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FILM TICKETS FESTIVAL MERCHANDISE General Admission - $13 Film Festival T-shirt - $15 / $12 ILCC Member ILCC Members / Students / Seniors - $10 Film Festival Poster - $5 (Must present Valid ID) Merchandise can be purchased in the AMC River East 21 Mondays & Tuesdays - $10 Theatres’ lobby. Cash, Debit and major credit cards are accepted. Checks are not accepted. All sales are final. FILM PASSPORT TICKETS Film Passport: 12 General Admissions TICKET & MERCHANDISE POLICY $110 ($46 Savings) / $80 ILCC Member ($76 Savings) All sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges. Must present valid ID and ILCC membership ID at time of purchase to receive discount. HOW TO BUY TICKETS • Tickets can be purchased at CLFF Box Office in the AMC River East 21 Theatres’ lobby. Box office opens one hour before first show of the day.Cash, Debit and major credit cards are accepted. Checks are not accepted. All sales are final.
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MATINEE OUTREACH PROGRAM
Presently, in its 23rd 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 2018 Matinee Outreach Program is supported by a grant from the Reva and David Logan Foundation.
4 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 OPENING NIGHT GALA
BROCHE DE ORO: BEGINNINGS / BROCHE DE ORO: COMIENZOS Puerto Rico / 2017 / 87 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles Directed by Raúl Marchand Sánchez Genre: Comedy
Find out how the naughty trio of Rafael, Pablo and Anselmo became best Descubra cómo el travieso trío de Rafael, Pablo y Anselmo se conocieron en esta friends in this hilarious and touching prequel to Puerto Rico’s box office conmovedora y graciosa precuela al gran éxito puertorriqueño de taquilla, “Broche smash hit, “Broche de Oro”. Rafael (Jacobo Morales) reluctantly accepts de oro.” Rafael (Jacobo Morales) acepta renuentemente la decisión de su hijo de to be sent to a nursing home by his son after his wife’s death. There he mandarlo a un asilo de ancianos tras la muerte de su esposa. Allí conoce a Pablo meets Pablo (Diego de la Texera), a man with delusions of being a Don Juan, (Diego de la Texera), quien se sigue creyendo galán, y al hipocondríaco de Anselmo (Adrián García en una actuación llena de chispa). Con la ayuda de un trío de mujeres and hypochondriac Anselmo (a riotous turn from Adrián García). With the apodadas “Las Griegas” (Charytín Goyco, Georgina Borri y Noelia Crespo), ellos avivan help of a trio of women nicknamed “The Greeks” (Charytín Goyco, Georgina lo que de otro modo sería una existencia rutinaria. La rara precuela que funciona Borri y Noelia Crespo), they liven up what would otherwise be a routinary como una historia independiente, “Broche de Oro: Comienzos” supera con creces a existence. The rare prequel that works as a stand-alone story, “Broche de la original. Oro: Beginnings” far surpasses the original in its wit and poignancy. ADDITIONAL SCREENING (FILM ONLY): SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 6:00 PM THURSDAY, APRIL 5TH
DOORS OPEN: 5:30 PM | PROGRAM: 6:00 PM SHOWN WITH THE SHORT FILM: AMC River East 21 • 322 E. Illinois St. FROM NOW ON RECEPTION: FOLLOWING THE SCREENING AT USA / Puerto Rico / 2017 / 10 min. Directed by Ivonne Coll, Javier Colón Ríos Chez Genre: Drama 247 E. Ontario St. English Two middle age Latinas (Ivonne Coll and Dos latinas de mediana edad (Ivonne Coll TICKETS: $60 | ILCC Member $50 (Includes film, food & drinks) Ofelia Medina), stop by along the Malibu y Ofelia Medina) se detienen en la costa Purchase at ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org or on CLFF Facebook page. Coast, on their way to Northern California. de Malibú, camino al norte de California. Cocktail attire strongly recommended. Both from conservative families. They Ambas de familias conservadoras. have done something momentous today. Han hecho algo trascendental hoy. PARKING A phone message reveals to us, the life Un mensaje de teléfono nos revela la Discounted parking available at River East Parking Garage (lower level changing decision they have made. decisión que ha cambiado sus vidas. of theater, 322 E. Illinois St.). $18 for up to 8 hours. Discount parking voucher available at CLFF Information Table at theatre. SPONSORS CATERER
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 5 The International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago and Instituto Cervantes
present TAPAS, SANGRÍA & GUITARRA
Join us for an evening of food, music and film as we present the MONDAY, APRIL 9TH Chicago premiere of Javier Limón’s and Jorge Martínez’s musical documentary, “Flight of the Guitar: Dreaming of Paco de Lucía.” The Reception: 6:00 PM | Film & Performance: 7:00 PM screening will be preceded by a reception and followed by a solo performance by Mexican guitarist Andrea Salcedo, who studied with Instituto Cervantes the likes of Jesús de Araceli, Pepe Habichuela and Antonio Sánchez. 31 W Ohio St.
Acompáñenos en esta velada especial llena de comida, música y Tickets: $20 cine en dónde presentaremos el estreno en Chicago del documental ILCC & Instituto Cervantes Members: $15 musical de Javier Limón y Jorge Martínez, “La guitarra vuela: Purchase at ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org Soñando a Paco de Lucía”. La proyección será seguida por un breve recital de la guitarrista mexicana de flamenco Andrea Salcedo, quien Sponsor Caterer ha estudiado con tales grandes guitarristas como Jesús de Araceli, Pepe Habichuela y Antonio Sánchez.
For the film’s full synopsis and additional screening dates, turn to page 23.
The National Museum of Mexican Art and the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago
present TAKEDA Mexico / 2017 / 95 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles Directed by Ya’asib Vázquez Genre: Documentary
To rescue the identity, honor and tradition of ancient Japan through the Mexican Muralist movement: that is Japanese painter Shinzaburo Takeda’s FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH artistic mission. And through documentarian Ya´asib Vázquez’s camera, Film: 6:00 PM Takeda leads audiences on a journey through Mexico, through its colors, its strength and into a ritualized world perilously close to extinction. Takeda National Museum of Mexican Arts seeks contemplation, the essence of life and mankind. He teaches us to reconcile and discover in the language of art the means to express and 1852 W 19th St. reflect upon our human condition. Tickets: FREE with Advanced Reservation at Rescatar la identidad, honor y tradición del antiguo Japón desde su TakedaMovie.eventbrite.com acercamiento al muralismo mexicano: esa es la misión artística del pintor japonés Shinzaburo Takeda. Y a través del lente del documentalista Ya´asib Vázquez, Taqueda lleva al público a un viaje a través de un Sponsor México desconocido, de sus tradiciones llenas de color, fuerza y nostalgia hacia un mundo ritualizado en peligro de extinción. Apartado del mundo contemporáneo, Takeda busca la contemplación, la esencia de la vida y del ser humano. Nos enseña a conciliar y encontrar en el arte un lenguaje para expresar y resolver nuestra condición humana
6 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 CLOSING NIGHT GALA
THE SUMMIT / LA CORDILLERA Argentina / Spain / France / 2017 / 114 min. Spanish w/ English Subtitles Directed by Santiago Mitre Genre: Thriller
Ricardo Darin leads an all-star cast (Dolores Fonzi, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Alfredo Ricardo Darín encabeza un reparto estelar (Dolores Fonzi, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Castro, Paulina Garcia, and Christian Slater, among others) in Santiago Mitre’s Alfredo Castro, Paulina García y Christian Slater, entre otros) en este thriller de highly charged thriller where politics and family collide. Recently elected president Santiago Mitre, en dónde la política y la familia se enfrentan. El recién electo presidente Hernán Blanco (Darin in a role tailor-made for him) flies from Buenos Aires to Chile to argentino Hernán Blanco (Darín en un papel hecho a su medida) vuela desde Buenos participate in a presidential summit that would establish a regional South American Aires hacia Chile para participar en una cumbre presidencial cuyo propósito es el oil entity. When his troubled daughter’s ex-husband blackmails his administration, establecer una entidad petrolera regional sudamericana. Cuando el ex marido de su Blanco decides to bring her to the summit where she can be taken care of by a problemática hija chantajea a su administración, Blanco decide llevársela a la cumbre psychiatrist. His daughter’s mental state deteriorates as the behind closed doors donde un psiquiatra pueda encargarse de ella. El estado mental de su hija se deteriora dealing and wheeling intensifies. Mitre’s most ambitious project to date, “The a medida que las negociaciones tras puertas cerradas se intensifican. El proyecto Summit” is a fitting conclusion to the trilogy he began with “The Student” (2011) and más ambicioso de Mitre hasta la fecha, “La cordillera” es la conclusión perfecta para continued with “Paulina” (2015). la trilogía que comenzó con “El estudiante” (2011) y continuó con “La patota” (2015). THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH
DOORS OPEN: 5:30 PM | PROGRAM: 6:00 PM SPONSORS AMC River East 21 • 322 E. Illinois St.
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TICKETS: $60 | ILCC Member $50 (Includes film, food & drinks) Purchase at ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org or on CLFF Facebook page. Cocktail attire strongly recommended.
PARKING Discounted parking available at River East Parking Garage (lower level CATERER of theater, 322 E. Illinois St.). $18 for up to 8 hours. Discount parking voucher available at CLFF Information Table at theatre.
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8 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 VENUE PARTNERS
The Chicago Latino Film Festival continues its connection to the community by partnering with educational institutions and organizations throughout the city. The Festival Venue Partners Program (FVPP) allows community members to view films that are otherwise inaccessible. This experience allows audiences to learn of the diversity of other cultures and hopefully connect with their own cultural heritage.
The 2018 Festival Venue Partners Program is supported by a grant from the Reva & David Logan Foundation.
The Chicago Latino Film Festival appreciates the support of our 2018 Venue Partners.
ALSIP - MERRIONETTE PARK PUBLIC LAKE FOREST COLLEGE ST. AUGUSTINE COLLEGE LIBRARY In cooperation with Latinos Unidos Charlie Chaplin Auditorium In cooperation with Physicians Immediate Care - Alsip McCormick Auditorium 1345 W. Argyle St. 11960 S. Pulaski Road 555 N. Sheridan Rd. Chicago, IL 60640 Alsip, IL 60803 Lake Forest, IL 60045 Free Admission and Parking (708) 926-7024 (847) 234-3100 staugustine.edu alsiplibrary.info lakeforest.edu Saturday, April 14 - 6:30 PM Tuesday, April 17 - 6:30 PM Thursday, April 12 - 6:30 PM Looking for a Boyfriend...for my Wife / Se busca novio... Help me make it through the night / Ayúdame a pasar Looking for a Boyfriend...for my Wife / Se busca novio... para mi mujer la noche para mi mujer Chile / 99 min. Mexico / 94 min. Chile / 99 min. Director: Diego Rougier Director: José Ramón Chávez Director: Diego Rougier ______UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO COLLEGE OF DUPAGE NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center In cooperation with the Latino Outreach Center Department of Spanish & Portuguese 803 S. Morgan St. MacAninch Arts Center In cooperation with Buffet Institute for Global Studies Chicago, IL 60607 425 Fawell Blvd. Harris Hall - 107 Lecture Center B2 Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 1881 Sheridan Rd (312) 996-3095 (630) 942 - 2380 Evanston, IL 60208 Latinocultural.uic.edu cod.edu (847) 491-8249 Wednesday, April 11 Wednesday, April 11 Monday, April 9 - 5:00 PM 12:00 PM & 5:00 PM 12:00 PM Symphony for Ana / Sinfonía para Ana Looking for a Boyfriend...for my Wife / Se busca novio... Looking for a Boyfriend...for my Wife / Se busca novio... Argentina / 119 min. para mi mujer para mi mujer Directors: Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina Chile / 99 min. Chile / 99 min. Director: Diego Rougier Director: Diego Rougier Tuesday, April 10 - 5:00 PM Help me make it through the night / Ayúdame a pasar Thursday, April 12 7:00 PM la noche 12:00 PM & 5:00 PM Another Story of the World / Otra Historia del Mundo Mexico / 94 min. Flight of the Guitar: Dreaming of Paco de Lucía / Uruguay / 105 min. Director: José Ramón Chávez La Guitarra Vuela: Soñando a Paco de Lucía Director: Guillermo Casanova ______Spain / 72 min. ______Directors: Jorge Martínez, Javier Limón PUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE ______DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY 3000 N. Elbridge Ave. In cooperation with OLA & the Dept. of Latino & Latin Chicago, IL 60618 AURORA LATINO FILM FESTIVAL American Studies (773) 342-8865 The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) Fine Arts Building - Martin Recital Hall praachicago.org 1500 Sullivan Rd. 7900 W. Division St. Aurora, IL 60506 River Forest, IL 60305 Sunday, April 15 – 2:00 PM (708) 524 – 6678 Angélica Friday, April 6 - 6:30 PM dom.edu Puerto Rico / Mexico / 90 min. Broche de Oro: Beginnings / Broche de Oro: Comienzos Director: Marisol Gómez Mouakad Puerto Rico / 87 min. Friday, April 20 - 7:00 PM ______Director: Raúl Marchand Sánchez Voices Beyond the Wall: Twelve Love Poems from the ______Murder Capital of the World PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST - Honduras / USA / 88 min. HAMMOND ELGIN LATINO FILM FESTIVAL Director: Brad Coley In cooperation with The Department of Political Science, Opening Night: Friday, April 13 - 6:30 PM ______Economics, and World Cultures, Purdue University Northwest Elgin Community College Towle Theater Spartan Auditorium JOHN HANCOCK HIGH SCHOOL 5205 Hohman Ave. 1700 Spartan Drive In cooperation with Andrea Quito Scholarship & Friends Hammond, IN 46320 Elgin, IL 60123 of Hancock (219) 937-8780 4034 W 56th St. pnw.edu/CHESS Saturday, April 14 - 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM Chicago, IL 60629 Sunday, April 15 - 3:00 PM & 5:00 PM (773) 535-2410 Tuesday, April 10 - 5:30 PM Marcus Theatres Hancockhs.org TBA 111 S. Randall Rd. ______Elgin, IL 60123 Saturday, April 6 - 7:00 PM Help me make it through the night / Ayúdame a pasar SEGUNDO RUIZ BELVIS CULTURAL CENTER Information & Tickets: la noche 4046 W Armitage Ave. LatinoFilmFestivalElgin.com Mexico / 94 min. Chicago, IL 60639 (800)344-0538 Director: José Ramón Chávez (773) 698-6003 Segundoruizbelvis.org
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AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE FILM!
Since 1993, a film has been chosen by film enthusiasts to receive the Audience Choice Award. Festival attendees determine who receives the publicly recognized award. Ballots available at all screenings.
FILL OUT THE BALLOT FOR A CHANCE TO WIN: • A film passport for the 35th CLFF ($110 value) • Two tickets to opening night & closing night at the 35th CLFF ($240 value)
Audience Choice Award winner for fiction, documentary and short film categories and the raffle winner, will be announced Monday, April 30, 2018.
10 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 ARGENTINA
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FEATURE FILMS All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.
I TITA, A LIFE OF TANGO / YO SOY ASÍ, TITA DE BUENOS AIRES Argentina / 2017 / 112 min. Genre: Drama / Musical Directed by Teresa Costantini Spanish w/ English Subtitles
The passionate and colorful life of tango singer Tita La apasionante y extravagante carrera de la cantante Merello is brought to life in this spectacular biopic. de tango Tita Merello cobra vida en esta espectacular Born in the slums of Buenos Aires, Tita began singing película biográfica. Nacida en los arrabales de Buenos rancheras, milongas and tangos at a young age out Aires, Tita comenzó a cantar rancheras, milongas y of necessity. She appeared in more than 40 films and tangos a temprana edad por necesidad. Apareció en befriended the likes of singer Carlos Gardel, actor/singer más de 40 películas y se hizo amiga de personalidades Hugo del Carril and Eva Perón. But her one true love como el cantante Carlos Gardel, el actor y cantante was the great actor Luis Sandrini with whom she lived Hugo del Carril y Eva Perón. Pero su verdadero amor a torrid affair. fue el actor Luis Sandrini, con quien vivió una tórrida relación romántica. Friday, April 6, 9:00 PM Sunday, April 8, 8:00 PM
I WILL WAIT FOR YOU / TE ESPERARÉ Argentina / 2017 / 96 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller Directed by Alberto Lecchi Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Architect Ariel Creu (Darío Grandinetti) is forced to El arquitecto Ariel Creu (Darío Grandinetti) se ve obligado confront memories he had long kept locked away when a revivir memorias que había reprimido durante mucho the remains of his father Miguel -a revolutionary who tiempo cuando los restos de su padre Miguel -un fought in the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban Revolution revolucionario que luchó en la Guerra Civil Española, and against Argentina’s military dictatorship- are la Revolución Cubana y contra la dictadura militar found on a common grave. Ariel’s son Federico (Juan argentina- son hallados en una fosa común. El hijo de Grandinetti, Dario’s son) is determined to uncover the Ariel, Federico (Juan Grandinetti, hijo de Darío) está truth behind his grandfather’s death while arrival of a decidido a descubrir cómo murió su abuelo, pero la Spanish writer (Juan Echanove) who has written a series llegada al país de un escritor español (Juan Echanove), of novels based on Miguel further murkies the waters. autor de una serie de novelas basadas en Miguel, oscurecen aún más las turbias aguas de la historia. Tuesday, April 17, 7:45 PM Wednesday, April 18, 8:00 PM
REY’S EDUCATION / LA EDUCACIÓN DEL REY Argentina / 2017 / 92 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Santiago Esteves Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Bolting from his first ever heist, Reynaldo Galíndez, Huyendo de su primer atraco, Reynaldo Galíndez, alias a.k.a. “Rey”, lands in the patio of the house inhabited “Rey”, aterriza en el patio de la casa de Carlos Vargas, by Carlos Vargas, a retired security guard. Vargas offers un guardia de seguridad retirado. Vargas le propone lo him a deal: the young boy will repair the damage to his siguiente: reparar el daño de su casa a cambio de no home in return for not being handed over to the police. ser entregado a la policía. El dúo desarrolla un vínculo The couple develops a master-apprentice bond but their maestro-aprendiz, pero su relación y su acuerdo se relationship, and their agreement, will be threatened verán amenazados cuando Reynaldo enfrente las when Reynaldo’s actions finally catch up to him repercusiones por sus actos.
