes with dignity. personas que sudan y trabajan con dignidad tras las bambalinas de este brutal deporte. Thursday, April 4, 8:30 PM Saturday, April 6, 3:30 PM

SALT / SAL Colombia / France / 2018 / 72 min. Genre: Drama Directed by William Vega Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Heraldo crosses the Tatacoa desert, Colombia’s Heraldo cruza el desierto de Tatacoa, la segunda zona second largest arid zone, in his motorcycle in search árida más grande de Colombia, en su motocicleta en of his missing father. The road is rough, the landscape busca de su padre desaparecido. El camino es duro, el beautiful and inhospitable; a wrong turn sends Heraldo paisaje hermoso e inhóspito; un giro equivocado envía and his bike to the bottom of an abyss. Solomón and a Heraldo y su motocicleta al fondo de un abismo. Magdalena, a couple hiding in the desert, find him and Solomón y Magdalena, una pareja que vive escondida treat his wounds with salt and cactus. But Heraldo’s en el desierto, lo encuentran y curan sus heridas con wounds are more than physical and they run deep. sal y cactus. Pero las heridas de Heraldo son más que físicas y corren profundas en su ser.

Tuesday, April 2, 6:15 PM Thursday, April 4, 6:00 PM

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THE GAZELLE’S DANCE / EL BAILE DE LA GACELA Costa Rica / Mexico / 2018 / 90 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Ivan Porras Meléndez Spanish w/ English Subtitles

As a soccer star back in the day, Eugenio used to be Eugenio se le conocía como “La Gacela” por su known as “The Gazelle” for his speed and dexterity in velocidad y destreza en el campo durante su época de the field. He retired young, unable to score a trophy. gloria como estrella del fútbol. Se retiró joven, incapaz Now 72 and living in a retirement home, Eugenio is de conseguir un trofeo. Ahora con 72 años y viviendo determined to win a dance contest with the help of en una casa de retiro, Eugenio está decidido a ganar his partner Carmen and his openly gay instructor un concurso de baile con la ayuda de su compañera Daniel. Ivan Porras Meléndez’s feature debut moves to Carmen y su instructor abiertamente gay Daniel. El the rhythms of merengue and bolero as it presents a debut cinematográfico de Iván Porras Meléndez se nuanced and touching portrait of old age. mueve al ritmo del merengue y el bolero mientras presenta un retrato matizado y conmovedor de la vejez. Thursday, April 4, 6:00 PM Saturday, April 6, 4:00 PM

TWO FRIDAS / DOS FRIDAS Costa Rica / Mexico / 2018 / 92 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Maria de Medeiros (“Pulp Fiction”) plays Judith Ferreto, Maria de Medeiros (“Pulp Fiction”) interpreta a Judith Frida Kahlo’s personal nurse during Frida’s final years, in Ferreto, la enfermera personal de Frida Kahlo durante this surreal biopic where past and present, memory and sus últimos años de vida, en esta biografía surrealista the imagination meld in one continuous reverie. Frida’s donde el pasado y el presente, la memoria y la and Judith’s paths crossed at a hospital in Mexico City imaginación se funden en un continuo ensueño. Los in 1949 and even though they were complete opposites caminos de Frida y Judith se cruzan en un hospital both women developed a symbiotic and complex en la Ciudad de México en 1949 y aunque eran polos relationship to the point where Judith’s life began to opuestos temperamentalmente, ambas mujeres mirror Frida’s in every aspect. desarrollaron una relación simbiótica y compleja a tal grado que la vida de Judith comenzó a reflejar la de Frida en todos los aspectos. Monday, April 8, 6:00 PM Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 PM

HAVANA, FROM ON HIGH Cuba / Canada / Venezuela / Spain / 2018 / 80 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Pedro Ruiz Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Nestled above a decaying district of Havana is a secret En las azoteas de un distrito en decadencia de La village, hidden from the clamour of the streets below. Its Habana vive un pueblo escondido del clamor de las residents, like many others, have been forced upwards calles. Sus residentes, como muchos otros, han sido by the chronic shortage of housing. In the elusive quest forzados a vivir aquí por la escasez crónica de viviendas. for happiness, they have developed survival tactics as En la difícil búsqueda de la felicidad, han desarrollado clever as they are tenuous. These unique characters tácticas de supervivencia tan astutas como tenues. now bear witness to a society that is in the process Estos personajes forman parte de una sociedad que of a major historical transformation after 60 years of vive un proceso de transformación histórica importante revolutionary government. después de 60 años de gobierno revolucionario.

Monday, April 8, 6:15 PM Wednesday, April 10, 6:15 PM

IS THAT YOU? / ¿ERES TÚ, PAPÁ? Cuba / 2018 / 107 min. Genre: Drama / Horror Directed by Rudy Riverón Sánchez Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Riverón Sánchez’s atmospheric feature debut takes El atmosférico debut cinematográfico de Riverón place in Cuba’s countryside where a mother and a Sánchez se desarrolla en la campiña cubana, donde daughter live in fear of the domineering Eduardo. He una madre y su hija viven aterrorizadas por el carácter controls every aspect of their lives, imposing his rather autoritario de Eduardo. Él controla cada aspecto de sus conservative values on them. Even though his sudden vidas, imponiendo sus valores conservadores sobre death should set them free, they are so dependent on ellas. A pesar de que su muerte repentina debería Eduardo that his daughter uses a black magic ritual to liberarlas, dependen tanto de él que su hija usa un ritual bring him back to life with disastrous consequences for de magia negra para traerlo de vuelta a la vida con all. consecuencias desastrosas para todos.

Thursday, April 4, 8:15 PM Saturday, April 6, 9:00 PM

16 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 CUBA / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

MANTIS NEST / NIDO DE MANTIS Cuba / 2018 / 119 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Arturo Sotto Spanish w/ English Subtitles

One morning in August 1994, two men and a woman Una mañana de agosto de 1994, dos hombres y una involved in a ménage-à-trois in the small Cuban village mujer involucrados en un ménage-à-trois en el pequeño of Siboney are found dead. The prime suspect is a pueblo cubano de Siboney son hallados muertos. La twenty-year-old woman who is the product of this love principal sospechosa es una joven de veinte años, triangle, and was the only person in the house at the producto de este triángulo amoroso, y la única persona time. She pleads innocent and to prove it, she tells the en la casa en ese momento. Ella se declara inocente y, prosecutor and the lawyer investigating the case of the para demostrarlo, le cuenta al fiscal y a la abogada que emotional odyssey of her parents, a love story that lasted investiga el caso la odisea emocional de sus padres, una more than 40 years, in the midst of the Revolution. historia de amor que duró más de 40 años, en medio de la Revolución. Tuesday, April 9, 8:15 PM Thursday, April 11, 6:00 PM

BROKEN ISLAND / LA ISLA ROTA Dominican Republic / 2018 / 104 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Félix Germán Spanish and Haitian Creole w/ English Subtitles

Guy, a Haitian boy escaping from poverty, witnesses the Guy, un niño haitiano que quiere escapar de la pobreza, murder of his parents in the Dominican border. Taken es testigo del asesinato de sus padres en la frontera in by a Haitian couple who adopt him, Guy grows up dominicana. Adoptado por una pareja haitiana, Guy working in the country’s sugar cane fields. He wants crece trabajando en los campos de caña de azúcar del to seek revenge on Abes, the man who murdered his país. Quiere vengarse de Abes, el hombre que asesinó parents. But the October 1937 military massacre of a sus padres. Pero la masacre militar de octubre de more than 30,000 Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian 1937 de más de 30,000 haitianos y dominicanos de descent ordered by the dictator Rafael Trujillo forces Guy ascendencia haitiana ordenada por el dictador Rafael and newfound love Meuda to escape to Haiti in search Trujillo obliga a Guy y a su enamorada Meuda a escapar of a new life. a Haití en busca de una nueva vida. Saturday, March 30, 4:15 PM Monday, April 1, 6:00 PM

MY GIRLFRIEND’S GHOST / EL FANTASMA DE MI NOVIA Dominican Republic / 2018 / 94 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Francis Disla Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Featuring Latin American film and television stars Con un reparto estelar que incluye a Carmen Villalobos Carmen Villalobos (“Sin senos no hay paraíso”), William (“Sin senos no hay paraíso”), William Levy (“Cuidado Levy (“Cuidado con el ángel”) and Susana Dosamantes con el ángel”) y Susana Dosamantes (“Corazón (“Corazón salvaje”), Disla’s supernatural comedy salvaje”), esta comedia sobrenatural se centra en centers on an impertinent young actress who arrives una actriz joven impertinente que llega a la República to the Dominican Republic to shoot a movie under the Dominicana para filmar una película bajo la supervisión supervision of her manager and boyfriend. But when a de su representante y novio. Pero cuando un terrible terrible accident leaves her in a coma, her wandering accidente la deja en coma, su espíritu errante busca la spirit seeks the help of a psychic and con artist. They ayuda de un psíquico y estafador. Ambos descubren que discover that she’s cursed and that time is running out. ella es víctima de una maldición y que su tiempo en el plano espiritual se le acaba. Friday, April 5, 6:30 PM Sunday, April 7, 3:45 PM

WHAT I FEEL FOR YOU / LO QUE SIENTO POR TI Dominican Republic / 2018 / 90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Raúl Camilo Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Rául Camilo weaves three stories about the challenges Raúl Camilo teje tres historias sobre los desafíos que faced by disabled children and their parents in his enfrentan los niños discapacitados y sus padres. Ana, feature debut. Ana, mother of two autistic sons, madre de dos hijos autistas, lucha diariamente con los struggles daily with the misconceptions her neighbors conceptos erróneos que sus vecinos y familiares tienen and relatives have about autism. Jorge and Diana are sobre el autismo. Jorge y Diana finalmente serán padres finally going to be parents after trying for so long; they después de haberlo intentado por mucho tiempo; ahora will now have to give their disabled son the same love tendrán que dar a su hijo discapacitado el mismo they feel for each other. Luis, a young man with Down’s amor que sienten el uno por el otro. Luis, un joven con Syndrome, who earns a spot in the Special Olympics síndrome de Down que participará en las Olimpiadas Latin America to be held in Puerto Rico, receives training Especiales de América Latina en Puerto Rico, recibe from his estranged father. entrenamiento de su abnegado padre. Friday, March 29, 6:15 PM Sunday, March 31, 5:15 PM

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CINE DE LA MITAD DEL MUNDO In the last decade, Ecuador has seen the rise of a new Ecuador ha visto nacer a destacados realizadores wave of Ecuadorian filmmakers, who have laid the los cuales han forjado las bases, historia y estilo foundation and history for a unique style of cinema, one de un cine ecuatoriano que ha dado grandes pasos that is being recognized and celebrated in film festivals en la última década a tal grado que sus cineastas y worldwide. Today, PRO ECUADOR is proud to be part of películas ya están siendo reconocidos en festivales the 35th edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival and internacionales. PRO ECUADOR hoy se complace en through it promote and raise awareness of the cultural formar parte de la 35ava edición del Festival de Cine identity, diversity and human talent of the country in the Latino de Chicago para dar a conocer la identidad middle of the world. cultural, diversidad y talento humano del país de la mitad del mundo.

