Festival Schedule ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org Connect with us Facebook.com/ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org @ChicagoLatinoFF

312-431-1330 @ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival

TheATer

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 fi ve blocks east to the theatre. 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.). $18 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

TiCkeT iNFOrmATiON merChANDise iNFOrmATiON

FiLm TiCkeTs FesTiVAL merChANDise General Admission - $13 T-shirt - $15 / $12 iLCC member ILCC Members / Students / Seniors / Handicapped - $10 Film Festival Poster - $5 (Must present Valid ID) Purchase at Festival Information Table at AMC River East 21 Cash, debit and major credit cards are accepted at the Theatres. Cash, debit and major credit cards are accepted. Ticketing tables. Checks are not accepted. Checks are not accepted. FiLm pAsspOrT TiCkeTs TiCkeT & merChANDise pOLiCY Film Passport: 12 General Admissions • There are no refunds or exchanges. $120 ($36 Savings) / $90 ILCC Member ($66 Savings) • All sales are fi nal. Purchase at Festival Information Table at AMC River East 21 • Must present valid ID and membership ID at time of Theatres. Cash, debit and major credit cards are accepted. purchase to receive discount. Checks are not accepted. hOw TO bUY TiCkeTs • Tickets are available for purchase in advance at ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org or on CLFF Facebook page. • Tickets can also be purchased at CLFF Box Offi ce in theater lobby. Box Offi ce opens one hour before fi rst show of the day. • For expedited service please purchase tickets in advance. Tickets will be emailed to print or show on smart phone.

2 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 Welcome to the

33rd Chicago Latino Film Festival

Movies can build bridges to other cultures. They can open our eyes, our ears and minds to other experiences, other points of view. They can blow our minds. They can inspire us. They make us laugh, cry and even shake a fist at the screen in anger. They are our constant companion regardless of where, how and when we see them. And for 33 years, the Chicago Latino Film Festival has been blowing and enriching the minds of hundreds of thousands of moviegoers who marvel, laugh, cry, and even shake a fist at the stories, ideas, sights and sounds produced by the Latino diaspora. This year the Festival opens with the truly honest and touching relationship drama “One Night of Love” starring two of Argentina’s top TV stars –Sebastian Wainraich and Carla Peterson– and closes with the Chicago premiere of Elia Schneider’s powerful award-winning drama “Tamara” about Venezuela’s first transgender person elected to that country’s National Assembly. Other highlights include: two very different musicals, ’s “Crazy in Love” and Spain’s “At Your Doorstep”; three films set in Medellin, Colombia (“The Animal’s Wife,” Victor Gaviria’s brutal portrait of misogyny in that region; “The Nobodies” about punk life in that city; and the bittersweet romantic drama “That Thing Called Love”); Emilio Ruiz Barrachina’s modern day adaptation of Garcia Lorca’s classic play “Yerma”; and “Tales of Mexico,” an ambitious undertaking featuring eight of Mexico’s most daring filmmakers. This is just the tip of the iceberg. We are showing films that have won major awards at such prestigious film festivals as Sundance, Rotterdam and Venice. We are welcoming the new films from past festival guests Ariel Winograd, Ari Maniel Cruz and Claudia Sainte-Luce, among others. Lastly, as customary, at least a third of our feature-length films were directed by first-time filmmakers (men and women), evidence of the continuing vitality of our cinema. We are also celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pedro Infante, a legend of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, through a special concert at the National Museum of Mexican Arts on April 26 and 27. “Pedro, Mi Amor” is a program featuring some of Infante’s best loved songs performed by flutist Elena Duran and pianist Santiago Piñeirua with clips from his iconic movies. With the Chicago Latino Film Festival we planted a seed in this city and from that seed a beautiful tree named the International Latino Cultural Center was born. This tree has many branches: the Latino Music Festival, now in its 12th season; Film in the Park, also in its 12th season; the monthly Reel Film Club series, already in its 8th year. I am also delighted to announce the upcoming 1st International Latino Theater Festival presented by the newly created Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA), a consortium that includes the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance, and the International Latino Cultural Center. As always, I am grateful for the continued support we receive from volunteers, staffers, board members, foundations, the Ibero-American Consular Association and sponsors who strongly believe, like I do, on the need for events like this one in our City.

Pepe Vargas Founder & Executive Director International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 3 membership

BECOME A MEMBER!

The International Latino Cultural Center is your passport to Latin America, Spain and Portugal! Become a member today and let us open the doors to a unique cultural experience. Discover and enjoy international films, music, dance, visual and performing arts with our exceptional year-long programming.

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP $60 • Ticket discount to every ILCC sponsored event. • Special invitations to private receptions & events. • Weekly e-calendar of events sent throughout the year. • Free access to the ILCC Film Library, which contains films from previous Film Festivals (individual/ educational purposes only).

SENIOR/STUDENT MEMBERSHIP $40 • Seniors 65+ years and students up to 25 years of age receive the same benefits of an Individual Membership (see above). When purchasing a ticket for ILCC events, a valid ID must be presented.

SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP $250 • Same benefits of an Individual Membership for you and a friend or family member. • One Film Passport for the Chicago Latino Film Festival

FESTIVAL DONOR $700+ • Same benefits of an Individual Membership. • Acknowledgment of your support in the Chicago Latino Film Festival program book • Two Film Passports for the Chicago Latino Film Festival (good for 24 films, a $240 value). • Two complimentary tickets to one of the Chicago Latino Film Festival Galas of your choice (valued at $180).

To sign up for a membership call our office: 312-431-1330

Or visit our website: LatinoCulturalCenter.org/join-us/membership

4 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 The National Museum of Mexican Art & The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago

Present

PEDRO MI AMOR

A program featuring some of Pedro Infante’s best loved songs (Amorcito corazón, Siete mares, Serenata huasteca, among them) performed by flutist Elena Duran and pianist Santiago Piñeirua with clips from his iconic movies in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of this legend of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema.

Wednesday, April 26 & Thursday, April 27 6:30pm

National Museum of Mexican Art 1852 West 19th St. General Admission: $12

Purchase tickets online: www.NationalMuseumofMexicanArt.org/pedro-mi-amor

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 ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PRIZES FOR THE 34th CLFF: 1. Two tickets to opening night ($180 value) 2. Two tickets to closing night ($180 value) 3. Film Passport ($120 value)

Audience Choice Award winner for fiction, documentary and categories and the raffle winner, will be announced Wednesday, May 10, 2017.

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 5 matinee outreach program

Presently, in its 22nd 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 nearly 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 2017 Matinee Outreach Program is supported by a FilmWatch Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.

student film segment

The Student Film Segment of the Chicago Latino Film SATURDAY, APRIL 29TH Festival will present short films made by student filmmakers TIME: 2:00PM to 5:00 PM from Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, DePaul University and high LOCATION: Auditorium of the College of Communication school students in the Chicago area. This segment will at DePaul University feature the finalists of the Mexican film competition, Haz 14 E. Jackson Blvd, Room LL 105 Corto con la Corrupción/ Short Films Against Corruption and short films by Chicago’s own Gallery 37 Video Production Class. It will showcase the work being done at film schools, presenting the perspective of young people in this new era of globalization and technology. FREE ADMISSION presented by The Student Film Segment of the Chicago Latino Film Festival is organized by the International Latino Cultural Center, The Latino Media and Communication, The College of Computing and Digital Media and The Latin America Initiatives at DePaul University.

6 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 Restaurant partners

90 Miles La Taberna Machu Picchu Restaurant 2540 W Armitage Ave 1301 S. Halsted St. 3856 N. Ashland Ave. Chicago, IL 60667 Chicago, IL 60607 Chicago, IL 60613 773-227-2822 312-243-9980 773-472-0471 www.90milescubancafe.com www.latabernatapas.com www.machupicchuchicago.com

Carnivale Las Tablas Piccolo Mondo 702 W. Fulton St. 2942 N. Lincoln Ave. 1642 E. 56th St.#1 Chicago, IL 60661 Chicago, IL 60657 Chicago, IL 60637 312-850-5005 773-871-2414 773-643-1106 carnivalechicago.com 4920 W. Irving Park Rd. www.piccolomondo.us Chicago, IL 60641 El Metro 773-202-0999 Sinhá 1959 W. Chicago Ave. www.lastablas.com 2018 W. Adams St. Chicago, IL 60622 Chicago, IL 60612 312-666-5941 312-491-8200 Latinicity www.eatelmetro.com 108 N State St., 3rd Floor www.sinhaelegantcuisine.com Chicago, IL 60602 Folklore (312) 795-4444 St. Augustine College 2100 W. Division St. www.latinicity.com 1345 W. Argyle St. Chicago, IL 60622 Chicago, IL 60640 773-292-1600 773-878-8756 Lucia’s www.folklorechicago.com 1825 W. North Ave. www.staugustine.edu Chicago, IL 60622 Havana 773-292-9700 Tango Sur 412 N. Clark St. www.luciaschicago.com 3763 N Southport Ave. Chicago, IL 60654 Chicago, IL 60613 312-644-1900 (773) 477-5466 www.havanachicago.com tangosurgrill.com

official hotel

WHITEHALL HOTEL 105 E. Delaware Place Chicago, IL 60611 312.944.6300 www.thewhitehallhotel.com

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 7 venue partners

The Chicago Latino Film Festival continues its connection to the community by partnering with educational institutions and organizations throughout the city. The Venue Partners program 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 2017 Community Outreach Program is supported by a FilmWatch Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.

The International Latino Cultural Center appreciates the support of our 2017 Venue Partners:

boWEN HIGH SCHOOL DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ST. AUGUSTINE COLLEGE 2710 E. 89TH St Martin Recital Hall Charlie Chaplin Auditorium Chicago, IL 60617 7900 W. Division St. 1345 W. Argyle St. In cooperation with the 7th Ward River Forest, IL 60305 Chicago, IL 60640 Alderman Greg Mitchell and 10th In cooperation with the Dept. of Free Admission and Parking Ward Alderwoman Sue Garza’s office Latino & Latin American Studies Emily Herrera Héctor M. González Lisa Amor Petrov (773) 878 - 7030 (773) 653 - 5487 (708) 524 - 6678 www.staugustine.edu [email protected] [email protected] SATURDAY, APRIL 29 - 6:30PM FRIDAY, APRIL 28 - 6PM SATURDAY, APRIL 22 - 2PM Sugar Fields/Flor de Azúcar - 110 min. Here and There/Vengo Volviendo - I Am a Politician/Yo Soy un Político Drama - Dominican Republic 103 min 90 min. Directed by Fernando Báez Drama - Ecuador - Puerto Rico Directed by Gabriel Páez, Isabel Rodas Directed by Javier Colón UIC 803 S. Morgan St. Chicago, IL 60607 COLLEGE OF DUPAGE ENRICO TONTI UIC Latino Cultural Center - Lecture MacAninch Arts Center ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Center B2 425 Fawell Blvd. 5815 S. Homan Ave. Edith Tovar Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 Chicago, IL 60629 (312) 996 - 3095 In cooperation with the Latino In cooperation with the Tonti Parent [email protected] Outreach Center and Latin American Bilingual Advisory Committee Studies Committee Dr. Socorro Mendoza TUESDAY, APRIL 25 - 1PM Saraliz Jimenez (773) 535 - 9280 Here and There/Vengo Volviendo - (630) 942 - 3039 [email protected] 103 min. [email protected] Drama - Ecuador FRIDAY, APRIL 28TH - 5PM Directed by Gabriel Páez Hernández, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 - 7PM TBA Isabel Rodas Sugar Fields/Flor de Azúcar - 110 min. Drama - Dominican Republic HANCOCK HIGH SCHOOL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 - 1PM Directed by Fernando Báez 4034 W. 56th St., Auditorium Extra Terrestrials/Extra Terrestres - Chicago, IL 60629 110 min. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3 - 7PM In cooperation with the Andrea Drama / LGBTQ - Puerto Rico On the Roof/El Techo - 75 min Quito Scholarship Directed by Carla Cavina Drama - Cuba For Dreamer Students Directed by Patricia Ramos (773) 535 - 2410 PUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE 3000 N. Elbridge Ave. FRIDAY, APRIL 28 - 6PM Chicago, IL 60618 I Am a Politician/Yo Soy un Político 90 min. SUNDAY, APRIL 23 - 2PM Comedy - Puerto Rico Pepo Pa’l Senado/Vote for Pepe - Directed by Javier Colón 123 min. Comedy - Puerto Rico Directed by Raúl García

8 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 oPening night gala NiGhT OF ArGeNTiNA

Genre: /Drama ONe NiGhT OF LOVe / Argentina/2016/90 min. Directed by Hernán Guerschuny UNA NOChe De AmOr Spanish w/ English Subtitles

The proud parents of two kids, Leonel and Paola (Argentina Felizmente casados durante 12 años, Leonel y Paola (las TV stars Sebastián Wainraich and Carla Peterson) have been estrellas de la televisión argentina Sebastián Wainraich y Carla happily married for 12 years. He is a famous scriptwriter Peterson) son los padres orgullosos de dos niños. Él es un and she is an equally successful psychologist. But that placid guionista famoso y ella una psicóloga igualmente exitosa. Pero façade can’t contain the feelings that something’s amiss in esa plácida fachada no puede esconder el hecho de que algo their marriage. It just takes one dinner, the news that their best falta en su matrimonio. Sólo se necesita una cena, la noticia de friends are separating, and a rather eventful walk around their que sus mejores amigos se están separando y un paseo lleno neighborhood to force them to confront their doubts. Director de acontecimientos alrededor de su barrio para obligarlos a Guerschuny and Wainraich (who co-wrote the script) deliver an enfrentar sus dudas. El director Hernán Guerschuny y Wainraich intimate, penetrating and bittersweet portrait of a marriage at (quien co-escribió el guión) entregan un retrato íntimo, a crossroads. penetrante y agridulce de un matrimonio ante una encrucijada.

TiCkeTs $90 General / $75 iLCC member thursday, april 20th Ticket includes fi lm screening, food, drinks & live DOOrs OpeN AT 5:30 pm entertainment. Cocktail attire strongly recommended. prOGrAm: 6:00 pm pUrChAse TiCkeTs AMC River East 21 Tickets are available for purchase in advance at 322 E. Illinois St. ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org or on the CLFF Facebook page. reCepTiON: FOLLOWING THE SCREENING Embassy Suites Hotel pArkiNG 511 N. Columbus Drive Discounted parking available at River East Parking Garage (lower level of theater, 322 E. Illinois St.). $18 for up to 8 spONsOreD bY hours. Please pick up the discounted parking voucher at the Festival Information Table at the theatre.

ADDiTiONAL sCreeNiNG (FiLm ONLY): sATUrDAY, ApriL 22, 6:30 pm

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 9 closing night gala

Drama/LGBTQ Venezuela/Uruguay/Peru/2016/110 min. Directed by Elia K. Schneider Tamara Spanish with English Subtitles

Elia Schneider’s latest film tells the remarkable real life story of La más reciente película del duo Elia Schneider (directora) y José Tamara Adrian, Venezuela’s first transgender person elected Ramón Novoa (productor) narra la historia verídica de Tamara to that country’s National Assembly. Product of a conservative Adrián, la primera persona transgénero de Venezuela en ser family, Adrian harbored strong feelings of identifying as female elegida para la Asamblea Nacional de ese país. Producto de una from a young age. When Tomas finally decides to become familia conservadora, Adrián se identificó como mujer desde Tamara, she takes on a prejudiced state system that refuses to temprana edad. Cuando Tomás finalmente decide convertirse accept her new identity, making life virtually impossible to her. en Tamara, ella se enfrentará a un sistema estatal que se niega a Undeterred, she fights back, becoming one of Venezuela’s top aceptar su nueva identidad. A raíz de ello, Tamara se convierte LGBTQ and women’s rights activists. “Tamara” is more than a en una de las principales activistas LGBTQ y por los derechos traditional biopic; it confronts head-on a country’s trans-phobia de las mujeres en Venezuela. “Tamara” es más que una película as it celebrates the courage of a community unafraid to fight for biográfica tradicional; enfrenta la transfobia de su país a la vez its rights. Winner of the Nueva Vision Award for Spanish/Latin que celebra la valentía de una comunidad que lucha por sus American Cinema at the Santa Barbara International derechos. Ganadora del Premio Nueva Visión al Cine Español / Film Festival. Latinoamericano en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Santa Bárbara.

TICKETS $90 General / $75 ILCC Member Thursday, May 4th Ticket includes film screening, food, drinks & live entertainment. Cocktail attire strongly recommended. DOORS OPEN AT 5:30 pm PURCHASE TICKETS PROGRAM: 6:00 PM Tickets are available for purchase in advance at AMC River East 21 ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org or on the CLFF Facebook 322 E. Illinois St. page. RECEPTION FOLLOWING THE SCREENING PARKING Embassy Suites Hotel Discounted parking available at River East Parking Garage 511 N. Columbus Drive (lower level of theater, 322 E. Illinois St.). $18 for up to 8 hours. Please pick up the discounted parking voucher at the Festival Information Table at the theatre.

10 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 ARGENTINA Connect with us Facebook.com/ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org @ChicagoLatinoFF

312-431-1330 @ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival FeatuRe FilMs All fi lms are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.

AT The eND OF The TUNNeL / AL FiNAL DeL TúNeL Argentina/Spain/2016/120 min. : Directed by Rodrigo Grande Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Wild Tales”) stars in this tense En este intenso y claustrofóbico thriller que and claustrophobic “Rear Window” like thriller evoca el “Rear Window” de Hitchcock, Leonardo as Joaquin, a paraplegic computer engineer still Sbaraglia (“Relatos Salvajes”) interpreta a Joaquín, mourning the death of his wife and daughter who, un ingeniero de computación parapléjico todavía while working in the basement of his house, hears de luto por la muerte de su esposa e hija que, voices coming through the wall. With the aid of a mientras trabaja en el sótano de su casa, oye stethoscope and a camera, he discovers that a voces del otro lado de la pared. Con la ayuda de gang of thieves is digging a tunnel to rob the bank un estetoscopio y una cámara, descubre que una next door. He puts in motion a plan to rob the cuadrilla de ladrones está cavando un túnel para thieves without realizing that his new tenant and robar el banco vecino. Joaquín pone en marcha Friday, April 28, 9:15 PM her daughter are part of the operation. un plan para robar a los ladrones sin darse cuenta de que su nueva inquilina y su hija son parte de la Sunday, April 30, 6:15 PM operación.

iNsepArAbLes Argentina/2016/107 min. Genre: Comedy/Drama Directed by Marcos Carnevale Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Marcos Carnevale has seen his box-offi ce hits “Elsa Marcos Carnevale ha visto nuevas versiones de y Fred” and “Heart of a Lion” remade in the United sus éxitos de taquilla “Elsa y Fred” y “Corazón de States (the 2014 “Elsa & Fred” starring Christopher León” rodadas en Estados Unidos (“Elsa & Fred” Plummer and Shirley MacLaine) and France (“Up con Christopher Plummer y Shirley MacLaine) y for Love” starring Jean Dujardin). He returns this Francia (“Up for Love” con Jean Dujardin). Él ahora favor with this remake of the French box office devuelve este favor con su propio “remake” del hit “Intouchables”. Felipe (Oscar Martinez), a éxito de taquilla francés “Intouchables”. Felipe wealthy businessman who becomes quadriplegic (Oscar Martínez), un rico hombre de negocios after an accident hires Tito (Rodrigo de la Serna) que queda tetrapléjico después de un accidente, as his therapeutic assistant even though he is not contrata a Tito (Rodrigo de la Serna) como su asistente terapéutico a pesar de no estar califi cado. Friday, April 21, 9:00 PM qualified. Tito adapts pretty quickly and helps Felipe enjoy life again. Tito se adapta muy rápido y ayuda a Felipe a Tuesday, April 25, 8:15 PM disfrutar nuevamente de la vida.

mY FrieND FrOm The pArk / mi AmiGA DeL pArqUe Argentina/Uruguay/2015/85 min. Genre: Drama/Comedy Directed by Ana Katz Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Liz (Julieta Zylberberg) struggles to adjust to Liz (Julieta Zylberberg) lucha por adaptarse a her new life as a mom while her husband (Daniel su nuevo rol como madre mientras su marido Handler) is away in Chile shooting a documentary. (Daniel Handler) se encuentra en Chile fi lmando un Following her doctor’s orders, she begins to take documental. Siguiendo las órdenes de su médico, her three-month old son to the neighborhood ella comienza a llevar a su hijo de tres meses de park where she meets the rather quirky and edad al parque de su barrio, donde conoce a la spontaneous Rosa (director Katz) who is taking care bastante peculiar y espontánea Rosa (la directora of a newborn as well. A dine-and-dash incident at Katz) que también cuida a un recién nacido. Un a local restaurant, a meeting with Rosa’s equally incidente en un restaurante local, un encuentro con abrasive sister, and the rumors about her family la hermana igualmente extravagante de Rosa y los rumores sobre su situación familiar hacen que Liz Saturday, April 22, 3:30 PM situation makes Liz wonder about her friend’s true intentions. cuestione las verdaderas intenciones de su nueva Monday, April 24, 5:30 PM amiga.