Saturday, April 7, 8:45 PM Tuesday, April 10, 8:45 PM
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 11 ARGENTINA / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL
SYMPHONY FOR ANA / SINFONÍA PARA ANA Argentina / 2017 / 119 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Shot in Buenos Aires’ National High School, where 108 Filmada en el Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, donde students were disappeared by the military dictatorship, 108 estudiantes fueron desaparecidos por la dictadura and featuring a cast made of the school’s students, militar, y con un elenco integrado por estudiantes del “Symphony for Ana” tells the story of two inseparable Colegio, “Sinfonía para Ana” narra la historia de dos friends -Ana and Isa- on the days leading to the 1976 amigas inseparables -Ana e Isa- en los días previos al coup that overthrew Isabel Perón. They both believe in golpe de 1976 que derrocó a Isabel Perón. Ambas creen true love and changing the world. But pressure from the en el amor verdadero y en cambiar al mundo. Pero la student political group to ditch her current boyfriend and presión de un grupo político estudiantil para deshacerse her own sexual insecurities will force Ana into a corner. de su actual novio y sus propias inseguridades sexuales obligarán a Ana a hacer lo impensable. Wednesday, April 11, 8:45 PM Saturday, April 14, 4:15 PM
TEN DAYS WITHOUT MOM / MAMÁ SE FUE DE VIAJE Argentina / 2017 / 99 min. Genre: Comedy / Family Directed by Ariel Winograd Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Victor (Diego Peretti) believes his wife Vera (Carla Víctor (Diego Peretti) cree que su esposa Vera (Carla Peterson) has it easy -she has the whole day to herself Peterson) no pasa trabajo alguno durante el día, de que after dropping their four kids at school while he toils at sólo tiene que dejar a sus cuatro hijos en la escuela y his office. Victor gets his comeuppance when Vera takes ya. Víctor recibe su merecido cuando Vera se marcha off with a friend for Perú, leaving him in charge of his con una amiga de viaje a Perú, dejándolo a cargo de sus unruly kids. Balancing work and home life isn’t that easy alborotosos hijos. Víctor inevitablemente descubre que after all. Winograd’s update of the Steve Martin classic equilibrar el trabajo y la vida hogareña no es tan fácil. “Cheaper by the Dozen” was one of the highest grossing Esta versión moderna de la popular comedia de Steve Argentinian films of 2017. Martin “Cheaper by the Dozen” fue una de las películas argentinas más taquilleras del 2017. Friday, April 13, 8:30 PM Sunday, April 15, 4:00 PM
LAS MALCOGIDAS Bolivia / Brazil / 2017 / 94 min. Genre: Comedy / Musical / LGBTQ Directed by Denise Arancibia Flores Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Carmen is 35 years old, overweight and never had Carmen tiene 35 años, padece de sobrepeso y nunca an orgasm. She is in love with neighbor Alvaro, lead ha tenido un orgasmo. Ella está enamorada de su voice of a rock band. Her brother Honorio is saving vecino Álvaro, la voz principal de una banda de rock. for a sex-change operation while her mother splurges Su hermano Honorio está ahorrando para una operación on expensive and ineffective weight-loss treatments de cambio de sexo mientras su madre derrocha dinero for her. Featuring a soundtrack top heavy with classic en tratamientos de pérdida de peso caros e ineficaces Argentinian rock songs, Denisse Arancibia Flores’ para Carmen. Con una banda sonora llena de canciones feature debut is a colorful and delightfully incorrect clásicas del rock argentino, este debut cinematográfico musical comedy about body shaming, gender and family de Denisse Arancibia Flores es una colorida y curses. deliciosamente incorrecta comedia musical sobre la estigmatización social, el género y las maldiciones Sunday, April 15, 8:45 PM familiares. Wednesday, April 18, 8:15 PM
THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE / A FERA NA SELVA Brazil / 2017 / 90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Paulo Betti, Eliane Giardini, Lauro Escorel Portuguese w/ English Subtitles
Based on Henry James’ novella (considered one of his Baseado na novela de Henry James (considerado um best short narratives), “The Beast in the Jungle” tells de seus melhores contos), “A Fera na Selva” conta a the story of João, a man who doubts his own worth and história de João, um homem que duvida do seu próprio what the future holds for him. He becomes reacquainted valor e do que o futuro lhe dará. Ele se reencontra com with Maria, a woman he met ten years ago and with Maria, uma mulher que conheceu há dez anos e com whom he shared an odd secret. They pick up where they quem partilhou um grande segredo. Eles recomeçam a left off, and wait for what fate has in store for him. amizade e esperam pelo que o destino reservou para ele.
Tuesday, April 17, 5:45 PM Thursday, April 19, 6:30 PM
12 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 BRAZIL
BERENICE / BERENICE PROCURA Brazil / 2017 / 90 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller / LGBTQ Directed by Allan Fiterman Portuguese w/ English Subtitles
Driving a cab through the streets of Rio is more than a Conduzir um táxi pelas ruas do Rio é mais do que um job for 35-year-old Berenice. It serves as a distraction trabalho para Berenice, de 35 anos. Serve também from her turbulent marriage with Domingos, a crime como uma distração de seu casamento turbulento reporter for a sensationalistic TV newsmagazine. When com Domingos, um repórter policial para um canal the body of a transgender dancer at a local club where de notícias de TV sensacionalista. Quando o corpo de her son Thiago hangs out is found on Copacabana uma dançarina transgênero de um clube local que seu Beach, Berenice takes it upon herself to solve the filho Thiago costuma frequentar é encontrado na Praia crime. Fiterman deftly combines a family drama with de Copacabana, Berenice decide resolver o crime. the conventions of the film noir to critique the abuses Fiterman combina habilmente o drama familiar com suffered by the transgender community and the double as convenções de filme noir para criticar os abusos standards of a society that condones it. sofridos pela comunidade transgênero e a hipocrisia de Friday, April 13, 9:15 PM uma sociedade que os tolera. Saturday, April 14, 7:00 PM
DEAR MOM / QUERIDA MAMÃE Brazil / 2017 / 95 min. Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by Jeremias Moreira Portuguese w/ English Subtitles
Based on Maria Adelaida Amaral’s critically acclaimed Baseada na peça aclamada pela crítica de Maria play, “Dear Mom” centers on the conflictive relationship Adelaida Amaral, “Querida Mamãe” Se centra no between Heloisa, a recently divorced doctor, and relacionamento conflituoso entre Heloisa, uma médica her mother Ruth. Heloisa blames Ruth for her bad recém-divorciada e sua mãe, Ruth. Heloisa culpa Ruth relationship with her own daughter, her failed marriage, por seu mau relacionamento com sua própria filha, seu and even her unsuccessful career. It’s a conflict that casamento fracassado e até mesmo pela sua carreira worsens when Ruth, after being diagnosed with cancer, mal-sucedida. É um conflito que piora quando Ruth, finds out that Heloisa has fallen in love with Leda, a depois de ter sido diagnosticada com câncer, descobre painter she met at the hospital she works at. que Heloisa se apaixonou por Leda, uma pintora que conheceu no hospital onde trabalha. Sunday, April 15, 6:45 PM Tuesday, April 17, 8:45 PM
GOOD MANNERS / AS BOAS MANEIRAS Brazil / France / 2017 / 135 min. Genre: Drama / Horror / LGBTQ Directed by Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra Portuguese w/ English Subtitles
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival Vencedor de um Prêmio Especial do Júri no Festival and Best Film at the Sitges-Catalonian International Film de Cinema de Locarno e Melhor Filme no Festival Festival, “Good Manners” offers a new spin to the classic Internacional de Cinema de Sitges-Catalão, “As Boas werewolf story. Clara, a black nurse from the outskirts of Maneiras “oferece uma nova interpretação para a São Paulo, is hired by the mysterious and wealthy Ana história clássica do homem-lobo. Clara, uma enfermeira to be the nanny of her unborn child. A strong attraction negra dos arredores de São Paulo, é contratada por Ana, grows between the two women until Ana’s child is born uma mulher misteriosa e rica para ser babá do seu filho during a full moon. In using horror as a means to explore que está para nascer. Uma forte atração cresce entre issues of race and class, Rojas and Dutra follow in the as duas mulheres até que o filho de Ana nasce durante footsteps of such giants as George Romero. uma lua cheia. Ao usar o terror como meio para explorar questões de raça e classe, Rojas e Dutra seguem os Saturday, April 7, 8:30 PM passos de gigantes como George Romero. Sunday, April 15, 8:15 PM
LIFE IS A BITCH / COMO É CRUEL VIVER ASSIM Brazil / 2017 / 102 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller Directed by Julia Rezende Portuguese w/ English Subtitles
Best known in Brazil for her romantic comedies, Julia Conhecida no Brasil por suas comédias românticas, Julia Rezende shifts gears in her fifth feature film with this Rezende muda de gênero na sua quinta longa-metragem dark Coen Brothers-like drama about four friends com este drama, que faz lembrar um filme dos irmãos -Vladimir, his wife Clivia, Regina and Primo- who concoct Coen, sobre quatro amigos - Vladimir, sua esposa Clivia, an outrageous plan to get out of their financial doldrums: Regina e Primo - que bolam um plano exorbitante para to kidnap Regina’s former boss. The only problem? They escapar dos seus problemas financeiros: Sequestrar o lack experience so they resort to recruiting a couple of ex-patrão de Regina. O único problema? Eles não têm hoodlums as mentors. As the plan moves forward so do a menor experiência, por isso recrutam um casal de their frustrations, ambitions and fears. bandidos como mentores. À medida que o plano avança, eles revelam suas frustrações, ambições e medos. Monday, April 16, 8:30 PM Wednesday, April 18, 6:00 PM
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 13 CHILE
CHILEAN CINEMA / CINE CHILENO Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio, Marialy Rivas, Paulina Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio, Marialy Rivas, Paulina García, Alfredo Castro...their names are not only familiar García, Alfredo Castro...sus contribuciones al cine to many Chileans but to film lovers worldwide. They, chileno no sólo han sido reconocidos en su país sino along with many more, have helped position Chile next por cinéfilos a nivel mundial. Ellos, junto a decenas to Argentina, Mexico and Brazil as a film powerhouse más de cineastas, han colocado a Chile como una in Latin America. The films showcased at this year’s potencia en la industria del cine latinoamericano Festival thanks to the friendship and partnership that junto a Argentina, Mexico y Brasil. Las películas bind the Chicago Latino Film Festival, the Consulate presentadas aquí, gracias a la amistad y alianza General of Chile in Chicago and the Cultural Division que unen al Festival de Cine Latino de Chicago, el of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are just but a small Consulado General de Chile en Chicago y la División sample of what this dynamic and creative community Cultural del Ministerio de Relaciones, son sólo produces year-round. una pequeña muestra de lo que esta comunidad dinámica y creativa produce todo el año.
THE DESERT BRIDE / LA NOVIA DEL DESIERTO Chile / Argentina / 2017 / 78 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Paulina García (“Gloria,” “Little Men”) delivers another Paulina García (“Gloria”, “Little Men”) ofrece una cálida warm and sympathetic performance in Cecilia Atán’s y compasiva interpretación en el debut cinematográfico and Valeria Pivato’s feature debut. García plays Teresa, a de Cecilia Atán y Valeria Pivato. García interpreta a Teresa, woman who has worked all her life as a live-in maid for una mujer que trabajó como empleada doméstica para a Buenos Aires family who is left adrift after the family una familia de Buenos Aires y que queda a la deriva sells their house. On her way to a new job in a distant tras la familia vender su casa. En camino a un nuevo town, Teresa loses her bags with all her belongings. She trabajo en un pueblo lejano, Teresa pierde sus maletas searches for them with the help of travelling salesman El con todas sus pertenencias y emprende una búsqueda Gringo and ends up finding love and her own potential. con la ayuda del vendedor ambulante El Gringo. Teresa terminará encontrando el amor y su propio potencial. Sunday, April 15, 4:15 PM Tuesday, April 17, 8:30 PM
LOOKING FOR A BOYFRIEND...FOR MY WIFE / SE BUSCA NOVIO...PARA MI MUJER Chile / 2017 / 99 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Diego Rougier Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Based on Pablo Solarz’s 2008 Argentinian comedy of the Basada en la comedia argentina de Pablo Solarz same title (itself remade in Mexico a couple years ago), del mismo título estrenada en el 2008 (y llevada a la Diego Rougier’s new film centers on Daniel (Fernando pantalla en México hace apenas un par de años), la Larraín), a frustrated husband who has lost his patience nueva película de Diego Rougier se centra en Daniel with his rather temperamental wife Natalia (Javiera (Fernando Larraín), un marido frustrado que ha perdido Contador). Afraid to ask her for a divorce, Daniel follows la paciencia con su bastante temperamental esposa his best friend’s advice and hires a Lothario who can Natalia (Javiera Contador). Temeroso de pedirle el seduce her out of his life. And, of course, things do not divorcio, Daniel sigue los consejos de su mejor amigo go according to plan. y contrata a un Don Juan que pueda seducirla y sacarla de su vida. Y por supuesto, las cosas no salen como se Thursday, April 12, 6:15 PM habían planeado. Friday, April 13, 6:45 PM Saturday, April 14, 4:30 PM
MY FATHER’S MEMORY / LA MEMORIA DE MI PADRE Chile / 2016 / 87 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Rodrigo Bacigalupe Lazo Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Alfonso, a repressed screenwriter who adapts American Alfonso, un guionista asqueado que adapta comedias sitcoms for Chilean television, is forced to take care of estadounidenses para la televisión chilena, se ve his father Jesús after his mother passes away. Struck by obligado a cuidar a su padre Jesús, con el cual nunca Alzheimer’s, Jesús insists that his wife is still alive and se ha llevado bien y que padece ahora de Alzheimer’s, must be rescued from the hospital near the coast where tras el fallecimiento de su madre. Jesús insiste en que she is being held. Alfonso will have to come to terms su esposa aún está viva y que debe ser rescatada de un with his father as he tries to make Jesús’ impossible hospital cerca de la costa donde está recluida. Alfonso wishes possible. tendrá que reconciliarse con su padre mientras intenta hacer posible sus deseos imposibles.
Saturday, April 7, 4:00 PM Tuesday, April 10, 8:45 PM
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PRINCESITA Chile / 2017 / 78 min. Genre: Drama / Horror Directed by Marialy Rivas Spanish & French w/ English Subtitles
Twelve-year-old Tamara has been raised in a cult led by Tamara, de 12 años, ha sido criada en un culto dirigido the charismatic Miguel in a remote region of southern por el carismático Miguel en una remota región del sur Chile. Her life has been idyllic so far. But her paradise de Chile. Su vida ha sido idílica hasta ahora. Pero su turns into hell when she finds out that Miguel plans to paraíso se transforma en un infierno cuando se entera impregnate her so she can give birth to the savior of de que Miguel planea dejarla embarazada para que dé his visions. Tamara takes matters into her own hands, a luz al salvador de sus visiones. Tamara tomará cartas especially after she falls in love, in Marialy Rivas’ dark en el asunto, sobre todo ahora que se ha enamorado, and disturbing coming-of-age tale. en este oscuro y perturbador relato sobre la llegada a la adultez.