BLACK HOLE / AGUJERO NEGRO Ecuador / Dominican Republic / 2018 / 102 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Diego Araujo Spanish w/ English Subtitles

The life of Víctor, a 30-year-old writer struggling with La vida de Víctor, un escritor de 30 años que no da his novel, takes an unexpected turn when his live-in pie con bola con su novela, toma un giro inesperado girlfriend Marcela announces her pregnancy at the 50th cuando su novia, Marcela, anuncia su embarazo en la birthday celebration of her mother, Tikki. The expectant celebración del cumpleaños número 50 de su madre, parents soon leave their hipster neighborhood for an Tikki. Los futuros padres abandonan su vecindario apartment owned by Tikki in an upscale, suburban gated “hipster” para mudarse a un apartamento propiedad de community. Unable to make progress with his novel and Tikki en una comunidad residencial exclusiva. Incapaz to embrace his role as a soon-to-be-father, Víctor spirals de progresar con su novela y de encarar su rol como into a second adolescence when he meets Valentina, the futuro padre, Víctor pierde el control al conocer a bright, defiant 16-year-old who lives next door. Valentina, su coqueta y desafiante vecina de 16 años. Thursday, April 4, 7:45 PM Saturday, April 6, 6:00 PM

HUAHUA Ecuador / 2018 / 70 min. Genre: Documental Directed by José Espinosa Anguaya Quechua & Spanish w/ English Subtiles

Director José Espinosa Anguaya and producer, co- El director José Espinosa Anguaya y su productora, co- scriptwriter and partner Citlalli Andrango face a difficult guionista y compañera sentimental Citlalli Andrango choice when they find out that they are going to be enfrentan una difícil decisión cuando se enteran que parents: to raise their newborn in Ecuador’s capital van a ser padres: criar a su recién nacido en la capital Quito or in their native village. José returns to the de Ecuador, Quito, o en su pueblo natal. José regresa a northern Ecuadorian town of Otavalo to seek counsel la ciudad norteña de Otavalo para pedir consejo a su among his family and town residents. Citlalli has her familia y los residentes de la ciudad. Citlalli tiene sus own questions. Together, and in their own way, José and propias preguntas. Juntos, y a su manera, José y Citlalli Citlalli explore the history of their people, their identity exploran la historia de su pueblo, su identidad y su papel and their role in society. en la sociedad. Sunday, April 7, 3:30 PM Tuesday, April 9, 5:45 PM

THE LONGEST NIGHT / LA MALA NOCHE Ecuador / Mexico / 2018 / 95 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Gabriela Calvache Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Dana, a beautiful woman, turns to prostitution against Dana, una mujer hermosa, se vuelve prostituta en contra her will. She must surrender her income to the leader de su voluntad. Ella debe entregar sus ingresos al líder of a human trafficking ring, but her daughter’s illness de una red de tráfico de personas, pero la enfermedad and a drug addiction prevent her from delivering her de su hija y la adicción a las drogas le impiden entregar usual share. Dana decides to take matters into her own su parte habitual. Dana decide tomar cartas en el asunto hands when she meets a young girl that might end cuando conoce a una niña que podría terminar igual que up just like her. Gabriela Calvache’s uncompromising ella. Gabriela Calvache presenta un duro retrato sobre feature debut throws a harsh spotlight on the sexual el abuso sexual y la explotación de mujeres y niños en abuse and exploitation of women and children across toda América Latina. Latin America. Tuesday, April 2, 6:00 PM Wednesday, April 3, 8:15 PM

18 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 GUATEMALA / MEXICO

JOSÉ Guatemala / USA / 2018 / 85 min. Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by Cheng Li Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Nineteen-year-old José lives with his devout mother in José, de diecinueve años, vive con su devota madre en one of Guatemala City’s roughest neighborhoods. They uno de los barrios más duros de Ciudad de Guatemala. earn a living selling sandwiches and delivering food. Se ganan la vida vendiendo bocadillos y repartiendo While his mother devotes her free time to church, José comida. Mientras su madre dedica su tiempo libre a la arranges random sexual encounters with strangers iglesia, José organiza encuentros sexuales con extraños through an app. Through Luis, a migrant from the por medio de una aplicación telefónica. A través de Caribbean, José will discover a world far more tender Luis, un migrante del Caribe, José descubrirá un mundo that the violently homophobic one he lives in. Winner of mucho más delicado que el violento mundo homofóbico the Queer Lion Award at last year’s Venice Film Festival. en el que vive. Ganadora del Premio Queer Lion en el Festival de Cine de Venecia del año pasado. Wednesday, April 3, 6:15 PM Sunday, April 7, 8:00 PM

WITHOUT FEAR / SIN MIEDO Guatemala / Spain / Mexico / France / 2018 / 75 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Claudio Zulian Spanish w/ English Subtitles

It all began with the discovery, in 1999, of a diary with Todo comenzó con el descubrimiento, en 1999, de un the names of 200 people disappeared by Guatemala’s diario con los nombres de 200 personas desaparecidas military dictatorship. Three years later, the Inter- por la dictadura militar de Guatemala. Tres años American Court of Human Rights condemned Guatemala después, la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos for the massacre and disappearance of thousands condenó a Guatemala por la masacre y desaparición of indigenous people and opponents to the regime. de miles de indígenas y opositores al régimen. Commissioned and guided by some of the relatives of Comisionado y asesorado por algunos de los familiares the disappeared, Zulian’s documentary uses drawings, de los desaparecidos, el documental de Zulian utiliza photographs and primary sources to honor the victims dibujos, fotografías y fuentes primarias para honrar a of a brutal, decades long repression that claimed over las víctimas de una brutal represión que cobró más de 200,000 lives. 200,000 vidas durante más de tres décadas. Monday, April 8, 5:45 PM Wednesday, April 10, 5:45 PM

BLACK MEXICANS / LA NEGRADA Mexico / 2018 / 104 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Jorge Pérez Solano Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Neri, a fisherman, splits his time between two women: Neri, un pescador, se reparte el tiempo entre dos his wife Juanita with whom he has a daughter and his mujeres: su esposa Juanita con quien tiene una hija y lover Magdalena, mother of three additional children. su amante Magdalena, madre de tres hijos adicionales. Things are about to change for Neri as Juanita falls Todo cambia cuando Juanita cae gravemente enferma y gravely ill and Magdalena prepares to take her place. Magdalena se prepara para tomar su lugar. Filmada en Shot entirely in the beautiful beaches of Corralera las hermosas playas de Corralera en Oaxaca y con un in Oaxaca and featuring a cast of non-professional elenco de actores no profesionales de las comunidades actors from the nearby communities, “Black Mexicans” cercanas, “La negrada” explora las costumbres sociales explores the social mores of and the discrimination y la discriminación que enfrenta la totalmente ignorada faced by Mexico’s unacknowledged black community. comunidad negra de México. Thursday, April 4, 5:45 PM Saturday, April 6, 3:45 PM

EIGHT OUT OF TEN / OCHO DE CADA DIEZ Mexico / 2018 / 106 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Sergio Umansky Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Aurelio’s (Noé Hernández) son is murdered in broad El hijo de Aurelio (Noé Hernández) es asesinado a plena daylight. Citlali (Daniela Schmidt) abandons her luz del día. Citlali (Daniela Schmidt) abandona a su hija daughter with her abusive father. Aurelio wants the con su padre abusivo. Aurelio quiere que la policía haga police to do their job and capture his son’s murderers. su trabajo y capture a los asesinos de su hijo. Citlali Citlali needs a legal document to fight for her daughter’s necesita un documento legal para luchar por la custodia custody. Their quest for justice soon transforms into a de su hija. Ganadora del Premio al Mejor Actor y Mejor need for revenge. Winner of the Best Actor and Best Actriz y del Premio de la Prensa a la Mejor Película en el Actress Award as well as the Press Award for Best Festival de Cine de Guadalajara el año pasado, Umansky Film at last year’s Guadalajara Film Festival, Umansky presenta un retrato dantesco de un país rehén de la presents a Dantean portrait of a country held hostage by violencia y la corrupción. violence and corruption. Saturday, April 6, 6:30 PM Sunday April 7, 8:30 PM

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ESMERALDA’S TWILIGHT / CRÍA PUERCOS Mexico / 2018 / 90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Ehécatl Garage Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Set in a small town in rural Mexico, Ehécatl Garage’s En un pequeño pueblo en la zona rural de México vive moving feature debut centers on recently widowed la viuda Esmeralda, una mujer tan acostumbrada a Esmeralda, a woman so used to taking care of her now cuidar de su difunto marido y de su hijo, quien se fue deceased husband and her son, who left for the United a los Estados Unidos, que ahora se siente abandonada. States, that she now feels bereft. No matter how hard No importa los intentos de sus vecinos por levantar su her neighbors try to lift her spirits, she can’t get out of ánimo, ella no puede superar su depresión… hasta que her funk. That is until a cute little pig by the name of una linda cerdita llamada “La Cuina” entra en su vida. “La Cuina” walks into her life. Anchored by Concepción Anclada por la conmovedora actuación de Concepción Márquez’s poignant lead performance, “Esmeralda’s Márquez en el papel principal, Ehécatl Garage nos Twilight” is an intimate portrait about solitude. ofrece en su debut cinematográfico un retrato íntimo de la soledad. Friday, March 29, 6:30 PM Sunday, March 31, 3:30 PM

THE GRAND PROMISE / LA GRAN PROMESA Mexico / Germany / 2017 / 120 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Jorge Ramírez Suárez Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Photographer Sergio is on assignment at a remote war Sergio, un fotógrafo, se encuentra en una zona de zone when his fiancée gives birth to their daughter guerra cuando su novia da a luz a su hija Stella en Los Stella in Los Angeles. Sergio kidnaps Stella when his Ángeles. Sergio secuestra a Stella cuando el ex esposo fiancée’s former husband is granted custody of the de su novia recibe la custodia de la niña y la lleva a child, and takes her to Durango, entrusting her to the Durango, confiando su cuidado a sus mejores amigos care of his best friends while he lays low in Europe. mientras él se esconde en Europa. Veintitrés años más Twenty-three years later, Sergio will do whatever it tarde, Sergio hará lo que sea necesario para reunirse takes to reunite with his daughter. Ramírez Suárez’s film con ella. El emocionante drama de Ramírez Suárez es is an exciting, suspenseful and, in the end, touching tale también un conmovedor relato sobre la reconciliación about reconciliation and redemption. y la redención. Saturday, April 6, 9:00 PM Tuesday, April 9, 8:15 PM

IN TIMES OF RAIN / TIEMPO DE LLUVIA Mexico / Switzerland / 2018 / 90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Itandehui Jansen Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Soledad, a healer, lives with her 7-year-old grandson Soledad, una curandera, vive con su nieto José de José in an indigenous village; her daughter Adela left 7 años en una aldea indígena; su hija Adela se fue a to find work in Mexico City a long time ago. Soledad’s buscar trabajo en la Ciudad de México hace tiempo daily routine is ruptured when Adela unexpectedly calls atrás. La rutina diaria de Soledad es interrumpida to announce that she is getting married and taking cuando Adela inesperadamente la llama para anunciar José with her to the city. Soledad wonders what future que se va a casar y que se lleva a José con ella a la waits for him in the city and if Adela is ready to take ciudad. Soledad se pregunta qué futuro le espera al care of the boy. Underneath this simple story, Jansen niño y si Adela está lista para cuidarlo. A través de esta asks provocative questions about the lasting impact of sencilla historia, Jansen plantea preguntas provocativas migration on these indigenous communities. sobre el impacto duradero de la migración en estas comunidades indígenas. Wednesday, April 3, 5:45 PM Friday, April 5, 6:45 PM

CLEAN HANDS / MANOS LIMPIAS Nicaragua / 2018 / 98 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Michael Dominic English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Shot over the course of seven years, “Clean Hands” Rodada durante un período de siete años y con el documents the human drama, personal struggle, vertedero más grande de América Central, La Chureca, innocence, and salvation of one family in Nicaragua como telón de fondo, “Manos limpias” documenta el surviving against the backdrop of Central America’s drama humano, la lucha personal, la inocencia y la largest garbage dump, La Chureca. The children have salvación de una familia en Nicaragua. Los niños nunca never been to school. Their mother Blanca is often han ido a la escuela. Blanca, su madre, tiene ataques de overcome with rage. When an American philanthropist furia. Cuando una filántropa estadounidense se entera hears of their plight, she builds them a small house in de su situación, ella les construye una pequeña casa the country that sits on land they can farm. But as the en una zona urbana con un terreno que pueden cultivar. family adjusts to this new opportunity, life becomes Pero a medida que la familia se adapta a esta nueva complicated. oportunidad, la vida se les complica. Saturday, March 30, 3:45 PM Monday, April 1, 5:45 PM

20 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 NICARAGUA / PANAMA / PARAGUAY / PERU

HEIRESS OF THE WIND / HEREDERA DEL VIENTO Nicaragua / 2017 / 88 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Gloria Carrión Fonseca Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Gloria Carrión Fonseca once believed that the Gloria Carrión Fonseca una vez creyó que los Sandinistas Sandinistas were superheroes. But the Revolution took eran superhéroes. Pero la Revolución hizo estragos its toll as her parents’ dedication to the cause meant en su familia ya que la dedicación de sus padres a la neglect for her and her siblings. Thirty-six years later, causa valió más que ella y sus hermanos. Treinta y seis she tries to come to terms with the Revolution and its años después, ella hace las paces con la Revolución y aftermath through intimate yet painful discussions with sus consecuencias a través de conversaciones íntimas her parents about tragic deaths, disillusionment and pero dolorosas con sus padres sobre muertes trágicas, parenting. Carrión Fonseca’s voice-over and extensive desilusión y la crianza de los hijos. La narración de use of archive footage also presents audiences with a Carrión Fonseca y el uso extenso de imágenes de clear impression of a changing Nicaragua. archivo presentan una clara imagen de Nicaragua en proceso de cambio. Wednesday, April 3, 8:30 PM Thursday, April 11, 8:45 PM

