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Sunday, March 3

Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Monseñor: The Last Journey of Up? Oscar Romero 2 p.m. 3:45 p.m.

Documentary, USA, 2011, 80 min. Documentary, USA, 2011, 88 min. Saul Landau, Director Ana Carrigan and Juliet Weber, Directors

Presented by Dr. Eric Yellin, Department of History, Presented by Dr. Peter Kaufman, Department of Religious Studies, University of Richmond University of Richmond

The film chronicles half a century of hostile US- relations by telling A collection of rare recordings and film footage from the last three Friday, March 1–Sunday, March 3 the story of “The Cuban Five”, intelligence agents sent to penetrate years of Archbishop Romero’s life and a wide range of interviews Cuban exile terrorist groups in Miami and now serving long prison with those whose lives were changed by Romero, including Robins School of Business, sentences (One was recently released on probation after serving 13 church activists, human right lawyers, former guerrilla fighters, and years). The film combines fascinating archival footage with testimonies politicians. by anti-Cuba militants, an imprisoned member of the Cuban Five, actor Ukrop Auditorium and activist Danny Glover, and Fidel Castro himself (filmed recently).

Artigas: La Redota Juan of the Dead 6:10 p.m. 8:20 p.m.

Fiction, , , 2011, 118 min. Fiction, Cuba and Spain, 2011, 92 min. César Charlone, Director Alejandro Brugués, Director

Presented by Dr. Manuella Meyer, Department of History, Presented by Abigail Cheever, Film Studies Program, University of Richmond University of Richmond

In 1884, the famous Uruguayan painter Juan Manuel Blanes is asked by A group of slackers face an army of zombies. The Cuban government the government to create a portrait of José Artigas. There is only one and media claim the living dead are dissidents revolting against the drawing of his face, done in his old age, so Blanes must imagine what government. he looked like by reading up on his ideas and learning about his life. The film is a fresh look at the 1811 Orientales Exodus, one of the founding myths of the Uruguayan nation. lmstudies.richmond.edu in the Movies March 1–3, 2013 • Robins School of Business, Ukrop Auditorium

The Tucker-Boatwright Endowment Fund, the Film Studies Program, and the Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Richmond sponsor Latin America in the Movies.

Latin America in the Movies is a three-day that brings films to Richmond that cannot be found in local movie theaters or on television. Sixteen films, both features and documentaries from , , , Cuba, Uruguay, , , Switzerland, and the will be screened, with discussions presented by filmmakers and specialists. The festival is linked to a class on Latin American cinema in which students have the opportunity to meet Latin American film directors and learn about their craft.

The films selected have received numerous national and international awards, covering a wide range of contemporary subjects: the Wars of Independence, Memory, labor and the environment, Liberation Theology, political activism, family and adopted children from regions at war, trials against the paramilitary, and more. All films have English subtitles. Presentations and Q&A will be conducted in English.

Friday, March 1 Saturday, March 2 Sunday, March 3 12 p.m.–10 p.m. 10:15 a.m.–8 p.m. 2 p.m.–10 p.m.

12 p.m. 10:15 a.m. 2 p.m. Tumaco Pacifico, 90 min. Nostalgia for the Light, Will the Real Terrorists 90 min. Please Stand Up, 80 min. 1:45 p.m. Children of Memory, 64 min. 12 p.m. 3:45 p.m. Impunity, 85 min. Monseñor: The Last Journey 3 p.m. of Oscar Romero, 88 min. The Chilean Building, 1:30 p.m. 95 min. Marti-The Eye of the 6:10 p.m. Canary, 120 min. Artigas: La Redota, 118 min. 5 p.m. Revolution: The Crossing of 3:45 p.m. 8:20 p.m. the , 93 min. South Guañape, 27 min. Juan of the Dead, 92 min.