Friday, April 13, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 15, 8:00 PM
SPIDER THIEVES / NIÑAS ARAÑA Chile / 2017 / 94 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Guillermo Helo Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Chile, 1999: 1,750 homeless occupy 57 acres of Chile, 1999: 1,750 personas sin hogar ocupan 57 privately owned land on the outskirts of Santiago acres de tierras de propiedad privada a las afueras de turning it into the country’s largest shantytown. Six Santiago, convirtiéndola en uno de los asentamientos years later, three teenage girls from the shantytown set humanos más grandes del país. Seis años más tarde, in motion a plan to climb high rises and rob the luxurious tres adolescentes de la barriada ponen en marcha un apartments inside them. Their daring escapades draw plan que consiste en escalar edificios altos y robar sus the attention of the media, who promptly calls them the lujosos apartamentos. Sus atrevidas hazañas llaman “Spider Girls.” Guillermo Helo’s feature debut offers both la atención de los medios, quienes rápidamente las a sympathetic look at these girls and their environment, apodan “Las niñas arañas”. El debut cinematográfico and a harsher look at Chilean society. de Guillermo Helo ofrece una mirada comprensiva hacia estas niñas y su entorno social y que es, igualmente, un Friday, April 6, 6:15 PM llamado de atención a la sociedad chilena Sunday, April 8, 3:15 PM
AMALIA, THE SECRETARY / AMALIA, LA SECRETARIA Colombia / 2017 / 102 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Andrés Burgos Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Fortysomething Amalia is the secretary of the CEO of La cuarentona Amalia es la secretaria del jefe ejecutivo a family business going through hard times. Tidy and de una empresa familiar que atraviesa por tiempos efficient, she is also rather cranky and hostile towards difíciles. Ordenada y eficiente, ella es también bastante anyone who may have an appointment with her boss. malhumorada y hostil con cualquiera que tenga una That is, until maintenance worker Lázaro walks into her cita con su jefe. Todo cambia el día en que Lázaro, un office. There is something about this rather chaotic man trabajador de mantenimiento, entra a su oficina. Hay that Amalia finds attractive and she will come up with algo acerca del comportamiento caótico de este hombre any excuse to have him around, even if it means tearing que Amalia encuentra atractivo y, como resultado, ella the place apart. comienza a inventarse cualquier excusa para tenerlo cerca, aun si eso significa destrozar los equipos de la oficina. Friday, April 6, 6:45 PM Sunday, April 8, 3:30 PM
THE CONTESTANT / EL CONCURSANTE Colombia / Francia / 2017 / 86 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Carlos Osuna Spanish w/ English Subtitles
A spice company announces a nationwide contest where Una compañía de especias anuncia un concurso nacional 2,000 pressure cookers will be handed out in exchange en el que se regalarán 2,000 ollas a presión a cambio for 20 labels of one of their products. Obsessed with de 20 etiquetas de uno de sus productos. Obsesionada securing one of these cookers, Cristobal’s mother orders con ganar una de estas ollas, la madre de Cristóbal lo him to stand in line; when he arrives, he discovers manda a hacer fila; cuando llega, descubre que miles that thousands more have been standing since the más han estado de pie desde las primeras horas de la early morning hours. All hell breaks loose when the madrugada. El caos estalla cuando los concursantes participants discover that their efforts will come to descubren que se quedarán con las manos vacías. La nothing. Carlos Osuna’s (“Fat, Bald, Short Man”) new nueva película de Carlos Osuna (“Gordo, calvo y bajito”) film is a scathing satire of a country pushed to its limits es una sátira mordaz sobre un país llevado al borde de by consumerism. la locura por el consumismo. Monday, April 9, 8:30 PM Wednesday, April 11, 6:15 PM
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THE DRAGON DEFENSE / LA DEFENSA DEL DRAGÓN Colombia / 2017 / 80 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Natalia Santa Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Samuel, a professional chess player, Joaquín, an Samuel, un jugador profesional de ajedrez, Joaquín, un accomplished watchmaker, and Marcos, a Spanish consumado relojero, y Marcos, un homeópata español, homeopath, spend their days between a chess club, a pasan sus días entre un club de ajedrez, un casino y un casino, and a traditional coffee shop. They find solace café. Ellos encuentran consuelo en su rutina diaria hasta in their routine until a series of small crises forces them que una serie de pequeñas crisis los obliga a reevaluar to re-evaluate their place in a constantly changing city. su lugar en una ciudad que cambia constantemente. A Through camerawork that is as laid-back as these través de un trabajo de cámara tan relajado como la men’s lives, Natalia Santa’s feature debut paints a vida de estos hombres, Natalia Santa pinta en su debut graceful portrait of a world destined to vanish. cinematográfico un retrato elegante de un mundo destinado a desaparecer. Tuesday, April 17, 6:00 PM Thursday, April 19, 8:45 PM
TROPICAL VIRUS / VIRUS TROPICAL Colombia / 2017 / 96 min. Genre: Animation Directed by Santiago Caicedo Spanish w/ English Subtitles
To say that Paola’s family is rather unconventional would Nos quedaríamos cortos al describir a la familia de Paola be an understatement. Her father is a former Catholic como poco convencional. Su padre es un ex sacerdote priest, her mother a clairvoyant and her sisters are both católico, su madre una clarividente y sus hermanas son rational and rebellious. Raised in both Colombia and racionales y rebeldes. Criada tanto en Colombia como Ecuador, Paola, the youngest of the three, will struggle en Ecuador, Paola, la más joven de las tres, luchará for her own independence in this quirky black and por su propia independencia en esta estrafalaria white film based on Colombian-Ecuadorian artist Paola película en blanco y negro basada en la novela gráfica “Powerpaola” Gaviria’s semi-autobiographical graphic semi-autobiográfica de la artista colombiana Paola novel. “Powerpaola” Gaviria.
Saturday, April 14, 6:15 PM Wednesday, April 18, 7:30 PM
LIGHTNING FALLS BEHIND / ATRÁS HAY RELÁMPAGOS Costa Rica / 2017 / 87 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Julio Hernández Cordón Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Nothing gives best friends Sole and Ana greater Nada da a las mejores amigas Sole y Ana mayor placer pleasure than riding their BMX bikes all over the city que montar sus bicicletas BMX por toda la ciudad y and executing stunts with them with friends Frank, ejecutar acrobacias con sus amigos Frank, Gato y Lou. Gato and Lou. Sole’s and Ana’s friendship is put to the La amistad de ambas es puesta a prueba al ellas hallar test when both girls find some old cars and a body in algunos autos viejos y un cadáver en el jardín de la Sole’s grandmother’s garden. Julio Hernández Cordón’s abuela de Sole. Julio Hernández Cordón (“Te prometo follow-up to his critically acclaimed “I Promise You anarquía”) nos vuelve a ofrecer otra representación Anarchy” is another powerful verité-like portrait of realista de una juventud enajenada y despreocupada. carefree, alienated youth.
Sunday, April 8, 5:45 PM Tuesday, April 10, 5:45 PM
VIOLETA HAS A PLAN / VIOLETA AL FIN Costa Rica / Mexico / 2017 / 85 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Hilda Hidalgo Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Hilda Hidalgo’s (“Of Love and Shadows”) latest feature La nueva película de Hilda Hidalgo (“De amor y follows recently divorced 72-year-old Violeta as she sombras”) se centra en Violeta, una mujer de 72 años, starts a new and exciting stage in her life. She begins to recién divorciada, a medida que emprende una nueva y take swimming lessons from and even rents a room to emocionante etapa de su vida. Violeta comienza a tomar her Mexican instructor. But when she finds out that the clases de natación e incluso alquila una habitación a bank is about to take away her house with her children’s su instructor mexicano. Pero cuando se entera de que support, Violeta decides to take action proving that el banco está a punto de embargar su casa con el rebelliousness knows no age. consentimiento de sus hijos, Violeta toma cartas en el asunto en un vivo ejemplo de que se puede ser rebelde sin importar la edad. Monday, April 9, 8:45 PM Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 PM
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LAST DAYS IN HAVANA / ÚLTIMOS DÍAS EN LA HABANA Cuba / Spain / 2016 / 93 min. Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by Fernando Pérez Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Fernando Pérez (“Suite Havana”) paints a portrait of a Fernando Pérez (“Suite Habana”) nos ofrece el retrato de city on hold through the unlikely friendship between two una ciudad en espera a través de la improbable amistad men who couldn’t be more different. Restaurant busboy entre dos hombres que son polos opuestos. Miguel Miguel dreams of leaving for New York; he spends his sueña con irse a Nueva York; se pasa el día trabajando days working, waiting for a visa that may never be como camarero en un restaurante, esperando por una approved and taking care of his bedridden neighbor visa que quizás nunca sea aprobada y cuidando de su Diego, who suffers from AIDS. Miguel is the proverbial vecino Diego, un encamado paciente de SIDA. Miguel es pessimist while Diego is the eternal optimist. They are el eterno pesimista y Diego es todo lo contrario. Ambos surrounded by a cast of characters who are as loud, comparten espacio con un elenco de personajes que conflictive and colorful as the Havana street they live in. son tan altaneros, conflictivos y coloridos como la calle de La Habana en la que viven. Thursday, April 12, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 15, 6:15 PM
LUIS Dominican Republic / 2017 / 98 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Archie Lopez Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Colonel Rosado has been promoted to the highest rank El coronel Rosado es promovido al más alto rango en el in the Dominican Republic’s police force after taking Departamento de Policía de la República Dominicana tras down a notorious gang leader who exerted control aniquilar al notorio líder de una pandilla que controlaba over one of the country’s maximum-security prisons. At una de las cárceles de máxima seguridad del país. En su home, he struggles to keep teenage son Luis, who is far casa, se esfuerza por encaminar a su hijo adolescente more interested in partying with his high school friends Luis, pero éste está mucho más interesado en divertirse than in studying, on the right track. Father and son will con sus amigos de la secundaria que en estudiar. Padre have to confront the true meaning of justice when Luis e hijo deberán enfrentar el verdadero significado de la is arrested for possession of marijuana. palabra justicia cuando Luis es arrestado por posesión de marihuana. Wednesday, April 11, 5:45 PM Thursday, April 19, 6:00 PM
THE WATCHMAN / EL HOMBRE QUE CUIDA Dominican Republic / Brazil / Puerto Rico / 2017 / 85 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller Directed by Alejandro Andújar Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Juan finds refuge in his job as a watchman after his Juan encuentra refugio en su trabajo como centinela wife leaves him for another man. His dignity and pride después de que su esposa lo deja por otro hombre. are put to the test when the young son of the mansion’s Su dignidad y orgullo son puestos a prueba cuando owner shows up, unannounced, with a friend and a el joven hijo del dueño de la mansión que Juan cuida local girl. Juan is forced to make a decision that will aparece, sin previo aviso, con un amigo y una chica del affect the rest of his life when their presence turns into pueblo. Juan tomará una impactante decisión cuando a nightmare. Winner last year of the Yellow Robin Award la presencia de este trío se convierta en una pesadilla. at the Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ganador el año pasado del Premio Yellow Robin en el Andújar’s debut feature offers a unique perspective on Festival Internacional de Cine de Curazao en Rotterdam, racism and social class. el debut de Andújar ofrece una perspectiva única sobre el racismo y la lucha de clases. Friday, April 13, 6:30 PM Sunday, April 15, 5:30 PM
IF I DIE FIRST / SI YO MUERO PRIMERO Ecuador / 2017 / 107 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Rodolfo Muñoz Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Nicknamed “America’s Nightingale,” Ecuadorian singer Mejor conocido como “El ruiseñor de América,” el Julio Jaramillo recorded over 4,000 songs in a variety of cantautor ecuatoriano Julio Jaramillo grabó más de genres (boleros, tangos, even rock, among others) and 4,000 canciones en una variedad de géneros (boleros, composed at least 30 songs during his illustrious, but tangos, incluso rock, entre otros) y compuso al menos brief, career. Through interviews with fans, musicologists 30 canciones durante su ilustre pero breve carrera. and friends, and archival footage of his performances, A través de entrevistas con fanáticos, musicólogos, Rodolfo Muñoz humanizes an artist whose fame as a amigos, y material de archivo de sus actuaciones, womanizer and alcoholic at times overshadowed his Rodolfo Muñoz humaniza a un artista cuya fama musical contributions. como mujeriego y alcohólico a veces eclipsaron sus contribuciones musicales. Thursday, April 12, 8:15 PM Saturday, April 14, 6:30 PM
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SNAPSHOT / INSTANTÁNEA Ecuador / Colombia / 2016 / 75 min. Genre: Family Directed by Catalina Arango Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Antonia likes to capture memories with her camera and A Antonia le gusta captar recuerdos con su cámara y even though the idea of hanging out in the beach with aunque la idea de ir a la playa con su perrita Tanuki es her dog Tanuki is appealing, she’s not altogether thrilled atractiva, el pasar la mayor parte de sus vacaciones con with the notion that she will also have to spend most sus abuelos no la emociona tanto. Sobre todo porque su of her vacation with her grandparents. Especially when abuelito Mario está mucho más interesado en ayudarla Grandfather Mario is far more interested in her math con sus estudios de aritmética que en la diversión. studies than in having fun. But when he gives her his old Pero cuando él le da su vieja cámara Polaroid, Antonia Polaroid camera, Antonia embarks on an unforgettable emprende una aventura inolvidable con su nueva amiga adventure with new friend Isabela. Isabela.
Sunday, April 15, 3:45 PM Wednesday, April 18, 5:45 PM
TRANSLUCID / TRANSLÚCIDO Ecuador / USA / 2016 / 86 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Leonard Zelig English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, Rubén Diagnosticado con cáncer terminal de páncreas, Rubén (Roberto Manrique from the Telemundo mini-series (Roberto Manrique de la miniserie de Telemundo “Without Breasts There Is Paradise”) has three months “Sin senos sí hay paraíso”) tiene tres meses de vida, to live or, if he undergoes treatment, a year and a half. o si se somete a tratamiento, un año y medio. Rubén He decides to end his life with dignity, leaving no loose decide terminar su vida con dignidad, sin dejar cabos ends behind. His journey will be emotionally intense sueltos. Su viaje será uno emocionalmente intenso and deeply personal but not without its joys. Director y profundamente personal, pero no sin sus alegrías. Leonardo Gutiérrez Leal (who signs his films as Leonard El director Leonardo Gutiérrez Leal (quien firma sus Zelig after the Woody Allen character) celebrates the películas como Leonard Zelig en honor al personaje de meaning of seizing the moment in his second feature Woody Allen) celebra el significado de vivir el momento film. en éste su segundo largometraje. Monday, April 9, 6:00 PM Wednesday, April 11, 8:45 PM
PABLO’S WORD / LA PALABRA DE PABLO El Salvador / 2017 / 84 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Arturo Menendez Spanish w/ English Subtitles
This film-noirish take on William Shakespeare’s Esta adaptación con tintes noir del “Otello” de William “Othello” focuses on Pablo, the son of a well-known Shakespeare se centra en Pablo, el hijo de un conocido lawyer involved in a case of corruption, and his abogado involucrado en un caso de corrupción, y su objections to his father’s relationship to a much younger rechazo a la relación que su padre sostiene con una woman. Disgusted and envious, Pablo begins to weave mujer mucho más joven. Disgustado y lleno de envidia, a tangled web of lies, accusing his father’s young Pablo comienza a tejer una maraña de mentiras, girlfriend of cheating on him. Pablo’s word will lead all acusando a la novia de su padre de engañarlo. La palabra parties involved into a maelstrom that will ultimately de Pablo conducirá a todas las partes involucradas a destroy them. una vorágine que finalmente los destruirá.
Saturday, April 7, 6:15 PM Monday, April 9, 8:15 PM
GIANT’S DON’T EXIST / LOS GIGANTES NO EXISTEN Guatemala / Spain / 2017 / 82 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Chema Rodríguez Spanish & Maya w/ English Subtitles
1980s Guatemala at the height of a ruthless civil war Guatemala, década de los años ochenta, en el apogeo against the country’s indigenous communities. Andrés, de una guerra despiadada contra las comunidades one of the few survivors of a massacre in his village, indígenas del país. Andrés, uno de los pocos is adopted by one of the perpetrators and lives in fear sobrevivientes de una masacre en su pueblo, es with his adopted mother María. He would love to run adoptado por uno de los responsables de la misma y away but can’t. The unexpected arrival of his biological vive con temor junto a su madre adoptiva María. A él le sister will change everything. Based on a true story, encantaría huir pero no puede. La llegada inesperada Spanish director Chema Rodríguez’s second feature is a de su hermana biológica cambiará todo. Basado en harrowing and powerful drama about survival and hope. una historia real, la nueva película del director español Chema Rodríguez es un drama desgarrador y poderoso sobre la supervivencia y la esperanza. Saturday, April 14, 8:15 PM Monday, April 16, 8:15 PM
18 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 HONDURAS / MEXICO
VOICES BEYOND THE WALL: TWELVE LOVE POEMS FROM THE MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD Honduras / USA / 2017 / 88 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Brad Coley English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Executive produced by Golden Globe winner James Bajo la producción ejecutiva del recién ganador del Franco, Bradley Coley’s documentary debut follows poet Globo de Oro James Franco, el primer largometraje and Episcopal priest Spencer Reece to San Pedro Sula de Bradley Coley sigue al poeta y sacerdote episcopal where, thanks to a Fulbright grant, he will teach poetry Spencer Reece a San Pedro Sula donde, gracias a una and English at Our Little Roses, the only girls’ orphanage beca Fulbright, enseñará poesía e inglés en Our Little in the country. At first the girls see no value in poetry, Roses, el único orfanato de niñas en el país. Al principio, but they eventually come around, finding their voices as las chicas no ven ningún valor en la poesía, pero al final they use literature as a vehicle to express their fears and recapacitan y encuentran su voz, usando la literatura hopes. “Voices Beyond the Wall” is a beautiful, intimate como vehículo para expresar sus miedos y esperanzas. and inspiring ode to the power of literature. “Voices Beyond the Wall” es una hermosa, íntima e inspiradora oda al poder de la literatura. Friday, April 6, 6:00 PM Sunday, April 8, 6:15 PM
AMERICAN CURIOUS Mexico / 2017 / 85 min. Genre: Comedy / Romance Directed by Gabylu Lara English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Jordan Belfi (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Entourage”), Ana Jordan Belfi (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Entourage”), Ana Claudia Talancón and Isela Vega star in this romantic Claudia Talancón e Isela Vega protagonizan esta comedy about a Chicago-based stand-up comedian, comedia romántica sobre un comediante de “stand-up” David Green, who finds out that the Mexican biological de Chicago, David Green, quien descubre que la madre mother he never knew has passed away and left him a biológica mexicana que él nunca conoció ha fallecido y restaurant in Mexico City. David travels to Mexico where, le ha dejado como herencia un restaurante en la Ciudad with the help of Sol, the restaurant’s chef, he embarks de México. David viaja hasta allá donde, con la ayuda on a journey in search of his roots and the secret recipe de Sol, la chef del restaurante, emprende una travesía for a soup created by his mother. en busca de sus raíces y la receta secreta de una sopa creada por su madre. Saturday, April 7, 4:30 PM Monday, April 9, 6:15 PM
CUERNAVACA Mexico / 2017 / 90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Alejandro Andrade Pease Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Andy´s world is turned upside-down when his mother El mundo de Andy se vuelca boca abajo cuando su madre has an accident. With no one to take care of him, the boy sufre un accidente. Sin nadie que lo cuide, el niño es is sent to his paternal grandmother’s (Carmen Maura) enviado a la casa de su abuela paterna (Carmen Maura) house in Cuernavaca. His mother hovering between en Cuernavaca. Mientras su madre se debate entre la life and death, Andy struggles with his grandmother’s vida y la muerte, Andy tiene que lidiar con el rechazo rejection, his attraction to the more seductive and de su abuela, su atracción por el mundo más seductor dangerous world of the gardener’s son and his y peligroso del hijo del jardinero, y su determinación por determination to find his missing father. encontrar a su padre desaparecido.