HUMANPERSONS Panama / Brazil / Spain / 2018 / 93 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller Directed by Frank Spano English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Medellín-born James has called Illinois home for 35 Oriundo de Medellín, James ha hecho de Illinois su years. Here he has built a successful criminal enterprise hogar durante 35 años. Aquí él ha construido una involving, among many other things, organ trafficking. exitosa empresa criminal que incluye el tráfico de James is sent back to Colombia by his boss to secure a órganos. James es enviado de regreso a Colombia human liver for a high-profile client; if James fails, his por su jefe para conseguir un hígado humano para un son will die. Once in Medellín, he runs into childhood importante cliente; pero si James falla, su hijo morirá. friend Antonia, now a social worker who re-educates Una vez en Medellín, se encuentra con Antonia, amiga homeless children in the slum. The encounter forces de la infancia y ahora trabajadora social que reeduca a James to reconsider his actions as the noose tightens los niños sin hogar en el barrio. El encuentro obliga a around him. James a reconsiderar sus acciones a la vez que siente las paredes cerrarse a su alrededor. Wednesday, April 3, 6:00 PM Friday, April 5, 6:15 PM

ORIGINAL SIN / PECADO ORIGINAL Paraguay / USA / 2017 / 75 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama Directed by Jean Lee Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Eva is a woman of class and elegance. She behaves Eva es una mujer de clase y elegancia. Ella se comporta the way society expects her to…and that includes como la sociedad espera que lo haga ... y eso incluye following new husband Adrián to Spain. Adrián, though, seguir a su esposo Adrián a España. Adrián está tan is so focused on his work and ambitions that he won’t concentrado en su trabajo y ambiciones diplomáticas even have sex with her. Eva’s compulsive purchase of a que ni siquiera tiene relaciones sexuales con ella. sexually explicit painting lands her in the arms of artist La compra compulsiva de una pintura sexualmente Luis; when she is caught in fraganti by Adrián…Luis explícita lleva a Eva a los brazos del artista Luis; is invited to stick around for lunch. Jean Lee’s feature cuando Adrián los agarra in flagrante... Luis es invitado debut is a quirky and irreverent update of the Adam and a quedarse para el almuerzo. “Pecado original” es una Eve story. actualización extravagante e irreverente de la historia de Adán y Eva. Sunday, April 7, 6:15 PM Tuesday, April 9, 6:00 PM

ALL CAN FALL / CAIGA QUIEN CAIGA Peru / 2018 / 98 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Eduardo Guillot Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Vladimiro Montesinos, head of Peru’s secret police and Vladimiro Montesinos, jefe de la policía secreta de Perú y former president Alberto Fujimori’s closest adviser, el asesor más cercano del ex presidente Alberto Fujimori, spun a tight web of illegal activities. That web began to hilvanó una estrecha red de actividades ilegales. Esa untangle when a video showing Montesinos attempting red comenzó a desenredarse cuando un video que lo to bribe a congressman became public. Based on lead mostraba intentando sobornar a un congresista se hizo prosecutor José Ugaz’s memoir, Eduardo Guillot’s fast- público. Basado en las memorias del fiscal José Ugaz, paced thriller depicts his investigation as a cat and el trepidante thriller de Eduardo Guillot describe su mouse game between a wily political operative and a investigación como un juego del gato y el ratón entre un straight arrow determined to bring him down no matter operativo político astuto y una persona recta decidida a the consequences. derribarlo sin importar las consecuencias. Friday, April 5, 9:00 PM Sunday, April 7, 8:30 PM

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THE GRANDFATHER / EL ABUELO Peru / 2018 / 99 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Gustavo Saavedra Spanish w/ English Subtitles

For his 80th birthday, Crisóstomo asks his son Alfonso Para su 80 cumpleaños, Crisóstomo le pide a su hijo and grandchildren Santiago and José María to take Alfonso y a sus nietos Santiago y José María que him on a trip to his birthplace, the northern town of lo lleven de viaje a su lugar de nacimiento, la ciudad Huamachuco which he hasn’t visited in seven decades. norteña de Huamachuco, la cual no ha visitado en The trip gives José María, a budding filmmaker, the siete décadas. El viaje le da a José María, un cineasta perfect excuse to bring his camera along and shoot en ciernes, la excusa perfecta para llevar su cámara y a documentary about his grandfather. There is more grabar un documental sobre su abuelo. Sin embargo, to this trip than Crisóstomo’s desire to share with his las razones de este viaje van más allá del deseo de family where he came from, though. Crisóstomo de compartir con su familia sus raíces.

Saturday, March 30, 4:30 PM Monday, April 1, 6:15 PM

MYSTIC ROSE / ROSA MÍSTICA Peru / 1905 / 138 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Augusto Tamayo Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Augusto Tamayo offers a unique, personal and, at times, Augusto Tamayo ofrece una perspectiva única, personal unorthodox perspective on the life of Saint Rose of Lima y, a veces, poco ortodoxa sobre la vida de Santa Rosa (1586-1617), the first person born in the Americas to be de Lima (1586-1617), la primera persona nacida en las canonized by the Catholic Church. Told chronologically Américas canonizada por la Iglesia Católica. Contada and in fragments, Tamayo traces her journey from the cronológicamente y en fragmentos, Tamayo traza su moment she begins to fast to her refusal to follow her travesía desde el momento en que comienza a ayunar mother’s wishes to wed, and from the severe penances hasta su negativa a seguir los deseos de su madre para she thought would bring her closer to God to a life casarse, desde las severas penitencias que ella insistía dedicated to the care of the sick and the hungry. la aproximarían a Dios hasta una vida dedicada al cuidado de los enfermos y hambrientos. Saturday, April 6, 6:00 PM Monday, April 8, 7:30 PM

THE DEAD QUEEN / PEDRO E INÊS Portugal / France / Brazil / 2018 / 120 min. Genre: Drama Directed by António Ferreira Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

History repeats itself in quite unique ways in this A história repete-se de maneiras únicas neste drama intriguing drama. In 14th Century Portugal, Dom Pedro, intrigante. No Portugal do século XIV, Dom Pedro, heir to the throne, falls in love with his Spanish servant, herdeiro do trono, apaixona-se por sua serva espanhola, who is later assassinated. When Pedro is crowned king, que mais tarde é assassinada. Quando D. Pedro é he exhumes her corpse and crowns her queen after coroado rei, ele exuma seu corpo e coroa-a rainha executing her killers. In present day Portugal, Pedro depois de matar os seus assassinos. Em Portugal dos and Inês are architects who share an office; and in a dias de hoje, Pedro e Inês são arquitetos que partilham dystopic future where people escape from the cities to um escritório; e num futuro distópico onde as pessoas the countryside, they are lovers. All three stories are told escapam das cidades para o campo, elas são amantes. from the point of view of modern day Pedro, a patient at As três histórias são contadas do ponto de vista de a psychiatric ward. Pedro, um paciente numa enfermaria psiquiátrica dos Saturday, March 30, 8:45 PM tempos modernos. Tuesday, April 2, 8:15 PM

EL CHATA Puerto Rico / 2018 / 75 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Gustavo Ramos Perales Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Samuel could have been, in the immortal words of Samuel podría haber sido, en las inmortales palabras del Marlon Brando’s Terry Molloy in “On the Waterfront,” Terry Molloy de Marlon Brando en “On the Waterfront”, a contender. Life has delivered its blows, both in and un contendiente. La vida le ha asestado múltiples outside the ring. Now out of prison, Samuel can only golpes, tanto dentro como fuera del ring. Ahora que find work as a sparring partner or “chata.” He wants to acaba de salir de prisión, Samuel solo puede encontrar prove himself in the ring once again. He also wants to trabajo como compañero de entrenamiento o “chata”. be a better father and husband. Ramos Perales’ feature Quiere demostrar su valía en el ring una vez más. debut is hard-boiled and claustrophobic, and further También quiere ser un mejor padre y esposo. El duro y proof that Puerto Rico’s indie film scene is thriving claustrofóbico debut de Ramos Perales es una prueba against all odds. más de que el cine independiente puertorriqueño está prosperando contra viento y marea. Saturday, March 30, 9:00 PM Monday, April 1, 8:45 PM

22 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 PUERTO RICO / SPAIN

FILIBERTO Puerto Rico / Venezuela / 2017 / 75 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Freddie Marrero Alfonso English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Icon, legend, the FBI’s Most Wanted fugitive and, Ícono, leyenda, el fugitivo más buscado por el FBI y, on September 23, 2005, martyr to Puerto Rico’s el 23 de septiembre de 2005, mártir del movimiento independence movement after being killed by a sniper independentista puertorriqueño tras ser asesinado por during an FBI-led raid at his home in the center of the un francotirador durante una redada del FBI en su casa island. Agree or disagree with his politics, one cannot en el centro de la isla. Esté de acuerdo o no con él, no deny that Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, commander-in-chief of se puede negar que Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, comandante the Boricua Popular Army “Los Macheteros,” is a pivotal en jefe del Ejército Popular Boricua “Los Macheteros”, figure in Puerto Rico’s recent political history. Through es una figura fundamental en la historia política reciente archival footage and one-on-one interviews, Marrero de Puerto Rico. A través de imágenes de archivo y Alfonso brings to life a turbulent time while painting the entrevistas personales, Marrero Alfonso le da vida a una portrait of a man who never betrayed his beliefs. época turbulenta mientras pinta el retrato de un hombre Sunday, April 7, 8:15 PM que nunca traicionó sus ideales. Monday, April 8, 6:00 PM

SILENCE OF THE WIND / EL SILENCIO DEL VIENTO Puerto Rico / Dominican Republic / France / 2017 / 85 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Alvaro José Aponte-Centeno Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Rafito is a man of few words. Along with his sister Rafito es un hombre de pocas palabras. Junto a su Carmen, his mother and his daughter, he is part of hermana Carmen, su madre y su hija, forma parte de una a human trafficking ring that helps undocumented red de tráfico de personas que ayuda a los inmigrantes migrants travel from the Dominican Republic to Puerto indocumentados a viajar desde la República Dominicana Rico through the choppy waters that separate both a Puerto Rico a través de las agitadas aguas que separan islands. Not even Carmen’s sudden death can stop ambas islas. Ni siquiera la muerte repentina de Carmen Rafito’s operation. With Puerto Rico’s beautiful beaches puede detener la operación. Con las hermosas playas and seashores as a backdrop, Aponte-Centeno’s feature y costas de Puerto Rico como telón de fondo, el primer debut explores the emotional and tragic toll human largometraje de Aponte-Centeno explora el impacto trafficking takes on its perpetrators and victims. emocional y trágico que la trata de personas tiene sobre sus autores y víctimas. Thursday, April 4, 8:15 PM Saturday, April 6, 8:45 PM

BERNARDA Spain / 2018 / 97 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Emilio Ruiz Barrachina Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Emilio Ruiz Barrachina (“Yerma”) continues his Emilio Ruiz Barrachina (“Yerma”) continúa su exploration of Federico García Lorca’s work with this exploración del trabajo de Federico García Lorca modern day adaptation of “The House of Bernarda Alba” con esta adaptación contemporánea de “La casa de starring Assumpta Serna and Victoria Abril. Bernarda Bernarda Alba”, protagonizada por Assumpta Serna y (Serna) runs a brothel from a factory. She has just Victoria Abril. Bernarda (Serna) dirige un burdel dentro acquired five women who were kidnapped and sold into de una fábrica abandonada. Ella acaba de adquirir cinco sex slavery; she believes that by keeping these women mujeres que fueron secuestradas y vendidas como here she is redeeming them and freeing them from the esclavas sexuales y cree que al mantenerlas prisioneras evils of the world. Bernarda also keeps her sister María las está liberando de los males del mundo. Bernarda Josefa prisoner while maintaining a strange relationship también mantiene prisionera a su hermana María with her maid Poncia. Josefa mientras sostiene una relación extraña con su Tuesday, April 9, 8:00 PM sirvienta Poncia. Thursday, April 11, 6:15 PM

THE BEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE / EL MEJOR VERANO DE MI VIDA Spain / 2018 / 91 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Dani de la Orden Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Curro is a salesman who dreams of working in the Curro es un vendedor que sueña con trabajar en la financial industry. Despite being burdened by debt, he industria financiera. A pesar de estar endeudado, makes a promise he cannot keep: if his nine-year-old hace una promesa que no puede cumplir: si Nico, su son Nico gets straight As in school, Curro will take him hijo de nueve años, saca calificaciones de A en todos on an unforgettable summer vacation. The boy fulfills sus cursos en la escuela, Curro lo premiará con unas his part of the bargain; it’s now up to Curro to figure out vacaciones de verano inolvidables. El niño cumple con how to turn this vacation into a truly memorable one su parte del trato; ahora le toca a Curro solucionar given his limited resources in this gag-filled comedy. cómo convertir estas vacaciones en una experiencia realmente memorable, dado sus limitados recursos, en esta divertida comedia. Saturday, March 30, 4:00 PM Wednesday, April 3, 6:00 PM

