Discovering New Cinema from and

HISPANIC FILM FESTIVAL Hosted by the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Gustavus Adolphus College

WHEN February 25 – March 25, 2012 WHERE Wallenberg Auditorium

In collaboration with Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies (LALACS), Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, History, Theater & Dance, English, Scandinavian Studies, Religion, Peace Studies, Communication Studies, Admissionʼs Office, Marketing & Publicity Office and the Nicollet Historic Society.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 25, 2012

EVEN THE RAIN [También la Lluvia] Icíar Bollaín / 104 min. / 2011 / Spain, Mexico, 6:00 PM Filmmaker Sebastian (Gael García Bernal) and his cynical producer Costa () arrive in , Bolivia to make a film about Columbusʼs voyage to the New World and the subjugation of the indigenous population. Just as filming begins, the natives face a crisis when the government privatizes the water company and prices skyrocket. Daily protests erupt and the local man cast as a rebellious sixteenth century Taino chief, also becomes a leader in the water hike protests.

MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2012

THE FISH CHILD [El Niño Pez] Lucía Puenzo / 96 min. / 2011 / Argentina, Spain, France 6:00 PM Lala (Inés Efron, in a performance called evocative of early Sissy Spacek and Chloë Sevigny) is the privileged teenage daughter of a powerful judge, and sheʼs fallen hard for her familyʼs maid, La Guayi (singer Mariela Vitale, making her feature-film debut). The two women plot to escape Buenos Aires and live together on the remote shores of Paraguayʼs Lake Ypoá. Before they can carry out their plan, Lalaʼs father is murdered and she runs away from home and heads toward Guayiʼs village in Paraguay, hoping that her lover will follow. While in Paraguay, she begins to explore Guayiʼs troubled past.

MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2012

LA YUMA Florence Jaugey / 91 min. / 2011 / Nicaragua 7:00 PM Nicaraguaʼs first full-length feature in 20 years, La Yuma tells the story of a young woman who dreams of transcending her bleak life in the slums of Managua by becoming a boxer. Looking beyond the meager possibilities that seem available to her (and ignoring the advice of her gang-member friends), she finds solace and hope in her training and falls in love with a middle-class journalism student.

MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2012

UNDERTOW [Contracorriente] Javier Fuentes León / 100 min. / 2010 / Peru, Colombia, France, Germany 7:00 PM Miguel is a handsome, young and beloved fisherman in Cabo Blanco, a small fishing village in the Northern coast of Perú, where the community has deep-rooted religious traditions. Miguel is married to the beautiful Mariela, who is 7-months pregnant with their firstborn, but Miguel harbors a scandalous secret: He is having a love affair with another man, Santiago, a painter who is ostracized by the townsfolk for being agnostic and open about his sexuality. When Santiago drowns accidentally in the oceanʼs strong undertow, he cannot pass peacefully to the other side. He returns after his death to ask Miguel to look for his body and bury it according to the rituals of the town. Miguel must choose between sentencing Santiago to eternal torment or doing right by him and, in turn, revealing their relationship to Mariela and the entire village.

MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2012

CHICO & RITA , Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando / 94 min. / 2012 / Cuba, Spain 6:00 PM Oscar®-winning director Fernando Trueba (The Age of Beauty) and famous artist Javier Mariscal, have teamed up to make Chico & Rita, an animated love story starring the music, culture and people of Cuba. Chico is a dashing piano player and Rita is an enchanting and beautiful nightclub singer. When they meet, the sparks fly and they fall madly in love. An epic romance unfolds as the pair travels the glamorous stages of 1940s/1950s Havana, , Las Vegas, Hollywood and .

The Spanish Film Club series was made possible with the support of Pragda, the Ministry of Culture of Spain, and its Program for Cultural Cooperation with United States' Universities.