Sunday, April 8, 5:30 PM Wednesday, April 11, 6:15 PM
HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT / AYÚDAME A PASAR LA NOCHE Mexico / 2017 / 94 min. Genre: Drama Directed by José Ramón Chávez Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Winner of the 2017 Guadalajara Film Festival’s Ganadora del Premio del Público a la Mejor Película Audience Choice Award for Best Mexican Feature, this Mexicana en el Festival de Cine de Guadalajara el año comedy about miscommunication focuses on a family pasado, esta comedia sobre la falta de comunicación at a breaking point. Dad kicks Mom out of the house tiene como protagonista a una familia a punto de because of her gambling addiction, the older child’s colapsar. Papá echa a mamá de casa debido a su fiancée wants to cancel their wedding and the youngest adicción a las apuestas, la prometida del hijo mayor struggles to keep the entire unit together by whatever quiere cancelar su boda y el hijo menor hace todo lo means necessary. A life-threatening accident may help posible por mantener a toda la familia unida sin importar mend this broken family in this bittersweet portrait of cómo. Un accidente promete subsanar las heridas en Mexico’s struggling middle class. esta agridulce historia sobre la exprimida clase media mexicana. Tuesday, April 10, 6:00 PM Thursday, April 12, 6:00 PM
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 19 MEXICO / PARAGUAY
TESOROS Mexico / 2017 / 96 min. Genre: Family Directed by María Novaro Spanish w/ English Subtitles
María Novaro (“Danzón,” “El jardín del Eden”) wanted María Novaro (“Danzón,” “El jardín del Edén”) quería to make a movie for and with her grandchildren; the hacer una película para y con sus nietos; el resultado es result is this charming and beautiful tale about four este encantador y hermoso cuento sobre cuatro niños, kids, ages 2-11, who embark on a hunt for Sir Francis de entre 2 y 11 años, que se embarcan en la búsqueda Drake’s treasure in the Pacific coastal town of Barra de por el tesoro de Sir Francis Drake en el poblado costero Potosí in México. Shot simultaneously with two cameras de Barra de Potosí en México. Filmada simultáneamente and available light, and relying on the child actors’ con dos cámaras y luz disponible, y dependiendo de improvisations and the idea of film as a game, Novaro las improvisaciones del reparto infantil y de la idea del captures the childlike wonder of discovering a brand cine como un juego, Novaro captura esa maravillosa new world. capacidad para el asombro que ocurre a cierta edad al descubrir un mundo completamente nuevo. Saturday, April 14, 3:45 PM Monday, April 16, 5:45 PM
TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID / VUELVEN Mexico / 2017 / 83 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller Directed by Issa López Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Stephen King tweeted “this is one terrific film, both Stephen King tuiteó “esta es una película fantástica, tough and touching.” And none other than Guillermo dura y conmovedora”. Y nada más y nada menos del Toro declared it one of the ten best films of 2017. que Guillermo del Toro la declaró una de las diez Winner of Best Director at Fantastic Fest and five mejores películas del 2017. Ganadora del premio a la awards at Screamfest (including Best Picture), Issa Mejor Dirección en Fantastic Fest y cinco premios en López’s stunning third feature tells the story of Estrella Screamfest (incluyendo Mejor Película), el deslumbrante who, followed by the ghost of her mother, who was largometraje de Issa López cuenta la historia de presumably killed by a local cartel, joins a gang of Estrella, quien, seguida por el fantasma de su madre, children, themselves orphaned by Mexico’s drug presuntamente asesinada por un cártel local, se une violence. Supernatural forces will come to their help a una pandilla de niños, huérfanos por la violencia del when the cartel targets them. narcotráfico en México. Las fuerzas sobrenaturales Friday, April 6, 9:15 PM acudirán en su ayuda cuando son atacados por el cártel. Sunday, April 8, 8:30 PM
WHAT WE MAY BECOME / LO QUE PODRÍAMOS SER Mexico / 2018 / 94 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Javier Colinas Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Santiago, a 23-year-old film student, falls in love Santiago, un estudiante de cine de 23 años, se enamora with his 35-year-old teacher, Amanda. He does the perdidamente de su maestra de 35, Amanda. Él hace lo impossible to seduce her, including shooting and editing imposible por seducirla, incluyendo el rodaje y edición a short film that slightly embarrasses her. With the help de un cortometraje que la avergüenza. Con la ayuda de of best friend Daniela, Santiago finally begins a torrid su mejor amiga Daniela, Santiago finalmente comienza relationship with Amanda until a renowned producer una relación apasionante con Amanda, hasta que un offers her a promising career far from Mexico. In his reconocido productor le ofrece una prometedora carrera attempt to win Amanda back, Santiago finds out that lejos de México. En su intento de recuperarla, Santiago what we want is not always what we need. descubre que lo que uno quiere no es siempre lo que uno necesita. Friday, April 13, 6:00 PM Sunday, April 15, 6:00 PM
THE GOLD SEEKERS / LOS BUSCADORES Paraguay / 2017 / 99 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori Spanish & Guarani w/ English Subtitles
Maneglia and Schembori follow-up their critically Maneglia y Schembori (“7 cajas”) regresan a la pantalla acclaimed “7 Boxes” (2012) with this fast-paced and grande con esta vertiginosa película de atracos. Manu, confident heist film. Twenty-one-year-old paperboy un repartidor de periódicos de 21 años de edad, recibe Manu receives from his ailing grandfather an old book; de su abuelo enfermo un libro antiguo; dentro del inside the book he finds a map and a photo of his libro, encuentra un mapa y una foto de su abuelo y su grandfather and his brother when they were treasure hermano cuando eran buscadores de tesoros. Con la hunters. With the help of two friends, he determines that ayuda de dos amigos, Manu deduce que este tesoro en this particular treasure is buried inside an embassy. His particular está enterrado dentro de una embajada. Su search soon attracts the attention of other parties eager búsqueda pronto llama la atención de ciertos individuos to get their greedy hands on the treasure. que desean hundir sus codiciosas manos dentro del tesoro. Saturday, April 7, 6:45 PM Tuesday, April 10, 8:15 PM
20 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 PERU
ETERNITY / WIÑAYPACHA Peru / 2017 / 86 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Oscar Quispe Catacora Aymara w/ English Subtitles
Oscar Quispe Catacora’s contemplative feature debut, El contemplativo primer largometraje de Oscar Quispe the first one shot in Aymara, focuses on Willka and Catacora, el primero rodado en aymara, se centra en Phaxsi, a couple of octogenarians who live in a remote Willka y Phaxsi, un par de octogenarios que viven en una area of the Peruvian Andes. They face the misery and zona remota de los Andes peruanos. Diariamente, se the inclement passage of time, praying to their gods that enfrentan a la miseria y al inclemente paso del tiempo, their only son, Antuko, come rescue them. “Eternity” rogando a sus dioses que su único hijo, Antuko, venga explores both the solitude and abandonment felt by the a rescatarlos. “Wiñaypacha” explora tanto la soledad inhabitants of these isolated communities and villages, como el abandono que sienten los habitantes de estas and their almost religious communion with nature. comunidades y pueblos aislados, y su comunión casi religiosa con la naturaleza. Thursday, April 12, 6:15 PM Wednesday, April 18, 6:15 PM
THE FINAL HOUR / LA HORA FINAL Peru / 2017 / 118 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Eduardo Mendoza de Echave Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Eduardo Mendoza de Echave (“The Gospel of the Flesh”) Eduardo Mendoza de Echave (“El evangelio de la carne”) brings to life the true story of how years of undercover da vida a la historia real de cómo años de trabajo police work led to the arrest of Abimail Guzmán, leader of clandestino llevaron al arresto de Abimail Guzmán, líder the Shining Path guerrilla movement. Carlos Zambrano del movimiento guerrillero Sendero Luminoso. Carlos and Gabriela Coronado are two detectives from Peru’s Zambrano y Gabriela Coronado son dos detectives de National Police Force who are undercover as a couple la Policía Nacional de Perú que posan como pareja to find out the whereabouts of Guzmán. Unbeknownst para dar con el paradero de Guzmán. Sin saberlo, su to them, their work is being undermined by the CIA, the trabajo está siendo socavado por la CIA, el Servicio de National Intelligence Service, their fellow detectives and Inteligencia Nacional, sus colegas detectives e incluso even Fujimori’s infamous intelligence chief, Vladimiro por el infame jefe de inteligencia de Alberto Fujimori, Montesinos. Vladimiro Montesinos. Wednesday, April 11, 7:45 PM Friday, April 13, 9:00 PM
SEVEN SEEDS / SIETE SEMILLAS Peru / 2016 / 95 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama Directed by Daniel Rodríguez Risco Spanish w/ English Subtitles
From the director of the spine-tingling, body horror El director de la espeluznante película de terror “El thriller “The Womb” (2016), comes this new-age vientre” (2016) nos brinda esta comedia de la Nueva Era comedy about Ignacio Rodríguez (Carlos Alcántara), que gira en torno a Ignacio Rodríguez (Carlos Alcántara), the self-centered manager of a textile export company el egocéntrico gerente de una empresa de exportación founded many years ago by his father Manuel (the great textil fundada hace muchos años por su padre Manuel Argentinian actor Federico Luppi in one of his final (el gran actor argentino Federico Luppi en uno de sus roles before he passed away last October). Ignacio’s últimos roles antes de su fallecimiento el pasado mes life changes after he suffers a heart attack and meets de octubre). La vida de Ignacio cambia después de sufrir a singular guru (Almodóvar alum Javier Cámara) who un ataque al corazón y conocer a un gurú muy particular shows him how to find the necessary balance between (Javier Cámara) que le muestra cómo encontrar el work and family. equilibrio necesario entre el trabajo y la familia. Friday, April 6, 6:30 PM Sunday, April 8, 3:15 PM
SOUTHERN WINDS / VIENTOS DEL SUR Peru / 2017 / 79 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Franco García Becerra Spanish w/ English Subtitles
In Peruvian culture, the “tapados” are treasures that En la cultura peruana, los “tapados” son tesoros que were buried during colonial times to protect them from fueron enterrados durante la época colonial para the Spanish conquistadors; a light or flame emerges protegerlos de los conquistadores españoles; una luz from the ground to indicate their location. Nina’s o llama emerge del suelo para indicar su ubicación. grandfather, Fausto, believes that one or more of these El abuelo de Nina, Fausto, cree que uno o más de “tapados” are buried in his property and engages her to estos “tapados” están enterrados en su propiedad y help him locate these treasures. This search will lead la involucra en su búsqueda. La misma llevará a los both estranged relatives to reevaluate their lives and dos distanciados familiares a reevaluar sus vidas y a come to terms with their own isolation. reconocer su enajenación.
Saturday, April 14, 4:00 PM Monday, April 16, 8:00 PM
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A SUBLIME LIFE / UMA VIDA SUBLIME Portugal / 2017 / 105 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller Directed by Luis Diogo Portuguese w/ English Subtitles
Dr. Ivan Moura has developed two rather unorthodox O Dr. Ivan Moura desenvolveu duas “curas” pouco “cures” for unhappiness. In one cure, he diagnoses ortodoxas para a infelicidade. Numa das curas, no fake terminal cancer to his patients at the Institute he Instituto para o qual ele trabalha, ele diagnostica os seus works for, a diagnosis he expects will lead them to live pacientes com cancro terminal. Um diagnóstico que ele fuller lives. The second and most disturbing one involves espera que os leve a viver vidas mais completas. A kidnapping people he’s been spying on and, through segunda e mais perturbadora cura envolve o sequestro torture, eliminate two of the five senses to enhance their de pessoas que ele espia e que através da tortura rest. Moura will pay an extreme price for his unethical elimina dois dos cinco sentidos para melhorar o seu actions. descanso. O Dr. Moura pagará um preço extremo por suas ações anti-éticas. Friday, April 6, 8:30 PM Sunday, April 8, 8:45 PM
ANGÉLICA Puerto Rico / Mexico / 2016 / 90 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Marisol Gómez-Mouakad English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Angelica, the only daughter of a bi-racial marriage, Angélica, la hija única de un matrimonio biracial, regresa returns to Puerto Rico after a long absence when her a Puerto Rico después de una larga ausencia cuando su father, Wilfredo, suffers a stroke. But instead of being padre, Wilfredo, sufre un derrame cerebral. Pero en vez welcomed with open arms by her white-skinned mother de ser recibida con los brazos abiertos por Ángeles, su Angeles, she is met with hostility. Wilfredo’s death will madre de piel blanca, su trato es verdaderamente hostil. force Angelica to reckon with her identity and to re- La muerte de Wilfredo obligará a Angélica a reevaluar evaluate her relationship with her mother, her family su identidad y su relación con su madre, su familia y and her white boyfriend. With this feature debut, Gómez- su novio blanco. Gómez-Mouakad aborda en su debut Mouakad tackles a subject matter rarely explored in cinematográfico un tema rara vez explorado por el cine Puerto Rican cinema. puertorriqueño. Saturday, April 7, 4:15 PM Monday, April 9, 6:15 PM
NUYORICAN BÁSQUET Puerto Rico / 2017 / 108 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Ricardo Olivero Lora, Julio César Torres English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Mario “Quijote” Morales, Raymond Dalmau, Georgie Mario “Quijote” Morales, Raymond Dalmau, Georgie Torres, Charlie Bermudez, Nestor Cora, Bobby Knight, Torres, Charlie Bermudez, Nestor Cora, Bobby Knight, Isaiah Thomas...the match between Puerto Rico’s and Isaiah Thomas...el partido entre los equipos nacionales the United States’ national basketball teams for the de baloncesto de Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos por Gold Medal at the 1979 Pan American Games was la Medalla de Oro en los Juegos Panamericanos de one of the most anticipated in the island. Through 3-D 1979 fue uno de los más anticipados en la isla. A photography, archival video footage and testimonies través de fotografías tridimensionales, imágenes de from the surviving players and coaches, sports writers archivo y testimonios de los jugadores y entrenadores and even the island’s governor at the time, this riveting sobrevivientes, cronistas deportivos y hasta del documentary explores how most of these athletes gobernador en ese momento, este fascinante influenced the sport, and the political and cultural documental explora la influencia de estos atletas en Wednesday, April 11, 8:30 PM context in which these games took place. el deporte y el contexto político y cultural en el que Thursday, April 12, 7:45 PM tuvieron lugar estos juegos.
WHO ARE YOU? / ¿QUIÉN ERES TÚ? Puerto Rico / 2017 / 98 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Arí Maniel Cruz Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Cruz follows his critically acclaimed award-winning hit Cruz sigue su galardonado y aclamado éxito de taquilla “Before the Rooster Crows” with this uncompromising “Antes que cante el gallo” con esta mirada intachable look at the toll Alzheimer’s takes on the caregiver. Health sobre el impacto que tiene sobre el cuidador la Secretary Dr. Eduardo Suárez vehemently opposes the enfermedad de Alzheimer. El Secretario de Salud, Dr. new health reform proposed by the Governor; at the Eduardo Suárez, está vehementemente opuesto a la same time, his wife begins to show signs of early- nueva reforma de salud propuesta por el Gobernador; onset Alzheimer’s. Forced to resign his post, Suárez al mismo tiempo, su esposa comienza a mostrar signos begins to take care of his wife at the expense of his tempranos de Alzheimer. Forzado a renunciar a su cargo, own well-being as he watches from the sidelines how Suárez comienza a cuidar de su esposa a expensas de an investigation on government corruption threatens to su propio bienestar mientras observa de cerca cómo Saturday, April 14, 9:00 PM bring down the current administration. una investigación sobre corrupción gubernamental Monday, April 16, 6:00 PM amenaza con tumbar a la actual administración. Tuesday, April 17, 6:00 PM
22 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 SPAIN
THE BIGGER, THE BETTER / SABATES GROSSES / CUANTO MÁS GRANDE, MEJOR Spain / 2016 / 100 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Ventura Pons Catalan & Spanish w/ English Subtitles
The always-prolific Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons El siempre prolífico realizador catalán Ventura Pons returns to our Festival with this ensemble comedy that regresa a nuestro festival con esta comedia coral que celebrates Barcelona’s multiculturalism. The colorful celebra el multiculturalismo de Barcelona. El colorido cast includes a penniless aristocrat with strong religious elenco incluye a un aristócrata sin un céntimo con convictions, his left-wing daughter who’s always on his fuertes convicciones religiosas, a su hija izquierdista case, the grand dame with a turbulent past, the naughty que siempre le da la lata, a una gran dama con un Dominican friar who is friends with a great Cuban singer, pasado turbulento, a un travieso fraile Dominico que es and the two concierges from Valencia who tell each amigo de una cantante cubana y a los dos conserjes de other everything. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Valencia que se cuentan todo los chismes del barrio. Y eso es solo la punta del iceberg. Thursday, April 12, 5:45 PM Wednesday, April 18, 6:00 PM
THE CHESS PLAYER / EL JUGADOR DE AJEDREZ Spain / 2017 / 98 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Luis Oliveros Spanish w/ English Subtitles
After Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Chess Championship Diego Padilla conoce a Marianne, una bella periodista he meets a beautiful French journalist called Marianne francesa, tras ganar el campeonato nacional de ajedrez; and they soon marry and have a daughter. But when pronto se casan y conciben una hija. Cuando la Guerra the Spanish Civil War breaks out and his best friend Civil Española estalla y su mejor amigo es asesinado, is assassinated, Mariana convinces Diego to move to Marianne convence a Diego de que se muden a Francia; France; fate deals them a cruel hand when Diego is el destino les juega una partida cruel al Diego ser accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS acusado por los Nazis de espionaje y encarcelado en prison. His survival and the opportunity to reunite with una prisión de la SS. Su supervivencia y la oportunidad his wife and daughter will depend now on his frequent de reunirse con su esposa e hija ahora dependen de chess matches with Nazi Colonel Maier. sus frecuentes partidas de ajedrez con el Coronel Maier. Saturday, April 7, 7:00 PM Tuesday, April 10, 8:30 PM
FLIGHT OF THE GUITAR: DREAMING OF PACO DE LUCÍA / LA GUITARRA VUELA: SOÑANDO A PACO DE LUCÍA Spain / 2016 / 72 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Jorge Martínez, Javier Limón Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Grammy winning producer, singer and songwriter Javier El productor, cantante, compositor y ganador del Limón (Buika, Bebo Valdés, Diego “El Cigala”) pays Grammy Javier Limón (Buika, Bebo Valdés, Diego “El homage to the life and music of Paco de Lucía through Cigala”) rinde homenaje a la vida y música de Paco the only guitar designed by the musical legend and de Lucía a través de la única guitarra diseñada por la handcrafted by his friend and luthier, Antonio Morales. leyenda del flamenco y elaborada artesanalmente por The guitar travels from Spain to nine countries and into su amigo y lutier, Antonio Morales. La guitarra viaja de the hands of such renowned singers and songwriters España a nueve países y cae en las manos de tales as Caetano Veloso, Tomatito, Carlinhos Brown and renombrados cantantes y compositores como Caetano Alejandro Sanz. As they play the guitar, these artists Veloso, Tomatito, Carlinhos Brown y Alejandro Sanz. reminisce about Paco’s genius and his fusions of Mientras tocan la guitarra, estos artistas reflexionan flamenco and other musical genres. sobre el genio de Paco y sus fusiones del flamenco con Sunday, April 8, 3:45 PM otros géneros musicales. Tuesday, April 10, 6:30 PM
NOSOTROS Spain / 2017 / 93 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Felipe Vara de Rey Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Felipe Vara de Rey’s feature debut follows a group of five El debut cinematográfico de Felipe Vara de Rey se centra friends during the December 2015 presidential election. en un grupo de cinco amigos durante las elecciones Suko is discovering the challenges of fatherhood; presidenciales españolas de diciembre de 2015. Suko Sarah is beginning to understand the personal cost of descubre los desafíos de la paternidad; Sarah confronta intense political activism; Seda is exploring the limits el precio de su intenso activismo político; Seda está of his commitment to art as the only way to make a explorando los límites de su compromiso con el arte living; María is struggling to find her place in life; and como la única forma de ganarse la vida; María lucha Felipe is living as an expat and trying to manage the por encontrar su lugar; y Felipe, expatriado, trata de uncertainties of being so far away from home. manejar las incertidumbres de estar tan lejos de casa.