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CAGES / JAULAS Spain / 2018 / 90 min. Genre: Thriller / LGBTQ Directed by Nicolás Pacheco Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Fed up with her husband’s physical and psychological Cansada de los abusos físicos y psicológicos de su abuse, Concha steals a large sum of money to run away marido, Concha roba una gran suma de dinero para with daughter Adela. Concha runs over her husband huir con su hija Adela. Concha atropella a su esposo during a chase after being caught red-handed. On durante una persecución después de ser atrapada con the road to freedom, they meet a series of colorful las manos en la masa y se da a la fuga. En el trayecto, characters who are also trying to escape from their own ambas conocerán una serie de personajes coloridos cages. Nicolás Pacheco’s cheeky and loving portrait of que también intentan escapar de sus propias jaulas. Andalucia’s gypsy community mixes film noir and road En su primer largometraje, Nicolás Pacheco mezcla de movie with a slight dash of absurdist comedy thrown in manera inteligente el film noir con el “road movie” y le for good measure. añade una pizca de comedia absurda para retratar la vida gitana. Tuesday, April 9, 6:15 PM Thursday, April 11, 6:30 PM

MEMOIRS OF A MAN IN PAJAMAS / MEMORIAS DE UN HOMBRE EN PIJAMAS Spain / 2018 / 75 min. Genre: Animation Directed by Carlos Fernández de Vigo Spanish w/ English Subtitles

With an animation style reminiscent of “The Critic”, the Con un estilo de animación que evoca a “The Critic”, la television series about a film critic that first aired on serie de televisión sobre un crítico de cine que se emitió ABC and then on Fox between 1993 and 1995, this very primero en la cadena ABC y luego en Fox entre 1993 y adult, very sexy adaptation of Paco Roca’s graphic novel 1995, esta adaptación muy sexy de la novela gráfica de focuses on Paco, a 40-year-old illustrator and creator Paco Roca se centra en Paco, un ilustrador y creador de of a popular daily strip, who is finally able to fulfil his una popular tira cómica, que finalmente puede cumplir childhood dream: to earn a living working at home in su sueño de infancia: ganarse la vida trabajando en casa his pajamas. After reaching this zenith of personal en pijamas. Después de alcanzar este cenit, se enamora happiness, he falls in love with Birdie. From then on, he de Birdie y a partir de entonces, tendrá que adaptarse will have to adapt to a new life. a una nueva vida. Friday, March 29, 8:45 PM Sunday, March 31, 3:00 PM

THE REALM / EL REINO Spain / France / 2018 / 121 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Manuel López-Vidal (a superb Antonio de la Torre) is Manuel López-Vidal (un magnífico Antonio de la Torre) an influential politician ready to make the leap to the es un político influyente listo para dar el salto a las big leagues when a leak involves him in a corruption grandes ligas cuando una filtración lo involucra en un scandal. But when the party closes ranks against him, escándalo de corrupción. Cuando el partido cierra filas Manuel finds himself without power and without friends. contra él, Manuel se encuentra sin poder y sin amigos. But he is not going down alone. Winner of 7 Goyas Pero él se va a llevar a unos cuantos con él antes de including Best Director and Best Actor, “The Realm” is caer. Ganadora de siete Goyas, incluyendo al Mejor a suspenseful, character-driven political thriller ripped Director y al Mejor Actor, “El reino” es un thriller político from today’s headlines. lleno de suspenso arrancado de los titulares de hoy.

Saturday, March 30, 9:15 PM Saturday, April 6, 8:30 PM

BELMONTE Uruguay / Mexico / Spain / 1905 / 75 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Federico Veiroj Spanish w/ English Subtitles

From the director of “A Useful Life” and “The Apostate” Del director de “La vida útil” y “El apóstata”, llega este comes this portrait of a melancholic middle-age retrato de un pintor melancólico de mediana edad que painter facing an existential crisis as he prepares for enfrenta una crisis existencial mientras se prepara para an upcoming exhibition. As an artist and as a father, su próxima exposición. Como artista y como padre, Belmonte strives to strike a perfect balance. He wants Belmonte se esfuerza por lograr un equilibrio perfecto. to spend more time with his ten-year-old daughter now Quiere pasar más tiempo con su hija de diez años, that his ex-wife is pregnant with the child of her current sobre todo ahora que su ex esposa está embarazada partner. Belmonte may long for the intimacy family life del hijo de su pareja actual. Belmonte puede anhelar offers but he is also too caught up in his own world to la intimidad que ofrece la vida familiar, pero su propio fully embrace it. mundo le impide abrazarla por completo. Saturday, March 30, 8:00 PM Monday, April 1, 8:15 PM

24 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 URUGUAY / USA

IN THE QUARRY / EN EL POZO Uruguay / 2018 / 82 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller Directed by Bernardo Antonaccio, Rafael Antonaccio Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Alicia, her boyfriend and two male friends decide to Alicia, su novio y dos amigos más deciden pasar un spend a hot summer day, lying about in their swimming caluroso día de verano, tumbados en sus trajes de baño suits and summer gear, at an abandoned quarry. The y ropa veraniega, en una cantera abandonada. El agua water is cool and so is the beer; add some grilled steaks es fresca y la cerveza también; agregue algunos filetes and fish to the get-together and it should amount to y pescado a la parrilla y esto promete ser una tarde a fun, restful afternoon for all of them, right? But lies, divertida y relajada para todos ellos. Pero las mentiras, suspicions and even jealousy threaten to ruin the day las sospechas e incluso los celos amenazan con arruinar leading to a tragic end in this erotic thriller. el día para los cuatro en este thriller erótico.

Sunday, March 31, 6:00 PM Tuesday, April 2, 8:30 PM

ROADS IN FEBRUARY / RUTAS EN FEBRERO Uruguay / Canada / 2018 / 82 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Katherine Jerkovic Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Following her father’s death, Sarah packs up her Tras la muerte de su padre, Sarah empaca su mochila backpack and travels all the way from wintry Montreal y viaja desde Montreal hacia la aldea uruguaya dónde to the Uruguayan village that was her father’s birthplace nació su padre para reunirse con su abuela Magda. Su to reunite with her estranged grandmother Magda. Her deseo de reconectar con el pasado y cerrar la brecha wish to reconnect with her past and bridge the gap que la separa de su abuela, quien nunca ha perdonado that separates her from her grandmother, who has a su hijo por abandonarla, no será fácil. Con las never forgiven her son for leaving her, will not be easy. excepcionales interpretaciones de Arlen Aguayo Stewart Featuring two beautifully calibrated performances from como Sarah y la veterana de teatro Gloria Demassi como Arlen Aguayo Stewart as Sarah and theater veteran Magda, la ópera prima de Jerkovic es una conmovedora Gloria Demassi as Magda, Jerkovic’s opera prima is a historia sobre la madurez. moving coming-of-age story. Monday, April 8, 8:15 PM Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 PM

COLLISIONS USA / 2018 / 82 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Richard Levien English

Richard Levien’s feature debut couldn’t be more El debut cinematográfico de Richard Levien no podía timely given the current administration’s stance on ser más relevante dado los ataques de la actual immigration and immigrants. Twelve-year-old Itan and administración contra la inmigración y los inmigrantes. her 6-year-old brother Neto come home from school one Itan, de 12 años, y su hermano Neto, de 6, regresan de afternoon to find all the furniture upturned and no sign la escuela una tarde para encontrar su casa volteada of their mother, Yoana (Ana de la Reguera). Itan locates al revés y ninguna señal de su madre, Yoana (Ana de her at an Arizona detention center and convinces her la Reguera). Itan la localiza en un centro de detención estranged uncle Evencio to take them there. Itan’s and de Arizona y convence a su tío Evencio para que los Neto’s efforts to stop their mother’s deportation will be lleve allí. Los esfuerzos de Itan y Neto para detener hampered by a nightmarish bureaucracy and the dark la deportación de su madre se verán obstaculizados side of human nature. por una horripilante burocracia y el lado oscuro de la Friday, April 5, 8:45 PM naturaleza humana. Saturday, April 6, 6:15 PM

DECADE OF FIRE USA / 2018 / 75 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Gretchen Hildebran, Vivian Vázquez English

The South Bronx was one of New York City’s most El South Bronx fue uno de los vecindarios más vibrantes vibrant and diverse neighborhoods in the 1950s y diversos de la ciudad de Nueva York en los años 50 y and 60s; by the late 70s, most of the neighborhood 60; a fines de los 70, la mayor parte del barrio estaba was reduced to ashes, victim not only of the city’s hecho cenizas, víctima no solo de la crisis financiera de financial crisis but also of such practices as redlining, la ciudad sino también de tales fenómenos como la fuga white flight, crime and the illegal burning of buildings de blancos, el crimen y la quema ilegal de edificios por by unscrupulous landlords for their insurance value. dueños inescrupulosos. Este documental ampliamente Vivian Vázquez’s and Gretchen Hildebran’s extensively investigado por Vivian Vázquez y Gretchen Hildebran researched documentary unearth the forces that led to revela las fuerzas que llevaron a esta destrucción this destruction and show how those who stayed behind y muestra cómo aquellos que se quedaron atrás rebuilt their community. reconstruyeron su comunidad. Friday, April 5, 8:30 PM Sunday April 7, 6:00 PM

ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | March 28 - April 11, 2019 | 25 USA / VENEZUELA

RICH KIDS USA / 2018 / 97 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller Directed by Laura Somers English

Matías is a bright teenager whose family struggles Matías es un adolescente brillante cuya familia lucha financially. When he discovers that his wealthy neighbors por mantenerse a flote. Cuando él descubre que sus are out of town, Matías and his friends break into their vecinos adinerados están fuera de la ciudad, Matías mansion and spend an afternoon basking in the good y sus amigos allanan su mansión y pasan una tarde life. The party is soon disrupted when a trouble-making gozando de la buena vida. La fiesta es interrumpida relative shows up uninvited. Reminiscent in subject por la llegada de un pariente problemático. Similar en matter to Sofía Coppola’s “The Bling Ring” and last temática, aunque no en planteamiento, a “The Bling year’s Latino Film Festival selection “Spider Thieves,” Ring” de Sofía Coppola y “Niñas araña” de Guillermo “Rich Kids” offers a sympathetic portrait of a group of Helo, selección oficial del Festival el año pasado, “Rich people and community ravaged by income inequality. Kids” ofrece un retrato compasivo de un grupo de personas y comunidades devastadas por la desigualdad. Sunday, March 31, 3:15 PM Tuesday, April 2, 6:00 PM

BEING IMPOSSIBLE / YO, IMPOSIBLE Venezuela / Colombia / 2018 / 87 min. Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by Patricia Ortega Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Ariel is a young dressmaker who, after a failed sexual Ariel es una joven modista que, después de un encounter, discovers a secret her family has tried to hide encuentro sexual fallido, descubre un secreto que su all of her life: she was born with ambiguous genitals and familia ha intentado ocultar toda su vida: nació con being a baby, she was submitted to several surgeries to genitales ambiguos y, siendo bebé, fue sometida a turn her into a woman. She now has one of two choices: varias cirugías para convertirla en mujer. Ahora tiene she can either keep living as a socially accepted but una de dos opciones: seguir viviendo como una persona oppressed person or choose to be free and live her life socialmente aceptada pero oprimida o elegir ser libre y as an intersexual person and face society’s “moral” vivir su vida como una persona intersexual y enfrentar judgement. el juicio “moral” de la sociedad.

Tuesday, April 2, 8:30 PM Thursday, April 4, 6:15 PM

I AM THE PEOPLE: VENEZUELA UNDER POPULISM / EL PUEBLO SOY YO: VENEZUELA EN POPULISMO Venezuela / Mexico / 2018 / 87 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Carlos Oteyza Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Carlos Oteyza, Venezuela’s most prolific documentary Carlos Oteyza, el documentalista más prolífico de filmmaker, and renowned Mexican historian Enrique Venezuela, y el reconocido historiador mexicano Krauze explore the forces that led to Hugo Chávez’s rise Enrique Krauze, exploran los factores que llevaron a to power and Nicolás Maduro’s rule after Chávez’s death. Hugo Chávez al poder y a Nicolás Maduro a asumir la This comprehensive and level-headed documentary presidencia. Este documental exhaustivo y sensato no leaves no stone unturned in presenting Venezuela as a deja piedra sin mover al presentar a Venezuela como un case study for the kind of populist politics, from both the estudio del tipo de política populista, tanto de derecha right and the left, that have shaken and are still shaking como de izquierda, que ha sacudido y sigue sacudiendo democratic governments worldwide. a los gobiernos democráticos del planeta.