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 11 ARGENTINA / BOLIVIA /BRAZIL ThAT’s NOT CheATiNG / permiTiDOs Argentina/2016/106 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Ariel Winograd Spanish w/ English Subtitles

When is cheating on your partner not cheating? ¿Se puede ser infi el a tu pareja sin serlo? Esa es la That’s the premise of Festival favorite Ariel premisa de la nueva comedia de Ariel Winograd Winograd’s (No Kids, My First Wedding) new, (“Sin hijos”, “Mi primera boda”). Camila y Mateo outrageous comedy. Camila and Mateo have lived han vivido felizmente juntos durante ocho años, happily together for eight years but that’s about to pero eso está a punto de cambiar cuando, durante change when, over dinner with friends, they discuss una cena con sus amigos, discuten el verdadero the true meaning of cheating and come to the signifi cado de la infi delidad y llegan a la conclusión conclusion that one can be unfaithful as long as it is de que uno puede ser infi el siempre y cuando sea with an “unreachable” celebrity. Camila and Mateo con una celebridad “inalcanzable”. Camila y Mateo choose their respective imaginary hook-ups without eligen su respectiva celebridad de ensueño sin Thursday, April 27, 8:45 PM realizing that their “wishes” will soon be granted. darse cuenta de que sus deseos pronto se harán realidad. Saturday, April 29, 4:30 PM

bOqUeróN Bolivia/2015/120 min. Genre: Directed by Tonchy Antezana Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Tonchy Antezana’s latest feature sheds light on El director boliviano Tonchy Antezana arroja luz a, for many, unknown chapter of Latin American sobre un capítulo desconocido de la historia history: the battle fought between September 7 latinoamericana: la batalla entre el 7 y el 29 de and 29, 1932 between the Bolivian and Paraguayan septiembre de 1932 entre los ejércitos boliviano armies in and around the stronghold of Boquerón y paraguayo en y alrededor de la fortaleza de that led to a full-scale border war between both Boquerón que condujo a una guerra fronteriza countries. Told from the perspective of four entre ambos países. Contada desde la perspectiva young Bolivian soldiers from different walks of de cuatro jóvenes bolivianos de diferentes clases life, Antezana recreates the conditions endured by sociales, Antezana recrea las condiciones de los 619 the 619 Bolivian soldiers who fought and resisted soldados bolivianos que lucharon y resistieron a un Sunday, April 23, 8:00 PM an army of 12,000 Paraguayan soldiers, as well as ejército de 12,000 soldados paraguayos a pesar del hunger, thirst, and lack of medicine. hambre, la sed y la falta de medicinas. Thursday, May 4, 7:30 PM

DArk skULL / ViejO CALAVerA Bolivia/Qatar/2016/77 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Kiro Russo Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Winner of the Best Picture award at this year’s Ganadora del premio a la Mejor Película en el Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de and set among the tin mines of Huanuni in Indias, el debut cinematográfi co de Kiro Russo se Bolivia’s Oruro region, Kiro Russo’s impressionistic, lleva a cabo en las minas de estaño en la región de dreamlike debut centers on Elder, Oruro, Bolivia. El bueno para nada de Elder se va a perpetual screw-up who moves in with his a vivir con su abuela tras la muerte de su padre. grandmother after his father dies. His godfather, Su padrino, Francisco, le consigue un trabajo en Francisco, secures a job for him in the mining la compañía minera para la que trabajó su padre. company his father worked for. His co-workers Sus compañeros de trabajo saben una cosa o dos know a thing or two about Francisco’s relationship acerca de la relación de Francisco con el difunto Tuesday, April 25, 8:00 PM with Elder’s deceased father, setting the stage for padre de Elder, allanando el camino para una a confrontation between both son and godfather. confrontación entre ambos. Wednesday, April 26, 8:30 PM

eL reVeNGe / LA ViNGANÇA Brazil/Argentina/2016/90 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Fernando Fraiha Portuguese and Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Caco plans on surprising his girlfriend with a Caco quer surpreender sua namorada com um marriage proposal, but instead fi nds her in bed with pedido de casamento, mas acaba encontrando another man. More than his machismo is at stake ela na cama com outro homem. Não é apenas here: his national pride is hurt as well since the man seu machismo que está em jogo aqui: seu orgulho his girlfriend is playing around with is Argentinian. nacional também está ferido, o homem com quem Best friend Vadão drags Caco on a revenge trip sua namorada o está traindo é argentino. Vadão, from Brazil to Argentina on his 1979 Chevy Opala. o melhor amigo de Caco, arrasta o ex-futuro Their mission: to seduce every Argentinian woman noivo numa viagem de vingança do Brasil para they encounter on the road. But not everything a Argentina em seu Chevy Opala de 1979. A sua goes according to plan. Fraiha’s subversive opera missão é seduzir todas as mulheres argentinas que Saturday, April 22, 6:45 PM prima pokes fun at the long-standing soccer rivalry encontram na estrada. Mas nem tudo vai de acordo between both countries. com o plano. A ópera subversiva de Fraiha satiriza Tuesday, April 25, 8:45 PM a longa rivalidade de futebol entre os dois países.

12 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 brazil / chile Holy Biker / Reza A Lenda Brazil/2016/85 min. Genre: Science-Fiction/Action Directed by Homero Olivetto Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

You could call Homero Olivetto’s bold feature Você poderia chamar a estreia ousada de Homero debut Brazil’s answer to “Mad Max” but “Holy Olivetto o “Mad Max” Brasileiro, mas “Reza Biker” is much more than that. In the drought- a Lenda” é muito mais do que isso. No sertão devastated Brazilian backlands, a band of outlaw brasileiro devastado pela seca, um grupo de bikers led by Pai Nosso, a religious fanatic, is in cangaceiros, liderado por Pai Nosso, um fanático search of a miracle: the rain-bringing, Golden Saint. religioso, está buscando um milagre: o Santo But when Pai Nosso is killed after the group steals Dourado que segundo reza a lenda é capaz de the figurine from a merciless landowner, young Ara fazer chover. Mas quando Pai Nosso é morto takes over as their leader and finds that finishing depois que o grupo rouba a estatueta de um dono what Pai Nosso started may be much harder than de terra implacável, o jovem Ara se assume como he imagines. líder e descobre que terminar o que Pai Nosso Friday, April 28, 8:30 PM começou é muito mais difícil do que ele imaginava. Sunday, April 30, 8:15 PM

Mad About Her / Uma loucura de mulher Brazil/2016/92 min. Genre: Romantic Comedy Directed by Marcus Ligocki Jr. Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

Gero is a local politician dazzled by the chance to Gero é um político local deslumbrado com a chance become state governor. But when his wife Lucia de se tornar governador do estado. Mas quando slaps an influential politician at a party after he sua esposa Lúcia bate num político influente que takes some liberties with her and the photo lands estava abusando dela numa festa e a foto sai nas on the front pages, Gero, following the advice of primeiras páginas, Gero, seguindo o conselho do his closest associate, decides to send her to a seu sócio mais próximo, decide enviá-la para um mental asylum. Lucia flees to Rio de Janeiro where asilo mental. Lúcia foge para o Rio de Janeiro, onde she runs into childhood sweetheart Raposo and encontra Raposo, seu namorado de infância, e logo soon the embers of that old romance are rekindled. as chamas desse velho romance são reavivadas. Friday, April 21, 6:00 PM Fearing another political scandal, Gero goes after Temendo outro escândalo político, Gero vai atrás Lucia hoping to win her back. de Lucia, esperando voltar a conquistá-la. Sunday, April 23, 3:30 PM Monday, April 24, 8:00 PM

Public Intimacy / Intimidade Pública Brazil/2016/71 min. Genre: Drama/LGBTQ Directed by Luciana Canton Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

Developed over four months through a series of Desenvolvido durante quatro meses através de workshops with the cast, including improv sessions uma série de workshops com o elenco, incluindo in the actual locations chosen for the film, Luciana sessões de improvisação nos locais escolhidos Canton’s fearless and uncompromising feature para o filme, a estreia corajosa e intransigente de debut explores how we deal with love and sexuality Luciana Canton explora como lidamos com o amor public and privately. These four character-based e a sexualidade na esfera pública e privada. Essas stories –a young man comes to terms with his quatro histórias baseadas em personagens - um homophobia, a prostitute and her client become jovem lida com sua homofobia, uma prostituta e lovers, a transgender teacher is blackmailed and seu cliente se tornam amantes, uma professora Wednesday, April 26, 6:15 PM a woman’s desire drives her insane– have an transgênera é chantageada e o desejo de uma undeniable raw power, the director and actors’ mulher a deixa louca - tem um poder cru e inegável, Thursday, April 27, 6:15 PM passion and commitment evident in every single a paixão e dedicação do diretor e dos atores é Saturday, April 29, 6:30 PM frame. evidente em cada enquadramento.

CHILEAN CINEMA/CINE CHILENO

It’s no longer a secret that Chile has been Ya no es un secreto que Chile está produciendo producing some of the most exciting, adventurous algunas de las películas más electrizantes, atrevidas and daring films has y temerarias del cine latinoamericano de la última seen in the last decade or so. Films produced by década. Las películas producidas por Fernando the likes of Fernando Lavanderos, Pablo Larrain Lavanderos, Pablo Larraín y Sebastián Lelio (cuya and Sebastian Lelio (whose most recent film, “A obra más reciente, “Una mujer fantástica”, ganó Fantastic Woman,” won two major awards at this dos importantes premios en la Berlinale este year’s Berlinale) have been critically acclaimed by año) han sido igualmente aclamadas por críticos, critics, festival programmers and public alike. The programadores de festivales y público en general. six films showcased here thanks to the friendship Las seis películas presentadas aquí, gracias a la and partnership that bind the Chicago Latino Film alianza que unen al Festival de Cine Latino de Festival, the Consulate General of Chile in Chicago Chicago, el Consulado General de Chile en Chicago and the Cultural Division of the Ministry of Foreign y la División Cultural del Ministerio de Relaciones, Affairs, are just but a small sample of what this son sólo una pequeña muestra de lo que esta dynamic community produces year round. comunidad dinámica produce todo el año.

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 13 chile Andrés Reads and Writes / Andrés lee i escribe Chile/2016/92 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Daniel Peralta Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Andrés Centeno is stuck in an existential rut. Andrés Centeno está atrapado en una rutina He works long night shifts in a factory and existencial. Trabaja largos turnos nocturnos en una complements his income by occasionally playing fábrica y complementa sus ingresos interpretando different roles as a test subject for a local medical ocasionalmente diferentes roles como un sujeto de school. He has trouble sleeping and enjoys a rather prueba para una escuela de medicina local. Tiene satisfactory sexual relationship with actress Karina. dificultad para dormir y disfruta de una relación How far can you go before you hit rock bottom? sexual bastante satisfactoria con Karina, una actriz Andres will find out after he almost screws up de teatro. ¿Podrá Andrés rehacer su vida antes medical student Dominga’s chances of graduating de tocar fondo? Él descubrirá la respuesta a este Friday, April 21, 8:45 PM and unearthing a box of photos, VHS tapes and interrogante tras casi arruinar las posibilidades de other memorabilia from his mother’s house. Dominga de graduarse de doctora, y desenterrar Saturday, April 22, 8:45 PM una caja repleta de fotos, cintas VHS y otros Sunday, April 23, 5:30 PM recuerdos de la casa de su madre.

Bad Influence / Mala junta Chile/2016/89 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Claudia Huaiquimilla Spanish and Mapudungun w/ English Subtitles

Using as a backdrop the ongoing violent conflict Para su primer largometraje, la realizadora Claudia between Chile’s indigenous Mapuche communities Huaiquimilla usa como trasfondo el continuo and the forces who want to strip them of their conflicto entre las comunidades mapuches de lands, Claudia Huaiquimilla’s urgent and wrenching Chile y las fuerzas que quieren desalojarlas de sus first feature-length film focuses on the burgeoning tierras para narrar esta historia sobre la amistad friendship between two teenagers. Rebellious entre dos adolescentes. Tano es enviado a la Tano is sent to the small mountain community of pequeña comunidad montañosa de Wallmapu bajo Wallmapu under the care of his father after he is el cuidado de su padre tras ser arrestado por su arrested for his participation in a violent robbery. participación en un robo violento. Allí se hace There he befriends Cheo, a young Mapuche who is amigo de Cheo, un joven Mapuche víctima de hostigamiento en la escuela. Su amistad crece a Wednesday, April 26, 5:45 PM bullied at school. Their friendship deepens as the community around them explodes after the death la vez que la comunidad a su alrededor entra en Thursday, April 27, 5:45 PM of an influential Mapuche leader. punto de ebullición tras la muerte de un influyente líder mapuche.

The First born / El primero de la familia Chile/2016/82 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Carlos Leiva Barahona Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Tomas is spending his last weekend in Chile with Tomás pasa su último fin de semana en Chile con his family in their cramped suburban house before su familia en su apretada casa suburbana antes de travelling to London to study medicine. His young viajar a Londres para estudiar medicina. Su joven sister Catalina is pregnant, his mother suffers from hermana Catalina está embarazada, su madre sufre severe back pain, and his father is participating in de severos dolores de espalda y su padre participa a labor strike. What should have been a happy day en una huelga laboral. Lo que pudo haber sido una for the whole family is ruined when a problem with ocasión feliz se arruina cuando un problema con the plumbing floods parts of the house and the la plomería inunda partes de la casa y el hedor stink caused by it pushes this close-knit family to causado por las aguas empuja a esta familia al the brink. This claustrophobic debut paints a spot- borde de un precipicio. Este debut claustrofóbico pinta un retrato microscópico de un sector de la Saturday, April 22, 4:15 PM on microscopic portrait of contemporary Chilean society. sociedad chilena contemporánea. Monday, April 24, 5:45 PM

Generation Wolf / Generación lobo Chile/Canada/2016/90 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Christian de la Cortina English and Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Vincent del Toro is a young entrepreneur who took Vincent del Toro es un joven empresario que lo a gamble by opening a company that specializes in arriesgó todo al abrir una empresa especializada refurbishing vintage cars and converting them into en renovar coches antiguos y convertirlos en electric ones in sunny California. A problem with eléctricos en la soleada California. Un problema con the licensing bureau places Vincent’s new business la oficina de licencias pone en peligro este nuevo in jeopardy. He returns home to Michigan in search negocio. Vincent regresa a Michigan en busca of a solution and, with an old friend, begins to de una solución y, con un viejo amigo, comienza grow at his father Juan Pablo’s (Sergio a cultivar marihuana en la finca de su padre Juan Hernandez, “Gloria”) farm. What seemed like a Pablo (Sergio Hernández, “Gloria”). Lo que parecía good idea at the time turns into a nightmare; as he una buena idea en aquel momento se convierte en una pesadilla. Vincent tendrá que confiar en sus Thursday, April 27, 8:00 PM sinks deeper into a life of crime, Vincent will have to rely on his predatory instincts to survive. instintos depredadores para sobrevivir en este bajo Saturday, April 29, 8:30 PM mundo.

14 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 CHILE / COLOMBIA LOsT NOrTh / siN NOrTe Chile/2015/93 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Fernando Lavanderos Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Fernando Lavanderos follows-up his critically Fernando Lavanderos sigue su aclamada “Las cosas acclaimed “Things the Way They Are” with this como son” con este poco convencional “road quirky where the people you meet movie” en la que las personas que el protagonista along the way are far more important than the trip conoce por el camino son mucho más importantes itself. Esteban hops onto his car and drives north, que el viaje en sí. Esteban se monta en su auto y se towards the Chile-Bolivia border, in pursuit of his dirige hacia el norte, hacia la frontera entre Chile girlfriend Isabel who one day up and left him for no y Bolivia, en busca de su novia Isabel, que lo dejó reason. His only road map: a tablet she left behind sin motivo. Su único mapa de ruta: una tableta que where she downloaded footage of her travels. ella dejó atrás, en la cual descargó imágenes de sus Along the way, Esteban meets the same people viajes. A lo largo del trayecto, Esteban conoce a las mismas personas que ella conoció, sus experiencias Sunday, April 30, 5:15 PM Isabel met in past trips, her footage marking a sharp contrast with Esteban’s own experience. con ellos muy diferentes a las de Isabel. Tuesday, May 2, 8:00 PM

The NiGhT OF The wiLD bOAr / LA NOChe DeL jAbALí Chile/2016/74 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Ramiro Tenorio Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Shot in the mountainous town of Neltume at the Filmado en la localidad montañosa de Neltume, south of Chile, Tenorio’s feature debut taps into al sur de Chile, Tenorio usa la historia de la región the region’s history –Neltume was the focus of a -Neltume fue el foco de un movimiento guerrillero guerrilla movement against the Pinochet regime contra el régimen de Pinochet en los años 70 y in the 70s and early 80s– to tell the spine-chilling principios de los 80- para narrar esta espeluznante story of the disappearance of seven women in the historia acerca de la desaparición de siete mujeres. last decade and a half. Romance writer Claudia Claudia, una escritora de novelas románticas, recibe receives news that her boyfriend, a horror novelist, noticias de que su novio, un novelista de terror, se has committed suicide. Upon arriving in Neltume, ha suicidado. Al llegar a Neltume, se encuentra cara Friday, April 28, 9:00 PM she comes face to face with the town’s violent a cara con la violenta historia del pueblo cuando se history when she joins police detective Benno’s une a la investigación del detective Benno sobre Sunday, April 30, 8:15 PM investigation of the disappearances and her las desapariciones y la posible participación de su Monday, May 1, 8:15 PM boyfriend’s possible involvement. novio en las mismas.

The ANimAL’s wiFe / LA mUjer DeL ANimAL Colombia/2016/116 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Victor Gaviria Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Victor Gaviria (“Rodrigo D: No Futuro”), delivers Víctor Gaviria (“Rodrigo D: no futuro”), nos another stark, relentless portrait of life in Medellin, entrega otro retrato duro e implacable sobre la made all the more realistic by his use of non- vida en Medellín protagonizado por actores no professional actors. Amparo is a teenage girl profesionales. Amparo es una adolescente que, who, after some trouble in a boarding school, tras encontrar refugio en la casa de su hermana en seeks refuge in her sister’s house in a marginal un barrio marginal a raíz de unos problemas en el neighborhood and is kidnapped and forced into internado, es secuestrada y obligada a casarse con marriage by the town’s bully, her cousin Libardo. el bravucón del barrio, Libardo. Embarazada con Pregnant with his child, Amparo discovers that su hijo, Amparo descubre que Libardo mantiene a Saturday, April 22, 8:30 PM Libardo has been keeping another woman locked otra mujer prisionera en su rancho y decide ponerle up in his ranch and decides that enough is enough. un basta a tanto abuso. Ganadora del premio a Sunday, April 23, 8:00 PM Winner of the Best Director award at last year’s la mejor dirección en el Festival Internacional de Monday, April 24, 8:30 PM International Festival of New Latin American Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana. Cinema in Havana.

beTweeN seA AND LAND/LA CiéNAGA: eNTre eL mAr Y LA TierrA Colombia/2016/98 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Carlos Del Castillo Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Winner last year of the Audience Award for Ganadora el año pasado del Premio del Público a Dramatic Feature and Special Jury Prizes for la Mejor Película Dramática y el Premio Especial Best Actor and Best Actress at the Sundance al Mejor Actor y Mejor Actriz en el Concurso de Film Festival’s Competition, Cine Mundial del Festival de Sundance, el primer Carlos del Castillo’s first feature focuses on the largometraje de Carlos del Castillo se centra en close relationship between 28-year-old Alberto la estrecha relación entre Alberto (Manolo Cruz, (Colombian superstar Manolo Cruz, also the fi lm’s también guionista de la película), un joven de 28 scriptwriter), who is afflicted with dystonia, a años afl igido por distonía, un trastorno neurológico neurological disorder that contorts his body and que contorsiona su cuerpo y lo deja atrapado en la leaves him trapped in bed; his mother Rosa (Vicky cama; su madre Rosa (Vicky Hernández) que lo ha cuidado por cuenta propia y Giselle (Viviana Serna) Saturday, April 29, 6:45 PM Hernandez) who has taken care of him on her own; and Giselle (Viviana Serna) with whom Alberto has con quien Alberto ha sido amigo desde niño. Tuesday, May 2, 6:15 PM been friends with since childhood.