Saturday, April 14, 9:15 PM Monday, April 16, 6:00 PM
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 23 SPAIN / URUGUAY
OPERATION GOLDENSHELL / OPERACIÓN CONCHA Spain / 2017 / 103 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Antonio Cuadri Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Producer and businessman Marcos Ruiz de Aldazabal La compañía del productor y empresario Marcos Ruiz plans to convince a millionairess to invest in his nearly de Aldazabal está en la bancarrota y sólo una inyección bankrupt production company by hiring the double of a de dinero de una millonaria podrá salvarla. Su plan: well-known Cuban actor the millionairess admires. But contratar al doble de un conocido actor cubano que when the real actor shows up and the mob gets involved la millonaria admira para convencerla. Distinguir entre in the scheme, it will be hard to tell who is hustling who. timador y timado será difícil cuando el verdadero actor Starring Karra Elejalde, Barbara Mori and Jordi Molla, aparece en escena y la mafia se involucra en el plan. and with the San Sebastian Film Festival as a backdrop, Protagonizada por Karra Elejalde, Bárbara Mori y Jordi Antonio Cuadri’s fast-paced slapstick comedy is a love Molla, y con el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián como letter to the movies. telón de fondo, la nueva comedia de Antonio Cuadri es Sunday, April 15, 8:30 PM una carta de amor al cine. Monday, April 16, 6:15 PM Thursday, April 19, 8:30 PM
UNDER THE ROSE / BAJO LA ROSA Spain / 2017 / 97 min. Genre: Thriller Directed by Josué Ramos Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Josué Ramos’ feature debut is a claustrophobic thriller El primer largometraje de Josué Ramos es un thriller centered on the disappearance of Sara, the daughter claustrofóbico centrado en la desaparición de Sara, la of well-to-do couple Oliver and Julia, after her father hija de la adinerada pareja de Oliver y Julia, después de forgets to pick her up from school. Days pass and the que su padre olvida recogerla de la escuela. Pasan los police remain clueless about her whereabouts. One días y la policía no tiene ni idea sobre su paradero. Una morning, the family receives a letter from someone mañana, la familia recibe una carta de un desconocido who claims to be holding Sara prisoner: she will only que dice mantener prisionera a Sara: ella será liberada be released if the family agrees to meet with the letter si la familia acuerda reunirse, en su casa, con el autor writer alone that evening, at their house. de la carta esa noche.
Thursday, April 12, 8:30 PM Saturday, April 14, 6:30 PM
ANOTHER STORY OF THE WORLD / OTRA HISTORIA DEL MUNDO Uruguay / 2017 / 105 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama Directed by Guillermo Casanova Spanish w/ English Subtitles
History is rewritten by the losers in this dark satire La historia es reescrita por los perdedores en esta oscura chosen by Uruguay as its official submission to this sátira elegida por Uruguay como su representación year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar. Outraged by the oficial al Oscar a la Mejor Película Extranjera. Indignados recent appointment of a military governor to their town, por la reciente designación de un jefe militar, Esnal y Milo best friends Esnal and Milo decide to play a prank on the deciden hacerle una broma con graves consecuencias: new appointee with dire consequences: Milo is arrested Milo es arrestado y encarcelado mientras Esnal entra en and imprisoned while Esnal goes into seclusion. Pulled reclusión. Sacado de su ensimismamiento por las hijas out of his doldrums by Milo’s daughters, Esnal concocts de Milo, Esnal inventa un plan para liberar a su amigo: a plan to liberate his friend: to teach the study group enseñar al grupo de estudio dirigido por la esposa del led by the governor’s wife an alternative history of the gobernador una historia alternativa del mundo en dónde world where Milo’s family played a significant (albeit la familia de Milo jugó un papel significativo (aunque Sunday, April 8, 6:00 PM fake) role. falso). Tuesday, April 10, 6:15 PM
HOME TEAM / MI MUNDIAL Uruguay / Argentina / Brazil / 2017 / 102 min. Genre: Drama / Family Directed by Carlos Morelli Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Based on former Uruguayan soccer player Daniel Baldi’s Basado en la exitosa novela de iniciática del ex best-selling coming-of-age novel, Carlos Morelli’s futbolista uruguayo Daniel Baldi, “Mi mundial” cuenta feature debut tells the story of Tony, a 13-year-old soccer la historia de Tony, de 13 años; niño prodigio del fútbol prodigy from the countryside who gets the chance of a a quien le ofrecen la oportunidad de jugar en un equipo lifetime: to play semi-professionally in Montevideo. He semi-profesional en Montevideo. El éxito se le sube a not only leaves school behind but also turns his back la cabeza y no solo deja la escuela sino que le da la on family, friends and even a girlfriend until an accident espalda a su familia, amigos e incluso a su novia; un days prior to signing a contract to play in Brazil forces accidente días antes de firmar un contrato para jugar him to face his toughest challenge so far. “Home Team” en Brasil lo hará recapacitar. “Mi mundial” ofrece una offers a candid and touching look at how passion can mirada sincera y conmovedora sobre cómo la pasión lead one astray. puede llevar a uno por mal camino. Saturday, April 7, 3:45 PM Monday, April 9, 5:45 PM
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EN ALGÚN LUGAR USA / 2017 / 112 min. Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by Tadeo Garcia English
Social worker Abel and auto mechanic Diego have waited Abel, un trabajador social, y Diego, un mecánico for too long to fall in love with the right partner; not even automotriz, han esperado por años encontrar al Diego’s undocumented status can stop a relationship compañero perfecto; ni la situación migratoria de Diego that was meant to be. But when word reaches Diego podrá detener una relación que estaba destinada a ser. that his mother is dying, Abel resolves to be his partner Cuando Diego recibe la noticia de que su madre está al in the truest sense of the word, accompanying him back borde de la muerte, Abel decide acompañarlo de regreso to Mexico even though Diego will not be guaranteed re- a México, a pesar de que a Diego no se le garantiza entry to the country. What starts as a tender love story el reingreso al país. Lo que comienza como una tierna turns into a harrowing tale as both try to figure a way historia de amor se convierte en una verdaderamente to cross back. desgarradora cuando ambos comienzan a buscar una vía para entrar de nuevo a los Estados Unidos. Saturday, April 7, 8:45 PM Wednesday, April 18, 8:15 PM
MURDER IN THE WOODS USA / 2017 / 88 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller Directed by Luis Iga English
Danny Trejo stars in this slasher tale written by Chicago Danny Trejo protagoniza esta película de terror escrita writer Yelyna Leon and directed by Mexican filmmaker por la guionista de Chicago Yelyna León y dirigida por Luis Iga about a group of Latino teens who, in the el realizador mexicano Luis Iga sobre un grupo de grand tradition of the “Friday the 13th” series, decide adolescentes latinos que, en la gran tradición de la to spend a weekend in a mysterious cabin in the woods. serie “Friday the 13th”, deciden pasar un fin de semana Unbeknownst to them, the cabin was the site of an en una misteriosa cabaña en el bosque. Lo que ellos apparent murder-suicide more than a decade ago and desconocen es que la cabaña fue el sitio de un aparente soon things, and bodies, begin to go bump in the night. asesinato-suicidio ocurrido hace más de una década y pronto algo, o alguien, comienza a eliminarlos uno a uno. Saturday, April 7, 9:15 PM Monday, April 9, 8:45 PM
MY NAME IS PEDRO USA / 2017 / 99 min. Genre: Documentary Directed by Lillian LaSalle English
“My Name is Pedro” tells the exceptional story of Pedro “My Name is Pedro” cuenta la excepcional historia de Santana, one of the most influential public school Pedro Santana, uno de los maestros y administradores teachers and administrators in the New York public de escuelas públicas más influyentes en el sistema school system. Charismatic and compassionate, he is escolar público de Nueva York. Carismático y compasivo, unapologetic in his commitment to create change for él no se arrepiente de su compromiso en gestionar kids, no matter the odds. He faces his biggest challenge cambios que beneficien a los niños. Pedro se enfrenta when he is appointed Assistant Superintendent of a a su mayor desafío cuando es nombrado asistente school district largely made of Hasidic Jewish families. del superintendente de un distrito escolar integrado Combining animation with testimonies and live action mayoritariamente por familias judías jasídicas. footage, Lillian LaSalle paints a compelling portrait of an Combinando animación con testimonios y pietaje de educator who was an unstoppable force. archivo, Lillian LaSalle celebra la obra de un educador Friday, April 13, 6:15 PM que fue una fuerza imparable. Sunday, April 15, 4:00 PM
RUN FAST OR FLY HIGH / EL QUE NO CORRE…VUELA USA / 2017 / 100 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Ricardo Islas, Max Da Silva Spanish w/ English Subtitles
11.5 million documents detailing financial and attorney- 11.5 millones de documentos que detallaron client information for hundreds of thousands of offshore información financiera y legal para cientos de miles entities were leaked to the press in 2015 in what became de entidades extraterritoriales fueron filtrados a la known as “The Panama Papers”. Taking advantage of prensa en 2015 en lo que se conoció como los “papeles the chaos, a hacker robs millions of dollars from the de Panamá”. Aprovechando el caos, un hacker roba Mafia. Chased by mobsters and a clueless detective, the millones de dólares a la mafia. Perseguido por mafiosos hacker flies to Chicago where he is robbed. He must find y un detective despistado, el hacker vuela a Chicago, the money before the mob finds him in a race against donde es robado y ahora tiene que dar con el dinero time in this cartoonish comedy from the team behind antes de que la mafia lo encuentre en una carrera contra last year’s comedy “All or Nothing. el tiempo en esta comedia caricaturesca del equipo responsable por “Todo o nada”. Tuesday, April 17, 6:15 PM Thursday, April 19, 8:00 PM
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 25 VENEZUELA
BÁRBARA Venezuela / 2017 / 105 min. Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by John Petrizzelli Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Barbara, an aging drag queen, is fired from the nightclub Bárbara, una vieja drag queen, es despedida del club by his ex-lover and club owner Polanco. In revenge, nocturno por Polanco, su ex amante y dueño del club. Barbara steals a briefcase whose contents might make En represalia, Bárbara roba un maletín cuyo contenido him rich, and flees to Venezuela’s Plains. On the way, podría enriquecerlo y huye al Llano venezolano. En el Barbara meets Sixto, a young farmer who witnesses camino, Bárbara recoge a Sixto, un joven agricultor the murder of his family at the hands of sicarios; both testigo del asesinato de su familia a manos de sicarios; head for the border with Polanco and his men in hot ambos se dirigen hacia la frontera mientras Polanco y pursuit. With its dreamlike sequences and evocative sus hombres les siguen el rastro. Con sus secuencias photography, Petrizzelli pays tribute to Rómulo Gallegos’ oníricas y su fotografía evocadora, Petrizzelli rinde classic novel “Doña Barbara.” homenaje en este film a la novela clásica de Rómulo Gallegos, “Doña Bárbara”. Saturday, April 14, 9:00 PM Monday, April 16, 8:15 PM
EL INCA Venezuela / 2016 / 128 min. Genre: Drama Directed by Ignacio Castillo Cottin Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Both pulled from theaters by the Venezuelan government Simultáneamente retirada de los teatros por el gobierno and also chosen by it to represent Venezuela as a venezolano y elegida por él para representar a Venezuela contestant for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film, al Oscar a la Mejor Película Extranjera, “El Inca” narra la “El Inca” tells the true life story of the rise and tragic verdadera historia sobre el ascenso y trágica caída del fall of two-time World Boxing Champion, Edwin Valero. A dos veces Campeón Mundial de Boxeo, Edwin Valero. force of nature in the ring, Valero was the only boxer to Una fuerza de la naturaleza en el ring, Valero fue el win his first 18 matches by knock-out on the first round. único boxeador que ganó sus primeros 18 combates por However, as his professional life starts to improve his nocaut en el primer asalto. Pero a medida que acumula personal life spirals out of control as he succumbs to victorias, su vida personal cae en una espiral debido a drug addiction. su adicción a las drogas. Friday, April 6, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 8, 8:15 PM
THE WORST MAN IN THE WORLD / EL PEOR HOMBRE DEL MUNDO Venezuela / 2016 / 90 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Edgar Rocca Spanish w/ English Subtitles
Thirty-something Juan Andrés feels adrift after his El treintañero Juan Andrés se siente a la deriva tras la father’s death: unhappy with his job, he would much muerte de su padre: descontento con su trabajo, prefiere rather spend his time at the movies (who wouldn’t?). To pasar su tiempo en el cine (¿quién no?). Para empeorar make matters worse, his womanizing has gotten him in las cosas, su tendencia por correr tras las faldas de trouble with his current partner. A visit to a psychiatrist muchas chicas lo han metido en graves apuros con su will force him to reevaluate his life so far and come to pareja. Una visita a un siquiatra lo obligará a reevaluar terms with the reasons why many in his close circle of su vida y aceptar las razones por las cuales muchos friends, acquaintances and flings call him “the worst en su círculo cercano de amigos, conocidos y hasta man in the world.” amantes lo llaman “el peor hombre del mundo”.
Tuesday, April 17, 8:15 PM Thursday, April 19, 6:15 PM
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26 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 SHORTS: ARGENTINA / BRAZIL SHORTS
THE SHORT FILM OF THE SOFIA SOLAR RETURN / THE TWO MOVIE THEATERS YEAR / EL CORTO DEL AÑO REVOLUCIÓN SOLAR OF YODY JARSÚN / LOS Argentina / USA / 2017 / 25 min. DOS CINES DE YODY Argentina / 2017 / 14 min. Argentina / Austria / 2017 / 15 min. Directed by Justin Nico Flocco JARSÚN Directed by José Mariano Pulfer Directed by Santiago Rodríguez Durán Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy / Drama Genre: Drama Argentina / 2017 / 5 min. English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Directed by Alejandro Gallo Bermúdez Genre: Drama After his lover throws him out on the Spanish w/ English Subtitles A relationship. The search for a street, Matthew, a shy and out of place It is Sofia’s birthday once again and the cinematic style. A jump cut. Love memories of a past love catch up with American, finds himself stranded on A film reel, a tropical border and two getting in the way. Love and film. Love. the shady streets of Buenos Aires. her. The nostalgic ties with her home city And film once more. A cut in the end. of Buenos Aires and her relationship with movie theaters, one on each side of As the story progresses through the river. Will the boy arrive in time? Or something like it. encounters with different characters in her grandmother who now suffers from dementia, help Sofia gradually attain the Una relación. La búsqueda de un estilo the city, we begin to learn that maybe Una película, una frontera tropical independence that she yearns for. cinematográfico. Un salto de cámara. Matthew is not all he appears to be. y dos cines, uno a cada lado del río. ¿Llegará el joven a tiempo? El amor atravesándose en el camino. Después que su amante lo hecha Es el cumpleaños de Sofía una vez más y los Amor y cine. Amor. Y el cine otra vez. a la calle, Matthew, un gringo recuerdos de un viejo amor se le vienen a la Shown with: The Gold Seekers / Y al final un corte. O algo así. timido, se encuentra perdido en las cabeza. Los lazos nostálgicos con Buenos Los buscadores (Pg. 20) Aires y su relación con su abuela que ahora Shown with: What We May calles oscuras de Buenos Aires. Va padece de demencia ayudan a Sofia poco a Become / Lo que podríamos ser conociendo a diferentes personajes en Saturday, April 7, 6:45 PM poco a alcanzar la independencia que ella (Pg. 20) la ciudad y comenzamos a aprender Tuesday, April 10, 8:15 PM que quizás Matthew no es todo lo que tanto anhela. Friday, April 13, 6:00 PM parece ser. Shown with: Pablo’s Word / La Sunday, April 15, 6:00 PM Shown with: Princesita (Pg. 15) palabra de pablo (Pg. 18)
Friday, April 13, 8:45 PM Saturday, April 7, 6:15 PM Sunday, April 15, 8:00 PM Monday, April 9, 8:15 PM
BEFORE TODAY / ONTEM THE DRESS OF MYRIAM / I TRIED / TENTEI NOT YET / AINDA NÃO O VESTIDO DE MYRIAM Brazil / 2017 / 14 min. Brazil / 2017 / 15 min. Brazil / 2017 / 21 min. Brazil / 2017 / 15 min. Directed by Thiago Kistenmacker Directed by Laís Melo Directed by Julia Leite Directed by Lucas H. Rossi Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Genre: Drama Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Genre: Drama Portuguese w/ English Subtitles Portuguese w/ English Subtitles Portuguese w/ English Subtitles Portuguese w/ English Subtitles A woman suddenly flees from a Gloria’s courage gradually grew as the In the days before her birthday, Marina promising date. Her mind is flooded Divaldo and Myriam share the solitude anguish took hold of her body. One receives a visit from her mother that by painful memories of her transition in a quiet house in the rural countryside morning, she leaves to find a place will force her to hide things about and the obstacles she had to face. A of the state of Rio de Janeiro. After that will help her become whole again. herself. contemplative picture about the losses Myriam’s death, Divaldo buries her in and pain some have to undergo in the backyard and expresses mourning A coragem foi se fazendo aos poucos Nos dias que precedem seu order to be truly themselves. in a peculiar way. conforme a angústia tomava o corpo. aniversário, Marina recebe a visita Em certa manhã, Glória parte em de sua mãe que a forçará a esconder Um encontro entre duas mulheres Em meio a uma casa pacata no busca de um lugar para voltar a ser. coisas sobre si mesma. é interrompido por uma delas. Ela interior rural do estado do Rio de foge da intimidade e na mesma noite Janeiro, um casal de idosos convive Shown with: Help Me Make it Shown with: Lightning Falls conversa com seu passado através de com as limitações da velhice. Divaldo Through the Night / Ayúdame a Behind / Atrás hay relámpagos sua vivência trans, refletindo a criança compartilha sua solidão com Myriam. pasar la noche (Pg. 19) (Pg. 16) que se perdeu no caminho. Ela morre durante o sono e no dia seguinte. Divaldo a enterra no quintal Tuesday, April 10, 6:00 PM Sunday, April 8, 5:45 PM Shown with: Las malcogidas de casa. Após o enterro, ele manifesta Thursday, April 12, 6:00 PM Tuesday, April 10, 5:45 PM (Pg. 12) o luto de forma peculiar.