Saturday, March 30, 6:15 PM Monday, April 1, 8:15 PM

LITTLE HISTORIES / HISTORIAS PEQUEÑAS Venezuela / 2018 / 93 min Genre: Drama Directed by Rafael Marziano Spanish w/ English Subtitles

The April 2002 failed coup d’etat against President Hugo El fallido golpe de estado de abril de 2002 contra el Chávez provides the background to this anthological presidente Hugo Chávez sirve como trasfondo para film. Five “little histories” featuring characters and esta película antológica. Cinco “pequeñas historias” con families that represent a microcosm of Venezuelan personajes y familias que representan un microcosmos society: a successful and arrogant lawyer; a corrupt and de la sociedad venezolana: un abogado exitoso y cowardly military man; a homeless man clinging to the arrogante; un militar corrupto y cobarde; un hombre sin fragments of his life like a castaway; a couple of naively hogar que se aferra como un náufrago a los fragmentos hopeful teenagers; and a single, self-sacrificing and de su vida; un par de adolescentes ingenuos y resigned mother. Stories involving pettiness, hope and optimistas; y una madre soltera, abnegada y resignada. discouragement, each of them are moving, definitive Historias que involucran mezquindad, esperanza y and tragic. desaliento, cada una de ellas conmovedora, definitiva Friday, March 29, 9:00 PM y trágica. Sunday, March 31, 8:15 PM

26 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 SHORTS: ARGENTINA / BRAZIL / COLOMBIA SHORTS

THE FOURTH WAVE / IMMATURE / INMADUROS STRENGTH AND CUNNING / BETWEEN THEM / BODAS LA CUARTA OLA LA ASTUCIA Y LA FUERZA Argentina / 2019 / 10 min. Brazil / 2017 / 12 min. Argentina / 2018 / 18 min. Directed by Jorge Ponce Betti Argentina / 2017 / 10 min. Directed by Alexia Maltner Directed by Elena Jayat, Malena Chabrol Genre: Drama Directed by Francisco Novick Genre: Drama Genre: Documentary Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Documentary Portuguese w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles A special gift allows local greengrocer, Dora (Suzana Faini) and Caio (Othon The revolution will be feminist. Mr. Luis, to identify when fruit and people Vicente, a 15-year old boy, joins his Bastos) are celebrating their 50th Argentina is at the spotlight of the are mature. Neighbors go to Mr. Luis father in a massive demonstration wedding anniversary. Their high biggest feminist revolution of all time, to ask for advice as he becomes the in Buenos Aires, paying tribute to his spirits slowly fade as they decide to The Fourth Wave. neighborhood guru. grandparents and those that were act guided by their desires. A desire killed and kidnapped by the military that will change the course of their La revolución será feminista. Argentina Un don muy especial permite que dictatorship. relationship and lives. se convierte en el centro de atención el verdulero local, Don Luis, pueda de la revolución feminista más grande identificar si la fruta y la gente están Vicente, un joven de 15 años, acompaña No dia da comemoração dos seus 50 a su padre a una multitudinaria marcha de los últimos tiempos, La Cuarta Ola. maduros. Los vecinos van a donde Don anos de casada com Caio, Dora resolve Luis para pedirle consejos mientras él se en Buenos Aires, en la conmemoración agir guiada por seuverdadeiro desejo. Shown with: Decade of Fire convierte en el gurú del barrio. de los padres y abuelos secuestrados y Um desejo que vai mudar o rumo de (Pg. 25) asesinados por la dictadura. suas vidas. Shown with: Little Histories / Friday, April 5, 8:30 PM Historias pequeñas (Pg. 26) Shown with: Heiress of the Wind / Shown with: The Endless Love Sunday April 7, 6:00 PM Heredera del viento (Pg. 21) of Salome / El infinito amor de Friday, March 29, 9:00 PM Salomé (Pg. 15) Sunday, March 31, 8:15 PM Wednesday, April 3, 8:30 PM Thursday, April 11, 8:45 PM Saturday, March 30, 6:45 PM Monday, April 1, 8:30 PM

TOP 10 PLACES TO VISIT ABSENCE / AUSENCIA CARMEN A FISHES’ RECALL / IN SÃO PAULO / TOP 10 LA MEMORIA DE LOS PECES LUGARES EM SÃO PAULO Colombia / 2018 / 17 min. Colombia / 2018 / 20 min. Directed by Andrés Tudela Directed by Raúl Gutiérrez Colombia / 2018 / 15 min. Brazil / 2018 / 14 min. Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Directed by Christian Mejía Carrascal Directed by Akira Kamiki Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Drama Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Spanish w/ English Subtitles Portuguese & Spanish w/ English Subtitles An elderly woman living in the Carmen is forced to go to a farm with countryside of Colombia tries to deal the mission of cutting the hair of a group A fisherman returns to Nueva Venecia, On a Sunday, photographers Odara with the absence of her missing of paramilitaries. Despite the injustices a town in Colombia’s Caribbean coast and André tour São Paulo. Despite a husband. She lives in the midst of a witnessed by Carmen in the camp, she from which he ran away many years language barrier, they find a way to war that she does not see, and decides must concentrate on finishing her job ago after a massacre. He soon begins connect with the city and with each to stay at home as an act of resistance as fast as she can in order to get back to rediscover his past and reconcile with other, slowly falling in love. with the hope that her husband will home and take care of her sick mother. his painful memories. return. Num domingo, dois fotógrafos Carmen es obligada a ir a una finca Un pescador regresa a Nueva Venecia, caminham por São Paulo tentando se Una anciana que vive en el campo de a cortarle el pelo a los soldados de un pueblo en la costa caribeña de conectar com a cidade elentamente se Colombia trata de lidiar con la ausencia un grupo paramilitar. A pesar de las Colombia del cual huyó muchos años apaixonam um pelo outro. de su esposo desaparecido. Ella vive injusticias presenciadas en aquel atrás después de una masacre. Él pronto comienza a redescubrir su Shown with: What I Feel For You / en medio de una guerra que no ve, y campamento, debe concentrarse en pasado y a reconciliarse con sus Lo que siento por ti (Pg. 17) decide quedarse en casa como un acto terminar su trabajo para poder regresar de resistencia, con la esperanza de que a casa para cuidar de su madre enferma. recuerdos dolorosos. su esposo regrese. Friday, March 29, 6:15 PM Shown with: Filiberto (Pg. 23) Shown with: In The Quarry / En el Sunday, March 31, 5:15 PM Shown with: Without Fear / Sin pozo (Pg. 25) miedo (Pg. 19) Sunday, April 7, 8:15 PM Monday, April 8, 6:00 PM Sunday, March 31, 6:00 PM Monday, April 8, 5:45 PM Tuesday, April 2, 8:30 PM Wednesday, April 10, 5:45 PM

ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | March 28 - April 11, 2019 | 27 SHORTS: COLOMBIA / CUBA / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR / EL SALVADOR / GUATEMALA

RAMONA: UNCONTROLLED CINNAMON SKIN / PALANTE ONE SINGLE NIGHT / FURY / RAMONA: LA FURIA PIEL CANELA UNA SOLA NOCHE NO SE GUARDA Cuba / USA / 2018 / 8 min. Cuba / USA / 2019 / 20 min. Directed by Wesley L Rodríguez Dominican Republic / 2018 / 10 min. Colombia / 2018 / 12 min. Directed by Michelle Salcedo Genre: Drama Directed by Fernando Peña Castellanos Directed by César Barrera Burgos Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Crime / Drama Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles After winning “El Bombo,” the Cuban- After fleeing Cuba, Veronica returns to US immigration lottery, a grandfather Good news don’t come after midnight. A new responsibility is forced upon her homeland in search of her daughter, and his granddaughter bid farewell A father receives a call and comes up young rebellious Omar: to take care of a later unraveling a secret that has to their native Cuba, giving life to with a plan to save his son’s promising dog named Ramona. During an intense haunted her ever since she left twenty the phrase “To Move Forward” or baseball career. encounter with a group of delinquents, years ago. “Palante”. she defends him, but Omar must have Las buenas noticias no llegan después to act with determination to end the Después de huir de Cuba, Verónica Después de sacar “El Bombo,” la de la media noche. Un padre recibe una problem. regresa a su tierra natal en busca de su lotería de inmigración entre los llamada y concibe un plan para salvar hija, para luego desentrañar un secreto Estados Unidos y Cuba, un abuelo y la prometedora carrera de béisbol de Una nueva responsabilidad se impone que la ha perseguido desde que se fue su nieta se despiden de Cuba, dando su hijo. al joven rebelde Omar: cuidar a una veinte años atrás. vida a la frase “Para adelante” o Shown with: The Problem with perra llamada Ramona. Durante un “Palante”. intenso encuentro con un grupo de Shown with: Amalia (Pg. 15) Desires / Lo peor de los deseos delincuentes, ella lo defiende, pero Shown with: Esmeralda’s Twilight (Pg. 12) Omar debe de actuar con determinación Friday, March 29, 8:15 PM / Cría puercos (Pg. 20) para poner fin al problema. Sunday, March 31, 6:00 PM Monday, April 8, 8:30 PM Friday, March 29, 6:30 PM Wednesday, April 10, 8:30 PM Shown with: El Chata (Pg. 22) Sunday, March 31, 3:30 PM Saturday, March 30, 9:00 PM Monday, April 1, 8:45 PM

A SEGUNDO GOODBYE / ADIÓS MARADENTRO Ecuador / 2018 / 16 min. Ecuador / 2018 / 16 min. El Salvador / 2018 / 3 min. Guatemala / USA / 2018 / 12 min. Directed by Joe Houlberg Directed by Luis Felipe Camacho Directed by Angel Ricardo Rysh Directed by Christa Boarini Genre: Comedy Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Drama / Fantasy No Dialogue Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles

A world with only A vowel. A mailman Segundo works as a janitor in a building Hesitant to continue his relationship, a A magical discovery gets out of hand living in A world limited by language will in the city. In the morning he receives an young man decides to break up with his when a fisherman, Nacho and his young do everything in his power to do his job. unexpected phone call and is forced to girlfriend to protect her. nephew Pato, accidentally catch a spend the afternoon with his daughter. mermaid. The two of them, along with Un mundo con solo una vocal, A. Un Con dudas de continuar con su relación, Pato’s overprotective mother, Magda, cartero que vive en un mundo limitado Segundo trabaja como conserje en un un joven decide romper con su novia must decide what to do when a bit of por el lenguaje hará todo lo que esté A edificio de la ciudad. Por la mañana para protegerla. magic invades their world. su alcance para hacer su trabajo. recibe una llamada inesperada y se ve obligado a pasar la tarde con su hija. Shown with: All Can Fall / Caiga Un descubrimiento mágico se les va de Shown with: Memoirs of a Man quien caiga (Pg. 21) las manos cuando Nacho, un pescador, in Pajamas / Memorias de un Shown with: Cages / Jaulas y Pato, su sobrino, accidentalmente hombre en pijamas (Pg. 24) (Pg. 24) Friday, April 5, 9:00 PM atrapan a una sirena. Junto con la Sunday, April 7, 8:30 PM madre sobreprotectora de Pato, ambos Friday, March 29, 8:45 PM Tuesday, April 9, 6:15 PM deben decidir qué hacer cuando un Sunday, March 31, 3:00 PM Thursday, April 11, 6:30 PM poco de magia invade su mundo. Shown with: In Times of Rain / Tiempo de lluvia (Pg. 20)

Wednesday, April 3, 5:45 PM Friday, April 5, 6:45 PM

28 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 SHORTS: MEXICO / PANAMA / PARAGUAY / PERU / PORTUGAL

THE BONY LADY / LA FLACA THE LAST ROMANTIC / OASIS STARDUST / EL ÚLTIMO ROMÁNTICO POLVO DE ESTRELLAS Mexico / Brazil / USA / 2018 / 20 min. Mexico / 2017 / 16 min. Directed by Thiago Zanato, Mexico / 2018 / 14 min. Directed by Alejandro Zuno Mexico / 2017 / 14 min. Adriana Barbosa Directed by Natalia García Agraz Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by Aldo Sotelo Lázaro Genre: Documentary Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Ofelia spends countless nights During a particularly difficult time Héctor, a loyal bowling alley contemplating if the rumors she hears While most kids are in school Adan Arely Vázquez turned to La Santa employee, falls in love with his co- about her husband are true. She goes helps his father collect garbage. A Muerte (Holy Death) praying for worker, Magdalena. Just as he gains to the Oasis, a gay bar, and sees it quick stop into the fifth’s graders a miracle. Now, Arely attempts to the courage to ask her on a date, with her own eyes. Her physical and classroom sparks an interest that his throw “La Flaca” the celebration she he discovers that perhaps he’s not emotional pain soon begin to make father is not too fond of. promised her ten years ago. the only one that’s interested. While sense. searching for the answer, he finds Mientras la mayoría de niños se Durante un momento particularmente much more. Ofelia pasa innumerables noches encuentran en la escuela, Adan ayuda difícil, Arely Vázquez se dirigió a La contemplando si los rumores sobre su a su padre a recoger basura. Una breve Santa Muerte para un milagro. Ahora, Héctor, un fiel empleado de boliche se esposo son ciertos. Ella lo comprueba parada en el salón de clase de quinto Arely intenta cumplir con la promesa enamora de su compañera de trabajo, con sus propios ojos cuando va al Oasis, grado incita un interés en Adan que su que le hizo hace diez años a “La Flaca”. Magdalena. Mientras busca la valentía un bar gay. Su dolor físico y emocional padre no aprecia. necesaria para invitarla a una cita, pronto comienzan a tener sentido. Shown with: Petit Frère (Pg. 14) descubre que quizá no es el único Shown with: The Best Summer of interesado. En busca de una respuesta, Shown with: José (Pg. 19) My Life / El mejor verano de mi Friday, March 29, 6:00 PM Héctor encuentra mucho más. vida (Pg. 23) Sunday, March 31, 3:45 PM Wednesday, April 3, 6:15 PM Shown with: Not quite adults / Sunday, April 7, 8:00 PM Saturday, March 30, 4:00 PM Tampoco tan grandes (Pg. 11) Wednesday, April 3, 6:00 PM