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 15 colombia Dogs / Perros Colombia/Argentina/2016/83 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Harold Trompetero Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Colombian director Harold Trompetero joins forces El director colombiano Harold Trompetero une once again with acclaimed actor John Leguizamo fuerzas nuevamente con el aclamado actor in this tough, documentary-like drama shot in a John Leguizamo en este duro drama rodado en dilapidated prison in Facatativa (about 18 miles una prisión en ruinas de Facatativá, a unos 18 outside of Bogota) with former members of the kilómetros de Bogotá, con antiguos miembros de la guerrillas and paramilitaries as extras. Imprisoned guerrilla y paramilitares como extras. Encarcelado for committing a “crime of passion,” Misael por cometer un “delito pasional”, Misael (Leguizamo) lands in an overcrowded jail where (Leguizamo) es llevado a una cárcel superpoblada he is abused and humiliated by guards and fellow donde es abusado y humillado por guardias y Friday, April 28, 7:00 PM prisoners. His family won’t even visit him. He only compañeros de prisión. Su familia ni siquiera lo finds solace in the prison’s dog, Sarna. visita. Sólo encuentra consuelo en el perro de la Sunday, April 30, 8:45 PM prisión, Sarna. Wednesday, May 3, 8:30 PM

JericÓ: The Infinite Flight of Days / Jericó: El infinito vuelo de los días Colombia/2016/78 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Catalina Mesa Spanish w/ English Subtitles “The Infinite Flight of Days” presents a “El infinito vuelo de los días” presenta una kaleidoscopic series of portraits of women living caleidoscópica serie de retratos de mujeres que in the beautiful Colombian village of Jerico. This viven en el hermoso pueblo colombiano de Jericó. delicate and musical journey weaves together the Este viaje delicado y musical teje los encuentros everyday encounters and conversations of women cotidianos y las conversaciones de mujeres de of different ages and backgrounds, revealing their diferentes edades y orígenes, revelando sus personal stories, inner lives, wisdom, and sense historias personales, su vida interior, su sabiduría y of humor. The documentary presents an intimate, su sentido del humor. El documental presenta una feminine view of the region, celebrating and visión íntima y femenina de la región, celebrando y preserving the authenticity of the female spirit preservando la autenticidad del espíritu femenino en la cultura antioqueña, una pequeña porción de Friday, April 21, 6:30 PM in Antioquian culture, a small slice of Colombia’s deliciously diverse cultural heritage. la delicada diversidad cultural de Colombia. Sunday, April 23, 3:15 PM

The Nobodies / Los nadie Colombia/2016/84 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Juan Sebastián Mesa Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Shot in in seven days on a Filmada en blanco y negro en siete días con un $2,000 budget and winner last year of the Venice presupuesto de $2,000 dls. y ganadora el año Film Festival’s Critics’ Week, “The Nobodies” pasado del Premio de la Semana de la Crítica del vibrantly portrays five so-called anarcho-punks Festival de Cine de Venecia, “Los nadie” presenta from Medellin: the underage Ana, abandoned un retrato dinámico de cinco anarco-punks de by her mother and now raised by her extremely Medellín: Ana, abandonada por su madre y ahora pious aunt and cousin; El Pipa, an angry tattoo criada por su muy piadosa tía y primo; El Pipa, un artist and singer; college student Manu; and the tatuador y cantante cabreado con el mundo; Manu, fearless Camilo and . Tattoo art, music, una estudiante universitaria; y los intrépidos Camilo even juggling are the tools they use to manifest y Mechas. El arte del tatuaje, la música, incluso el malabarismo son las herramientas que ellos usan Saturday, April 29, 4:00 PM their individuality and resistance against authority, whether parental or governmental in a city they para expresar su individualidad y resistencia contra Monday, May 1, 8:00 PM both hate and love. la autoridad en una ciudad a la que odian y aman.

That Thing Called Love / Eso que llaman amor Colombia/2016/92 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Carlos César Arbeláez Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Love is not a many-splendored thing in this El amor no es tan maravilloso en esta antología anthology set in Medellin on Mother’s Day. Camila ambientada en Medellín el Día de la Madre. Camila is forced to bring her son’s disinterred ashes se ve obligada a llevar las cenizas desenterradas de home when the cemetery is set to be demolished, su hijo a casa cuando el cementerio está a punto stirring up old memories and grudges that she de ser demolido, despertando viejos recuerdos thought long buried. Call girl Erika decides to meet y rencores que ella pensó haber enterrado con el one last client before starting a new life with her tiempo. Erika, una mujer escolta, decide reunirse young daughter in Spain. Marlon and The Happy con un último cliente antes de comenzar una nueva Girl both earn money performing on the streets vida con su hija adolescente en España. Marlon y as living statues; competitors at first, they soon La Muchacha Feliz se ganan la vida actuando como estatuas vivientes en las calles; competidores Saturday, April 22, 4:00 PM feel attracted to each other without realizing they might not like what’s underneath their disguises. al principio, pronto se sienten atraídos el uno al Monday, April 24, 8:45 PM otro sin darse cuenta de que lo que los disfraces esconden no va a ser de su agrado.

16 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 cuba Eliseo Alberto: In One Corner of the Soul / Eliseo Alberto: En un rincón del alma Cuba/El Salvador/2016/93 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Jorge Dalton Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Built around a series of interviews with exiled Estructurado alrededor de una serie de entrevistas poet, scriptwriter (“Guantanamera”), and novelist con el exiliado poeta, guionista (“Guantanamera”) (the Alfaguara Award winner “Caracol Beach”) y novelista (“Playa Caracol”, ganadora del Premio Eliseo Alberto prior to his death in 2011, “In Alfaguara) cubano Eliseo Alberto antes de su One Corner of the Soul” presents a unique, cool- muerte en 2011, “En un rincón del alma” ofrece headed analysis of the highs and lows of the un análisis personal de los altos y bajos de la Cuban Revolution. Supported by revealing, rarely- Revolución Cubana. Apoyada por imágenes seen footage provided by Dalton’s and Alberto’s reveladoras y raramente vistas proveniente de los family as well as several private collections, the archivos de la familia de Dalton y de Alberto, entre documentary revisits such key figures as Cuban otras fuentes, el documental rememora personajes tan importantes como el poeta y novelista cubano Saturday, April 22, 3:45 PM poet and novelist Jose Lezama Lima and Guillermo Cabrera Infante and such pivotal events as the 1968 José Lezama Lima y el novelista Guillermo Cabrera Monday, April 24, 5:30 PM Revolutionary Offensive. Infante, al igual que acontecimientos tan decisivos como la ofensiva revolucionaria de 1968.

Esteban Cuba/2016/90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Jonal Cosculluela Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Nine-year-old Esteban and his divorced mother try Esteban, de nueve años de edad, y su madre to make ends meet by selling a variety of products divorciada subsisten a través de la venta de on the streets of Havana. Drawn by the music diversos productos en las calles de La Habana. coming out of a dilapidated house, Esteban meets Atraído por la música que emerge de una casa Hugo, an embittered piano teacher. Esteban has en ruinas, Esteban conoce a Hugo, un amargado a gift for music and will do anything in his power maestro de piano. Esteban tiene un don para la to nurture this new found passion even if it means música y hará todo lo que esté a su alcance para going behind his mother’s back. With an original alimentar esta nueva pasión, aunque lo haga a score by jazz great Chucho Valdes and a charismatic escondidas de su mamá. Con una banda sonora Thursday, April 27, 6:00 PM performance from Reynaldo Guanche as Esteban, original del gran maestro del jazz Chucho Valdés y Cosculluela’s film debut is a gentle tale of dreams con la carismática presencia de Reynaldo Guanche Friday, April 28, 6:00 PM come true under the direst circumstances. como Esteban, el debut cinematográfico de Sunday, April 30, 3:15 PM Cosculluela es una historia gentil de sueños hechos realidad bajo las más difíciles circunstancias.

Not Like Before / Ya no es antes Cuba/2016/95 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Lester Hamlet Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Esteban (Luis Alberto Garcia) and Mayra (Isabel Esteban (Luis Alberto García) y Mayra (Isabel Santos) haven’t seen each other in 40 years. They Santos) no se han visto en 40 años. Una vez were once madly in love but circumstances beyond estuvieron perdidamente enamorados, pero their control separated them just as their romance circunstancias fuera de su control los separaron was blooming: she left Cuba with her mother; justo cuando su romance estaba por florecer: he stayed behind, forbidden to speak her name ella salió de Cuba con su madre; él se quedó because she was seen as traitor to the Revolution. atrás, incapaz de mencionar su nombre porque She’s back in Havana on a special assignment for ella era vista como una traidora de la Revolución. her magazine. Can they pick up where they left Ahora Mayra está de vuelta en La Habana en Friday, April 21, 8:30 PM off? Or will the void that grew between them be una asignación especial para su revista. ¿Podrán hard to overcome, especially given Mayra’s erratic retomar el romance donde lo dejaron? ¿O será Saturday, April 22, 6:00 PM behavior? difícil superar el vacío que creció entre ellos, Sunday, April 23, 6:00 PM especialmente dado el comportamiento errático de Mayra?

On the Roof / El Techo Cuba/Nicaragua/2016/75 min. Genre: Comedy/Drama Directed by Patricia Ramos Hernández Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Three good friends meet every day on the roof of Tres buenos amigos se reúnen todos los días en el one of Havana’s decaying buildings to while away techo de uno de los tantos edificios desvencijados the hours: pigeon breeder Yasmani; Ani, who’s de La Habana para pasar las horas: el criador several months pregnant; and Vito who is obsessed de palomas Yasmani; Ani, que está embarazada with his grandfather’s Sicilian heritage. The more de varios meses; y Vito, quien está obsesionado entrepreneurial Vito proposes they open a pizzeria con la herencia siciliana de su abuelo. Vito, el on the roof to make ends meet. But how can you más emprendedor de los tres, propone abrir una sustain a viable business when everybody asks if pizzería en el techo para ganarse la vida. Pero, they can pay later for the food? Patricia Ramos’ laid ¿cómo se puede mantener un negocio viable Friday, April 21, 7:00 PM back, funny, slice-of-life debut captures a side of cuando todo el mundo pregunta si pueden pagar Havana life rarely seen on the big screen. más tarde por la comida? El debut de Patricia Sunday, April 23, 4:00 PM Ramos capta un aspecto de la vida habanera rara Monday, April 24, 8:15 PM vez visto en la pantalla grande.

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 17 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR LOs FAbULOsOs mA’ mejOres Dominican Republic/2015/80 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Carlos Manuel Plasencia Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Kids’ baseball coach Chelo Rosario is in a slump: El entrenador de béisbol infantil Chelo Rosario pasa he has no money, no job and his baseball team por un mal momento: está sin dinero, sin trabajo y is spectacularly bad. But when he hears a public su equipo de béisbol es espectacularmente malo. service announcement on the radio for the first Pero al escuchar un anuncio de servicio público en National Kid’s Baseball Tournament, he recruits la radio para el primer torneo nacional de béisbol Joanna (Denise Quiñones, Miss Universe 2001), infantil, recluta a Joanna (Denise Quiñones, Miss the beautiful mother of one of his team’s players, Universo 2001), la hermosa madre de uno de sus to help him get his team in shape. In the grand jugadores, para ayudarlo a poner a su equipo tradition of such family-friendly sports en forma. En la gran tradición de tales comedias as “The Bad News Bears,” “Los Fabulosos Ma’ deportivas para toda la familia como “The Bad News Bears”, “Los Fabulosos Ma’ Mejores” Sunday, April 30, 3:00 PM Mejores” will delight audiences of all ages with the travails and triumphs of this underdog team. deleitará a audiencias de todas las edades con Tuesday, May 2, 5:30 PM las tribulaciones y los triunfos de este equipo de “perdedores”.

sUGAr FieLDs / FLOr De AzúCAr Dominican Republic/2016/110 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Fernando Báez Spanish w/ English Subtitles

The Dominican Republic’s official entry to the La selección oficial de República Dominicana al Best Foreign Language Category at this year’s Oscar a la categoría de mejor película extranjera, Oscars®, Báez’s ambitious adaptation of Juan esta ambiciosa adaptación del cuento de Juan Bosch’s short story “Encarnación Mendoza’s Bosch “La nochebuena de Encarnación Mendoza” Christmas Eve” follows the lives of two peasant se centra en la vida de dos parejas de campesinos couples in the island’s sugar cane fi elds in the late a fines de los años 40. Samuel huye a la isla de 40s. The happily married Samuel unintentionally Saona tras matar a un soldado del régimen de kills a soldier of Trujillo’s regime during a barroom Trujillo durante una pelea en un , dejando atrás a brawl, forcing him to flee to the island of Saona, Elena, su esposa embarazada y a su hija. Al mismo leaving his pregnant wife Elena and child behind. tiempo, una pareja haitiana que huye del hambre y la pobreza atraviesa la frontera para trabajar Sunday, April 23, 3:00 PM At the same time a Haitian couple fl eeing hunger and poverty cross the border to work in the sugar en los cañaverales. El regreso de Samuel un año Wednesday, May 3, 6:00 PM fi elds. Samuel‘s return a year later triggers a chain más tarde desencadena una serie de eventos con of events with dire consequences. terribles consecuencias.

U.F.O./OVNi Dominican Republic/Puerto Rico/2016/93 min. Genre: Comedy/Science-Fiction Directed by Raúl Marchand Sánchez Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Raul Marchand Sanchez (“Broche de Oro”) pays Raúl Marchand Sánchez (“Broche de Oro”) rinde tribute to John Carpenter’s “Starman” and John homenaje a tales películas como “Starman” de Sayles’ “The Brother from Another Planet” with John Carpenter y “The Brother from Another this outrageous sci-fi comedy. An U.F.O. has landed Planet” de John Sayles, con esta divertida comedia in the mountainous region of El Cibao, carrying de ciencia ficción. Un OVNI aterriza en la región a humanoid by the name of One. The visitor montañosa de El Cibao, con un tripulante a bordo: befriends former Air Force pilot and town drunkard un humanoide llamado Uno. El visitante entabla Cosmo, Doña Luz and her autistic daughter. One amistad con Cosmo, un ex piloto de la Fuerza is being pursued by a member of his race and her Aérea y ahora el borrachito de la comarca, Doña Thursday, April 27, 8:15 PM security guard, who has taken on the shape of a Luz y su hija autista. Uno es perseguido por una cute dog, and the Air Force, leading to an explosive humanoide y su guardia de seguridad, que ha Friday, April 28, 6:45 PM encounter of the hilarious kind. adoptado la forma de un lindo perrito, y la Fuerza Saturday, April 29, 3:45 PM Aérea, lo cual lleva a un encuentro explosivo muy particular.

here AND There / VeNGO VOLVieNDO Ecuador/2015/103 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Gabriel Páez Hernández, Isabel Rodas Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Product of a six-month artistic residency where Producto de una residencia artística de seis meses rural youngsters from Azuay -a province in the donde jóvenes rurales de Azuay -una provincia south of the Ecuadorian Andes- produced their fi rst al sur de los Andes ecuatorianos- produjeron su feature film based on the stories of their elders, primer largometraje basado en las historias de “Here and There” centers on 22-year old Ismael sus ancestros, “Vengo volviendo” tiene como who is raising funds to travel to the United States. protagonista a Ismael, un joven de 22 años que Alongside best friend Luz, who has returned after está recaudando fondos para viajar a los Estados living for eight years in another country, Ismael Unidos. Al lado de su mejor amiga Luz, que regresa travels to the deepest corners of the region, a Ecuador tras vivir ocho años en el extranjero, meeting a colorful (and sometimes dangerous) Ismael viaja a los rincones más profundos de la región, descubriendo un colorido (y a veces Monday, May 1, 5:45 PM cast of characters and discovering the stories and legends of his ancestors. peligroso) elenco de personajes al igual que las Wednesday, May 3, 5:30 PM historias y leyendas de sus antepasados.

18 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 ECUADOR / GUATEMALA / HAITI

sUCh is LiFe iN The TrOpiCs / siN mUerTOs NO hAY CArNAVAL Ecuador/México/Germany/2016/100 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Sebastián Cordero Spanish w/ English Subtitles

In Guayaquil, a wealthy young businessman Un joven y rico empresario en Guayaquil quiere is trying to evict 250 families who have been desalojar a 250 familias que han ocupado squatting on the land he inherited from his father. ilegalmente la tierra que heredó de su padre. The dwellers’ self-appointed representative, Lisandro Terán, el representante autoproclamado Lisandro Teran, promises to intercede on the de los ocupas, promete interceder en la disputa businessman’s behalf. Accidental deaths and legal en nombre del empresario. Muertes accidentales y machinations come into play in Sebastian Cordero’s maquinaciones legales entran en juego en el tenso (“Pescador” “Cronicas”) tense that thriller político de Sebastián Cordero (“Pescador”, is as concerned about the alliances that power such “Crónicas”) donde las alianzas que potencian la corruption as is it about keeping audiences at the corrupción son tan importantes en la trama como el suspenso que los mantendrá al borde de sus Thursday, April 27, 8:30 PM edge of their seats. This was Ecuador’s offi cial entry to the Best Foreign Language Category at this asientos. Esta fue la selección ofi cial de Ecuador al Saturday, April 29, 8:45 PM year’s Oscars®. Oscar® a la categoría de mejor película extranjera.

TAke me FOr A riDe / UiO: sáCAme A pAseAr Ecuador/México/Colombia/2016/68 min. Genre: Drama/LGBTQ Directed by Micaela Rueda Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Senior year of high school can be stressful, El último año de secundaria puede ser estresante, especially if you are a loner like Sara. She spends especialmente si eres una persona solitaria como her lunch hour in an alley behind her Sara. Ella pasa la hora de almuerzo fumando en school, the one space where she can be herself. un callejón detrás de su escuela, el único espacio Then, one day, a new classmate Andrea invades donde puede ser ella misma hasta que un día that safe space. The girls become inseparable, Andrea, una nueva compañera de clase, invade sharing a love for books and music and a sense el mismo. Las chicas se vuelven inseparables. of alienation. As they become more intimate with Comparten un amor por los libros y la música each other, Sara and Andrea will each have to face y un sentido de enajenación. A medida que su a restrictive and disapproving culture at home and relación se vuelve más íntima, Sara y Andrea school. tendrán que enfrentarse a una cultura restrictiva Sunday, April 23, 6:30 PM y desaprobadora tanto en el hogar como en la Sunday, April 30, 3:45 PM escuela.