Sunday, April 15, 8:45 PM Shown with: Eternity / Wednesday, April 18, 8:15 PM Wiñaypacha (Pg. 21) Thursday, April 12, 6:15 PM Wednesday, April 18, 6:15 PM
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 27 SHORTS: CANADA / CHILE / COLOMBIA / COSTA RICA / CUBA
MARIAH ¡QUÉ BAILE! BLINKING LIGHTS / DRIFTING / A LA DERIVA TOMORROW / MAÑANA LUCES INTERMITENTES Canada / 2017 / 13 min. Colombia / 2017 / 14 min. Colombia / 2017 / 8 min. Chile / Spain / 2018 / 8 min. Directed by Anita Abbasi, Martin Baena Directed by Alexis Durán Directed by Camilo Palacios Directed by Juan Gama de Cossío Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Drama / Science Fiction English Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles A Latina teen fears being edged out by A day out fishing with a boy, his father, A woman abused by her husband has her closest friends while she trains for After a long trip, two friends talk in and grandpa. They talk about an the option of leaving him immediately a coveted ballet audition. front of the sea and reflect on their absent mother who gradually appears. upon entering a doctor’s office where lives and what they have left behind. Suddenly, the phone rings. a female psychologist and a male Una adolescente latina tiene miedo physician offer her help. de ser rechazada por sus amigas Tras un largo viaje, dos amigos Un día de pesca entre un hijo, un padre mientras se prepara para una conversan frente al mar y reflexionan y un abuelo. Hablan de una madre Una mujer abusada por su esposo importante audición de ballet. sobre sus vidas y lo que han dejado ausente, quien gradualmente aparece. tiene la opción de abandonarlo atrás. De repente el teléfono suena. inmediatamente al entrar a un Shown with: Tropical Virus / Virus Shown with: The Dragon Defense consultorio médico donde un doctor y tropical (Pg. 16) Shown with: The Watchman / El una sicóloga le ofrecen ayuda. / La defensa del dragón (Pg. 16) hombre que cuida (Pg. 17) Saturday, April 14, 6:15 PM Shown with: I Will Wait for You / Wednesday, April 18, 7:30 PM Tuesday, April 17, 6:00 PM Friday, April 13, 6:30 PM Te Esperaré (Pg. 11) Thursday, April 19, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 15, 5:30 PM Tuesday, April 17, 7:45 PM Wednesday, April 18, 8:00 PM
UNLUCKY’S LUCK / ELENA CONNECTION / GREAT MUY BIEN LA SUERTE DEL SALAO CONECTIFAI Costa Rica / 2017 / 23 min. Cuba / 2016 / 16 min. Colombia / 2017 / 16 min. Cuba / 2016 / 18 min. Directed by Ayerim Villanueva Directed by Sheyla Pool Pástor Directed by Felipe Holguin Directed by Zoe García Miranda Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Genre: Documentary Genre: Comedy Genre: Documentary Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Elena is a young woman who has The middle-aged students of a private Pellito lives in a small caribbean town in In 2016, ETECSA – the only telephone doubts about her sexuality. One day, English school in Havana have very diverse Colombia. Abandoned by his wife, with no company in Cuba – installed Wi-Fi routers her childhood friend Julia arrives to aspirations, but all want to be prepared for a job or money, he lives “cursed”. His friend in 18 public parks across the country. For challenge her to change her path in future of normalized relations between Cuba Antonia gives him a ticket of the Fortune´s many Cubans, this meant being able to go life. and the United States. During the English Raffle which ends up being the winner. After online for the first time. This documentary lessons we hear about the new Cuba that is much celebration, Pellito will confirm the Elena es una adolescente que tiene is a portrait of one of these parks and of the starting to appear on the horizon. saying: from luck and death no one is safe. dudas sobre su sexualidad. Un día, many individuals who can finally contact recibe en su casa a su amiga de la their family abroad. Los estudiantes de mediana edad de una En un pueblo del Caribe colombiano vive infancia Julia, quien la reta a cambiar escuela privada de inglés en La Habana Pellito. Abandonado por su esposa, sin En 2016, ETECSA - la única compañía el rumbo de su vida. tienen aspiraciones muy diversas, pero trabajo y sin plata, vive “salao”. Su comadre telefónica en Cuba - instaló antenas Wi-Fi todos quieren estar preparados para un Antonia le regala un boleto de la Rifa de la Shown with: The Desert Bride / en 18 parques públicos en toda la isla, lo futuro de relaciones normalizadas entre Fortuna que resulta ganador. Tras mucha La novia del desierto (Pg. 14) que significó para la gran mayoría de los Cuba y Estados Unidos. Durante las clases celebración, Pellito comprobará el dicho: de cubanos el primer acceso a internet. Este de inglés escuchamos sobre esa nueva la suerte y de la muerte nadie se salva. Sunday, April 15, 4:15 PM documental retrata la cotidianidad de uno Cuba que está comenzando a aparecer en Tuesday, April 17, 8:30 PM de estos parques y de las muchas personas Shown with: The Worst Man in el horizonte. que finalmente pueden comunicarse con the World / El peor hombre del sus familiares en el exterior. Shown with: Flight of the Guitar: mundo (Pg. 26) Dreaming of Paco de Lucía / La Shown with: The Contestant / El guitarra vuela. Soñando a Paco Tuesday, April 17, 8:15 PM concursante (Pg. 15) de Lucía (Pg. 23) Thursday, April 19, 6:15 PM Monday, April 9, 8:30 PM Sunday, April 8, 3:45 PM Wednesday, April 11, 6:15 PM Tuesday, April 10, 6:30 PM
28 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 SHORTS: CUBA / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / EL SALVADOR / HONDURAS / MEXICO
HOUSE FOR SALE / CHANEL MY TREASURE / MI TESORO THE RETURNED / CASA EN VENTA RETORNADOS Dominican Republic / 2016 / 10 min. El Salvador / 2017 / 20 min. Cuba / Colombia / France / 2016 / 13 min. Honduras / USA / 2017 / 17 min. Directed by Humberto Vallejo Directed by Michael Flores Directed by Emanuel Giraldo Betancur Directed by Sarah M Kuck, Meredith Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Documentary Hoffman Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Documentary Chanel doesn’t live in New York like A cleaning woman steals a Salvadoran Spanish w/ English Subtitles For more than 50 years, the Cuban she has led all her family to believe. Civil War map and hunts for a treasure government did not allow the A voice message puts in danger the in the hopes of reuniting with her son. Three families who have been forced purchase and sale of houses, but now, double life she has built for her baby to return to Honduras tell us about the possibility has been opened. As if daughter and herself. Una empleada de servicios de the extremely violent conditions they we were buyers, three Cubans guide limpieza se roba un mapa de la Guerra fled. This film explores the experience us through their homes up for sale. Chanel no vive en Nueva York como Civil Salvadoreña con la esperanza de of being returned to a familiar, yet ha hecho creer a toda su familia. Un encontrar un tesoro y reunirse con su increasingly unsafe situation. Por más de 50 años, el gobierno mensaje de voz pondrá en peligro la hijo. cubano no permitió la libre compra y doble vida que ha construido para ella Tres familias forzadas a volver venta de casas, ahora, con la apertura, y para su hija. Shown with: American Curious a Honduras nos cuentan sobre se ha abierto la posibilidad. Como si (Pg. 19) las condiciones extremadamente fuéramos compradores, tres personas Shown with: Who are you? / violentas de las cuales huyeron. Esta cubanas nos ofrecen sus viviendas en ¿Quién eres tú? (Pg. 22) Saturday, April 7, 4:30 PM película explora la experiencia de ser venta. Monday, April 9, 6:15 PM retornado a una situación familiar pero Saturday, April 14, 9:00 PM peligrosa. Shown with: Violeta Has a Plan / Monday, April 16, 6:00 PM Violeta al fin (Pg. 16) Tuesday, April 17, 6:00 PM Shown with: Voices Beyond the Wall: Twelve Love Poems from Monday, April 9, 8:45 PM the Murder Capital of the World Wednesday, April 11, 6:00 PM (Pg. 19)
Friday, April 6, 6:00 PM Sunday, April 8, 6:15 PM
INCARNATION / JUAN GABRIEL IS DEAD / THE LONG BRIGHT DARK / MADE BY HAND / ENCARNACIÓN SE MURIÓ JUAN GABRIEL LA LARGA Y BRILLANTE COSAS CON LAS MANOS OSCURIDAD Mexico / 2017 / 14 min. Mexico / 2017 / 15 min. Mexico / 2017 / 14 min. Directed by Ricardo Castro Directed by Tavo Ruiz Mexico / 2017 / 8 min. Directed by Arturo Eduardo Hernández Genre: Drama Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Directed by César Flores Correa Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Documentary Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles After massacring the people of On the day famous mexican singer Fernando cannot forget Sofía. She left Encarnación, a group of undercover Juan Gabriel dies, best friends Through their job inside a prison in some time ago and the littlest things soldiers return to destroy the evidence. Beto and Daniel will redefine their Mexico, men reveal the perception, still remind him of her. When he meets Soldier Ezequiel Gallardo drifts away friendship. Daniel imagines how his the illusion and the decadence inside Liz, he starts to manipulate his own from his platoon and ends up in the day would be if he were a girl. Maybe an isolated but organized reality. memories so that he can move on, but town alone, face to face with his own this way his feelings toward Beto A través su trabajo dentro de una his own mind has created a strange demons. would be seen as normal. prisión en México, los hombres being that will stand in his way. Después de la masacre del poblado El día en que el cantante mexicano revelan la percepción, la ilusión y la Fernando no puede olvidar a Sofía. Ella de Encarnación, un grupo encubierto Juan Gabriel muere, Beto y Daniel, dos decadencia dentro de una realidad se fue hace tiempo y aún las cosas de soldados regresa a desaparecer adolescentes mexicanos, re-definirán aislada como organizada. más pequeñas le recuerdan a ella. Al la evidencia de la matanza. El su amistad. Daniel imagina como sería Shown with: If I Die First / Si yo conocer a Liz él manipula sus propios soldado Ezequiel Gallardo pierde al su día si fuera una chica, quizá de esa muero primero (Pg. 17) recuerdos para superar el pasado, grupo y termina solo en el pueblo, forma sus sentimientos hacia Beto pero un extraño ser creado por su encontrándose frente a frente con sus puedan ser vistos como algo normal. Thursday, April 12, 8:15 PM mente se interpondrá en su camino. demonios. Shown with: Dear Mom / Querida Saturday, April 14, 6:30 PM Shown with: My Father’s Memory Shown with: Berenice / Berenice Mamãe (Pg. 13) / La memoria de mi padre (Pg. 14) Procura (Pg. 13) Sunday, April 15, 6:45 PM Saturday, April 7, 4:00 PM Friday, April 13, 9:15 PM Tuesday, April 17, 8:45 PM Tuesday, April 10, 8:45 PM Saturday, April 14, 7:00 PM
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 29 SHORTS: MEXICO / PARAGUAY / PERU / PUERTO RICO / SPAIN
PACGIRL THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE / WHEN THE SUN RISES / LOVE / AMOR LO DULCE DE LA VIDA CUANDO EL DÍA NACE Mexico / 2017 / 12 min. Peru / 2016 / 10 min. Mexico / 2017 / 12 min. Paraguay / 2017 / 12 min. Directed by Jaime Peña García Directed by Yashim Bahamonde, Nelson Directed by Horacio Romo Directed by Santiago Eguia Genre: Drama Mendoza Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Guarani w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles After a visit with a child psychiatrist, Antonio discovers that his daughter Ana, a 7 year old girl, tries to Estela is an elderly woman who Genaro and Daniela live one of those is transforming into a hyperactive understand and unwind in her lives alone in the countryside after passionate relationships in which the Pacman. grandfather’s funeral despite her the recent death of her husband, saddest and most painful aspects of mother’s efforts to keep her away. Samuel. Everything changes when a people arise and become perverse A raíz de una visita con el psiquiatra boy that she does not know visits and Ana, una niña de 7 años, intenta gestures that ultimately ruin love, sex Antonio descubre que su hija se está transforms Estela’s life forever. and the life of the individuals in love. transformando en un hiperactivo entender y desenvolverse en el funeral Pacman. de su abuelo a pesar de los esfuerzos Estela es una anciana que debe Genaro y Daniela viven una de esas de su madre por alejarla. afrontar la vida sola después de la relaciones apasionadas en los que Shown with: Spider Thieves / reciente muerte de su esposo Samuel. surgen los aspectos más tristes y Niñas araña (Pg. 15) Shown with: Snapshot / Luego de un par de días recibe la visita Instantánea (Pg. 18) dolorosos de las personas que se de un niño al que ella no conoce, que convierten en gestos perversos que Friday, April 6, 6:15 PM cambia por completo la vida de Estela. terminan por arruinar el amor, el sexo Sunday, April 8, 3:15 PM Sunday, April 15, 3:45 PM Wednesday, April 18, 5:45 PM Shown with: The Beast in the y la vida misma de los individuos que Jungle / A Fera na Selva (Pg. 12) se aman. Shown with: Luis (Pg. 17) Tuesday, April 17, 5:45 PM Thursday, April 19, 6:30 PM Wednesday, April 11, 5:45 PM Thursday, April 19, 6:00 PM
DANDY / GALÁN FISH / PEZ FROZEN PRINCESS / THE ROBBERY / EL ATRACO PRINCESA DE HIELO Puerto Rico / 2017 / 16 min. Spain / 2017 / 10 min. Spain / 2017 / 10 min. Spain / 2017 / 15 min. Directed by Juan C. Linares Directed by Javier Quintas Directed by Alfonso Díaz Directed by Pablo Guerrero Genre: Comedy Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy Genre: Drama / LGBTQ Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles In his time, Eddie Nieves was the Dani and Martina live with their mother What’s going to happen when these most successful meteorologist in in a modest neighborhood. Dani A few days before Three Kings’ Day, tough times get worse and there are Puerto Rico. After being fired due to never sees her mother have dinner, Antonio and Carmen read the letter more robbers than bars? a humiliating situation, his career as but already knows how to make his that their son has written to the Three well as his relationship with his son mother have dinner every night. Wise Men. A very special gift on the ¿Qué ocurrirá cuando la crisis sea were shattered. Trying to reinvent child’s list will test the convictions and peor y hayan más atracadores que himself, he launches a brand of men’s Dani y Martina viven con su madre en love of the parents. tabernas? hair gel called Dandy. un modesto apartamento de barrio. Dani nunca ve a su madre cenar, pero Días antes del Día de Reyes, Antonio Shown with: Ten Days Without Mom En su momento, Eddie Nieves fue el él ya sabe cómo hacer que su madre y Carmen leen la carta que su hijo / Mamá se fue de viaje (Pg. 12) meteorólogo más exitoso de Puerto cene todas las noches. Lucas ha escrito a los Tres Reyes Rico. Luego de ser despedido debido Magos. Un regalo muy especial de la Friday, April 13, 8:30 PM a una situación bochornosa, su Shown with: Tesoros (Pg. 20) lista del pequeño pondrá a prueba las Sunday, April 15, 4:00 PM carrera y relación con su hijo fueron convicciones y el amor de los padres. Saturday, April 14, 3:45 PM destrozadas. Intentando reinventarse, Shown with: Cuernavaca (Pg. 19) Eddie lanza una marca de gel para Monday, April 16, 5:45 PM cabello de hombre llamada Galán. Sunday, April 8, 5:30 PM Shown with: Seven Seeds / Siete Wednesday, April 11, 6:15 PM semillas (Pg. 21)
Friday, April 6, 6:30 PM Sunday, April 8, 3:15 PM
30 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 SHORTS: SPAIN / URUGUAY / USA