Saturday, March 30, 6:00 PM Monday, April 1, 6:30 PM

GOD IS IN THE BREATH / ARTICLE 1 / ARTICULO 1 ONLY THE MOON / SUMMERFEST DIOS ESTÁ EN EL ALIENTO SOLAMENTE LA LUNA Paraguay / 2018 / 3 min. Portugal / 2018 / 9 min. Panama / 2018 / 18 min. Directed by Alexis Amarilla, David Peru / USA / 2018 / 9 min. Directed by Maria Hespanhol Directed by Marcela Heilbron Gamarra Directed by Maya Cueva Genre: Thriller / Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Animation / Documentary No Dialogue Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles English Two lovers enjoy a night at a summer Roxana prepares for a performance of A man is en route to a meeting that Through an animated documentary, music festival. Everything seems the Ave Maria song at a wedding. Apart could define the future of his career. a Peruvian immigrant narrates his perfect until the girl disappears. from being a professional singer, she At a red light, an inconceivable small journey to the U.S. Recollecting the days is also the mother to a son. With the matter will teach him the most important of his formative years to adulthood, he Um casal diverte-se durante a noite de help of her reliable nanny, her son is in lesson of his life. reflects on the parallels between both um festival de música de verão. Tudo good hands, until something happens periods of his life. pareceperfeito até que a rapariga to his eye. Un hombre va en camino a una reunión desaparece. que podría definir el futuro de su A través de un documental animado, Roxana se prepara para interpretar carrera. En una luz roja, un pequeño un inmigrante peruano narra su viaje Shown with: The Longest Night / el Ave María en una boda. Aparte de asunto inconcebible le enseñará la a los Estados Unidos. Recordando los La mala noche (Pg. 18) ser cantante profesional, también es lección más importante de su vida. días de sus años formativos hasta madre de un hijo. Con la ayuda de su la edad adulta, reflexiona sobre los Tuesday, April 2, 6:00 PM niñera confiable, su hijo se encuentra Shown with: Bernarda (Pg. 23) paralelos entre ambos períodos de su Wednesday, April 3, 8:15 PM en buenas manos, hasta que algo vida. acontece con su ojo. Tuesday, April 9, 8:00 PM Thursday, April 11, 6:15 PM Shown with: Two Fridas / Dos Shown with: Original Sin / Pecado Fridas (Pg. 16) Original (Pg. 21) Monday, April 8, 6:00 PM Sunday, April 7, 6:15 PM Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 PM Tuesday, April 9, 6:00 PM

ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | March 28 - April 11, 2019 | 29 SHORTS: PUERTO RICO / SPAIN / URUGUAY

PREVENT IT FROM THE SKIN OF YESTERDAY / WE’RE GOING TO PARIS / #SUPERINLOVE HAPPENING! / LA PIEL DE AYER NOS VAMOS PA’ PARÍS ¡EVITA QUE PASE! Spain / 2019 / 10 min. Puerto Rico / USA / 2018 / 21 min. Puerto Rico / 2018 / 9 min. Directed by Curro Bernabéu Puerto Rico / 2017 / 7 min. Directed by Andrew García Directed by David Norris Genre: Comedy Directed by Joserro Emmanuelli Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles A relationship is all about give and The aftermath of Hurricane Maria leads On the verge of losing their home, take. Marc and Marta are enjoying their A magically powered mini-television set a young widower to wrestle with the 80 year-old Rosita and her sheepish anniversary but there are certain things makes Julian the next contestant of a hardships of familial duties. In the midst husband, Gonzalo, are forced to rob the that cannot be ignored. If there isn’t an sinister game show. His next task is to of an environmental crisis, he sets out bank where she worked for 30 years. official picture of us, there is no “us”. avoid any mishaps that could set back to search for water. This film exposes with humor Puerto his chances of winning. What lies ahead Rico’s economic crisis and the sad Una relación es todo sobre dar y recibir. is the potential to win the grand prize of Las consecuencias del huracán María reality of the elderly living on the island. Marc y Marta disfrutan de su aniversario fame and fortune. impulsan a un joven viudo a luchar pero hay cosas que no pueden ser contra las dificultades de los deberes A punto de perder su casa, Rosita, de ignoradas. Si no existe una foto oficial Un escenario de televisión mágico familiares. En medio de una crisis 80 años, y su tímido esposo, Gonzalo, de nosotros, no existe un “nosotros”. convierte a Julian en el siguiente ambiental, se propone a buscar agua. se ven obligados a robar el banco donde concursante en un programa ella trabajó durante 30 años. Este filme, Shown with: Rich Kids (Pg. 26) siniestro. Su próxima tarea es evitar Shown with: Salt / Sal (Pg. 15) expone con humor la crisis económica que cualquier percance perjudique de Puerto Rico y la triste realidad de los Sunday, March 31, 3:15 PM su probabilidad de ganar. Lo que le Tuesday, April 2, 6:15 PM ancianos que viven en la isla. Tuesday, April 2, 6:00 PM espera es la posibilidad de ganar el Thursday, April 4, 6:00 PM gran premio de fama y fortuna. Shown with: The Gazelle’s Dance / El baile de la gacela (Pg. 16) Shown with: The Missed Round / El Piedra (Pg. 15) Thursday, April 4, 6:00 PM Saturday, April 6, 4:00 PM Thursday, April 4, 8:30 PM Saturday, April 6, 3:30 PM

ALL MY GUARDIAN ANGELS / BACKGROUND I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE / NEGRA TODOS MIS PADRES TE BUSCO EN TODOS Spain / 2018 / 15 min. Uruguay / 2018 / 15 min. Spain / 2018 / 15 min. Directed by Toni Bestard Spain / 2018 / 24 min. Directed by Lucía Nieto Salazar Directed by Bernabé Rico Genre: Comedy / Drama Directed by Celia Giraldo Genre: Drama Genre: Drama No Dialogue Genre: Drama No Dialogue Wolof, Romaní, Italian & Spanish w/ Spanish w/ English Subtitles English Subtitles The main characters of a film are great, The man makes countless attempts to but real love is in the background, so be Merche rents out her son’s bedroom to abandon his dog, but no matter how A newborn is abandoned in a plaza in sure to look behind them. Gunther, a German student. While her far he takes her, she always finds her Madrid during the winter. This baby son has made it clear that she is only way back. will embark on a journey of survival at Los protagonistas de una película supposed to provide food and shelter, the hands of characters that, although son geniales, pero el amor verdadero Merche’s loneliness and motherly Un hombre hace innumerables overcome by the circumstances, will act se encuentra en el fondo, así que instincts have her doing much more. intentos de abandonar a su perra, as impromptu guardian angels. asegúrese de mirar detrás de ellos. pero no importa que tan lejos la lleve, Merche alquila el cuarto de su hijo ella siempre encuentra su camino de Un recién nacido es abandonado Shown with: Roads in February / a Gunther, un estudiante alemán. regreso. en una plaza en Madrid durante el Rutas en Febrero (Pg. 25) Mientras que su hijo ha dejado muy invierno. Este bebé emprenderá un claro que su única obligación es Shown with: The Snatch Thief / viaje de supervivencia a manos de unos Monday, April 8, 8:15 PM de proveer comida y un refugio, la El Motoarrebatador (Pg. 12) personajes que, aunque agobiados Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 PM soledad de Merche y sus instintos por las circunstancias, actuarán de maternales la llevan a hacer mucho Sunday, April 7, 3:15 PM improvisados ángeles guardianes. más. Wednesday, April 10, 8:15 PM Shown with: Collisions (Pg. 25) Shown with: Huahua (Pg. 18)

Friday, April 5, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 7, 3:30 PM Saturday, April 6, 6:15 PM Tuesday, April 9, 5:45 PM

30 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 SHORTS: USA / VENEZUELA

THE CHEECH DEBRIS / DESECHO GOOD MOTHERS ME 3.769 USA / 2018 / 12 min. USA / Peru / 2017 / 14 min. USA / 2018 / 10 min. USA / 2018 / 9 min. Directed by Edward Tyndall Directed by Julio O. Ramos Directed by Wendy Mateo, Lorena Diaz, Directed by Elaine Del Valle Genre: Documentary Genre: Drama Kenzie Elizabeth Genre: Drama English English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Comedy / Drama English English We explore the world of the Chicano Art Armando (Tenoch Huerta), a Although Elaine is excited and Movement through one of it’s lifelong construction site supervisor, must Two sisters, Altagracia & Amada, create curious about her changing body, she supporters, Cheech Marin. Featuring the quickly take action to save one of an altar for their recently deceased was not prepared for her mother’s sounds of Grammy-Nominated musician, his crew members after a terrible mother to celebrate her birthday and are openness about these changes or the El Dusty, “The Cheech” reveals Marin’s accident. During the attempted rescue, granted 24 hours with her. Throughout inappropriate sexual misconduct of most beloved pieces and his significant a heinous truth is revealed about the the course of this day, they realize that someone she thought she could trust. influence in upholding this extraordinary lives of undocumented construction Mami always had their back and that American medium. workers in the US. even in death... some things never Aunque Elaine está emocionada y curiosa sobre los cambios de su Exploramos el mundo del Movimiento change. de Arte Chicano a través de uno de Armando (Tenoch Huerta), un cuerpo, no estaba preparada para sus partidarios de toda la vida, Cheech supervisor de construcción, debe Dos hermanas, Altagracia y Amada, la franqueza de su madre sobre Marin. Con los sonidos del músico actuar rápidamente para salvar a uno crean un altar para celebrar el estos cambios o la conducta sexual nominado al Grammy, El Dusty, “The de los miembros de su equipo tras un cumpleaños de su madre que falleció inapropiada de alguien en quien creía Cheech” revela las piezas más queridas terrible accidente. Durante el intento de recientemente y son concedidas 24 que podía confiar. de Marin y su influencia significativa en rescate, se revela una terrible realidad horas junto a ella. A lo largo del curso sobre las vidas de los trabajadores de este día, se dan cuenta de que Mami Shown with: Being Impossible / la defensa de este extraordinario medio Yo, imposible (Pg. 26) estadounidense. indocumentados de la construcción en siempre las apoyó y que incluso lo hace los Estados Unidos. después de muerta...algunas cosas Shown with: I Am the People: nunca cambian. Tuesday, April 2, 8:30 PM Venezuela Under Populism / El Shown with: Silence of the Wind / Thursday, April 4, 6:15 PM pueblo soy yo: Venezuela en El silencio del viento (Pg. 23) Shown with: My Girlfriend’s Ghost populismo (Pg. 26) / El fantasma de mi novia (Pg. 17) Thursday, April 4, 8:15 PM Saturday, March 30, 6:15 PM Saturday, April 6, 8:45 PM Friday, April 5, 6:30 PM Monday, April 1, 8:15 PM Sunday, April 7, 3:45 PM