The 4 LiTers / OTrOs 4 LiTrOs Genre: Comedy/Science-Fiction Guatemala/2016/90 min. Genre: Comedy Spanish w/ English Subtitles Directed by Rodolfo Espinosa Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Thirtysomething friends Chente, Linares y Mijo set Chente, Linares y Mijo emprenden un viaje hacia out on a journey to Lake Atitlan, to fulfi ll the last el Lago de Atitlán para cumplir el último deseo wish of their recently deceased childhood friend, de su recién fallecido amigo de infancia Chacha: Chacha: to throw his ashes into the lake and drink arrojar sus cenizas al lago y beber las últimas cuatro the last four in his name. On their way, they cervezas en su nombre. En el camino, atropellan run over a police officer. Giving him up for dead, a un oficial de policía. Dándolo por muerto, los the three friends shove the body in the trunk of tres amigos meten el cadáver en el maletero de their car…and that’s when the fun really starts as su coche ... y ahí es cuando de verdad comienza they face one outrageous situation after another la diversión a medida que ellos enfrentan una forcing each one of them to come to terms with escandalosa situación tras otra que los obliga a aceptar su propia crisis existencial. Tuesday, April 25, 5:30 PM their own existential crisis. Thursday, April 27, 5:30 PM

hAiTi mY LOVe / AYiTi mON AmOUr Genre: Drama Haiti/2016/86 min. Genre: Drama English, Creole, French, Japanese w/ Spanish w/ English Subtitles Directed by Guetty Felin English Subtitles For her fiction feature debut, documentary Para su primer largometraje de ficción, la filmmaker Guetty Felin weaves the almost fairy- documentalista Guetty Felin entreteje tres relatos tale like stories of three people five years after que toman lugar cinco años después del terremoto the 2010 earthquake that nearly destroyed her de 2010 que casi destruyó a su país: Orphee, un country: Orphee, a teenager who refuses to speak adolescente que se niega a hablar francés y quiere French and wants to learn Japanese, gains some aprender japonés, descubre haber adquirido mysterious powers after going out for a swim; poderes misteriosos tras salir a nadar; el pescador fisherman Jaurès is worried about the equally Jaurès está preocupado por la igualmente mysterious disease affl icting his wife; and a fi ctional misteriosa enfermedad que afl ige a su esposa; y un character literally walks off from the novel her personaje fi cticio literalmente se aleja de la novela que su autor está escribiendo. Felin presenta a un Sunday, April 30, 5:45 PM author is writing. Shot with natural light, Felin presents a country that is vibrant and thriving país vibrante y dinámico a pesar de la tragedia que Tuesday, May 2, 8:00 PM despite the tragedy that still haunts it. todavía lo atormenta.

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 19 HONDURAS / MEXICO OLANChO Honduras/USA/2016/70 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Chris Valdes & Ted Griswold Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Manuel Chirinos is a farmer from a rural village in Manuel Chirinos es un agricultor que vive en una the mountains of Eastern Honduras. He aspires to aldea rural en las montañas del este de Honduras. be a musician but quickly realizes his only patrons Él aspira a ser un músico, pero rápidamente se are the powerful bosses who terrorize his da cuenta de que sus únicos patrocinadores son region. When a song he writes angers a dangerous los poderosos narcos que aterrorizan a la región. drug cartel, Manuel is forced to flee his home Cuando una canción que escribe hace enojar a in Honduras to go to the United States. He finds un peligroso cartel de la droga, Manuel se ve himself miles away from his home, his family, and obligado a huir de su casa en Honduras y migrar a his music. From a radio cabin in North Carolina, los Estados Unidos. Desde una cabina de radio en Manuel recounts his narrow escape from death and Carolina del Norte, Manuel relata cómo se salva de la muerte y describe los desafíos que implican Saturday, April 22, 6:15 PM describes the challenges of assimilating into a new world as an undocumented immigrant. el adaptarse a un nuevo mundo como inmigrante Monday, April 24, 8:00 PM indocumentado.

The ArriVAL OF CONrADO sierrA / eL ArribO De CONrADO sierrA México/2016/96 min. Genre: Drama Directed by René Pereyra Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Shot in 2012, its release delayed for four years due Filmada en 2012, su estreno retrasado por to fi nancial and post-production problems, former cuatro años debido a problemas financieros y de RBD-superstar Mayte Perroni’s big screen debut posproducción, el debut en la pantalla grande de la finally sees the light of day. Set in 1940s Mexico, ex-integrante de RBD Mayté Perroni por fi n ve la luz fi rst time fi lmmaker Rene Pereyra’s drama focuses del día. Es la década de los 40 y Ninfa (Perroni), la on the imminent wedding of Ninfa (Perroni), the hija más joven de la matriarca y viuda Doña Josefa youngest daughter of matriarch and widower Doña (Susana Dosamantes), está a punto de contraer Josefa (Susana Dosamantes), to a mysterious suitor matrimonio con su misterioso pretendiente named Conrado Sierra. All hell breaks loose when Conrado Sierra. Todo se viene abajo cuando Doña Doña Josefa cancels the wedding, forcing Ninfa to Josefa cancela la boda repentinamente lo cual obliga a Ninfa a escoger entre sus sueños de amor Friday, April 21, 9:15 PM choose between her dreams of love and freedom or submission to her mother’s will. y libertad o sumirse a la férrea voluntad de su Sunday, April 23, 6:15 PM madre.

The empTY bOx / LA CAjA VACíA México/France/2016/101 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce Spanish and Creole w/ English Subtitles

In her autobiographical follow-up to the critically En esta película autobiográfica, Claudia Sainte- acclaimed “The Amazing Catfish” (an official Luce, directora de la críticamente aclamada “Los selection of the 30th Chicago Latino Film Festival), insólitos peces gato”, interpreta a Jazmín, una Mexican filmmaker Claudia Sainte-Luce plays joven que vive sola en la Ciudad de México y que Jazmin, a young woman living alone in Mexico City debe cuidar de su padre, un inmigrante haitiano who must take care of her estranged father, an indocumentado que sufre de demencia vascular undocumented Haitian immigrant suffering from y de quien ella ha estado distanciada. Tras años vascular dementia. After years of neglect, father de abandono, ambos comienzan lentamente a and daughter slowly but surely begin to rebuild reconstruir su relación mientras la memoria del their relationship as his memory fades away. Far padre empeora. Mucho más íntima que su ópera prima, “La caja vacía” confi rma a Sainte-Luce como Thursday, April 27, 6:30 PM more intimate in scope than her opera prima, “The Empty Box” confirms Sainte-Luce as one of the una de las voces más humanas del cine mexicano y Monday, May 1, 8:30 PM most humane voices in contemporary Mexican and latinoamericano contemporáneo. Latin American cinema.

The rOmANTiC bArber / eL peLUqUerO rOmáNTiCO México/Spain/Brazil/2016/98 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Iván Ávila Dueñas Spanish and Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

Neighborhood barber Victor’s life is rather La vida de Víctor, un peluquero de barrio, es uneventful. He sticks to a strict daily routine at bastante tranquila. Se aferra a una estricta rutina both work and home, where he spends his nights diaria tanto en el trabajo como en el hogar, donde alongside his mother listening to boleros or pasa sus noches junto a su madre escuchando watching movies from the Golden Age of Mexican boleros o viendo en la televisión películas de Cinema on TV. His routine is disrupted when his la Edad de Oro del cine mexicano. Su rutina mother suddenly dies. His flirting with a young se ve interrumpida cuando su madre muere waitress and his reunion with an old girlfriend can’t repentinamente. Su coqueteo con una joven fi ll the void left behind by his mother. That changes, camarera y su encuentro con una vieja novia no Sunday, April 30, 3:30 PM however, when one day a man claiming to be his pueden llenar el vacío dejado por su madre. Eso father suddenly walks into the shop. The encounter cambia, sin embargo, cuando a su peluquería entra Tuesday, May 2, 5:30 PM will lead him to an unexpected and life-changing un hombre que dice ser su padre. El encuentro lo Wednesday, May 3, 5:45 PM trip to Rio de Janeiro. llevará a un inesperado viaje a Río de Janeiro.

20 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 MEXICO / PANAMA TALes OF mexiCO / LA hAbiTACióN México/Poland/2016/120 min. Alejandro Valle, Iván Ávila Dueñas, Natalia Directed by Carlos Carrera, Daniel Beristáin Giménez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Ernesto Genre: Drama Contreras, Alfonso Pineda-Ulloa, Spanish w/ English Subtitles Featuring la crème de la crème of contemporary Esta película antológica reúne a la crema y nata Mexican cinema (including one, Daniel Giménez del cine mexicano contemporáneo (incluyendo a Cacho, who’s making his directorial debut) uno, Daniel Giménez Cacho, que está haciendo and starring Irene Jacob (“The Double Life of su debut como director) con la actriz Irene Jacob Veronique”, “Three Colors: Red”), this omnibus fi lm (“The Double Life of Veronique”, “Three Colors: is structured around eight different stories taking Red”) para narrar ocho historias diferentes que place in the same room and in a different time tienen lugar en la misma habitación y en un período period in modern Mexican history. Its residents diferente de la historia moderna mexicana. Sus Friday, April 28, 8:15 PM bear witness and even become participants in such residentes dan testimonio e incluso son partícipes events as the Mexican Revolution and the 1985 en tales sucesos como la Revolución Mexicana Saturday, April 29, 9:00 PM earthquake. And as the nation changes, so does y el terremoto de 1985. A medida que la nación Sunday, April 30, 8:00 PM the space in which these eight dramas take place. cambia, lo mismo ocurre con el espacio en el que se desarrollan estos ocho dramas.

TAmArA AND The LADYbUG / TAmArA Y LA CATAriNA México/Spain/2016/107 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Lucía Carreras Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Tamara, a fortysomething year old developmentally Tamara, una mujer de unos 40 años de edad con disabled woman, finds an apparently abandoned discapacidad de desarrollo, encuentra a una bebé baby girl at a newsstand and brings her home aparentemente abandonada en un quiosco y se la with her. Meche, her 70-year-old neighbor, realizes trae a casa. Al darse cuenta de que Tamara puede that Tamara could be accused of kidnapping and ser acusada de secuestro, Meche, su vecina de 70 takes her and the baby, whom Tamara names años, las acoge bajo su protección. A medida que Ladybug, under her wing. As they begin the las dos mujeres comienzan la búsqueda de los search for Ladybug’s parents, the two women fi nd padres de la bebé, a quien Tamara ha apodado comfort and solace in each other. “Tamara and the “La Catarina”, ambas forjarán una relación basada Ladybug” is a moving, heart wrenching tale about en el consuelo y el aliento. “Tamara y la Catarina” loneliness and solidarity in the big city. es una conmovedora historia sobre la soledad y la Saturday, April 22, 3:15 PM solidaridad en la gran ciudad. Monday, April 24, 6:00 PM

hiDDeN Panama/2016/70 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Frank Spano & Guillermo Bárcenas Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Featuring some breathtaking settings and equally Rodada en locaciones impresionantes y con astonishing stunts, Spano’s and Barcenas’s unas acrobacias igualmente extraordinarias, este documentary focuses on three Panamanian documental de Spano y Bárcenas se centra en extreme sportsmen: surfer Gary Saavedra, skydiver tres figuras del deporte extremo en Panamá: el Eloy Cruz, and four-wheeler JanCa Salerno. They surfista Gary Saavedra, el paracaidista Eloy Cruz throw open the curtain to a “hidden” landscape y el conductor de vehículos de cuatro ruedas as they travel through a road full of doubts. Their JanCa Salerno. Ellos corren la cortina a un paisaje hunger for accomplishing the impossible drives “oculto” mientras viajan por un camino lleno de them to take on the most perilous challenges, from dudas. Su expectativa por lograr lo imposible preparing for a sky jump after surviving a near fatal los lleva a enfrentar los desafíos más peligrosos, crash to riding a wave in the Panama Canal. desde prepararse para un salto al vacío después Wednesday, May 3, 5:30 PM de sobrevivir a un accidente casi fatal hasta montar Thursday, May 4, 5:30 PM una ola en el Canal de Panamá.

sALsipUeDes Panama/2016/95 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Ricardo Aguilar Navarro & Spanish w/ English Subtitles Manolito Rodríguez Originally conceived as a TV series inspired by Concebida originalmente como una serie de singer-songwriter Ruben Blades’ double volume televisión inspirada en la obra cumbre de Rubén masterpiece “Maestra Vida,” “Salsipuedes” tells Blades, “Maestra vida”, “Salsipuedes” narra the story of Andres, who returns to Panama to bury la historia de Andrés, quien regresa a Panamá his grandfather after living for the last 10 years in después de vivir estos últimos 10 años en Estados the United States. On leave from prison for the Unidos para asistir al velorio de su abuelo. Cuando wake, Andres’ father manages to escape custody, su padre se da a la fuga tras recibir un permiso de forcing the young man to put his promising future la prisión dónde está encarcelado para asistir al at stake. Shot by Carlos Arango de Montis (“The entierro, el joven se ve obligado a poner en riesgo Act of Killing”), this colorful and poignant feature su prometedor futuro. Este colorido y conmovedor Tuesday, April 25, 8:30 PM debut was Panama’s official submission to this debut de Aguilar Navarro y Rodríguez fue la selección ofi cial de Panamá al Oscar® a la categoría Tuesday, May 2, 8:15 PM year’s Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film®. de mejor película extranjera este año.

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 21 PANAMA / PARAGUAY / PERÚ weeD / keNke Panama/Guatemala/2015/85 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Enrique Pérez Him Spanish w/ English Subtitles

When stoner Kenny is arrested during a police sting Cuando el fumeta de Kenny es arrestado durante as he tries to score some weed, his apparently una redada de la policía al tratar de comprar un more mature cousin Josue is called to the rescue poquito de “kenke” (marihuana), la familia de by Kenny’s family. They want him to wean Kenny off Kenny le pide a su aparentemente más maduro the drug; but this exemplar role model has some primo Josué que intervenga y lo desintoxique; tricks up his sleeve as well. “Kenke” is more than pero este ejemplar modelo a seguir también se las a conventional stoner fi lm; it explores the double trae. “Kenke” es más que una película convencional standards of a society that easily condemns the sobre marihuaneros: explora los dobles estándares consumption of weed as a lifestyle while ignoring de una sociedad que condena fácilmente el other, more dangerous vices. consumo de esta droga como un estilo de vida mientras ignora otros vicios más peligrosos. Tuesday, May 2, 6:00 PM Thursday, May 4, 8:15 PM

The LAsT LAND / LA úLTimA TierrA Paraguay/Chile/Netherlands/Qatar/2016/77 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Pablo Lamar No Dialogue

Winner of the Hivos Tiger Special Jury Award at Ganadora del Premio Especial del Jurado del Tigre last year’s Rotterdam International Film Festival de Hivos en el Festival Internacional de Cine de for exceptional artistic achievement in sound Rótterdam el año pasado por su extraordinario design, Pablo Lamar’s deceitfully simple feature logro artístico en el diseño de sonido, el debut de debut focuses on an elderly couple living out Pablo Lamar se centra en una pareja de ancianos their final days on an isolated country house. viviendo sus últimos días en una casa de campo Angelina is slowly dying and on this one night her aislada. Angelina se está muriendo lentamente y husband Amancio will prepare for her eventual en esta noche su marido Amancio se encargará de burial. Infl uenced by the works of such masters as todos los preparativos para su eventual entierro. Andrei Tarkovsky, Alexander Sokurov and Carlos Influenciado por las obras de maestros como Andrei Tarkovsky, Alexander Sokurov y Carlos Thursday, April 27, 8:00 PM Reygadas, Lamar takes an impressionistic and evocative approach to this meditation on loss. Reygadas, Lamar adopta un enfoque impresionista Saturday, April 29, 5:45 PM y evocador en esta meditación sobre la pérdida.

CrAzY iN LOVe / LOCOs De AmOr Perú/2016/111 min. Genre: Musical/Comedy Directed by Frank Pérez-Garland Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Four fortysomething cousins face a romantic crisis. Cuatro primas cuarentonas hacen frente a una crisis One is in love with her yoga instructor, two are romántica. Una está enamorada de su maestro de rethinking their relationships with their respective yoga, dos están repensando sus relaciones con sus husbands, and a fourth can’t decide whether respectivos maridos y la cuarta no puede decidir to settle down with either her boyfriend or her si sentar cabeza con su novio o con su amigo de lifelong friend. So what do they do when faced toda la vida. ¿Qué hacen cuando se enfrentan a with a crisis? They break into a song and dance una crisis? Pues, ¡comienzan a cantar y bailar! Con routine, of course! Featuring such classic Latin canciones clásicas latinoamericanas como “Cosas American pop songs as Ana Gabriel’s “Cosas del del amor” de Ana Gabriel interpretadas por el Amor” performed by the cast in the grand tradition reparto en la gran tradición de los tan mentados “musicales de rocola” como “Mamma Mia”, “Locos Wednesday, April 26, 8:15 PM of such “Jukebox musicals” like “Mamma Mia,” “Crazy in Love” is a delightful musical comedy de amor” es una deliciosa comedia musical sobre lo Sunday, April 30, 4:00 PM about what’s next in life. que está por venir en la vida.

jUsT Like iN The mOVies / COmO eN eL CiNe Perú/2015/96 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Gonzalo Ladines Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Best known in Peru as one of the co-creators of the Mejor conocido en Perú como uno de los co- YouTube series “Los Cinefi los” and a co-scriptwriter creadores de la serie de YouTube “Los Cinéfilos” of “Good Old Boys” (an official selection of the y co-guionista de ”Viejos amigos” (selección 31st Chicago Latino Film Festival), Gonzalo Linares ofi cial de la edición 31 del Festival de Cine Latino digs deep in his own cinephilia for his feature- de Chicago), Gonzalo Linares hace alarde de su length debut. After finding out that his girlfriend cinefilia en este debut cinematográfico. Después cheated him under his own Star Wars bed sheets, de enterarse de que su novia hizo el amor con otro Nico decides to go back to his true love, recruiting debajo de sus sábanas de “Star Wars”, Nico retoma his old college friends to make a low budget short su primer amor y recluta a sus antiguos compañeros Monday, May 1, 6:00 PM film. Nico and his small crew will face a series of de universidad para rodar un cortometraje de absurd situations in this irreverent comedy that will bajo presupuesto. Nico y su pequeño equipo se Tuesday, May 2, 5:45 PM delight the hardcore movie lover. enfrentarán a una serie de situaciones absurdas Thursday, May 4, 5:45 PM en esta comedia irreverente que será la delicia de todo amante del cine.

22 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 PERÚ mALiGNO Perú/2016/87 min. Genre: Horror Directed by Paco Bardales & Martin Casapia Casanova Spanish w/ English Subtitles

In the tradition of such cult classics Este evocador relato sobre un espíritu malvado as “The Ring” and “Ju-on” comes this haunting tale atrapado en el pabellón de un hospital después de of an evil forest spirit trapped in a hospital pavilion un violento y sangriento ataque sigue la tradición after a violent and bloody rampage. The hospital’s de tales clásicos del cine de horror japonés como reconstruction project sets the spirit free after the “The Ring” y “Ju-on”. Los obreros que trabajan en wall that imprisoned it is torn down. The spirit takes el proyecto de reconstrucción del hospital liberan over the body of a young Goth teen and begins to al espíritu tras derrumbar el muro que lo mantuvo terrorize the hospital’s patients and employees. encerrado por años. El espíritu se apodera del Only her mother, a nurse, can stop it. cuerpo de una joven gótica y comienza a aterrorizar a los pacientes y empleados del hospital. Sólo la madre de la chica, una enfermera, podrá detenerlo. Friday, April 21, 9:15 PM Sunday, April 23, 8:30 PM

mY wOrsT weDDiNG / LA peOr De mis bODAs Genre: Drama Perú/2016/95 min. Genre: Comedy No Dialogue Directed by Adolfo Aguilar Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Maricielo runs a small shop in a local mall while Maricielo opera una pequeña tienda en un centro daydreaming with the torrid romances of her comercial mientras sueña con los romances tórridos favorite soap opera characters. Her life is turned de sus personajes favoritos de telenovela. Su upside down when, one day, a little boy named vida toma un giro de 180 grados cuando un niño Ignacio and his reluctant butler Pablo walk into llamado Ignacio y su renuente mayordomo Pablo her store with an unusual proposition: they ask entran a su tienda con una propuesta inusual: le her to pose as a wedding planner so she can derail piden que se haga pasar como una planificadora Ignacio’s father (Mexican soap opera superstar de bodas para descarrilar la próxima boda de su Gabriel Soto) wedding. All hell breaks loose at papá Ignacio (Gabriel Soto). Maricielo hará todo the wedding as Maricielo tries her best to ruin the lo posible por arruinar esta feliz ocasión en esta divertida farsa del novel director Adolfo Aguilar. Tuesday, April 25, 6:15 PM happy occasion in Adolfo Aguilar’s farcical debut. Wednesday, May 3, 8:15 PM

ONe LAsT AFTerNOON / LA úLTimA TArDe Perú/Colombia/2016/81 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Joel Calero Spanish w/ English Subtitles

It’s been 19 years since Ramon last saw Laura and Han pasado 19 años desde que Ramón vio a Laura here they are, together again, in front of lawyer’s por última vez y aquí están, juntos nuevamente, office ready to sign their divorce papers. Their pero sólo para fi rmar sus papeles de divorcio. Su lawyer is a no show and so these two former abogado no se presenta a la cita y ahora estos dos radical leftist militants wander the streets of Lima, ex combatientes de la izquierda radical deambulan reminiscing about the good times and arguing, por las calles de Lima, recordando los buenos bitterly, about their political differences and what tiempos y discutiendo amargamente sobre lo que might have been. Infl uenced by Richard Linklater’s pudo haber sido en el plano personal e ideológico. “Before Trilogy,” “One Last Afternoon” delivers a Influenciado por el “Before Trilogy” de Richard sympathetic portrait of a couple still trying to come Linklater, “La última tarde” ofrece un retrato compasivo de una pareja que todavía está tratando Saturday, April 22, 9:00 PM to terms with their past and the price they paid for their activism. de hacer las paces con su pasado y con el precio Tuesday, April 25, 6:30 PM que pagaron por su activismo.