SMILE / SONRÍE SOMETHING IN THE CEASE GAME / GOD’S FAVORITE ANIMAL / DARKNESS / HAY ALGO EN ALTO EL JUEGO EL ANIMAL PREFERIDO DE Spain / 2017 / 4 min. LA OSCURIDAD DIOS Uruguay / 2015 / 7 min. Directed by Pablo Vara Spain / 2017 / 14 min. Directed by Walter Tournier Uruguay / 2017 / 16 min. Genre: Comedy Directed by Fran Casanova Genre: Animation Directed by Marco Bentancor, Alejandro Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Horror No Dialogue Rocchi Spanish w/ English Subtitles Genre: Drama / Thriller Elena does not want to smile today. In the middle of a war, a boy and a Spanish w/ English Subtitles Will something or someone make her Veronica is trying to overcome her change her mind? dog try to protect themselves. This is fear of the dark. With the help of her a game that is not so innocent. A woman arrives at a couple’s country A Elena hoy no le place sonreir. ¿Será mother, she has managed to sleep house and asks for permission to que algo o alguién la haga cambiar de with nearly all of the lights off but En el medio de un conflicto bélico, un charge her phone. Once inside, she opinión? still goes to bed with her flashlight. niño y un perro tratan de protegerse. sends a text message to the man, This night, something is different... Este es un juego nada inocente. threatening to tell his girlfriend a Shown with: Amalia, The this night there is something in the Shown with: The Chess Player / El secret that seems to link him to the Secretary / Amalia, la secretaria darkness. woman. (Pg. 15) jugador de ajedrez (Pg. 23) Verónica trata de superar su miedo a Una mujer llega a la casa de campo Friday, April 6, 6:45 PM la oscuridad. Ayudada por su madre, Saturday, April 7, 7:00 PM de una pareja y pide que la dejen Sunday, April 8, 3:30 PM poco a poco ha logrado poder dormir Tuesday, April 10, 8:30 PM cargar su teléfono. Ya dentro, le con menos luces encendidas, pero envía un mensaje de texto al hombre, aún sigue necesitando aferrarse a su amenazándolo con contar a su novia linterna. Pero esta noche, hay algo un secreto que parece vincularlo con diferente... esta noche hay algo en la la mujer. oscuridad. Shown with: Murder in the Woods Shown with: Tigers Are Not Afraid (Pg. 25) / Vuelven (Pg. 20) Saturday, April 7, 9:15 PM Friday, April 6, 9:15 PM Monday, April 9, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 8, 8:30 PM
JUNK / CHATARRA SOVEREIGN PAPERWORK / A LITTLE WHILE LONGER / FROM NOW ON SOBERANO PAPELEO UN RATITO MAS Uruguay / 2015 / 5 min. USA / Puerto Rico / 2017 / 10 min. Uruguay / 2015 / 3 min. USA / 2018 / 8 min. Directed by Walter Tournier Directed by Ivonne Coll, Javier Colón Ríos Directed by Lala Severi Directed by Alycya Magaña Genre: Animation Genre: Drama Genre: Animation Genre: Drama No Dialogue English No Dialogue Spanish w/ English Subtitles Memories of life in an apocalyptic Two middle age Latinas (Ivonne Coll world made out of trinkets, junk and An employee whose hours pass by Through a coveted lottery, a troubled and Ofelia Medina), stop by along the other things. coordinating files at an archive is immigrant woman wins the chance to Malibu Coast, on their way to Northern surprised to receive a blank paper see her long lost son once again. California. They have done something Memorias de vida en un mundo that will encourage him to make an momentous today. A phone message apocalíptico hecho de baratijas, unexpected change. This short is a A través de una codiciada lotería, una mujer inmigrante gana la oportunidad reveals to us the life changing decision basura y otras cosas. brief history of “bureaucracy” and they have made. a symbolic reference to the lack of de ver a su hijo, una vez más. Shown with: Home Team / Mi freedom of human beings. Dos latinas de mediana edad (Ivonne mundial (Pg. 24) Shown with: Under the Rose / Bajo la rosa (Pg. 24) Coll y Ofelia Medina) se detienen Un empleado que pasa sus en la costa de Malibú, camino al Saturday, April 7, 3:45 PM horas archivando expedientes es norte de California. Han hecho algo Monday, April 9, 5:45 PM sorprendido por un papel en blanco Thursday, April 12, 8:30 PM Saturday, April 14, 6:30 PM trascendental hoy. Un mensaje de que le mostrará varias posibilidades teléfono nos revela la decisión que ha de cambio. Este corto es una breve cambiado sus vidas. historia de la “burocracia” y una referencia simbólica a la falta de Shown with: Broche de Oro: libertad de los seres humanos. Beginnings / Broche de Oro: Comienzos (Pg. 5) Shown with: Another Story of the World / Otra historia del mundo OPENING NIGHT (Pg. 24) Saturday, April 7, 6:00 PM Sunday, April 8, 6:00 PM Tuesday, April 10, 6:15 PM
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 31 SHORTS: USA / VENEZUELA
LOS ANGELES 1991 SILVIA TO INFINITY TOWARDS THE SUN / HACIA EL SOL USA / Spain / 2015 / 10 min. USA / 2017 / 15 min. USA / 2017 / 13 min. USA / UK / 2017 / 20 min. Directed by Miguel de Olaso & Bruno Directed by Diego Bolivar Directed by Gabriel Savodivker Directed by Monica Santis ZacarÍas Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles English Silvia, a Colombian immigrant, spends A dying father helps his young Los Angeles, 1991. The streets have her last hours in Chicago before daughter carry an imaginary mission Under the looming threat of become a hotbed of racial tension returning to her home country. There into space in order to reunite her with deportation, an unaccompanied minor and hate about to burst. Today, is an are moments of doubt and uncertainty her mother; but this simple game will at an immigrant children’s shelter in important day for Eladio: he is going to and she doesn’t know exactly what lead to an unimaginable revelation. Texas embarks on a healing journey avenge the death of his older brother. the repercussions of her decision to and learns to express herself through leave will be. Un padre a punto de morir ayuda a su the power of art. Los Ángeles, 1991. Las calles se han hija a realizar un viaje imaginario al convertido en un hervidero de tensión Silvia, una inmigrante colombiana, espacio para reunirse con su mamá, Bajo la inminente amenaza de y odio racial a punto de estallar. Hoy transita sus últimas horas en Chicago pero este simple juego trae una deportación, una niña inmigrante que es un día importante para Eladio: va antes de regresar a su país de origen. revelación inesperada. ha cruzado la frontera sola y llega a un a vengar la muerte de su hermano Son instantes de duda e incertidumbre refugio de niños en Texas, aprende a mayor. en los que no logra saber con exactitud Shown with: Rey’s Education / La expresar sus sentimientos a través del la dimensión que tiene la decisión que educación del Rey (Pg. 11) poder del arte. The 2017 LiMe Film Fest va a tomar. 2nd Place Winner. Saturday, April 7, 8:45 PM Shown with: Giant’s Don’t Exist / Shown with: Translucid / Tuesday, April 10, 8:45 PM Los gigantes no existen (Pg. 18) Shown with: Last Days in Havana / Translúcido (Pg. 18) Últimos días en La Habana (Pg. 17) Saturday, April 14, 8:15 PM Monday, April 9, 6:00 PM Monday, April 16, 8:15 PM Thursday, April 12, 8:45 PM Wednesday, April 11, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 15, 6:15 PM
WELCOME BACK GONE WITH THE SEA / NINE KNOTS / LO QUE EL MAR SE LLEVÓ NUEVE NUDOS USA / 2016 / 21 min. Venezuela / USA / 2016 / 11 min. Venezuela / 2017 / 11 min. Directed by Matias Nilsson Directed by Rebeca Alemán Directed by Lorena Colmenares Genre: Drama Genre: Drama Genre: Drama English & Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles Spanish w/ English Subtitles After being deported to Mexico, a mother is forced to survive in a Maya is the voice of those who cry Nine knots, a prayer for each one, and country she doesn’t understand from violence, the voice of children then, nine wishes for the soul that no anymore. Divided by two countries and who have lost their parents, their longer inhabits the earth. María knew a meaningless border, she seeks to homes and their country. This is a this thanks to her mother and knew understand which is truly her country short film written in memory of Mónica how to tie them thanks to her father. and her home. Spear, a young and renowned actress, But now she and her brother José are and her husband, both murdered in alone. Luego de ser deportada a México, Venezuela leaving orphan their five- una madre es obligada a sobrevivir en year-old daughter. Nueve nudos, un rezo por cada uno, y un país que ya no entiende. Dividida luego, nueve deseos para el alma que por dos países y una frontera sin Maya es la voz de quienes lloran por ya no habita la tierra. María sabía de sentido, ella busca comprender cual la violencia, la voz de los niños que esto gracias a su madre, y supo cómo es realmente su país y su casa. han perdido a sus padres, sus casas, atarlos gracias a su padre. Pero ahora su país. Es un cortometraje realizado ella y su hermano José están solos. Shown with: Southern Winds / a la memoria de Mónica Spear, actriz Vientos del sur (Pg. 21) venezolana asesinada junto a su Shown with: My Name is Pedro esposo, dejando huérfana su hija de (Pg. 25) Saturday, April 14, 4:00 PM cinco años. Monday, April 16, 8:00 PM Friday, April 13, 6:15 PM Shown with: Angelica (Pg. 22) Sunday, April 15, 4:00 PM
Saturday, April 7, 4:15 PM Monday, April 9, 6:15 PM
32 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 FILM INDEX
A Little While Longer / Un ratito mas ...... 31 Lightning Falls Behind / Atrás hay relámpagos ..... 16 The Robbery / El atraco ...... 30 Amalia, The Secretary / Amalia, la secretaria ...... 15 Looking for a Boyfriend...for my Wife / The Short Film of the Year / El corto del año ...... 27 American Curious ...... 19 Se busca novio...para mi mujer ...... 14 The Sweetness of Life / Lo dulce de la vida ...... 30 Angélica ...... 22 Los Angeles 1991 ...... 32 The Two Movie Theaters of Yody Jarsún / Another Story of the World / Love / Amor ...... 30 Los dos cines de Yody Jarsún ...... 27 Otra historia del mundo ...... 24 Luis ...... 17 The Watchman / El hombre que cuida ...... 17 A Sublime Life / Uma Vida Sublime ...... 22 Made by Hand / Cosas con las manos ...... 29 The Worst Man in the World / Bárbara ...... 26 Mariah ¡Qué baile! ...... 28 El peor hombre del mundo ...... 26 Before Today / Ontem ...... 27 Murder in the Woods ...... 25 Tigers are not Afraid / Vuelven ...... 20 Berenice / Berenice Procura ...... 13 My Father’s Memory / La memoria de mi padre ... 14 To Infinity...... 32 Blinking Lights / Luces intermitentes ...... 28 My Name is Pedro ...... 25 Tomorrow / Mañana ...... 28 Cease Game / Alto el juego ...... 31 My Treasure / Mi tesoro ...... 29 Towards the Sun / Hacia el sol ...... 32 Chanel ...... 29 Nine Knots / Nueve nudos ...... 32 Translucid / Translúcido ...... 18 Connection / Conectifai ...... 28 Nosotros ...... 23 Tropical Virus / Virus tropical ...... 16 Cuernavaca ...... 19 Not Yet / Ainda Não ...... 27 Under the Rose / Bajo la rosa ...... 24 Dandy / Galán ...... 30 Nuyorican Básquet ...... 22 Unlucky’s Luck / La suerte del salao ...... 28 Dear Mom / Querida Mamãe ...... 13 Operation Goldenshell / Operación Concha ...... 24 Violeta Has a Plan / Violeta al fin...... 16 Drifting / A la deriva ...... 28 Pablo’s Word / La palabra de pablo ...... 18 Voices Beyond the Wall: Twelve Love Poems from Elena ...... 28 Pacgirl ...... 30 the Murder Capital of the World ...... 19 El Inca ...... 26 Princesita ...... 15 Welcome Back ...... 32 En algún lugar ...... 25 Rey’s Education / La educación del Rey ...... 11 What we may become / Lo que podríamos ser ..... 20 Eternity / Wiñaypacha ...... 21 Run Fast or Fly High / El que no corre…vuela ...... 25 When the Sun Rises / Cuando el día nace ...... 30 Fish / Pez ...... 30 Seven Seeds / Siete semillas ...... 21 Who are you? / ¿Quién eres tú? ...... 22 Flight of the guitar: Dreaming of Paco de Lucía / Silvia ...... 32 La guitarra vuela: Soñando a Paco de Lucía ...... 23 Smile / Sonríe ...... 31 From Now On ...... 31 Snapshot / Instantánea ...... 18 Frozen Princess / Princesa de hielo ...... 30 Sofia...... 27 Giant’s Don’t Exist / Los gigantes no existen ...... 18 Solar Return / Revolución solar ...... 27 God’s Favorite Animal / Something in the Darkness / El animal preferido de Dios ...... 31 Hay algo en la oscuridad ...... 31 Gone With the Sea / Southern Winds / Vientos del Sur ...... 21 Lo que el mar se llevó ...... 32 Sovereign Paperwork / Soberano papeleo ...... 31 Good Manners / As Boas Maneiras ...... 13 Spider Thieves / Niñas araña ...... 15 Great muy bieN ...... 28 Symphony for Ana / Sinfonía para Ana ...... 12 Help Me Make it Through the Night / Ten Days without Mom / Mamá se fue de viaje .... 12 Ayúdame a pasar la noche ...... 19 Tesoros ...... 20 Home Team / Mi mundial ...... 24 The Beast in the Jungle / A Fera na Selva ...... 12 House for Sale / Casa en venta ...... 29 The Bigger, The Better / Sabates Grosses / If I Die First / Si yo muero primero ...... 17 Cuanto más grande, mejor ...... 23 Incarnation / Encarnación ...... 29 The Chess Player / El jugador de ajedrez ...... 23 I Tita, A Life of Tango / The Contestant / El concursante ...... 15 Yo soy así, Tita de Buenos Aires ...... 11 The Desert Bride / La novia del desierto ...... 14 I Tried / Tentei ...... 27 The Dragon Defense / La defensa del dragón ...... 16 I Will Wait for You / Te esperaré ...... 11 The Dress of Myriam / O Vestido de Myriam ...... 27 Juan Gabriel is Dead / Se murió Juan Gabriel ...... 29 The Final Hour / La hora final...... 21 Junk / Chatarra ...... 31 The Gold Seekers / Los buscadores ...... 20 Las malcogidas ...... 12 The Long Bright Dark / Last Days in Havana / Últimos días en La Habana .17 La larga y brillante oscuridad ...... 29 Life is a Bitch / Como é cruel viver assim ...... 13 The Returned / Retornados ...... 29
ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 33 HISPANIC INITIATIVES
IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO DO GOOD; IT MUST BE DONE WELL. -St. Vincent de Paul
34 | Chicago Latino Film Festival | April 5-19, 2018 ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org | April 5-19, 2018 | 35 AMC River East 21 Theatres THEATRE SCHEDULE 322 E. Illinois St. APRIL 5-19, 2018 All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.
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6:15 PM Spider Thieves / Niñas araña 6:45 PM Amalia, The Secretary / Amalia, la secretaria 6:30 PM Seven Seeds / Siete semillas 6:00 PM Voices Beyond the Wall: Twelve Love Poems from Chile / 94 min. Colombia / 102 min. Peru / 95 min. the Murder Capital of the World Director: Guillermo Helo Director: Andrés Burgos Director: Daniel Rodríguez Risco Honduras / USA / 88 min. Shown with Pacgirl Shown with Smile / Sonríe Shown with Dandy / Galán Director: Brad Coley Mexico / 12 min. Spain / 4 min. Puerto Rico / 16 min. Shown with The Returned / Retornados Honduras / USA / 17 min.
8:45 PM El Inca 9:00 PM I Tita, A Life of Tango / 9:15 PM Tigers Are Not Afraid / Vuelven 8:30 PM A Sublime Life / Uma Vida Sublime Venezuela / 128 min. Yo soy así, Tita de Buenos Aires Mexico / 83 min. Portugal / 105 min. Director: Ignacio Castillo Cottin Argentina / 112 min. Director: Issa López Director: Luis Diogo Director: Teresa Costantini Shown with Something in the Darkness /
FRIDAY, APRIL 6TH APRIL FRIDAY, Hay algo en la oscuridad Spain / 14 min.
4:15 PM Angélica 4:30 PM American Curious 4:00 PM My Father’s Memory / La memoria de mi padre 3:45 PM Home Team / Mi mundial Puerto Rico / Mexico / 90 min. Mexico / 85 min. Chile / 87 min. Uruguay / Argentina / Brazil 102 min. Director: Marisol Gómez Mouakad Director: Gabylu Lara Director: Rodrigo Bacigalupe Lazo Director: Carlos Morelli Shown with Gone With the Sea / Lo que el mar se llevó Shown with My Treasure / Mi tesoro Shown with Made by Hand / Cosas con las manos Shown with Junk / Chatarra Venezuela / USA / 11 min. El Salvador / 20 min. Mexico / 14 min. Uruguay / 5 min.
6:45 PM The Gold Seekers / Los buscadores 7:00 PM The Chess Player / El jugador de ajedrez 6:00 PM Broche de Oro: Beginnings / Broche de Oro: Comienzos 6:15 PM Pablo’s Word / La palabra de Pablo Paraguay / 99 min. Spain / 98 min. Puerto Rico / 87 min. El Salvador / 84 min. Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia,Tana Schembori Director: Luis Oliveros Director: Raúl Marchand Sánchez Director: Arturo Menendez Shown with The Two Movie Theaters of Yody Jarsún Shown with Cease Game / Alto el juego Shown with From Now On Shown with Solar Return / Revolución solar / Los dos cines de Yody Jarsún Uruguay / 7 min. USA / Puerto Rico / 10 min. Argentina / Austria / 15 min. Argentina / 5 min.
8:45 PM En algún lugar 9:15 PM Murder in the Woods 8:30 PM Good Manners / As Boas Maneiras 8:45 PM Rey’s Education / La educación del Rey USA / 112 min. USA / 88 min. Brazil / France / 135 min. Argentina / 92 min. SATURDAY, APRIL 7TH Director: Tadeo Garcia Director: Luis Iga Director: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra Director: Santiago Esteves Shown with God’s Favorite Animal / Shown with To Infinity El animal preferido de Dios USA / 13 min. Uruguay / 16 min.
3:15 PM Spider Thieves / Niñas araña 3:30 PM Amalia, The Secretary / Amalia, la secretaria 3:15 PM Seven Seeds / Siete semillas 3:45 PM Flight of the Guitar: Dreaming of Paco de Lucía / Chile / 94 min. Colombia / 102 min. Peru / 95 min. La guitarra vuela: Soñando a Paco de Lucía Director: Guillermo Helo Director: Andrés Burgos Director: Daniel Rodríguez Risco Spain / 72 min. Shown with Pacgirl Shown with Smile / Sonríe Shown with Dandy / Galán Directors: Jorge Martínez, Javier Limón Mexico / 12 min. Spain / 4 min. Puerto Rico / 16 min. Shown with Great muy bien Cuba / 16 min.