OUR INGREDIENTS: CORN / POZOLE THE ASTRONAUT / THE CARDBOARD MAN / INGREDIENTES NUESTROS: EL ASTRONAUTA EL HOMBRE DE CARTÓN MAIZ USA / 2018 / 10 min. Directed by Jessica Méndez Siqueiros Venezuela / 2018 / 19 min. Venezuela / 2018 / 13 min. USA / 2018 / 7 min. Genre: Drama / Comedy Directed by Manuel Trotta Directed by Michael Labarca Directed by César Rodríguez English Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Documentary Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles La Gringa has little in common with her Mexican family and they’ve begun to Beto revisits his hometown with the On his seventh birthday, Diego eagerly Corn is widely used throughout the world, resent her for her lack of knowledge of intent of bringing his senile father picks out a piñata with his father. When but especially in Latin American cuisine. with him to the city. Attached to the it comes time to smash it, he refuses to This documentary shares the stories of their culture. Will a story about Nana and a bowl of pozole unite them? memories of his dear wife, Don Alfredo do so. What could be wrong with him? three Latinos – each from a different rejects the idea of leaving until his one country, but now living in the same La Gringa tiene poco en común con wish is realized: to reach the moon and En su séptimo cumpleaños, American city – who come together to su familia mexicana y han empezado say goodbye to her. acompañado de su padre, Diego share flavors of their homeland, all of which a resentir su falta de conocimiento escoge con entusiasmo una piñata. include corn as the central ingredient. cultural. ¿Será que una historia sobre Beto vuelve a visitar su pueblo natal con Cuando es hora de romperla, se niega El maíz es ampliamente utilizado en la Nana y un tazón de pozole los pueda la intención de llevar a su padre senil a hacerlo. ¿Qué podría estar mal con todo el mundo, pero especialmente en la unir? a la ciudad. Apegado a los recuerdos él? cocina latinoamericana. Este documental de su querida esposa, Don Alfredo Shown with: The Grandfather / El rechaza la idea de irse hasta que se Shown with: Havana, from on muestra las historias de tres latinos High (Pg. 16) de países diferentes que, viviendo en abuelo (Pg. 22) cumpla su único deseo: llegar a la luna la misma ciudad estadounidense, se y despedirse de ella. Saturday, March 30, 4:30 PM Monday, April 8, 6:15 PM reúnen para compartir los sabores de Shown with: Belmonte (Pg. 24) Wednesday, April 10, 6:15 PM sus patrias, elaborados con el maíz como Monday, April 1, 6:15 PM el ingrediente principal. Saturday, March 30, 8:00 PM Shown with: Clean Hands / Monday, April 1, 8:15 PM Manos limpias (Pg. 20)

Saturday, March 30, 3:45 PM Monday, April 1, 5:45 PM

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34 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | March 28 - April 11, 2019 FILM INDEX

#Superinlove ...... 30 Humanpersons ...... 21 Salt ...... 15 A ...... 28 I Am the People: Venezuela Under Segundo ...... 28 Absence ...... 27 Populism ...... 26 Silence of the Wind ...... 23 A Fishes’ Recall ...... 27 Immature ...... 27 Stardust ...... 29 All Can Fall ...... 21 In The Quarry ...... 25 Strength and Cunning ...... 27 All My Guardian Angels ...... 30 In Times of Rain ...... 20 Summerfest ...... 29 Amalia ...... 15 I See You Everywhere ...... 30 The Astronaut ...... 31 And Suddenly the Dawn ...... 13 Is that you? ...... 16 The Best Summer of My Life ...... 23 Article 1 ...... 29 Johnny 100 Pesos: 20 Years and a The Bony Lady ...... 29 Background ...... 30 Day Later ...... 14 The Cardboard Man ...... 31 Being Impossible ...... 26 José ...... 19 The Cheech ...... 31 Belmonte ...... 24 Little Histories ...... 26 The Dead Queen ...... 22 Bernarda ...... 23 Mantis Nest ...... 17 The Endless Love of Salomé ...... 15 Between Them ...... 27 Maradentro ...... 28 The Fourth Wave ...... 27 Black Hole ...... 18 ME 3.769 ...... 31 The Gazelle’s Dance ...... 16 Black Mexicans ...... 19 Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas ...... 24 The Grandfather ...... 22 Broken Island ...... 17 Murder Me, Monster ...... 11 The Grand Promise ...... 20 Broken Panties ...... 14 My Girlfriend’s Ghost ...... 17 The Last Chance ...... 12 Cages ...... 24 Mystic Rose ...... 22 The Last Romantic ...... 29 Carmen ...... 27 Negra ...... 30 The Longest Night ...... 18 Cinnamon Skin ...... 28 Not Quite Adults ...... 11 The Missed Round ...... 15 Clean Hands ...... 20 Oasis ...... 29 The Problem with Desires ...... 12 Collisions ...... 25 One Single Night ...... 28 The Queen of Fear ...... 11 Damn Kids ...... 14 Only the Moon ...... 29 The Realm ...... 24 Debris ...... 31 Original Sin ...... 21 The Skin of Yesterday ...... 30 Decade of Fire ...... 25 Our Ingredients: Corn ...... 31 The Snatch Thief ...... 12 Eight Out of Ten ...... 19 Palante ...... 28 Top 10 Places to Visit in São Paulo .27 El Chata ...... 22 Petit Frère ...... 14 Two Fridas ...... 16 Esmeralda’s Twilight ...... 20 Pozole ...... 31 We’re Going to Paris ...... 30 Filiberto ...... 23 Prevent It From Happening! ...... 30 What I Feel For You ...... 17 God is in the Breath ...... 29 Quietness ...... 13 Without Fear ...... 19 Goodbye ...... 28 Ramona: Uncontrolled Fury ...... 28 Good Mothers ...... 31 Resistance ...... 13 Havana, from on High ...... 16 Rich Kids ...... 26 Heiress of the Wind ...... 21 Roads in February ...... 25 Huahua ...... 18 Rojo ...... 12

ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | March 28 - April 11, 2019 | 35 AMC River East 21 Theatres THEATRE SCHEDULE 322 E. Illinois St. MARCH 28 - APRIL 11, 2019 All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.

THEATRE 3 THEATRE 4 THEATRE 5 THEATRE 6

6:15 PM What I Feel For You / Lo que siento por ti 6:45 PM Rojo 6:30 PM Esmeralda’s Twilight / Cría puercos 6:00 PM Petit Frère Dominican Republic / 90 min. Argentina / Brazil / France / Netherlands / Germany / Mexico / 90 min. Chile / Haiti / 70 min. Director: Raúl Camilo 109 min. Director: Ehécatl Garage Directors: Roberto Collío, Rodrigo Robledo Shown with Top 10 Places to Visit in São Paulo / Director: Benjamín Naishtat Shown with Palante Shown with The Bony Lady / La Flaca Top 10 Lugares em São Paulo Cuba / USA / 8 min. Mexico / Brazil / USA / 20 min. Brazil / 14 min.

8:45 PM Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas / Memorias de un 9:00 PM Johnny 100 Pesos: 20 Years and a Day Later / 9:00 PM Little Histories / Historias pequeñas 8:15 PM Amalia hombre en pijamas Johnny 100 Pesos: 20 años y un día después Venezuela / 93 min Colombia / 74 min. Spain / 75 min. Chile / 113 min. Director: Rafael Marziano Director: Ana Sofía Osorio Ruiz Director: Carlos Fernández de Vigo Director: Gustavo Graef Marino Shown with Immature / Inmaduros Shown with Cinnamon Skin / Piel canela Shown with A Argentina / 10 min. Cuba / USA / 20 min. FRIDAY, MARCH 29TH MARCH FRIDAY, Ecuador / 16 min.

4:15 PM Broken Island / La isla rota 4:30 PM The Grandfather / El abuelo 4:00 PM The Best Summer of My Life / 3:45 PM Clean Hands / Manos limpias Dominican Republic / 104 min. Peru / 99 min. El mejor verano de mi vida Nicaragua / 98 min. Director: Félix Germán Director: Gustavo Saavedra Spain / 91 min. Director: Michael Dominic Shown with Pozole Director: Dani de la Orden Shown with Our Ingredients: Corn / USA / 10 min. Shown with Stardust / Polvo de estrellas Ingredientes nuestros: Maiz Mexico / 14 min. USA / 7 min. 6:45 PM The Endless Love of Salome / 7:00 PM Yuli El infinito amor de Salomé Cuba / Spain / United Kingdom / Germany / 104 min. 6:00 PM Not quite adults / Tampoco tan grandes 6:15 PM I Am the People: Venezuela Under Populism / Colombia / 90 min. Director: Icíar Bollaín Argentina / 79 min. El pueblo soy yo: Venezuela en populismo Director: Pierangeli Llinas Director: Federico Sosa Venezuela / Mexico / 87 min. Shown with Between Them / Bodas Shown with The Last Romantic / El último romantico Director: Carlos Oteyza Brazil / 12 min. Mexico / 14 min. Shown with The Cheech USA / 12 min.

9:15 PM The Realm / El reino 9:00 PM El Chata 8:00 PM Belmonte 8:45 PM The Dead Queen / Pedro e Inês Spain / France / 121 min. Puerto Rico / 75 min. Uruguay / Mexico / Spain / 75 min. Portugal / France / Brazil / 120 min.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30TH MARCH SATURDAY, Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen Director: Gustavo Ramos Perales Director: Federico Veiroj Director: António Ferreira Shown with Ramona: Uncontrolled Fury / Shown with The Astronaut / El astronauta Ramona: La furia no se guarda Venezuela / 19 min. Colombia / 12 min.

3:00 PM Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas / Memorias de un 3:15 PM Rich Kids 3:30 PM Esmeralda’s Twilight / Cría Puercos 3:45 PM Petit Frère hombre en Pijamas USA / 97 min. Mexico / 90 min. Chile / Haiti / 70 min. Spain / 75 min. Director: Laura Somers Director: Ehécatl Garage Directors: Roberto Collío, Rodrigo Robledo Director: Carlos Fernández de Vigo Shown with #Superinlove Shown with Palante Shown with The Bony Lady / La Flaca Shown with A Spain / 10 min. Cuba / USA / 8 min. Mexico / Brazil / USA / 20 min. Ecuador / 16 min.

5:15 PM What I Feel For You / Lo que siento por ti 5:45 PM Johnny 100 Pesos: 20 Years and a Day Later / 6:00 PM In The Quarry / En el pozo 6:00 PM Amalia Dominican Republic / 90 min. Johnny 100 Pesos: 20 Años y Un Día Después Uruguay / 82 min. Colombia / 74 min. Director: Raúl Camilo Chile / 113 min. Directors: Bernardo Antonaccio, Rafael Antonaccio Director: Ana Sofía Osorio Ruiz Shown with Top 10 Places to Visit in São Paulo / Director: Gustavo Graef Marino Shown with A Fishes’ Recall / Shown with Cinnamon Skin / Piel canela Top 10 Lugares em São Paulo La memoria de los peces Cuba / USA / 20 min. Brazil / 14 min. Colombia / 15 min.

7:45 PM The Last Chance / A Última Chance 8:30 PM Rojo 8:15 PM Little Histories / Historias pequeñas 8:15 PM Quietness / A Voz do Silêncio SUNDAY, MARCH 31ST MARCH SUNDAY, Brazil / 99 min. Argentina / Brazil / France / Netherlands / Germany / Venezuela / 93 min Brazil / 108 min. Director: Paulo Thiago 109 min. Director: Rafael Marziano Director: André Ristum Director: Benjamín Naishtat Shown with Immature / Inmaduros Argentina / 10 min. 6:00 PM Broken Island / La isla rota 6:15 PM The Grandfather / El abuelo 6:30 PM Not quite adults / Tampoco tan grandes 5:45 PM Clean Hands / Manos limpias Dominican Republic / 104 min. Peru / 99 min. Argentina / 79 min. Nicaragua / 98 min. Director: Félix Germán Director: Gustavo Saavedra Director: Federico Sosa Director: Michael Dominic Shown with Pozole Shown with The Last Romantic / El último romantico Shown with Our Ingredients: Corn / Ingredientes USA / 10 min. Mexico / 14 min. nuestros: Maiz USA / 7 min.

8:30 PM The Endless Love of Salomé / 8:45 PM El Chata 8:15 PM Belmonte 8:15 PM I Am The People: Venezuela Under Populism / El infinito amor de Salomé Puerto Rico / 75 min. Uruguay / Mexico / Spain / 75 min. El pueblo soy yo: Venezuela en populismo Colombia / 90 min. Director: Gustavo Ramos Perales Director: Federico Veiroj Venezuela / Mexico / 87 min. Director: Pierangeli Llinas Shown with Ramona: Uncontrolled Fury / Shown with The Astronaut / El astronauta Director: Carlos Oteyza

MONDAY, APRIL 1ST APRIL MONDAY, Shown with Between Them / Bodas Ramona: La furia no se guarda Venezuela / 19 min. Shown with The Cheech Brazil / 12 min. Colombia / 12 min. USA / 12 min.

6:15 PM Salt / Sal 6:00 PM Rich Kids 6:00 PM The Longest Night / La mala noche 5:45 PM Quietness / A Voz do Silêncio Colombia / 72 min. USA / 97 min. Ecuador / Mexico / 95 min. Brazil / 108 min. Director: William Vega Director: Laura Somers Director: Gabriela Calvache Director: André Ristum Shown with The Skin of Yesterday / La piel de ayer Shown with #Superinlove Shown with Summerfest Puerto Rico / USA / 21 min. Spain / 10 min. Portugal / 9 min.