VANisheD / DesApAreCer Perú/2016/95 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Dorian Fernández-Moris Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Giovanni travels from Lima to the jungle Giovanni viaja de Lima a Iquitos en la selva in search of his missing girlfriend Milena, an amazónica en busca de su novia Milena, ecologista, environmentalist and teacher, one of many to maestra y una de muchas mujeres que han have mysteriously disappeared from the area. The desaparecido misteriosamente de la zona. La locals attribute the disappearances to a mythical población achaca las desapariciones a una figura figure. Convinced that there’s more to these mítica. Convencido de que hay gato encerrado, disappearances than meets the eye, Giovanni, Giovanni, con la ayuda de un capitán de policía with the help of a local police captain and a radio local y una periodista de radio, comienza a journalist, begins to track down her whereabouts rastrear su posible paradero y descubre una and uncovers a vast conspiracy. Fernandez-Moris vasta conspiración. Fernandez-Moris (también el productor ejecutivo de “Maligno”) entrega un Wednesday, April 26, 5:30 PM (who’s also the executive producer of “Maligno”) delivers an immersive, atmospheric thriller where thriller inmersivo y atmosférico donde la selva se Monday, May 1, 8:45 PM the jungle becomes a character. convierte en un personaje.

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 23 portugal / puerto rico John From Portugal/2015/98 min. Genre: Drama Directed by João Nicolau Portuguese w/ English Subtitles

Fifteen-year-old Rita has her whole life ahead of A Rita, tem 15 anos e tem toda a vida pela frente; her; but in this particular moment, she is more than neste momento, ela é feliz criando o seu próprio happy creating her own, enclosed, magical world mundo fechado e mágico na sua varanda com in her balcony with best friend Sara. It’s a world Sara, sua melhor amiga. É um mundo com uma with its own language and secrets. She floods the linguagem própria e segredos. Ela molha o chão da balcony floor and splashes around it while keeping varanda e chapinha ao mesmo tempo que está de an eye on her next door neighbor, a photographer olho no seu vizinho do lado, um fotógrafo que está setting up an exhibition about Melanesia in a local a organizar uma exposição sobre Melanésia num community center. “John From” is a delightful and centro comunitário do bairro. “John From” é uma cheerful ode to the imagination and the passions of ode deliciosa e alegre á imaginação e ás paixões da juventude. Wednesday, April 26, 6:30 PM youth. Wednesday, May 3, 7:30 PM

Before the Rooster Crows / Antes que cante el gallo Puerto Rico/2016/98 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Arí Maniel Cruz Spanish w/ English Subtitles

From Ari Maniel Cruz, director of 28th Chicago De Ari Maniel Cruz, director de “Under My Nails” Latino Film Festival official selection “Under My (selección oficial de la edición 28 del Festival de Nails,” comes this boundary-breaking portrait Cine Latino de Chicago), nos llega este fuerte of life in Puerto Rico’s small towns. Carmín’s retrato de la vida en los pueblos del interior de dreams of moving from the mountainous village Puerto Rico. Los sueños de Carmín de mudarse con of Barranquitas to San Juan with her mother are su madre de la aldea montañosa de Barranquitas dashed when remarries and leaves in the United a San Juan se desvanecen cuando ésta vuelve a States. The arrival of her good-for-nothing father casarse y se marcha a Estados Unidos. La llegada after long years in prison awakens ambiguous and del bueno para nada de su padre despierta en rather dangerous feelings in her. Featuring music Carmín sentimientos ambiguos y peligrosos. Con Saturday, April 29, 9:00 PM by Calle 13’s other half Eduardo Cabrera, “Before música de Eduardo Cabrera, la otra mitad de Calle Monday, May 1, 6:15 PM the Rooster Crows” solidifies Cruz as one of the 13, “Antes que cante el gallo” solidifica a Cruz most distinctive filmmakers emerging from Puerto como uno de los cineastas más distintivos del cine Tuesday, May 2, 8:15 PM Rico’s burgeoning indie film movement. independiente puertorriqueño.

Extra Terrestrials / Extra Terrestres Puerto Rico/Venezuela/2016/110 min. Genre: Drama/LGBTQ Directed by Carla Cavina Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Teresa couldn’t have chosen a worse time to return Teresa no pudo haber escogido peor momento to Puerto Rico, after seven years, to share with her para regresar a Puerto Rico de Islas Canarias, very conservative family the news that she plans después de siete años de ausencia, para compartir to marry fellow astronomer Daniela. Her father’s con su muy conservadora familia la noticia de poultry processing plant is the target of both que piensa casarse con la astrónoma Daniela. La corrupt elements of the Puerto Rican government planta de procesamiento avícola de su padre es and the U.S. poultry industry that want to drive it blanco tanto de elementos corruptos del gobierno out of business. She delays the news and even lies puertorriqueño como de la industria avícola about it; Daniela’s decision to travel to the island estadounidense que quiere cerrar su negocio. Ella Friday, April 28, 6:30 PM and force Teresa’s hand will reveal the many secrets retrasa el anuncio e incluso miente sobre su boda. the family has been keeping from each other. El repentino arribo de Daniela a la isla no sólo Saturday, April 29, 6:15 PM fuerza la mano de Teresa pero destapa los muchos Sunday, April 30, 5:30 PM secretos que la familia guarda entre sí.

I Am a Politician / Yo soy un político Puerto Rico/2016/90 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Javier Colón Ríos Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Politics are considered a national sport in Puerto La política es el deporte nacional de Puerto Rico. Rico. So, unavoidably, 2016 saw the release of not Así que, inevitablemente, 2016 vio el estreno en one but two political in the island. And we la isla de no una sino dos sátiras políticas. ¡Y el have them both! “I Am a Politician” follows Carlos, Festival tiene las dos! “Yo soy un político” sigue a former filmmaker recently released from jail, who a Carlos, un ex director de cine recientemente with the help of cellmate Cangry, decides to run for puesto en libertad, que con la ayuda de su governor of the island. But running for one party compañero de celda Cangry decide postularse won’t be enough, so he approaches each of the para gobernador de la isla. Postularse para un island’s three main parties, pitching his candidacy partido no será suficiente, así que se acerca a cada Saturday, April 22, 8:45 PM to the highest bidder. This hilarious explores uno de los tres partidos principales para vender su the most ridiculous and outrageous aspects of candidatura al mejor postor. Esta hilarante sátira Sunday, April 23, 3:45 PM Puerto Rican politics. explora los aspectos más ridículos y estrafalarios de Monday, April 24, 6:15 PM la política puertorriqueña.

24 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 puerto rico / spain Vote for Pepo / Pepo pa’l Senado Puerto Rico/2016/123 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Raúl García Spanish w/ English Subtitles

From the same team that brought you last year’s Del mismo equipo que el año pasado nos trajo la enchanting comedy of errors “A Wedding in encantadora comedia de enredos “Una boda en Castañer” comes our second Puerto Rican political Castañer” viene nuestra segunda sátira política satire. When political consultant Estela is forced to puertorriqueña. Cuando la consultora política resign from her government job, she decides to Estela es obligada a renunciar a su trabajo en take revenge on the island’s entire political class el gobierno, ella decide vengarse de la clase by getting the least experienced, most dim-witted política de la isla. ¿Su plan? Lanzar la candidatura individual she can find elected to the Senate. That al Senado de la persona menos experimentada e person? Pepo Gonzalez. Is Puerto Rico ready for a inteligente que pueda encontrar. ¿Esa persona? Friday, April 21, 6:15 PM populist candidate, one who can dance salsa and Pepo González. ¿Está Puerto Rico listo para un merengue as well as the rest of the population? candidato populista, alguién que pueda bailar salsa Saturday, April 22, 5:45 PM y merengue como el resto de la población? Sunday, April 23, 5:15 PM

Before the Rooster Crows / Antes que cante el gallo At Your Doorstep / Cerca de tu casa Spain/2016/93 min. Genre: Drama/Musical Directed by Eduard Cortés Spanish w/ English Subtitles

2007: the housing bubble has already burst in 2007: la burbuja inmobiliaria ya estalló en España, Spain, a full year before it wreaks havoc in the un año antes de que cause estragos en el resto rest of the world. Families are being evicted left del mundo. Las familias están siendo desalojadas and right, their self-esteem in tatters. Sonia, her a diestra y siniestra, su autoestima en harapos. husband, and their 10-year-old daughter are one Sonia, su esposo y su hija de 10 años son una de of those families, forced to live in their parents’ esas familias obligadas a vivir en el apartamento apartment. They are not the only victims, however. de sus padres. Sin embargo, no son las únicas The evictions are leaving a deep mark on the víctimas. Los desalojos están dejando una huella police officials ordered to enact them and on the profunda sobre los oficiales de policía encargados one honest bank employee who feels guilty about de ponerlos en marcha y sobre el único empleado honesto del banco que se siente culpable por lo Friday, April 28, 6:15 PM the whole mess. Eduard Cortes’ Brechtian musical celebrates our ability to resist and overcome. acontecido. Este musical brechtiano de Eduard Monday, May 1, 5:45 PM Cortés celebra nuestra capacidad para resistir y sobrevivir.

The Cliff / Acantilado Spain/2016/96 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Helena Taberna Spanish w/ English Subtitles

The members of a commune, dressed in white and Los miembros de una comuna, vestidos de blanco holding torches, throw themselves into the sea y sosteniendo antorchas, se lanzan al mar desde from a cliff in the Canary Islands. The police suspect un acantilado en las Islas Canarias. La policía that one of them could have been Gabriel’s sister sospecha que una de las víctimas podría haber Cordelia, whom he hasn’t seen in several years. sido la hermana de Gabriel, Cordelia, a quien él no Gabriel arrives to help with the police investigation. ha visto en varios años. Gabriel llega para ayudar But as he and Helena, Cordelia’s best friend, begin con la investigación policial. Pero a medida que él to unearth the motives that led the commune to y Helena, la mejor amiga de Cordelia, empiezan a commit mass suicide, Gabriel begins to question his indagar en los motivos que llevaron a la comuna Friday, April 21, 6:45 PM own relationship to his sister, wondering whether a cometer suicidio en masa, Gabriel comienza he pushed her away from him and into the arms of a cuestionar su propia relación con su hermana, Sunday, April 23, 8:15 PM a cult. preguntándose si su distanciamiento la llevó a los Tuesday, April 25, 6:00 PM brazos de un culto.

The Mother / La madre Spain/Romania/France/2016/89 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Alberto Morais Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Fourteen-year-old Miguel (Javier Mendo) has been Miguel (Javier Mendo), de catorce años, ha estado evading the persistent pursuit of social services evadiendo a los agentes de servicios sociales desde agents since he served time at a juvenile detention que estuvo encerrado en un centro de detención center. He can’t count on his unemployed and juvenil. Miguel no puede contar con la ayuda de rather volatile mother to help him; instead, he su madre desempleada y volátil y por eso busca seeks refuge with Bogdan, her former Romanian refugio con Bogdan, su antiguo amante rumano. lover. As the noose tightens around him, Miguel Sin embargo, Miguel encuentra una mano amiga finds another helping hand in the person of a en la dueña de un bar con quien entabla una bar owner with whom he strikes a sincere and relación sincera y ambigua. Con una actuación ambiguous relationship. Featuring a hypnotic hipnótica de Javier Mendo, “La madre” evoca tales dramas realistas sociales como el “Rosetta” de los Wednesday, April 26, 6:00 PM performance from Mendo, Morais’ film evokes such social realist dramas as the Dardenne Brothers’ Hermanos Dardenne. Wednesday, May 3, 6:15 PM “Rosetta.”

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 25 spain / uruguay When a Tree Falls / Amama Spain/2015/103 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Asier Altuna Basque with English Subtitles

Patriarch Tomas finds it hard to accept that his Tomás, el patriarca de la familia, se niega a aceptar eldest son will not take over the operation of que su hijo mayor no se hará cargo de la granja que the farm that has belonged to the family for ha pertenecido a la familia durante generaciones generations but will instead pack his bags and al éste empacar sus maletas en busca de mejores look for better opportunities in the city. His oportunidades en la ciudad. Su hija Amaia es ahora daughter Amaia is next in line to take over but la heredera inmediata, pero sus ideas progresistas her progressive views place her at odds with his chocan con sus actitudes conservadoras. Sólo la conservative ones. Only her grandmother, the abuela, la “Amama” del título vasco de la película, “Amama” of the film’s Basque title, can bridge puede reconciliar a estos dos polos opuestos. these opposing viewpoints. Deeply rooted in Profundamente enraizado en la cultura vasca, el debut en el cine de ficción de Asier Altuna es un Saturday, April 29, 4:15 PM Basque culture, Altuna’s fiction feature debut is a visually rich and sumptuous drama that slowly drama visualmente rico y suntuoso que lentamente Thursday, May 4, 6:00 PM grows on you. seduce al espectador.

Yerma Spain/2016/90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Emilio Ruiz Barrachina English

For Eva Stone, married to a British politician of Para Eva Stone, casada con un político británico de Spanish descent, a woman’s life is meaningless if ascendencia española, la vida de toda mujer carece she is not a mother. And Eva has yet to become de sentido si no llega a ser madre. Y Eva todavía one. A Spanish theater company is in London to no lo es. Una compañía de teatro española está present a new production of Lorca’s “Yerma”; en Londres para presentar una nueva producción Victor, its director, is an old friend of Eva’s and her de “Yerma” de García Lorca; Víctor, su director, husband. Eva sees in Victor a new opportunity to es un viejo amigo de Eva y de su marido. Eva ve become pregnant, even though having a child out en Víctor una nueva oportunidad para quedar of wedlock will be frowned upon, to say the least, embarazada, a pesar de que tener un hijo fuera Saturday, April 22, 8:30 PM by the social circles she moves in. Barrachina gives del matrimonio es muy mal visto por los círculos a fresh contemporary spin to Lorca’s classic play sociales en los que ella se mueve. Barrachina da Sunday, April 23, 8:30 PM about motherhood and tradition. un giro contemporáneo a la obra clásica de García Tuesday, April 25, 5:45 PM Lorca sobre la maternidad y la tradición.

Being Awake / Vigilia Uruguay/Argentina/2016/108 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Julieta Ledesma Spanish with English Subtitles

Santiago wakes up naked and beaten in the middle Santiago despierta desnudo y golpeado en medio of a desert. A drought has devastated his family de un desierto. Una sequía ha devastado la granja farm. When Santiago returns, he is welcomed by de su familia. Cuando Santiago regresa, es recibido his father Ernesto at gunpoint while the family por su padre Ernesto a punta de pistola mientras dog stands in between. Ernesto shoots the dog que el perro de la familia se interpone entre ellos. believing him to be infected by whatever has ailed Ernesto mata al perro creyendo que está infectado the farm animals; the dog comes back from the por el mal que ha contaminado a los animales grave to haunt a family that is slowly descending de la granja. El espíritu del perro regresa para into madness. Ledesma’s opera prima offers a atormentar a una familia que lentamente desciende phantasmagoric, surreal spin to the old prodigal a la locura. La ópera prima de Ledesma ofrece un son fable. giro fantasmagórico y surrealista a la vieja fábula Friday, April 28, 9:00 PM del hijo pródigo. Sunday, April 30, 7:45 PM

The Moderns / Los modernos Uruguay/2016/134 min. Genre: Drama/Comedy Directed by Mauro Sarser & Marcela Matta Spanish with English Subtitles

Not to be confused with Alan Rudolph’s equally Lo único que comparten el debut cinematográfico delightful portrait of American expatriates and de Sarser y Matta con el igualmente encantador intellectuals in 1920s Paris, Sarser’s and Matta’s retrato de Alan Rudolph de expatriados e feature debut focuses on two Montevideo couples: intelectuales estadounidenses en el París de los Clara, divorced with two children, wants to años 20 es el título. Clara, divorciada con dos secure her relationship with Fausto, an immature, hijos, quiere asegurar su relación con Fausto, un pretentious and narcissistic intellectual working in intelectual narcisista, inmaduro y pretencioso advertising; and Paula, who even though wants to que trabaja para una agencia de publicidad. have a child with Martin, begins to date another Paula, a pesar de que quiere tener un hijo con woman. Using classic tangos and boleros as an Martín, comienza a tener relaciones con otra mujer. Utilizando tangos y boleros clásicos como Wednesday, April 26, 7:30 PM emotional counterpoint, “The Moderns” is a sharp and witty look at the circumstances that drive us to contrapunto emocional, “Los modernos” ofrece Thursday, May 4, 8:15 PM fall in and out of love. una mirada aguda e ingeniosa a las circunstancias que nos llevan al amor y al desamor.

26 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 usa All or Nothing / Todo o nada USA/2016/94 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Max Da Silva Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Inspired by the 1997 British hit comedy “The Full Inspirado en la comedia británica “The Full Monty” Monty,” “All or Nothing” deals with a group (1997), en “Todo o nada” un grupo de amigos of unemployed Chicago workers who, facing trabajadores en Chicago enfrentan un sinnúmero mounting debts (not to mention the city’s many de deudas (incluyendo los muchos impuestos onerous taxes and increased cost of living) decide onerosos de la ciudad y el inevitable aumento to take matters into their own hands (no pun en el costo de vida) tras ser despedidos de sus intended) to make ends meet. Led by Willy, they respectivos trabajos. Dirigidos por Willy, ellos decide to put on a strip tease show to raise the toman una medida extraordinaria para recaudar los funds they need to make up for their lost wages. fondos necesarios para compensar por su falta de ingresos: montar un espectáculo de “strip tease”. Tuesday, April 25, 8:15 PM Wednesday, May 3, 8:00 PM

Glorious USA/2016/90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Juan Daniel Zavaleta English

Can you find redemption in the streets of one of ¿Se puede encontrar la redención en las calles de the most violent cities in the US.? Based on true una de las ciudades más violentas de los Estados testimonies of former gang-members, “Glorious” Unidos? Basado en testimonios de ex pandilleros, focuses on a young man’s journey from an abusive “Glorious” se centra en el paso de un joven desde home to his recruitment by a gang and his rise un hogar abusivo hasta su reclutamiento por una through the ranks. As things are at their worst, he pandilla y su ascenso a través de sus filas. Justo experiences a divine encounter that introduces cuando su vida va por peor camino, él experimenta him to a love that he could never have imagined. un encuentro divino que le muestra un amor que Produced by Wineskin Entertainment, a Chicago- él nunca pudo haber imaginado. Producido por based video and music production company Wineskin Entertainment, una casa productora de video y música basada en Chicago que produce Wednesday, April 26, 8:00 PM that produces films for churches and nonprofit organizations, for Christians and non-Christians películas para iglesias y organizaciones sin fines Thursday, May 4, 6:15 PM alike. de lucro, tanto para públicos cristianos como no cristianos.