6:45 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Our Home On Our Belgrano, 82 min. Shoulders, 50 min. 6:15 p.m. 8:15 p.m. Generation Exile, 70 min. Crab Trap, 95 min. Q&A with director Rodrigo Dorfman Friday, March 1 Friday, March 1

Children of Memory • 2010 LASA Aware of Merit in Film

The Chilean Building • Festival Internacional de Documentales de Tumaco Pacífico Children of Memory Our Home On Our Shoulders FIDOCS 2010 12 p.m. 1:45 p.m. 6:45 p.m. • CHILEREALITY 2010 Samuel Córdoba, Director Maria Teresa Rodriguez, Director Documentary, Colombia, 2010, 50 min. • 2º Coral Documentary, Film Festival 2010 Documentary, Colombia, 2008, 90 min. Documentary, USA, 2012, 64 min. Andrés García and Camilo Pérez, Directors • “Franja Dictadura y Memoria,” Festival Valparaíso 2011 Presented by Dr. Mary Finley-Brook, Department of Geography and the Presented by Dr. Mckenna Brown, Office of International Education, The film interlaces the stories of a group of five Afro-Colombian Environment, University of Richmond Virginia Commonwealth University young men and women whose lives were distressed by displacement • “Teens&Docs,” DOCSBarcelona 2011 and resettlement in Medellin. A multimedia presentation parallels • Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de A journey into the pile-dwelling, Afro-Colombian communities of The story of the search for hundreds of children who disappeared the dynamism of the youth portrayed in the film. Indias 2011 Tumaco on the south Pacific coast of Colombia. Despite poverty, Tumaco during the Salvadoran Civil War, many who were survivors of • Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano, Cataluña 2011 residents are honoring the ocean that feeds and bathes them. The massacres carried out by the U.S.-trained Salvadoran Army. Director Camilo Pérez will attend the screening documentary gives voice to their residents, who provide testimonies of Taken away from the massacre sites by soldiers, some grew up in • New York Latino Film Festival, HBO 2011 their daily lives, surviving in an endangered environment. orphanages or were “sold” into adoption abroad not knowing their and participate in a Q&A after the projection. • Salvador Allende Award to the Best true story or identity. The film weaves together three separate yet intertwined journeys in the search for family, identity and justice in Documentary El Salvador, and asks the larger question: How can a post-war society right the wrongs of the past? Revolution: The Crossing of the Andes • Official selection, Mar Del Plata International Film Festival

Crab Trap • Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival • Official Selection,

Nostalgia for the Light • Award of Merit in Film, 2012 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) The Chilean Building Revolution: The Crossing Crab Trap • Best Film, 2011 International Documentary 3 p.m. 8:15 p.m. Association (IDA) of the Andes • Best Documentary, Prix Arte, 2010 European Film Macarena Aguiló, Director 5 p.m. Fiction, Colombia, 2009, 95 min. Academy Awards Documentary, Chile, France, Cuba and Holland, 2010, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Director • Best Documentary, 2010 Adu Dhabi Film Festival 95 min. Fiction, Argentina, 2010, 93 min. Leandro Piña, Director Presented by Dr. Brantley Nicholson, Department of Latin American Presented by Dr. Lucas Izquierdo, Department of Latin American and and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond Iberian Studies, University of Richmond Presented by Dr. Leonardo Bacarreza, Department of Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of Richmond At La Barra, an isolated village on the Pacific Coast of Colombia, Towards the end of the seventies, the MIR militants exiled in Europe Cerebro, leader of the native Afro-Colombian community, is at odds decided to return to Chile to support the fight against Pinochet’s The film is narrated by an elder who, in his youth, was an amanuensis with the white man, a landowner who wants to build a hotel on the dictatorship. Many had children and could not take them with them. To of General San Martin and in 1880 struggles to survive in a boarding beach. Daniel, a strange and urban looking presence, arrives to the shelter these children, the idea of a community center was born. Project house. This intimate portrayal is interlaced with a visual deployment village looking for a motorboat to leave the country. The film tells the Home gathered 60 kids that were left to the care of 20 people, named of fantastic dimensions covering the first crossing of the Andes, story of a young man trying to flee his past and the clash between a Social Parents. One of these children tells this story, which the story of by which San Martin brought liberation to colonial Spanish South remote village and modernity. her life. America. Saturday, March 2 Saturday, March 2

Impunity • Audience Award, FIDOCS, Santiago de Chile 2010 • Camera Justitia Award, Movies that Matter 2011, The Hague • Prix Meilleur Documentaire, Recontres Cinéma Nostalgia for the Light Impunity Belgrano D’Amérique Latine de Toulouse, 2011 Festival 10:15 a.m. 12 p.m. 4:30 p.m.