8:00 PM The Queen of Fear / La reina del miedo 8:30 PM Being Impossible / Yo, imposible 8:30 PM In The Quarry / En el pozo 8:15 PM The Dead Queen / Pedro e Inês Argentina / 107 min. Venezuela / Colombia / 97 min. Uruguay / 82 min. Portugal / France / Brazil / 120 min. Directors: Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia Director: Patricia Ortega Directors: Bernardo Antonaccio, Rafael Antonaccio Director: António Ferreira Shown with ME 3.769 Shown with A Fishes’ Recall / USA / 9 min. La memoria de los peces

TUESDAY, APRIL 2ND APRIL TUESDAY, Colombia / 15 min.

5:45 PM In Times of Rain / Tiempo de lluvia 6:00 PM The Best Summer of My Life / 6:15 PM José 6:00 PM Humanpersons Mexico / Switzerland / 90 min. El mejor verano de mi vida Guatemala / USA / 85 min. Panama / Brazil / Spain / 93 min. Director: Itandehui Jansen Spain / 91 min. Director: Cheng Li Director: Frank Spano Shown with Maradentro Director: Dani de la Orden Shown with Oasis Guatemala / USA / 12 min. Shown with Stardust / Polvo de estrellas Mexico / 16 min. Mexico / 14 min.

8:15 PM The Last Chance / A Última Chance 8:00 PM Murder Me Monster / Muere, monstruo, muere 8:15 PM The Longest Night / La mala noche 8:30 PM Heiress of the Wind / Heredera del viento Brazil / 99 min. Argentina / 110 min. Ecuador / Mexico / 95 min. Nicaragua / 88 min. Director: Paulo Thiago Director: Alejandro Fadel Director: Gabriela Calvache Director: Gloria Carrión Fonseca Shown with Summerfest Shown with Strength and Cunning / Portugal / 9 min. La astucia y la fuerza Argentina / 10 min. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3RD APRIL WEDNESDAY,

6:00 PM Salt / Sal 6:15 PM Being Impossible / Yo, imposible 5:45 PM Black Mexicans / La negrada 6:00 PM The Gazelle’s Dance / El baile de la gacela Colombia / 72 min. Venezuela / Colombia / 97 min. Mexico / 104 min. Costa Rica / Mexico / 90 min. Director: William Vega Director: Patricia Ortega Director: Jorge Pérez Solano Director: Iván Porras Meléndez Shown with The Skin of Yesterday / La piel de ayer Shown with ME 3.769 Shown with We’re Going to Paris / Nos vamos pa’ París Puerto Rico / USA / 21 min. USA / 9 min. Puerto Rico / 9 min.

7:45 PM Black Hole / Agujero negro 8:30 PM The Missed Round / El Piedra 8:15 PM Silence of the Wind / El silencio del viento 8:15 PM Is that you? / ¿Eres tú, papá? Ecuador / Dominican Republic / 102 min. Colombia / 89 min. Puerto Rico / Dominican Republic / France / 85 min. Cuba / 107 min. Director: Diego Araujo Director: Rafael Martínez Moreno Director: Alvaro José Aponte-Centeno Director: Rudy Riverón Sánchez Shown with Prevent It From Happening! / Shown with Debris / Desecho ¡Evita que pase! USA / Peru / 14 min.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4TH THURSDAY, Puerto Rico / 7 min.

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Created by GET THE FREE APP Your new passport to Latin America, Spain & Portugal For information on tickets and directors attending, visit: Search for “Chicago Latino Film Festival” ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org AMC River East 21 Theatres THEATRE SCHEDULE 322 E. Illinois St. MARCH 28 - APRIL 11, 2019 All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.

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6:45 PM In Times of Rain / Tiempo de lluvia 6:30 PM My Girlfriend’s Ghost / El fantasma de mi novia 6:00 PM Damn Kids / Cabros de mierda 6:15 PM Humanpersons Mexico / Switzerland / 90 min. Dominican Republic / 94 min. Chile / 118 min. Panama / Brazil / Spain / 93 min. Director: Itandehui Jansen Director: Francis Disla Director: Gonzalo Justiniano Director: Frank Spano Shown with Maradentro Shown with Good Mothers Guatemala / USA / 12 min. USA / 10 min.

9:15 PM Murder Me Monster / Muere, monstruo, muere 9:00 PM All Can Fall / Caiga quien caiga 8:45 PM Collisions 8:30 PM Decade of Fire Argentina / 110 min. Peru / 98 min. USA / 82 min. USA / 75 min. Director: Alejandro Fadel Director: Eduardo Guillot Director: Richard Levien Directors: Gretchen Hildebran, Vivian Vázquez Shown with Goodbye / Adiós Shown with All My Guardian Angels / Todos mis padres Shown with The Fourth Wave / La cuarta ola

FRIDAY, APRIL 5TH APRIL FRIDAY, El Salvador / 3 min. Spain / 15 min. Argentina / 18 min.

4:00 PM The Queen of Fear / La reina del miedo 3:30 PM The Missed Round / El piedra 3:45 PM Black Mexicans / La negrada 4:00 PM The Gazelle’s Dance / El baile de la gacela Argentina / 107 min. Colombia / 89 min. Mexico / 104 min. Costa Rica / Mexico / 90 min. Directors: Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia Director: Rafael Martínez Moreno Director: Jorge Pérez Solano Director: Iván Porras Meléndez Shown with Prevent it from happening! / Shown with We’re going to Paris / Nos vamos pa’ París ¡Evita que pase! Puerto Rico / 9 min. Puerto Rico / 7 min. 6:15 PM Collisions 6:30 PM Eight out of ten / Ocho de cada diez 6:00 PM Black Hole / Agujero negro 6:00 PM Mystic Rose / Rosa Mística USA / 82 min. Mexico / 106 min. Ecuador / Dominican Republic / 102 min. Peru / 138 min. Director: Richard Levien Director: Sergio Umansky Director: Diego Araujo Director: Augusto Tamayo Shown with All My Guardian Angels / Todos mis padres Spain / 15 min.

8:30 PM The Realm / El reino 9:00 PM The Grand Promise / La gran promesa 8:45 PM Silence of the Wind / El silencio del viento 9:00 PM Is that you? / ¿Eres tú, papá? Spain / France / 121 min. Mexico / Germany / 120 min. Puerto Rico / Dominican Republic / France / 85 min. Cuba / 107 min. SATURDAY, APRIL 6TH Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen Director: Jorge Ramírez Suárez Director: Alvaro José Aponte-Centeno Director: Rudy Riverón Sánchez Shown with Debris / Desecho USA / Peru / 14 min.

4:00 PM ...And Suddenly the Dawn / 3:45 PM My Girlfriend’s Ghost / El fantasma de mi novia 3:15 PM The Snatch Thief / El motoarrebatador 3:30 PM Huahua ...Y de pronto el amanecer Dominican Republic / 94 min. Argentina / Uruguay / France / 93 min. Ecuador / 70 min. Chile / 195 min. Director: Francis Disla Director: Agustin Toscano Director: José Espinosa Anguaya Director: Silvio Caiozzi Shown with Good Mothers Shown with Negra Shown with I see you everywhere / Te busco en todos USA / 10 min. Uruguay / 15 min. Spain / 24 min.

6:15 PM Original Sin / Pecado original 5:45 PM Damn Kids / Cabros de mierda 6:00 PM Decade of Fire Paraguay / USA / 75 min. Chile / 118 min. USA / 75 min. Director: Jean Lee Director: Gonzalo Justiniano Directors: Gretchen Hildebran, Vivian Vázquez Shown with God is in the Breath / Dios está en el aliento Shown with The Fourth Wave / La cuarta ola Panama / 18 min. Argentina / 18 min.

8:00 PM José 8:30 PM All Can Fall / Caiga quien caiga 8:30 PM Eight Out of Ten / Ocho de cada diez 8:15 PM Filiberto

SUNDAY, APRIL 7TH APRIL SUNDAY, Guatemala / USA / 85 min. Peru / 98 min. Mexico / 106 min. Puerto Rico / Venezuela / 75 min. Director: Cheng Li Director: Eduardo Guillot Director: Sergio Umansky Director: Freddie Marrero Alfonso Shown with Oasis Shown with Goodbye / Adiós Shown with Carmen Mexico / 16 min. El Salvador / 3 min. Colombia / 20 min. 5:45 PM Without Fear / Sin miedo 6:00 PM Two Fridas / Dos Fridas 6:00 PM Filiberto 6:15 PM Havana, from on High Guatemala / 75 min. Costa Rica / Mexico / 92 min. Puerto Rico / Venezuela / 75 min. Cuba / Canada / Venezuela / Spain / 80 min. Director: Claudio Zulian Director: Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez Director: Freddie Marrero Alfonso Director: Pedro Ruiz Shown with Absence / Ausencia Shown with Only the Moon / Solamente la luna Shown with Carmen Shown with The Cardboard Man / El hombre de cartón Colombia / 17 min. Peru / USA / 9 min. Colombia / 20 min. Venezuela / 13 min.

7:30 PM Mystic Rose / Rosa mística 8:30 PM Broken Panties / Calzones rotos 8:15 PM Roads in February / Rutas en febrero 8:30 PM The Problem with Desires / Lo peor de los deseos Peru / 138 min. Chile / Argentina / 101 min. Uruguay / Canada / 82 min. Bolivia / Colombia / Mexico / 93 min. Director: Augusto Tamayo Director: Arnaldo Valsecchi Director: Katherine Jerkovic Director: Claudio Araya Silva Shown with Background Shown with One Single Night / Una sola noche Spain / 15 min. Dominican Republic / 10 min. MONDAY, APRIL 8TH APRIL MONDAY,

6:30 PM ...And Suddenly the Dawn / 6:00 PM Original Sin / Pecado original 6:15 PM Cages / Jaulas 5:45 PM Huahua ...Y de pronto el amanecer Paraguay / USA / 75 min. Spain / 90 min. Ecuador / 70 min. Chile / 195 min. Director: Jean Lee Director: Nicolás Pacheco Director: José Espinosa Anguaya Director: Silvio Caiozzi Shown with God is in the Breath / Dios está en el aliento Shown with Segundo Shown with I see you everywhere / Te busco en todos Panama / 18 min. Ecuador / 16 min. Spain / 24 min.

8:15 PM The Grand Promise / La gran promesa 8:15 PM Mantis Nest / Nido de mantis 8:00 PM Bernarda Mexico / Germany / 120 min. Cuba / 119 min. Spain / 97 min. Director: Jorge Ramírez Suárez Director: Arturo Sotto Director: Emilio Ruiz Barrachina Shown with Article 1 / Articulo 1 Paraguay / 3 min. TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH APRIL TUESDAY,

5:45 PM Without Fear / Sin miedo 6:00 PM Broken Panties / Calzones rotos 6:00 PM Roads in February / Rutas en febrero 6:15 PM Havana, from on High Guatemala / 75 min. Chile / Argentina / 101 min. Uruguay / Canada / 82 min. Cuba / Canada / Venezuela / Spain / 80 min. Director: Claudio Zulian Director: Arnaldo Valsecchi Director: Katherine Jerkovic Director: Pedro Ruiz . Shown with Absence / Ausencia Shown with Background Shown with The Cardboard Man / El hombre de cartón Colombia / 17 min. Spain / 15 min. Venezuela / 13 min.

7:30 PM Two Fridas / Dos Fridas 8:30 PM Resistance / Legalidade 8:15 PM The Snatch Thief / El motoarrebatador 8:30 PM The problem with desires / Lo peor de los deseos Costa Rica / Mexico / 92 min. Brazil / 120 min. Argentina / Uruguay / France / 93 min. Bolivia / Colombia / Mexico / 93 min. Director: Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez Director: Zeca Brito Director: Agustin Toscano Director: Claudio Araya Silva Shown with Only the Moon / Solamente la luna Shown with Negra Shown with One Single Night / Una sola noche Peru / USA / 9 min. Uruguay / 15 min. Dominican Republic / 10 min. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10TH

6:00 PM Mantis Nest / Nido de mantis 7:00 PM TBA 6:30 PM Cages / Jaulas 6:15 PM Bernarda Cuba / 119 min. Spain / 90 min. Spain / 97 min. Director: Arturo Sotto Director: Nicolás Pacheco Director: Emilio Ruiz Barrachina Shown with Segundo Shown with Article 1 / Articulo 1 Ecuador / 16 min. Paraguay / 3 min.

8:45 PM TBA 9:00 PM TBA 8:30 PM Resistance / Legalidade 8:45 PM Heiress of the Wind / Heredera del viento Brazil / 120 min. Nicaragua / 88 min. Director: Zeca Brito Director: Gloria Carrión Fonseca Shown with Strength and Cunning / La astucia y la fuerza THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH Argentina / 10 min.

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