H.O.M.E. USA/2016/73 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Daniel Maldonado English and Spanish w/ English Subtitles

Starring Mexican actor Jesus Ochoa (“Man on Protagonizado por el actor mexicano Jesús Ochoa Fire”, “Ley de Herodes”), Daniel Maldonado’s (“Man on Fire”, “Ley de Herodes”), el director labels his feature debut as a “love letter” to New Daniel Maldonado califica su debut como una York City through its subways and enclaves. “carta de amor” a la ciudad de Nueva York, sus “H.O.M.E.” weaves two stories: a young man trenes subterráneos y enclaves étnicos. “H.O.M.E.” with Asperger’s Syndrome who seeks refuge in entreteje dos relatos: un joven con síndrome the underground labyrinth of NYC; and that of a de Asperger busca refugio en un laberinto gambling Ecuadorian livery driver and a Chinese subterráneo y un chófer ecuatoriano acepta como woman desperate to get home to her sick child. cliente a una mujer china desesperada por volver “H.O.M.E.” is an intimate and lyrical exploration a casa para cuidar de su hijo enfermo. “H.O.M.E.” Saturday, April 29, 8:15 PM of urban alienation and meaningful encounters es una exploración íntima y lírica de la enajenación through the lens of a “disconnected” city in motion. urbana y de encuentros significativos captados a Monday, May 1, 7:45 PM través del lente de una ciudad “desconectada” pero en movimiento.

The Way to Andina USA/2017/70 min. Genre: Documentary Produced by Arlen Parsa English

When Chicago-based independent filmmaker Cuando el cineasta independiente radicado en Arlen Parsa discovers that his Colombian great- Chicago Arlen Parsa descubre que su bisabuelo grandfather Eustasio Rosales left behind a long colombiano Eustasio Rosales escribió una ópera lost opera that’s never been performed, he thinks que hasta hace poco se consideraba perdida y que he knows what he has to do. Determined to fulfill nunca fue montada, cree saber qué debe hacer. his family legacy and resurrect the opera, decades Resuelto a cumplir con su legado familiar y resucitar after it was first written, he takes a leap of faith and la ópera décadas después de ser compuesta, Arlen decides to produce its world premiere even though da un salto al vacío y decide producir su estreno he has zero experience with opera and can’t speak mundial aunque no tenga experiencia teatral a word of Spanish. What could possibly go wrong? alguna y aunque no pueda hablar ni una pizca de español. ¿Qué podría salir mal? Saturday, April 29, 3:30 PM Monday, May 1, 5:30 PM

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 27 VENEZUELA eL AmpArO Venezuela/Colombia/2016/99 min. Genre: Drama/Thriller Directed by Rober Calzadilla Spanish with English Subtitles

One morning in October, 1988 a group of fourteen Una mañana de octubre de 1988 un grupo de fishermen leave the village of El Amparo on the catorce pescadores salen del pueblo de El Amparo Venezuelan-Colombian border, to go fishing. en la frontera entre Venezuela y Colombia, para ir Only two come back: Pinilla and Chumba. The a pescar. Sólo dos regresan: Pinilla y Chumba. El Venezuelan Army justifies the killing by accusing ejército venezolano justifi ca la masacre acusándolos them of being guerrillas about to commit a terrorist de ser guerrilleros a punto de cometer un acto act killed their friends. Both men and their wives terrorista. Tanto los sobrevivientes como sus and neighbors hold steady in their conviction as esposas y vecinos se mantienen firmes mientras the intimidation and pressure to accept the offi cial la intimidación y la presión para aceptar la story from the armed forces continues. An urgent historia oficial de las fuerzas armadas continúa. Este urgente y poderoso drama socio-político es Wednesday, April 26, 8:30 PM and powerful socio-political drama, “El Amparo” is also a portrait of a community under siege. también un retrato de una comunidad sitiada. Wednesday, May 3, 8:00 PM

eL mALqUeriDO Venezuela/2015/95 min. Genre: Drama/Biopic Directed by Diego Rísquez Spanish with English Subtitles

A TV studio in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the early Un estudio de televisión en San Juan, Puerto Rico 70s: acclaimed Venezuelan bolero singer Felipe a principios de los años 70: el aclamado bolerista Pirela (Jesus “Chino” MIranda, one half of the venezolano Felipe Pirela (Jesús “Chino” Miranda, popular reggaeton duo Chino & Nacho) is about mitad del popular dúo de reggaeton Chino & to begin a new chapter in his short but explosive Nacho) está a punto de comenzar un nuevo career. Prompted by an interviewer’s questions, he capítulo en su corta pero explosiva carrera. Durante begins to revisit his life, from his beginnings as the la entrevista comienza a repasar su vida, desde sus vocalist of a popular orchestra in Maracaibo to his inicios como vocalista de una orquesta popular en fi rst steps as a soloist and his scandalous love affair Maracaibo hasta sus primeros pasos como solista y with and eventual marriage to 13-year-old Mariela, su escandaloso romance y matrimonio con Mariela, de 13 años de edad, de quien se divorció dos Saturday, April 29, 6:30 PM whom he divorced two years later. Rísquez’s biopic is a moving tribute to one of Latin America’s most años más tarde. Rísquez rinde tributo a una de Tuesday, May 2, 7:45 PM brilliant voices. las voces más brillantes de América Latina en esta conmovedora biografía dramatizada.

The sOLiTUDe / LA sOLeDAD Venezuela/2016/89 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Jorge Thielen Armand Spanish with English Subtitles

Shot in the dilapidated house that used to belong Filmada en la dilapidada casa que solía pertenecer a to Thielen Armand’s great-grandparents and now los bisabuelos de Thielen Armand y ahora habitada inhabited by their lifelong maid and grandson por su sirvienta y su nieto (interpretándose a sí (playing themselves in the fi lm), this poetic fusion mismos), esta fusión poética de realidad y fi cción of fact and fiction presents a human face to the presenta el rostro humano de la crisis económica economic crisis that’s tearing Venezuela apart. que está desgarrando a Venezuela. Cuando José, When José, a young handyman who spends a un joven manitas que pasa buena parte del día de good portion of his days standing in long lines pie en largas colas en busca de comida y medicina, for food and medicine, learns that the house will se entera de que la casa va a ser demolida, decide be demolished, he begins a search for a cursed comenzar la búsqueda de un tesoro maldito que, según cuenta la leyenda, está enterrado en algún Sunday, April 30, 6:00 PM treasure that, legend has it, is buried somewhere in the house. That treasure could very well save him lugar del inmueble. Ese tesoro podría salvarlo a él Thursday, May 4, 8:30 PM and his family from living in one of Caracas’ slums. y a su familia de vivir en una de las barriadas de Caracas. shoRts

28 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 shOrTs: ARGENTINA / BRAZIL / CHILE/ COLOMBIA / COSTA RICA

i Am bUeNOs Aires / The seArCh The bAG / A bOLsA brAziLiAN sTeAkhOUse YO sOY bUeNOs Aires Brazil/2016/18 min. / espeTO COrriDO Argentina/USA/2016/24 min. Argentina/2015/14 min. Directed by Jason Tadeu, Brazil/2016/20 min. Directed by Melina Tupa Directed by Tomás Deborah Perrotta, Directed by Felipe da Genre: Documentary Gómez Bustillo Marcela Cardoso Fonseca Peroni Spanish w/ English subtitles Genre: Comedy/Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy Spanish w/ English subtitles Portuguese w/ English subtitles Portuguese w/ English subtitles

In a small town in Argentina a baby is This Student Academy Award finalist Maria Eduarda struggles in the city Rodney serves garlic bread at a named Buenos Aires after a mistake documentary explores the life-long of Sao Paulo; she is unemployed and Brazilian steakhouse, a place people in his birth certifi cate. When he grows struggle of Estela de Carlotto to find unhappy. When she comes across a go to with one thing in mind: meat. older, he journeys to the city he shares her grandson, Guido, after her pregnant bag that seems to be able to resolve all He is bullied by Guillerme, the horrible a name with, becoming as eccentric, daughter was kidnapped, taken to her troubles, Maria soon realizes that sociopath who serves the picanha, the inspired, and convoluted as the city a government detention center, everything has a price. most amazing cut of beef. One night itself. This is his story. tortured and killed in 1977 during the Rodney decides he will do whatever it Argentinian “Dirty War.” Maria Eduarda vive batalhando takes to earn his place. En un pequeño pueblo en Argentina na cidade de São Paulo; Ela está un bebé es llamado Buenos Aires Este documental fi nalista de los premios desempregada e infeliz. Um dia ela Rodney serve pão de alho numa debido a un error en su certificado de la Academia para estudiantes explora se depara com uma bolsa que parece churrascaria brasileira, um lugar onde de nacimiento. Cuando Buenos Aires la larga batalla de Estela de Carlotto ser capaz de resolver todos os seus as pessoas vão com uma coisa em crece, se aventura a la ciudad con la que para encontrar a su nieto, Guido, problemas, mas Maria logo entende que mente: carne. Ele é ameaçado por comparte el nombre, volviéndose igual después de que su hija embarazada tudo tem um preço. Guilherme, um sociopata horrível que de excéntrico, inspirado, y complejo fue secuestrada, llevada a un centro serve picanha, o corte mais delicioso de como ella. Esta es su historia. de detención operado por el gobierno, carne. Uma noite, Rodney decide que torturada y asesinada en 1977 durante fará o que for necessário para ganhar la Guerra Sucia en Argentina. seu lugar.

Shown with: Yerma Shown with: The First born/el Saturday, April 22, 8:30 PM Shown with: Olancho Shown with: maligno primero de la Familia Sunday, April 23, 8:30 PM Saturday, April 22, 6:15 PM Friday, April 21, 9:15 PM Saturday, April 22, 4:15 PM Tuesday, April 25, 5:45 PM Monday, April 24, 8:00 PM Sunday, April 23, 8:30 PM Monday, April 24, 5:45 PM

NObODY is bAD AFTer YUCCA/YUCAs The AwAkeNiNG OF The ANTs: i wAs bOrN There/YO DeAD/NO hAY mUerTO ChiLDhOOD/eL DesperTAr De Colombia/2016/13 min. sOY De ALLá mALO LAs hOrmiGAs: NiÑez Costa Rica/2016/13 min. Directed by Héctor Ochoa Chile/2016/25 min. Costa Rica/2016/18 min. Directed by Andrés Madrigal, Genre: Drama Directed by Emilio Díaz Pascual Directed by Antonella Sudasassi Nacho Rodríguez Spanish w/ English subtitles Genre: Comedy/Thriller Genre: Drama Genre: Documentary Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles

Eduardo, an antisocial retiree, Ciro is a 70-year-old peasant who plants During a family trip, the world of ten- Yanory, a young Borucan-born accidentally causes the unfortunate yucca to survive. Tired and weak, he year-old Luciana is transformed by indigenous woman, moves to the city death of his neighbor’s dog and hides cannot work the land anymore. His newfound sensations that will trigger of San José to attend the University of its body in his house. With the entire imprisoned son, Ciro, decides to help her curiosity, anger, guilt, and fantasy. Costa Rica. Feeling more comfortable neighborhood looking for the dog, him. in the city and with lots of experiences Durante un viaje en familia, el mundo Eduardo needs to fi nd a way out of this ahead, she struggles to keep her heart Ciro es un campesino de 70 años que de Luciana, una niña de diez años, es predicament. back home. planta yuca para sobrevivir. Cansado y transformado por nuevas sensaciones Eduardo, un jubilado poco social, causa débil ya no puede trabajar la tierra. Su que traen curiosidad, enojo, culpa, y Yanory, una joven indígena Boruca por accidente la infortunada muerte del hijo encarcelado, Ciro, decide ayudarlo. fantasía. se traslada a la ciudad de San José perro de su vecino y esconde el cadáver para estudiar en la Universidad de en su casa. Con todo el vecindario en Costa Rica. Al verse cada vez más busca del perro, Eduardo tiene que acostumbrada a la ciudad y con muchas encontrar la manera de salir de este lío. experiencias por delante, Yanory lucha por mantener su corazón en casa.

Shown with: public intimacy/ Shown with: On the roof / Shown with: Dark skull / Shown with: haiti my Love/Ayiti intimidade pública el Techo Viejo Calavera mon Amour Wednesday, April 26, 6:15 PM Friday, April 21, 7:00 PM Tuesday, April 25, 8:00 PM Sunday, April 30, 5:45 PM Thursday, April 27, 6:15 PM Sunday, April 23, 4:00 PM Wednesday, April 26, 8:30 PM Tuesday, May 2, 8:00 PM Saturday, April 29, 6:30 PM Monday, April 24, 8:15 PM

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 29 shOrTs: GUATEMALA / MEXICO / PANAMA / PARAGUAY / PERÚ

The eArTh DiD NOT CLArA’s rAGe / LA rAbiA The GOOD mOTher/LA mAríA bONiTA speAk / LA TierrA NO De CLArA mADre bUeNA Mexico/2016/18 min. hAbLó Mexico/2016/21 min. Mexico/2016/6 min. Directed by Amanda de la Rosa Guatemala/USA/2016/30 min. Directed by Michelle Directed by Sarah Clift Genre: Comedy/Drama Directed by Javier Briones Garza Cervera Genre: Comedy/Drama Spanish w/ English subtitles Genre: Documentary Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles

In 1982, a government supported Clara spends forty days secluded in A Mexican mother embarks upon a Mexican film diva, María Félix (Diana paramilitary massacred 177 indigenous a cabin after being bitten by a rabid strange epic journey to find her son’s Bracho), 80, is staying with a family in women and children in Rio Negro, dog. As the men of the town try to only birthday request: a Donald Trump Veracruz. The daughter of the owners, Guatemala. This documentary is a kill the pack of wild dogs, Clara grows piñata. 16, wants to know the Doña’s beauty powerful chronicle of the memories left increasingly anxious with her family’s secrets. The two become friends, live behind by the events of the massacre obsession to keep her safe indoors. Una madre mexicana se embarca en adventures, and María Félix reveals her and the plight of its survivors to rebuild un viaje épico y extraño para cumplir secrets. their lives. Clara pasa 40 días aislada en una cabaña con el singular deseo de cumpleaños después de ser mordida por un perro más singular de su hijo: una piñata tipo La diva del cine mexicano, María Félix En 1982, el ejército y los paramilitares con rabia. Mientras los hombres del Donald Trump. (Diana Bracho), con 80 años, se hospeda ordenados por el gobierno asesinaron pueblo buscan matar la jauría de perros en casa de una familia en Veracruz. La a 177 mujeres y niños indígenas en la salvajes, Clara se ve cada vez más hija de los dueños, de 16, busca saber aldea Río Negro en Guatemala. LEste ansiosa ante la obsesión de su familia los trucos de belleza de la Doña. Las dos documental es un dramático retrato por protegerla. se vuelven amigas, viven aventuras, y de las memorias dejadas atrás por María Félix revela sus secretos. los eventos de la masacre y de los sobrevivientes que tratan de reconstruir Shown with: The Night of sus vidas. the wild boar/La Noche del Shown with: just Like in the Shown with: The Last Land / jabalí movies / Como en el Cine Shown with: my Friend from the La última Tierra Friday, April 28, 9:00 PM Monday, May 1, 6:00 PM park/mi Amiga del parque Thursday, April 27, 8:00 PM Sunday, April 30, 8:15 PM Tuesday, May 2, 5:45 PM Saturday, April 22, 3:30 PM Saturday, April 29, 5:45 PM Monday, May 1, 8:15 PM Thursday, May 4, 5:45 PM Monday, April 24, 5:30 PM

rOsAriO The pAsTOr’s DAUGhTer/ TAximeTrY / TAximeTríA ArribA LA hijA DeL pAsTOr Mexico/2016/10 min. Paraguay/2015/14 min. Perú/2015/9 min. Panama/2016/10 min. Directed by Marlén Ríos-Farjat Directed by Alexis Benítez Directed by Adrián Directed by Jesús Adames Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy Hartill Montalvo Genre: Thriller Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles

Rosario spends her days taking On a hot tropical night a man named Martín Acevedo, a taxi driver in the city From the radio booth "Yuyay Estéreo" care of her sick husband. In silence, “El Pastor” is murdered at a gas station. of Asuncion, lives the worst night of the voice of José Carlos accompanies she bears the burden of a dry and 15 years later Naki, a free spirit, meets his life when he picks up an unwanted the daily routine of his family and unhappy marriage. Everyone keeps up an infirmary student named Zola who customer during his night shift. neighbors. In a city full of dreams and appearances, until Rosario decides to becomes her best friend. Together they contradictions, they are witnesses to the Martín Acevedo, taxista en la ciudad de choose between her duty as mother and look for Cobra, a man Naki believes was insatiable expansion of their city. wife...and her desires. her father’s killer on that horrible night. Asunción, vive la peor noche de su vida cuando recoge a un cliente no deseado Desde la cabina radial “Yuyay Estéreo” Rosario pasa sus días cuidando de su En una noche calurosa un hombre durante su ronda nocturna. la voz de José Carlos acompaña la marido enfermo. Mantiene en silencio llamado “El Pastor” es asesinado en una rutina diaria de su familia y vecinos. el peso de un matrimonio seco e infeliz. gasolinera. 15 años después Naki, un En una ciudad llena de sueños y Todos guardan las apariencias, hasta espíritu libre, conoce a una estudiante contradicciones, ellos son testigos de la que Rosario decide escoger entre su de enfermería llamada Zola que se expansión insaciable de su ciudad. deber como madre y esposa...y sus convierte en su mejor amiga. Juntas deseos. buscan a Cobra, un hombre quien Naki asegura fué el asesino de su padre aquella terrible noche. Shown with: Andrés reads and writes/Andrés Lee i Shown with: The mother / Shown with: holy biker/reza A Shown with: The 4 Liters /Otros escribe La madre Lenda 4 Litros Friday, April 21, 8:45 PM Wednesday, April 26, 6:00 PM Friday, April 28, 8:30 PM Tuesday, April 25, 5:30 PM Saturday, April 22, 8:45 PM Wednesday, May 3, 6:15 PM Sunday, April 30, 8:15 PM Thursday, April 27, 5:30 PM Sunday, April 23, 5:30 PM

30 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 shOrTs: PUERTO RICO / SPAIN / URUGUAY

ANOTher shOrT / The TexTUre OF The The bOx OF YOUr LiFe/ COUNT Us iN / CUeNTA OTrO COrTO LiGhT / LA TexTUrA De LA CAjA De TU ViDA CON NOsOTrOs Puerto Rico/2016/7 min. LA LUz Spain/2016/12 min. Spain/2015/17 min. Directed by Heixan Robles Puerto Rico/USA/2015/22 min. Directed by David F. Vega Directed by Pablo Vara Directed by Arilyn I. Martínez Cora Genre: Comedy Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy Genre: Drama Spanish w/ subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles

Two friends at a restaurant discuss A single mother is forced to revisit her In a dystopian future the television Two young fi lmmakers fi nd themselves their next short film as the plot they past when she realizes that her ex- contest "The Box of Your Life" is a uninspired until they are approached brainstorm takes place around them. boyfriend Javier’s stem cells, are the media phenomenon followed daily by by Tino, a fan of theirs. Tino convinces only thing that can save her child from millions of viewers. Maria, a middle- them to help him fi lm his “brilliant” idea Dos amigos en un restaurante discuten going blind. aged mother, attends the competition in in an open field with his own cast of su próximo cortometraje mientras la the hope of taking the grand prize and dangerous characters. trama que planean se lleva a cabo a su Una madre soltera es forzada a revisitar alleviating her grave personal situation. alrededor. su pasado cuando se da cuenta que las Dos cineastas se encuentran sin células madre de su ex novio, Javier, son En un futuro distópico el concurso inspiración hasta que son abordados la única cosa que puede evitar que su televisivo "La caja de tu vida" es un por Tino, un admirador de ellos. Tino niño se vuelva ciego. fenómeno mediático seguido a diario los convence a que lo ayuden a filmar por millones de espectadores. María, su “brillante” idea en un campo abierto madre de familia de edad media, con su propio elenco de personajes acude al concurso con la esperanza de peligrosos. llevarse el gran premio y aliviar su grave situación personal.