Documentary, France, , and Chile, 2011, Documentary, Switzerland, France, and Colombia, 2010, 85 min. Fiction, Argentina, 2010, 82 min., South Guañape 90 min. Juan José Lozano and Hollman Morris, Directors Sebastián Pivotto, Director • 2012 Latin American Studies Association Patricio Guzmán, Director • 2011 David L. Wolper Award, International In contemporary Colombia, paramilitary armies are accused of Presented by Dr. Laura de Maria, University of Maryland, College Park Documentary Association (IDA) The film stages the various layers of memory existing in the Atacama killing thousands of Colombians and are put on trial to create “peace Desert which includes the Pre-Columbian mummies, 19th century and justice.” Instead, the process comes to an abrupt halt, when explorers and miners, the remains of Pinochet political prisoners, and the political and economic interests in the paramilitary war are Based on the life of Argentine national hero , Artigas La Redota the astral memory. The layers can be traced using the highest telescope uncovered. Are the victims’ families doomed to stay victims forever creator of the Argentine flag, the film focuses on the last 10 years of • Audience Award, Gramado Film Festival on earth, the Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT is placed in the or are they able to fight impunity? a man devoted to build a nation and a democracy. Unusual trueness Atacama Desert, to present a complex reflection on memory, violence, in the treatment of a founding father brings additional interest to • Best Actor, Gramado Film Festival and human survival. this film. • Best Director, Gramado Film Festival • Best Film, Gramado Film Festival • Kikito Critics Prize, Gramado Film Festival

Marti, the Eye of the Canary • Best Cuban Film, Cuban Association of Film Critics • Colón de Plata Award for the Best Art Direction and Best Photography (HUELVA) • Best Cinematography, • 36 Festival de Cine Iberoamericano Mejor Fotografia: Raúl Perez Ureta Mejor Director: Fernando Perez

Marti, the Eye of the Canary Guañape sur (South Guañape) Generation Exile Generation Exile 1:30 p.m. 3:45 p.m. 6:15 p.m. • 2010 LASA Award of Merit in Film

Fiction, Cuba, 2010, 120 min. Documentary, Italy, 2010, 27 min. Documentary, USA, 2010, 70 min. Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar Fernando Pérez, Director János Richter, Director Rodrigo Dorfman, Director Romero Presented by Dr. Ann Marie Stock, College of William & Mary The film depicts a barren island off the coast of , which is When Rodrigo Dorfman was six years old, he was forced into exile • 2010 LASA Award of Merit in Film a breeding ground for thousands of sea birds that are its sole because of the revolutionary activities of his father, Chilean writer The formative years of Cuban national hero José Martí are explored in a inhabitants. Once every 11 years, hundreds of men make their way Ariel Dorfman. Now, 35 years later, Rodrigo weaves his experience of historical epic set during the 1860s in colonial Havana. The film follows to the island to harvest the birds’ dried excrement, which is used as exile through the eyes of four women. Spanning four continents and Juan of the Dead “El Apóstol” from the ages of nine to 17, as he experiences firsthand the valuable fertilizer. 100 years of personal history, the film is a meditation on the search • Silver Raven, Brussels International Festival of often brutal inequalities of Spanish colonial rule, feels the fire of injustice for identity. Fantasy Film rise within him, and navigates personal conflict with his Spanish father. • Fantasporto, International Fantasy Film Award, Director Rodrigo Dorfman will attend the Best Actor and Best Screenplay screening and participate in a Q&A after the • Miami Film Festival, Audience Award projection.