5:45 PM Lightning Falls Behind / Atrás hay relámpagos 5:30 PM Cuernavaca 6:00 PM Another Story of the World / 6:15 PM Voices Beyond the Wall: Twelve Love Poems from Costa Rica / 87 min. Mexico / 90 min. Otra historia del mundo the Murder Capital of the World Director: Julio Hernández Cordón Director: Alejandro Andrade Pease Uruguay / 105 min. Honduras / USA / 88 min. Shown with Not Yet / Ainda Não Shown with Frozen Princess / Princesa de hielo Director: Guillermo Casanova Director: Brad Coley Brazil / 21 min. Spain / 15 min. Shown with Sovereign Paperwork / Soberano papeleo Shown with The Returned / Retornados Uruguay / 3 min. Honduras / USA / 17 min.
8:15 PM El Inca 8:00 PM I Tita, A Life of Tango / 8:30 PM Tigers Are Not Afraid / Vuelven 8:45 PM A Sublime Life / Uma Vida Sublime
SUNDAY, APRIL 8TH Venezuela / 128 min. Yo Soy Así, Tita de Buenos Aires Mexico / 83 min. Portugal / 105 min. Director: Ignacio Castillo Cottin Argentina / 112 min. Director: Issa López Director: Luis Diogo Director: Teresa Costantini Shown with Something in the Darkness / Hay algo en la oscuridad Spain / 14 min. 6:15 PM Angélica 6:15 PM American Curious 6:00 PM Translucid / Translúcido 5:45 PM Home Team / Mi mundial Puerto Rico / Mexico / 90 min. Mexico / 85 min. Ecuador / USA / 86 min. Uruguay / Argentina / Brazil 102 min. Director: Marisol Gómez Mouakad Director: Gabylu Lara Director: Leonard Zelig Director: Carlos Morelli Shown with Gone With the Sea / Lo que el mar se llevó Shown with My Treasure / Mi tesoro Shown with Silvia Shown with Junk / Chatarra Venezuela / USA / 11 min. El Salvador / 20 min. USA / 15 min. Uruguay / 5 min.
8:45 PM Violeta Has a Plan / Violeta al fin 8:45 PM Murder in the Woods 8:30 PM The Contestant / El concursante 8:15 PM Pablo’s Word / La palabra de Pablo Costa Rica / Mexico / 85 min. USA / 88 min. Colombia / Francia / 86 min. El Salvador / 84 min. Director: Hilda Hidalgo Director: Luis Iga Director: Carlos Osuna Director: Arturo Menendez Shown with House for Sale / Casa en venta Shown with God’s Favorite Animal / Shown with Connection / Conectifai Shown with Solar Return / Revolución solar Cuba / Colombia / France / 13 min. El animal preferido de Dios Cuba / 18 min. Argentina / Austria / 15 min. MONDAY, APRIL 9TH APRIL MONDAY, Uruguay / 16 min.
5:45 PM Lightning Falls Behind / Atrás hay relámpagos 6:00 PM Help Me Make it Through the Night / 6:15 PM Another Story of the World / 6:30 PM Flight of the Guitar: Dreaming of Paco de Lucía / Costa Rica / 87 min. Ayúdame a pasar la noche Otra historia del mundo La guitarra vuela: Soñando a Paco de Lucía Director: Julio Hernández Cordón Mexico / 94 min. Uruguay / 105 min. Spain / 72 min. Shown with Not Yet / Ainda Não Director: José Ramón Chávez Director: Guillermo Casanova Directors: Jorge Martínez, Javier Limón Brazil / 21 min. Shown with I Tried / Tentei Shown with Sovereign Paperwork / Soberano papeleo Shown with Great muy bien Brazil / 15 min. Uruguay / 3 min. Cuba / 16 min.
8:15 PM The Gold Seekers / Los buscadores 8:30 PM The Chess Player / El jugador de ajedrez 8:45 PM My Father’s Memory / La memoria de mi padre 8:45 PM Rey’s Education / La educación del Rey Paraguay / 99 min. Spain / 98 min. Chile / 87 min. Argentina / 92 min. Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia,Tana Schembori Director: Luis Oliveros Director: Rodrigo Bacigalupe Lazo Director: Santiago Esteves Shown with The Two Movie Theaters of Yody Jarsún Shown with Cease Game / Alto el juego Shown with Made by Hand / Cosas con las manos Shown with To Infinity / Los dos cines de Yody Jarsún Uruguay / 7 min. Mexico / 14 min. USA / 13 min. TUESDAY, APRIL 10TH APRIL TUESDAY, Argentina / 5 min.
6:00 PM Violeta Has a Plan / Violeta al fin 6:15 PM Cuernavaca 6:15 PM The Contestant / El concursante 5:45 PM Luis Costa Rica / Mexico / 85 min. Mexico / 90 min. Colombia / Francia / 86 min. Dominican Republic / 98 min. Director: Hilda Hidalgo Director: Alejandro Andrade Pease Director: Carlos Osuna Director: Archie Lopez Shown with House for Sale / Casa en venta Shown with Frozen Princess / Princesa de hielo Shown with Connection / Conectifai Shown with Love / Amor Cuba / Colombia / France / 13 min. Spain / 15 min. Cuba / 18 min. Peru / 10 min.
8:30 PM Nuyorican Básquet 8:45 PM Symphony for Ana / Sinfonía para Ana 8:45 PM Translucid / Translúcido 7:45 PM The Final Hour / La hora final Puerto Rico / 108 min. Argentina / 119 min. Ecuador / USA / 86 min. Peru / 118 min. Directors: Ricardo Olivero Lora, Julio César Torres Directors: Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina Director: Leonard Zelig Director: Eduardo Mendoza de Echave Shown with Silvia USA / 15 min. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11TH APRIL WEDNESDAY,
5:45 PM The Bigger, The Better / Sabates Grosses / 6:00 PM Help Me Make it Through the Night / 6:15 PM Looking For a Boyfriend...For My Wife / 6:15 PM Eternity / Wiñaypacha Cuanto más grande, mejor Ayúdame a pasar la noche Se busca novio…para mi mujer Peru / 86 min. Spain / 100 min. Mexico / 94 min. Chile / 99 min. Director: Oscar Quispe Catacora Director: Ventura Pons Director: José Ramón Chávez Director: Diego Rougier Shown with The Dress of Myriam / O Vestido de Myriam Shown with I Tried / Tentei Brazil / 15 min. Brazil / 15 min.
7:45 PM Nuyorican Básquet 8:30 PM Under the Rose / Bajo la rosa 8:45 PM Last Days in Havana / Últimos días en La Habana 8:15 PM If I Die First / Si yo muero primero Puerto Rico / 108 min. Spain / 97 min. Cuba / Spain / 93 min. Ecuador / 107 min. Directors: Ricardo Olivero Lora, Julio César Torres Director: Josué Ramos Director: Fernando Pérez Director: Rodolfo Muñoz Shown with A Little While Longer / Un ratito mas Shown with Los Angeles 1991 Shown with The Long Bright Dark / USA / 8 min. USA / Spain / 10 min. La larga y brillante oscuridad
THURSDAY, APRIL 12TH THURSDAY, Mexico / 8 min.
FILM TICKETS FILM PASSPORT TICKETS HOW TO BUY TICKETS General Admission - $13 Film Passport: 12 General Admissions Online at ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org or on the CLFF ILCC Members / Students / Seniors - $10 $110 ($46 Savings) Facebook page. On-site at CLFF Box Office in the Theatre lobby. Box office opens one hour before first show of the day.Cash, (Must present Valid ID) $80 ILCC Member ($76 Savings) Debit and major credit cards are accepted. Checks are Mondays & Tuesdays - $10 not accepted. All sales are final. No exchange or refunds.
For information on tickets and directors attending, visit: ChicagoLatinoFilmFestival.org AMC River East 21 Theatres THEATRE SCHEDULE 322 E. Illinois St. APRIL 5-19, 2018 All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.
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6:30 PM The Watchman / El hombre que cuida 6:00 PM What We May Become / Lo que podríamos ser 6:45 PM Looking for a Boyfriend...for my Wife / 6:15 PM My Name is Pedro Dominican Republic / Brazil / Puerto Rico / 85 min. Mexico / 94 min. Se busca novio...para mi mujer USA / 99 min. Director: Alejandro Andújar Director: Javier Colinas Chile / 99 min. Director: Lillian LaSalle Shown with Drifting / A la deriva Shown with The Short Film of the Year / El corto del año Director: Diego Rougier Shown with Nine Knots / Nueve nudos Colombia / 14 min. Argentina / 14 min. Venezuela / 11 min.
8:45 PM Princesita 8:30 PM Ten Days Without Mom / Mamá se fue de viaje 9:15 PM Berenice / Berenice Procura 9:00 PM The Final Hour / La hora final Chile / 78 min. Argentina / 99 min. Brazil / 90 min. Peru / 118 min. Director: Marialy Rivas Director: Ariel Winograd Director: Allan Fiterman Director: Eduardo Mendoza de Echave Shown with Sofia Shown with The Robbery / El atraco Shown with Incarnation / Encarnación
FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH FRIDAY, Argentina / USA / 25 min. Spain / 10 min. Mexico / 14 min.
3:45 PM Tesoros 4:15 PM Symphony for Ana / Sinfonía para Ana 4:30 PM Looking For a Boyfriend...For My Wife / 4:00 PM Southern Winds / Vientos del Sur Mexico / 96 min. Argentina / 119 min. Se busca novio…para mi mujer Peru / 79 min. Director: María Novaro Directors: Ernesto Ardito, Virna Molina Chile / 99 min. Director: Franco García Becerra Shown with Fish / Pez Director: Diego Rougier Shown with Welcome Back Spain / 10 min. USA / 21 min.
6:15 PM Tropical Virus / Virus tropical 6:30 PM Under the Rose / Bajo la rosa 7:00 PM Berenice / Berenice Procura 6:30 PM If I Die First / Si yo muero primero Colombia / 96 min. Spain / 97 min. Brazil / 90 min. Ecuador / 107 min. Director: Santiago Caicedo Director: Josué Ramos Director: Allan Fiterman Director: Rodolfo Muñoz Shown with Mariah ¡Qué baile! Shown with A Little While Longer / Un ratito mas Shown with Incarnation / Encarnación Shown with The Long Bright Dark / Canada / 13 min. USA / 8 min. Mexico / 14 min. La larga y brillante oscuridad Mexico / 8 min.
8:15 PM Giant’s Don’t Exist / Los gigantes no existen 9:00 PM Bárbara 9:00 PM Who are you? / ¿Quién eres tú? 9:15 PM Nosotros Guatemala / Spain / 82 min. Venezuela / 105 min. Puerto Rico / 98 min. Spain / 93 min. SATURDAY, APRIL 14TH Director: Chema Rodríguez Director: John Petrizzelli Director: Arí Maniel Cruz Director: Felipe Vara de Rey Shown with Towards the Sun / Hacia el sol Shown with Chanel USA / UK / 20 min. Dominican Republic / 10 min.
3:45 PM Snapshot / Instantánea 4:00 PM Ten Days Without Mom / Mamá se fue de viaje 4:15 PM The Desert Bride / La novia del desierto 4:00 PM My Name is Pedro Ecuador / Colombia / 75 min. Argentina / 99 min. Chile / Argentina / 78 min. USA / 99 min. Director: Catalina Arango Director: Ariel Winograd Directors: Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato Director: Lillian LaSalle Shown with The Sweetness of Life / Lo dulce de la vida Shown with The Robbery / El atraco Shown with Elena Shown with Nine Knots / Nueve nudos Mexico / 12 min. Spain / 10 min. Costa Rica / 23 min. Venezuela / 11 min.
5:30 PM The Watchman / El hombre que cuida 6:00 PM What We May Become / Lo que podríamos ser 6:15 PM Last Days in Havana / Últimos días en La Habana 6:45 PM Dear Mom / Querida Mamãe Dominican Republic / Brazil / Puerto Rico / 85 min. Mexico / 94 min. Cuba / Spain / 93 min. Brazil / 95 min. Director: Alejandro Andújar Director: Javier Colinas Director: Fernando Pérez Director: Jeremias Moreira Shown with Drifting / A la deriva Shown with The Short Film of the Year / El corto del año Shown with Los Angeles 1991 Shown with Juan Gabriel is Dead / Colombia / 14 min. Argentina / 14 min. USA / Spain / 10 min. Se Murió Juan Gabriel Mexico / 15 min.
8:00 PM Princesita 8:30 PM Operation Goldenshell / Operación Concha 8:15 PM Good Manners / As Boas Maneiras 8:45 PM Las malcogidas SUNDAY, APRIL 15TH Chile / 78 min. Spain / 103 min. Brazil / France / 135 min. Bolivia / Brazil / 94 min. Director: Marialy Rivas Director: Antonio Cuadri Director: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra Director: Denise Arancibia Flores Shown with Sofia Shown with Before Today / Ontem Argentina / USA / 25 min. Brazil / 14 min. 5:45 PM Tesoros 6:15 PM Operation Goldenshell / Operación Concha 6:00 PM Who are you? / Quién Eres Tú? 6:00 PM Nosotros Mexico / 96 min. Spain / 103 min. Puerto Rico / 98 min. Spain / 93 min. Director: María Novaro Director: Antonio Cuadri Director: Arí Maniel Cruz Director: Felipe Vara de Rey Shown with Fish / Pez Shown with Chanel Spain / 10 min. Dominican Republic / 10 min.
8:15 PM Giant’s Don’t Exist / Los gigantes no existen 8:15 PM Bárbara 8:30 PM Life is a Bitch / Como é cruel viver assim 8:00 PM Southern Winds / Vientos del Sur Guatemala / Spain / 82 min. Venezuela / 105 min. Brazil / 102 min. Peru / 79 min. Director: Chema Rodríguez Director: John Petrizzelli Director: Julia Rezende Director: Franco García Becerra Shown with Towards the Sun / Hacia el sol Shown with Welcome Back USA / UK / 20 min. USA / 21 min. MONDAY, APRIL 16TH MONDAY,
6:00 PM The Dragon Defense / La defensa del dragón 5:45 PM The Beast in the Jungle / A Fera na Selva 6:00 PM Who are you? / ¿Quién eres tú? 6:15 PM Run Fast or Fly High / El que no corre…vuela Colombia / 80 min. Brazil / 90 min. Puerto Rico / 98 min. USA / 100 min. Director: Natalia Santa Directors: Paulo Betti, Eliane Giardini, Lauro Escorel Director: Arí Maniel Cruz Directors: Ricardo Islas, Max Da Silva Shown with Blinking Lights / Luces intermitentes Shown with When the Sun Rises / Cuando el día nace Shown with Chanel Chile / Spain / 8 min. Paraguay / 12 min. Dominican Republic / 10 min.
8:15 PM The Worst Man in the World / 7:45 PM I Will Wait for You / Te Esperaré 8:30 PM The Desert Bride / La novia del desierto 8:45 PM Dear Mom / Querida Mamãe El peor hombre del mundo Argentina / 96 min. Chile / Argentina / 78 min. Brazil / 95 min. Venezuela / 90 min. Director: Alberto Lecchi Directors: Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato Director: Jeremias Moreira Director: Edgar Rocca Shown with Tomorrow / Mañana Shown with Elena Shown with Juan Gabriel is Dead / Shown with Unlucky’s Luck / La suerte del salao Colombia / 8 min. Costa Rica / 23 min. Se murió Juan Gabriel
TUESDAY, APRIL 17TH APRIL TUESDAY, Colombia / 16 min. Mexico / 15 min.
5:45 PM Snapshot / Instantánea 6:00 PM The Bigger, The Better / Sabates Grosses /Cuanto 6:00 PM Life is a Bitch / Como é cruel viver assim 6:15 PM Eternity / Wiñaypacha Ecuador / Colombia / 75 min. más grande, mejor Brazil / 102 min. Peru / 86 min. Director: Catalina Arango Spain / 100 min. Director: Julia Rezende Director: Oscar Quispe Catacora Shown with The Sweetness of Life / Lo dulce de la vida Director: Ventura Pons Shown with The Dress of Myriam / O Vestido de Myriam Mexico / 12 min. Brazil / 15 min.
7:30 PM Tropical Virus / Virus tropical 8:00 PM I Will Wait for You / Te Esperaré 8:15 PM En algún lugar 8:15 PM Las malcogidas Colombia / 96 min. Argentina / 96 min. USA / 112 min. Bolivia / Brazil / 94 min. Director: Santiago Caicedo Director: Alberto Lecchi Director: Tadeo Garcia Director: Denise Arancibia Flores Shown with Mariah ¡Qué baile! Shown with Tomorrow / Mañana Shown with Before Today / Ontem Canada / 13 min. Colombia / 8 min. Brazil / 14 min. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18TH APRIL WEDNESDAY,
6:15 PM The Worst Man in the World / 6:30 PM The Beast in the Jungle / A Fera na Selva 7:00 PM TBA 6:00 PM Luis El peor hombre del mundo Brazil / 90 min. Dominican Republic / 98 min. Venezuela / 90 min. Directors: Paulo Betti, Eliane Giardini, Lauro Escorel Director: Archie Lopez Director: Edgar Rocca Shown with When the Sun Rises / Cuando el día nace Shown with Love / Amor Shown with Unlucky’s Luck / La suerte del salao Paraguay / 12 min. Peru / 10 min. Colombia / 16 min.
8:45 PM The Dragon Defense / La defensa del dragón 8:30 PM Operation Goldenshell / Operación Concha 9:00 PM TBA 8:00 PM Run Fast or Fly High / El que no corre…vuela Colombia / 80 min. Spain / 103 min. USA / 100 min. Director: Natalia Santa Director: Antonio Cuadri Directors: Ricardo Islas, Max Da Silva Shown with Blinking Lights / Luces intermitentes Chile / Spain / 8 min. THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH THURSDAY,
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