Shown with: U.F.O./OVNi Shown with: The solitude / Shown with: el revenge/La Thursday, April 27, 8:15 PM Shown with: h.O.m.e. La soledad Vingança Friday, April 28, 6:45 PM Saturday, April 29, 8:15 PM Sunday, April 30, 6:00 PM Saturday, April 22, 6:45 PM Saturday, April 29, 3:45 PM Monday, May 1, 7:45 PM Thursday, May 4, 8:30 PM Tuesday, April 25, 8:45 PM

eLeGY / eLeGíA iLLUsiVe / iNexisTeNTes i CAme FrOm The skY/ LOVeLY LeTTers / Spain/2016/16 min. Spain/2016/15 min. VeNGO DeL CieLO CArTiTAs Uruguay/2015/5 min. Uruguay/2015/20 min. Directed by Alba Tejero Directed by Manuel Gomar Directed by Marco Bentancor, Directed by Alejandro Rocchi, Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy/Drama/LGBTQ Alejandro Rocchi Marco Bentancor Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles Genre: Drama Genre: Documentary Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles

After the death of two of her Raúl is a young adult accused by his Two girls drive to a party and Three couples of children experience classmates, Julia is absolutely unable to mother of being uninteresting and accidentally hit a strange man. They for the first time the adventures and feel any sense of sadness. Asphyxiated having nothing to do, little does she manage to dispose of the body but misadventures of love. They talk to us by the environment of mourning know what Raúl is hiding from her. nothing will be as easy as they thought about friendship, jealousy, boyfriends, and a harbored resentment, she will it would. girlfriends, and explain the ways they write something that will have serious Raúl es un joven adulto acusado por su have, at their age, felt and understood, consequences. madre de ser poco interesante y de no Dos adolescentes manejan hacía una that thing called love. tener nada que hacer, poco sabe ella lo fi esta y accidentalmente embisten a un Tras la muerte de dos de sus que Raúl le oculta de sus actividades. hombre extraño. Logran deshacerse del Tres parejas de niños experimentan por compañeras de clase Julia es cuerpo pero nada será tan fácil como primera vez las aventuras y desventuras absolutamente incapaz de sentir algún pensaron. del amor. Nos hablan de la amistad, los sentimiento de tristeza. Asfixiada por celos, los novios, las novias, y explican el ambiente de luto y por un profundo las maneras en que han, a su edad, resentimiento escribirá algo que tendrá sentido y entendido, esa cosa llamada graves consecuencias. amor.

Shown with: The Cliff / Shown with: Jericó: The Infi nite Shown with: Bad Infl uence / Shown with: Take me For a Acantilado Flight of Days/jericó: el mala junta ride/ UiO: sácame a pasear Friday, April 21, 6:45 PM infi nito vuelo de los días Wednesday, April 26, 5:45 PM Sunday, April 23, 6:30 PM Sunday, April 23, 8:15 PM Friday, April 21, 6:30 PM Thursday, April 27, 5:45 PM Sunday, April 30, 3:45 PM Tuesday, April 25, 6:00 PM Sunday, April 23, 3:15 PM

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 31 Shorts: usa

J-Def Fifi Patelito goes to Ilse María Mariachi USA/2016/14 min. USA/2016/5 min. the D.M.V USA/2016/5 min. Directed by Katherine Directed by Esaú Meléndez USA/Dominican Republic/2014/ Directed by Esaú Meléndez 15 min. Nagasawa, Leah Varjacques Genre: Documentary Genre: Documentary Directed by Salvador Bolivar Genre: Documentary English English and Spanish w/ English Genre: Comedy English & Spanish w/ English subtitles English & Spanish w/ English subtitles subtitles

J-Def is the story of Jeff Maldonado, Fifi, a sweet but horribly misunderstood In her senior year in high school, Maria is a young Mexican-American an artist from the Pilsen community in immigrant, works hard to achieve his Ilse Cruz faces the realities of being teenager who is committed to mariachi Chicago. He began an art program version of the American Dream. Inspired undocumented - going to college or music. In this short film, Maria tells us after his son was killed in a shooting in to get a license in order to drive a taxi, visiting her homeland in Mexico seem to how mariachi music has changed her the neighborhood. This film talks about Fifi finds himself in utter hysteria at the be impossible, however, a few months life and how hard she has worked to the development of his program, the Department of Motor Vehicles when he before graduation, a new possibility make her dream of becoming a Mariachi J-Def Peace Project, and his work with finds himself lost in translation. seems to be able to open previously Superstar come true. the area’s youth. shut opportunities. Fifi, un inmigrante dulce pero María es una adolescente Mexico- J-Def es la historia de Jeff Maldonado, horriblemente incomprendido, trabaja En su último año de preparatoria, Ilse Americana que esta comprometida un artista de la comunidad de Pilsen en duro para lograr su versión del Sueño Cruz enfrenta las realidades de ser con la música del mariachi. En este Chicago. El comienza un programa de Americano. Inspirado en obtener una indocumentada – ir a la universidad o cortometraje, María nos cuenta cómo la arte después de que su hijo muere en licencia para conducir un taxi, Fifi se visitar su tierra natal en México parecen música del mariachi ha cambiado su vida un tiroteo. Esta película habla sobre el encuentra en absoluta histeria en el ser imposibles, sin embargo, unos y nos enseña lo duro que ha trabajado desarrollo de su programa, el Proyecto Departamento de Vehículos cuando se meses antes de su graduación, una para realizar su sueño de ser una de Paz J-Def, y su trabajo con los pierde en la traducción. nueva posibilidad parece poder abrir las superestrella del mariachi. jóvenes de la zona. puertas. Shown with: I Am a Politician / Shown with: Eliseo Alberto: In Yo Soy un Político One Corner of the Soul/Eliseo Shown with: The Way Shown with: The Way to Andina Saturday, April 22, 8:45 PM Alberto: En un rincón del alma to Andina Saturday, April 29, 3:30 PM Sunday, April 23, 3:45 PM Saturday, April 22, 3:45 PM Saturday, April 29, 3:30 PM Monday, May 1, 5:30 PM Monday, April 24, 6:15 PM Monday, April 24, 5:30 PM Monday, May 1, 5:30 PM

Mariachi Madness Milk Playing America’s Game Undocumented USA/2016/25 min. USA/2016/12 min. USA/2015/12 min. USA/2015/7 min. Produced by Kaitlin Southworth, Directed by Nadia Zoe Directed by Gabriella A. Moses Directed by Chris Cashman Alison Davis Wood, Tim Hartin Genre: Comedy Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Documentary English English & Spanish w/ English English English & Spanish w/ subtitles English subtitles

When his girlfriend’s 16 year old cat Nina, a 9 year-old Dominican American "Playing America's Game" examines the What would the process of deporting dies while under his care, Alex turns to girl rejected by her peers in school history of Latinos in baseball and profiles 11 million undocumented citizens in the his father, a former mariachi, for help. because of her albinism, finds solace University of Illinois history professor United States look like? The American As the Mexican community grows in in the death of an albino deer in her Adrian Burgos Jr., whose work discusses dream no longer exists, it is the year New York City, so do the challenges of community as she is forced to be friends the trials faced by Latin players in the 2020 and 4 million undocumented romancing traditions. with her bully. days of baseball segregation. citizens have been deported. Human beings are hunted down by the Cuando el gato de 16 años de su novia Nina, una niña dominicana de 9 años "Playing America’s Game" examina la government, families are torn apart, and muere bajo su cuidado, Alex se dirige a rechazada por sus compañeros de historia de los latinos en el béisbol a lives are being lost. su padre, un ex mariachi, para pedirle escuela por su albinismo, encuentra través del profesor de historia Adrián ayuda. A medida que la comunidad consuelo en la muerte de un ciervo Burgos Jr. de la Universidad de Illinois, ¿Cómo sería el proceso de deportar a mexicana crece en la ciudad de Nueva albino en su comunidad mientras se ve quien comenta las dificultades de los 11 millones de indocumentados en los York, también crecen los desafíos de las obligada a ser amiga de su bravucona. jugadores latinos segregacios por el Estados Unidos? El sueño americano ya tradiciones para enamorar. deporte. no existe, es el año 2020 y 4 millones de indocumentados han sido deportados. Seres humanos son perseguidos por el gobierno, familias son destruidas, y Shown with: Mad About Her / vidas se pierden. Uma Loucura de Mulher Shown with: Esteban Shown with: Los Fabulosos Ma’ Shown with: At Your Doorstep / Friday, April 21, 6:00 PM Thursday, April 27, 6:00 PM Mejores Cerca de tu casa Sunday, April 23, 3:30 PM Friday, April 28, 6:00 PM Sunday, April 30, 3:00 PM Friday, April 28, 6:15 PM Monday, April 24, 8:00 PM Sunday, April 30, 3:15 PM Tuesday, May 2, 5:30 PM Monday, May 1, 5:45 PM

32 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 Shorts: usa / venezuela

Victor & Isolina Vida Muertos Yvolina Child for Child / Hijo USA/2016/6 min. USA/2016/17 min. USA/2016/5 min. por Hijo Directed by William D. Directed by Thomas Directed by Esaú Meléndez Venezuela/2016/11 min. Caballero Javier Castillo Genre: Documentary Directed by Juan Avella Genre: /Documentary Genre: Drama/Noir English & Spanish w/ Genre: Thriller/Drama English English English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles

This documentary in a unique style In this allegorical short, Catrina Stone is Marcelina is a single mother and The life of a Venezuelan kidnapper takes of hybrid animation tells the story of a Death Enforcement agent who tracks, immigrant who has struggled for many an unexpected turn while on the job. Victor and Isolina, a couple in their apprehends and deports the dead who years to make a living. When she When the roles in a tense situation are 80’s, now living apart, who answer their have crossed illegally into the realm begins to make and sell a unique type reversed, emotions and adrenaline will grandson’s (the filmmaker) questions of the living. This story touches on of tamales, her situation changes. Her be the driving force. about their life-long, complex, and immigration policy through the lens of business begins to grow by word of arduous relationship. , science fiction and Día de los mouth until she ultimately accomplishes La vida de un secuestrador venezolano Muertos iconography. her dream of opening a restaurant. toma un giro inesperado en su trabajo. Este documental en un estilo único de Cuando los roles en una situación animación híbrida cuenta la historia En este corto alegórico, Catrina Marcelina, inmigrante y madre soltera, tensa se invierten, las emociones y la de Víctor e Isolina, una pareja en sus Stone es un Agente de Inmigración ha luchado por muchos años por adrenalina serán la fuerza motriz. ochentas, ahora viviendo separados, de Muertos que rastrea, arresta y ganarse la vida. Cuando comienza a que responde preguntas a su nieto (el deporta a los muertos que han cruzado hacer y vender un único tipo de tamales, director) sobre su relación compleja, ilegalmente al mundo de los vivos. Esta su situación cambia. Su negocio empieza ardua, y de toda la vida. historia hace referencia a la política de a crecer hasta que finalmente cumple su inmigración a través del lente del film sueño de abrir un restaurante. noir, la ciencia ficción y la iconografía del Día de los Muertos. Shown with: Not Like Before/Ya No es Antes Shown with: Generation Wolf/ Shown with: Dogs/Perros Friday, April 21, 8:30 PM Generación Lobo Shown with: The Way to Andina Friday, April 28, 7:00 PM Saturday, April 22, 6:00 PM Thursday, April 27, 8:00 PM Saturday, April 29, 3:30 PM Sunday, April 30, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 23, 6:00 PM Saturday, April 29, 8:30 PM Monday, May 1, 5:30 PM Wednesday, May 3, 8:30 PM

Crab’s Flight/El Vuelo The Guilt, Probably/La Hold / Arraigo Spark de los Cangrejos Culpa, Probablemente Venezuela/2016/8 min. Venezuela/USA/2016 19 min. Venezuela/2015/12 min. Venezuela/2016/14 min. Directed by María Laura Reina Directed by Juan Martínez Vera Directed by Bhima Gandica, Inti Directed by Michael Labarca Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Torres Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English subtitles Spanish w/ English subtitles

After finding a body buried in the beach, It is the dead of night and there is a Maria, a 10-year-old girl, does not “Spark” tells the story of Oscar, a Pablo and Luis tell their mother, Rosa. blackout in the city. A single mother is accept that her older brother has Venezuelan student who is detained Rosa decides to go to the town's only visited by Candido, her former partner to leave the house to find better for helping organize a protest against authority, Prefect Ledezma. When Pablo and her most recent failure as a father opportunities, leaving her in the care of the violence. After an internet shut suspects Ledezma might be involved in figure for her little girl. He returns a neighbor. She refuses to say goodbye, down, Oscar’s mother and friends use the murder, Rosa decides to go against because he wants to protect them from but must face reality. a Bluetooth-based software called her own principles to protect her sons. the dark, probably. SPARK to create a campaign demanding María, una niña de 10 años, no acepta Oscar’s liberation. Después de encontrar un cuerpo Es de noche y hay un apagón en la que su hermano mayor tenga que enterrado en la playa, Pablo y Luis le ciudad. Una madre soltera es visitada irse de la casa en busca de mejores “Spark” cuenta la historia de Oscar, cuentan a su madre, Rosa. Rosa, decide por Cándido, su ex pareja y su fracaso oportunidades, dejándola al cuidado de un estudiante detenido por ayudar ir a la única autoridad del pueblo, más reciente como figura paterna una vecina. Ella se niega a despedirse, a organizar una protesta contra la el prefecto Ledezma. Cuando Pablo para su niña. Él regresa porque pero deberá enfrentarse a la realidad. violencia. Después de un apagón de la sospecha que Ledezma podría estar quiere protegerlas de la oscuridad, red, la mamá de Oscar y sus amigos, involucrado en el asesinato, Rosa decide probablemente. usan el software de Bluetooth llamado ir en contra de sus propios principios SPARK para crear un movimiento social para proteger a sus hijos. demandando la liberación de Oscar.

Shown with: That Thing Called Shown with: One Last Shown with: Lost North / Shown with: The Nobodies/Los Love/Eso Que Llaman Amor Afternoon / La Última Tarde Sin Norte Nadie Saturday, April 22, 4:00 PM Saturday, April 22, 9:00 PM Sunday, April 30, 5:15 PM Saturday, April 29, 4:00 PM Monday, April 24, 8:45 PM Tuesday, April 25, 6:30 PM Tuesday, May 2, 8:00 PM Monday, May 1, 8:00 PM

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 33 ASÍ DECIMOS “AMISTAD”

Todo con medida. Corona Extra® . Importada por Crown Imports, Chicago, IL

34 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 We’re here to help.

BMO Harris Bank is proud to support the Chicago Latino Film Festival.

BMO Harris Bank N.A. Member FDIC bmoharris.com

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 35 322 E. Illinois St. TheATer 7 TheATer The Cliff / Acantilado The Cliff The Arrival of Conrado sierra / That Thing Called Love / One Night of Love / soy i am a politician / Yo i am a politician / Yo soy i am a politician / Yo The Arrival of Conrado sierra / / Acantilado The Cliff 6:45pm Spain / 2016 96 min. Helena Taberna Director: 9:15pm the sky Shown with i Came From del Cielo / Vengo Uruguay / 5 min. el Arribo de Conrado sierra México / 2016 96 min. René Pereyra Director: 4:00pm eso que Llaman Amor Colombia / 2016 92 min. Carlos César Arbeláez Director: 6:30pm Shown with Crabs’ Flight / de los Cangrejos el Vuelo / 12 min. Venezuela 8:45pm Una Noche de Amor / 2016 95 min. Argentina Hernán Guerschuny Director: un político Puerto Rico / 2016 90 min. Javier Colón Ríos Director: Shown with Fifi Patelito Goes to the D.m.V. USA / Dominican Republic /15 min. 3:45pm un político Puerto Rico / 2016 90 min. Javier Colón Ríos Director: 6:15pm Shown with Fifi Patelito Goes to the D.m.V. USA / Dominican Republic /15 min. 8:15pm el Arribo de Conrado sierra México / 2016 96 min. René Pereyra Director: Spain / 2016 96 min. Helena Taberna Director: the sky Shown with i Came From del Cielo / Vengo Uruguay / 5 min. AmC river east 21 Theatres TheATer 6 TheATer Jericó: The Infi nite Flight of Days / reads and writes Andrés eliseo Alberto: in One Corner of Olancho / reads and writes Andrés Jericó: The Infi nite Flight of Days / reads and writes Andrés boquerón 6:30pm / Jericó: el infi nito vuelo de los días Cartitas Colombia / 2016 78 min. Catalina Mesa Director: 8:45pm Shown with Lovely Letters / Uruguay / 20 min. Lee i escribe Andrés Chile / 2016 92 min. Daniel Peralta Director: Shown with Arriba Peru / 9 min. 3:45pm the soul / eliseo Alberto: en un rincón del Alma Cuba / El Salvador 2016 93 min. 6:15pm Dalton Jorge Director: Shown with ilse USA / 14 min. Honduras / USA 2016 70 min. Chris Valdes, Directors: 8:45pm Griswold Ted Shown with The search / USA 24 min. Argentina Lee i escribe Andrés Chile / 2016 92 min. Daniel Peralta Director: Shown with Arriba Peru / 9 min. 3:15pm / Jericó: el infi nito vuelo de los días Cartitas Colombia / 2016 78 min. Catalina Mesa Director: 5:30pm Shown with Lovely Letters / Uruguay / 20 min. Lee i escribe Andrés Chile / 2016 92 min. 8:00pm Daniel Peralta Director: Shown with Arriba Peru / 9 min. Bolivia / 2015 120 min. Antezana Tonchy Director: TheATer 5 TheATer mad About her / / Not Like before the park / my Friend from No es Antes / Ya Not Like before Yerma mad About her / / Not Like before Yerma 6:00pm Uma Loucura de mulher Brazil / 2016 92 min. 8:30pm Ligocki Jr. Marcus Director: Shown with mariachi madness USA / 12 min. No es Antes Ya Cuba / 2016 95 min. Lester Hamlet Director: Shown with Victor & isolina USA / 6 min. 3:30pm mi Amiga del parque / Uruguay 2015 Argentina 85 min. 6:00pm Ana Katz Director: Shown with maría bonita México / 18 min. Cuba / 2016 95 min. 8:30pm Lester Hamlet Director: Shown with Victor & isolina USA / 6 min. Spain / 2016 90 min. Emilio Ruiz Barrachina Director: / Shown with i am buenos Aires soy buenos Aires Yo / 14 min. Argentina 3:30pm Uma Loucura de mulher Brazil / 2016 92 min. 6:00pm Ligocki Jr. Marcus Director: Shown with mariachi madness USA / 12 min. No es Antes Ya Cuba / 2016 95 min. 8:30pm Lester Hamlet Director: Shown with Victor & isolina USA / 6 min. Spain / 2016 90 min. Emilio Ruiz Barrachina Director: / Shown with i am buenos Aires soy buenos Aires Yo / 14 min. Argentina TheATer 4 TheATer Tamara and the Ladybug / Tamara for pepo / pa’l senado Vote wife / The Animal’s sugar Fields / Flor de Azúcar for pepo / pa’l senado Vote wife / The Animal’s 6:15pm for pepo / pa’l senado Vote 9:00pm inseparables Puerto Rico / 2016 123 min. Raúl García Director: / 2016 107 min. Argentina Carnevale Marcos Director: 3:15pm 5:45pm y la Catarina Tamara México / Spain 2016 107 min. Lucía Carreras Director: 8:30pm Puerto Rico / 2016 123 min. Raúl García Director: La mujer del Animal Colombia / 2016 116 min. Gaviria Victor Director: 3:00pm 5:15pm Dominican Republic / 2016 110 min. Fernando Báez Director: 8:00pm Puerto Rico / 2016 123 min. Raúl García Director: La mujer del Animal Colombia / 2016 116 min. Gaviria Victor Director: theater schedule April 20 – May 4 TheATer 3 TheATer Costa Rica / 18 min. maligno Brazil / 18 min. The First born / el revenge / La Vingança One Last Afternoon / On the roof / el Techo me for a ride / Take maligno

7:00pm On the roof / el Techo Cuba / Nicaragua 2016 75 min Patricia Ramos Director: Hernández 9:15pm born/ There Shown with i was soy de Allá Yo Perú / 2016 87 min. Martin Paco Bardales, Directors: Casapia Casanova Shown with T he bag / A bolsa 4:15pm de la Familia el primero Chile / 2016 82 min. Carlos Leiva Barahona Director: 6:45pm Shown with brazilian steakhouse/ espeto Corrido Brazil / 20 min. / 2016 90 min. Brazil / Argentina Fernando Fraiha Director: 9:00pm Shown with Count Us in / Cuenta Con Nosotros Spain / 17 min. La última Tarde Perú / Colombia 2016 81 min. Joel Calero Director: / Shown with The Guilt, probably La Culpa, probablemente / 14 min. Venezuela 4:00pm Cuba / Nicaragua 2016 75 min. Patricia Ramos Director: Hernández 6:30pm born/ There Shown with i was soy de Allá Yo Costa Rica / 18 min. UIO: Sácame a Pasear Ecuador / México Colombia 2016 / 68 min. 8:30pm Micaela Rueda Director: Shown with illusive / inexistentes Spain / 15 min Perú / 2016 87 min. Paco Bardales, Directors: Martin Casapia Casanova Shown with The bag / A bolsa Brazil / 18 min.

FriDAY, ApriL 21sT ApriL FriDAY, 22ND ApriL sATUrDAY, 23rD ApriL sUNDAY,

36 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 olitician / Yo S oy I am a P olitician / Yo un P olítico Puerto Rico / 2016 90 min. Javier Colón Ríos Director: Shown with Fifi Patelito Goes to the D. M .V. USA / Dominican Republic 15 min. That Thing Called Love / Colombia / 2016 92 min. Carlos César Arbeláez Director: Shown with Crabs’ Flight / / 12 min. Venezuela / Acantilado The Cliff Spain / 2016 96 min. Helena Taberna Director: the S ky Shown with I Came From del Cielo / Vengo Uruguay / 5 min. S alsipuedes Panama / 2016 95 min. Aguilar Navarro, Ricardo Directors: Manolito Rodríguez The M other / La adre Spain / Romania France 2016 89 min. Alberto Morais Shown with R osario México / 10 min. Crazy in Love / Locos de Amor Perú / 2016 111 min. Frank Pérez-Garland Director: The E mpty B ox / La Caja Vacía México / France 2016 101 min. Claudia Sainte-Luce Director: Not Cheating / P ermitidos That’s / 2016 106 min. Argentina Ariel Winograd Director: 6:15pm 8:45pm e so Q ue Llaman Amor de los Cangrejos e l Vuelo 6:00pm 8:30pm 6:00pm 8:15pm 6:30pm 8:45pm E liseo Alberto: I n One Corner of the S oul / E liseo Alberto: n un Cuba / El Salvador 2016 93 min. Dalton Jorge Director: Shown with I lse USA / 14 min. Olancho Honduras / USA 2016 70 min. Chris Valdes, Directors: Griswold Ted Shown with The S earch / USA 24 min. Argentina 4 Litros The 4 Liters / Otros Guatemala / 2016 90 min. Rodolfo Espinosa Director: - / Taxime Shown with Taximetry Paraguay / 14 min. Dark S kull / Viejo Calavera Bolivia / Qatar 2016 77 min. Russo Kiro Director: Shown with Nobody is B ad After Dead / No H ay M uerto alo Chile / 25 min. Portugal / 2015 98 min. João Nicolau Director: Dark S kull / Viejo Calavera Bolivia / Qatar 2016 77 min. Russo Kiro Director: Shown with Nobody is B ad After Dead / No H ay M uerto alo Chile / 25 min. 4 litros The 4 Liters / Otros Guatemala / 2016 90 min. Rodolfo Espinosa Director: - / Taxime Shown with Taximetry Paraguay / 14 min. The Last Land / La última Tierra Paraguay / Netherlands Chile Qatar / 2016 77 min. Pablo Lamar Director: Shown with The E arth Did Not S peak / La Tierra No H abló Guatemala / USA 30 min. 5:30pm r incón del Alma 8:00pm 5:30pm tria 8:00pm 6:30pm j ohn From 8:30pm 5:30pm tria 8:00pm olf / y Friend from the P ark / M y Friend from / Uruguay 2015 Argentina 85 min. Ana Katz Director: Shown with M aría B onita México / 18 min. M ad About H er / Uma Loucura de M ulher Brazil / 2016 92 min. Ligocki Jr. Marcus Director: Shown with M ariachi adness USA / 12 min. Spain / 2016 90 min. Emilio Ruiz Barrachina Director: / Shown with I am B uenos Aires S oy B uenos Aires Yo / 14 min. Argentina o Nada All or Nothing / Todo USA / 2016 94 min. Max Da Silva Director: Chile / 2016 89 min. Claudia Huaiquimilla Director: Shown with E legy / legía Spain / 16 min. USA / 2016 90 min. Juan Daniel Zavaleta Director: Chile / 2016 89 min. Claudia Huaiquimilla Director: Shown with Elegy / Elegía Spain / 16 min. Generation W Generación Lobo Chile / Canada 2016 90 min. Christian de la Cortina Director: Shown with Vida M uertos USA / 17 min. 5:30pm m i Amiga del P arque 8:00pm 5:45pm Yerma 8:15pm 5:45pm Bad Influence / Mala Junta 8:00pm Glorious 5:45pm Bad Influence / Mala Junta 8:00pm edding / La P eor de orst W Perú / 2016 95 min. Adolfo Aguilar Director: / 2016 107 min. Argentina Carnevale Marcos Director: Tamara and the Ladybug / Tamara y la Catarina Tamara México / Spain 2016 107 min. Lucía Carreras Director: W ife / The Animal’s La M ujer del Animal Colombia / 2016 116 min. Gaviria Victor Director: / Desaparecer Vanished Perú / 2016 95 min. Dorian Fernández-Moris Director: The M oderns / Los M odernos Uruguay / 2016 134 min. Sarser, Mauro Directors: Matta Marcela Cuba / 2016 90 min. Jonal Cosculluela Director: Shown with M ilk / Leche USA / 12 min. / OVN I U.F.O. Dominican Republic / Puerto Rico / 2016 93 min. Sánchez Raúl Marchand Director: Shown with Another S hort / Corto Otro Puerto Rico / 7 min. 8:15pm I nseparables m is B odas 6:00pm 8:30pm 6:15pm m y W 5:30pm 7:30pm 6:00pm E steban 8:15pm orn There / as B orn There The First B orn / Chile / 2016 82 min. Carlos Leiva Barahona Director: Shown with B razilian S teakhouse/ Brazil / 20 min. On the R oof / E l Techo Cuba / Nicaragua 2016 75 min. Patricia Ramos Director: Hernández Shown with I W S oy de Allá Yo Costa Rica / 18 min. One Last Afternoon / La última Tarde Perú / Colombia 2016 81 min. Joel Calero Director: / Shown with The Guilt, probably La Culpa, P robablemente / 14 min. Venezuela E l R evenge / La Vingança / 2016 90 min. Brazil / Argentina Fernando Fraiha Director: Shown with Count Us I n / Cuenta Con Nosotros Spain / 17 min. Brazil / 2016 71 min. Luciana Canton Director: of the Shown with The Awakening Ants: Childhood / E l Despertar de las H ormigas: Niñez Costa Rica / 18 min. E l Amparo / Colombia 2016 Venezuela 99 min. Rober Calzadilla Director: Brazil / 2016 71 min. Luciana Canton Director: of the Shown with The Awakening Ants: Childhood / E l Despertar de las H ormigas: Niñez Costa Rica / 18 min. / S uch is Life in the Tropics Ecuador / México Germany 2016 / 100 min. Sebastián Cordero Director:

8:45pm 8:30pm 8:30pm s in M uertos No H ay Carnaval 5:45pm de la Familia e l P rimero 8:15pm e speto Corrido 6:30pm 6:15pm p ublic I ntimacy / ntimidade p ública 6:15pm p ublic I ntimacy / ntimidade p ública

h t 25 l pri a , day es tu h t 26 l pri a , day es dn we h t 27 l pri a , day rs u h t h t 24 l pri a , onday m

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 37 322 E. Illinois St. TheATer 7 TheATer 7:00pm Dogs / perros / Colombia / Argentina 2016 / 83 min. Trompetero Harold Director: 9:15pm Shown with Child for / hijo / At the end of Tunnel por hijo / 11 min. Venezuela Al Final del Túnel / Spain 2016 /120 min. Argentina Rodrigo Grande Director: 4:30pm Not Cheating / permitidos That’s 6:45pm between sea and Land / / 2016 106 min. Argentina Ariel Winograd Director: el mar y La Ciénaga: entre 9:00pm la Tierra / the rooster Crows before Colombia / 2016 98 min. Carlos Del Castillo Director: Antes que Cante el Gallo Puerto Rico / 2016 98 min. Arí Maniel Cruz Director: 4:00pm Crazy in Love / Locos de Amor 6:15pm / At the end of Tunnel Perú / 2016 111 min. Frank Pérez-Garland Director: 8:45pm Al Final del Túnel Dogs / perros / Spain 2016 120 min. Argentina Rodrigo Grande Director: / Colombia / Argentina 2016 / 83 min. Trompetero Harold Director: Shown with Child for / hijo por / 11 min. Venezuela AmC river east 21 Theatres TheATer 6 TheATer 6:45pm / OVNi U.F.O. Dominican Republic / Puerto Rico / 2016 93 min. Sánchez Raúl Marchand Director: 9:00pm Shown with Another short / / Vigilia Corto being Awake Otro Puerto Rico / 7 min. / 2016 Uruguay / Argentina 108 min. Julieta Ledesma Director: 3:30pm to Andina The way USA / 2017 70 min. Arlen Parsa Producer: 5:45pm Shown with j-Def / maria The Last Land / La última Tierra mariachi / Yvolina USA / 15 min. Paraguay / Netherlands Chile Qatar / 2016 77 min. Pablo Lamar Director: 8:15pm h.O.m.e. Shown with The earth Did Not speak / La Tierra No habló Guatemala / USA 30 min. USA / 2016 73 min. Daniel Maldonado Director: of the Shown with The Texture de la Luz Light / La Textura Puerto Rico / USA 22 min. 3:00pm Los Fabulosos ma’ mejores Dominican Republic / 2015 / 80 min. Carlos Manuel Plasencia Director: 5:15pm Shown with playing Game Lost North / sin Norte America’s USA / 25 min. Chile / 2015 93 min. 7:45pm Fernando Lavanderos Director: / Vigilia being Awake Shown with hold / Arraigo / 8 min. Venezuela / Uruguay / Argentina 2016 / 108 min. Julieta Ledesma Director: TheATer 5 TheATer el peluquero romántico el peluquero 6:15pm At your Doorstep / de tu Casa Cerca Spain / 2016 93 min. 8:30pm Cortés Eduard Director: holy biker / reza a Lenda Shown with Undocumented USA / 7 min. Brazil / 2016 85 min. Olivetto Homero Director: Shown with The pastor’s Daughter / La hija del pastor Panama / 10 min. 4:00pm The Nobodies / Los Nadie Colombia / 2016 84 min. 6:30pm Juan Sebastián Mesa Director: el malquerido Shown with spark / USA 19 min. Venezuela 8:30pm / / 2015 95 min. Generation wolf Venezuela Diego Rísquez Director: Generación Lobo Chile / Canada 2016 90 min. Christian de la Cortina Director: Shown with Vida muertos USA / 17 min. 3:30pm The romantic barber / 6:00pm México / Spain Brazil The solitude / La soledad 2016 / 98 min. Dueñas Iván Ávila Director: / 2016 89 min. Venezuela Thielen Armand Jorge Director: 8:15pm Life / Shown with The box of Your holy biker / reza a Lenda La Caja de tu Vida Spain / 12 min. Brazil / 2016 85 min. Olivetto Homero Director: Shown with The pastor’s Daughter / La hija del pastor Panama / 10 min. TheATer 4 TheATer 6:00pm esteban Cuba / 2016 90 min. 8:15pm Jonal Cosculluela Director: of mexico / La habitación Tales Shown with milk / Leche USA / 12 min. México / Poland 2016 /120 min. Daniel Carlos Carrera, Directors: Giménez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Alfonso Ernesto Contreras, Iván Valle, Pineda-Ulloa, Alejandro Dueñas, Natalia Beristáin Ávila 3:45pm / OVNi U.F.O. Dominican Republic / Puerto Rico 2016 / 93 min. Sánchez Raúl Marchand Director: 6:15pm Shown with Another short / / Corto extra Terrestrials Otro Puerto Rico / 7 min. extra Terrestres 9:00pm / Puerto Rico / Venezuela of mexico / La habitación Tales 2016 / 110 min. Carla Cavina Director: México / Poland 2016 120 min. Daniel Carlos Carrera, Directors: Giménez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Alfonso Ernesto Contreras, Valle, Pineda-Ulloa, Alejandro Dueñas, Natalia Beristáin Iván Ávila 3:15pm esteban Cuba / 2016 90 min. 5:30pm Jonal Cosculluela Director: / extra Terrestrials Shown with milk / Leche USA / 12 min. extra Terrestres 8:00pm / Puerto Rico / Venezuela of mexico / La habitación Tales 2016 / 110 min. Carla Cavina Director: México / Poland 2016 120 min. Daniel Carlos Carrera, Directors: Giménez Cacho, Carlos Bolado, Alfonso Ernesto Contreras, Valle, Pineda-Ulloa, Alejandro Dueñas, Natalia Beristáin Iván Ávila theater schedule April 20 – May 4 TheATer 3 TheATer The Night of the wild boar / / such is Life in the Tropics The Night of the wild boar /

La Noche Del jabalí Chile / 2016 74 min. Tenorio Ramiro Director: rage / Shown with Clara’s La rabia de Clara México / 21 min. sin muertos No hay Carnaval Ecuador / México Germany 2016 / 100 min. Sebastián Cordero Director: La Noche Del jabalí Chile / 2016 74 min. Tenorio Ramiro Director: rage / Shown with Clara’s La rabia de Clara México / 21 min. 6:30pm / extra Terrestrials extra Terrestres 9:00pm / Puerto Rico / Venezuela 2016 / 110 min. Carla Cavina Director: 4:15pm Falls / Amama when a Tree 6:30pm public intimacy / Spain / 2015 103 min. Asier Altuna Director: intimidade pública Brazil / 2016 71 min. Luciana Canton Director: of the Shown with The Awakening Ants: Childhood / 8:45pm el Despertar de las hormigas: Niñez Costa Rica / 18 min. 3:45pm me for a ride / Take UiO: sácame a pasear Ecuador / México Colombia / 2016 68 min. 5:45pm Micaela Rueda Director: mon Amour haiti my Love / Ayiti Shown with illusive / inexistentes Spain / 15 min Haiti / 2016 86 min. 8:15pm Guetty Felin Director: / Yucas Shown with Yucca Colombia / 13 min.

FriDAY, ApriL 28Th ApriL FriDAY, sATUrDAY, ApriL 29Th ApriL sATUrDAY, 1sT mAY sUNDAY,

38 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 Como en el Cine Perú / 2015 96 min. Gonzalo Ladines Director: Shown with The Good M other / B uena La M adre México / United Kingdom 6 min. The E mpty B ox / La Caja Vacía México / France 2016 101 min. Claudia Sainte-Luce Director: el M ar y La Ciénaga: E ntre la Tierra Colombia / 2016 98 min. Carlos Del Castillo Director: Panama / 2016 95 min. Aguilar Navarro, Ricardo Directors: Manolito Rodríguez The M other / La adre Spain / Romania France 2016 / 89 min. Alberto Morais Shown with R osario México / 10 min. Dogs / P erros / Colombia / Argentina 2016 / 83 min. Trompetero Harold Director: Shown with Child for / / 11 min. Venezuela 6:00pm j ust Like in the M ovies / 8:30pm 6:15pm b etween S ea and Land / 8:15pm S alsipuedes 6:15pm 8:30pm h ijo por H 7:00pm TBA 9:00pm TBA

ay to Andina USA / 2016 73 min. Daniel Maldonado Director: of the Shown with The Texture de la Luz Light / La Textura Puerto Rico / USA 22 min. USA / 2017 70 min. Arlen Parsa Producer: Shown with J -Def / USA / 15 min. The W Los Fabulosos M a’ ejores Dominican Republic / 2015 / 80 min. Carlos Manuel Plasencia Director: Shown with P laying Game America’s USA / 25 min. Lost North / S in Norte Chile / 2015 93 min. Fernando Lavanderos Director: Shown with H old / Arraigo / 8 min. Venezuela Panama / 2016 70 min. Frank Spano, Directors: Guillermo Bárcenas Portugal / 2015 98 min. João Nicolau Director: Panama / 2016 70 min. Frank Spano, Directors: Guillermo Bárcenas Bolivia / 2015 120 min. Antezana Tonchy Director:

7:45pm H .O. M . E m aria M ariachi / Yvolina 5:30pm 5:30pm 8:00pm 5:30pm H idden 5:30pm H idden 7:30pm j ohn From 7:30pm B oquerón At your Doorstep / de tu Casa Cerca Spain / 2016 93 min. Cortés Eduard Director: Shown with Undocumented USA / 7 min. The Nobodies / Los Nadie Colombia / 2016 84 min. Juan Sebastián Mesa Director: Shown with S park / USA 19 min. Venezuela The R omantic B arber / México / Spain Brazil 2016 / 98 min. Dueñas Iván Ávila Director: / 2015 95 min. Venezuela Diego Rísquez Director: The R omantic B arber / México / Spain Brazil 2016 / 98 min. Dueñas Iván Ávila Director: o Nada All or Nothing / Todo USA / 2016 94 min. Max Da Silva Director: USA / 2016 90 min. Juan Daniel Zavaleta Director: The S olitude / La oledad / 2016 89 min. Venezuela Thielen Armand Jorge Director: Life / Shown with The B ox of Your La Caja de tu Vida Spain / 12 min. 5:45pm 8:00pm 5:30pm R omántico e l P eluquero 7:45pm e l M alquerido 5:45pm R omántico e l P eluquero 8:00pm 6:15pm Glorious 8:30pm edding / orst W La P eor de M is B odas Perú / 2016 95 min. Adolfo Aguilar Director: Antes Q ue Cante el Gallo Puerto Rico / 2016 98 min. Arí Maniel Cruz Director: / Desaparecer Vanished Perú / 2016 95 min. Dorian Fernández-Moris Director: Como en el Cine Perú / 2015 96 min. Gonzalo Ladines Director: Shown with The Good M other / B uena La M adre México / United Kingdom 6 min. Antes Q ue Cante el Gallo Puerto Rico / 2016 98 min. Arí Maniel Cruz Director: Dominican Republic / 2016 110 min. Fernando Báez Director: Como en el Cine Perú / 2015 96 min. Gonzalo Ladines Director: Shown with The Good M other / B uena La M adre México / United Kingdom 6 min. The M oderns / Los M odernos Uruguay / 2016 134 min. Sarser, Mauro Directors: Matta Marcela

6:15pm / the R ooster Crows b efore 8:45pm 5:45pm j ust Like in the M ovies / 8:15pm / R ooster Crows the b efore 6:00pm s ugar Fields / Flor de Azúcar 8:15pm m y W 5:45pm j ust Like in the M ovies / 8:15pm eed / K enke eed / K enke Panama / Guatemala 2015 / 85 min. Him Enrique Pérez Director: Haiti / 2016 86 min. Guetty Felin Director: / Yucas Shown with Yucca Colombia / 13 min. Volviendo Vengo Ecuador / 2015 103 min. Gabriel Páez Hernández, Directors: Isabel Rodas The Night of the W ild B oar / La Noche Del J abalí Chile / 2016 74 min. Tenorio Ramiro Director: R age / Shown with Clara’s La R abia de Clara México / 21 min. Volviendo Vengo Ecuador / 2015 103 min. Gabriel Páez Hernández, Directors: Isabel Rodas / Colombia Venezuela 2016 / 99 min. Rober Calzadilla Director: Spain / 2015 103 min. Asier Altuna Director: Panama / Guatemala 2015 / 85 min. Him Enrique Pérez Director:

8:00pm M on Amour h aiti M y Love / Ayiti 5:45pm / and There h ere 6:00pm w 5:30pm / and There h ere 6:00pm Falls / Amama w hen a Tree 8:15pm 8:00pm e l Amparo 8:15pm w

t 1s ay m , onday m nd 2 ay m , day es tu d 3r ay m , day es dn we h t 4 ay m , day rs u h t

Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 20-May 4, 2017 | 39