Dir. Santiago Lozano | Colombia, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 87 min | Narrative Seventy-year-old José de los Santos lives in a village on Colombia’s Pacific coast. He learned the art of ritual burial as a child. Like his ancestors who were brought to Colombia as African slaves, he accompanies the dying and the […]
*There is a second screening on Wednesday, Sept 10th at Cineworks Dir. Antonella Sudasassi | Costa Rica, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 90 min | Narrative This is the second feature film by Antonella Sudasassi, an up and coming Costa Rican filmmaker. Growing up in a repressive era when sexuality was a taboo subject, […]
Dir. Nicolás Pereda | Canada/Mexico, 2024 | Spanish with English subtitles | 76 min This is Nicolas Pereda´s nine feature. Pereda is a Mexican- Canadian film director, who has built a peculiar career having always worked with the same group of actors (the Mexican theater collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol) is known for his narrative, […]
Dir. Miguel Coyula | Cuba, 2024 Spanish with English subtitles | 77 min | Narrative ”Had Kafka been Cuban, he would have been a non-fiction writer.” Virgilio Piñeiro In Cuba, artistic legitimacy and subsistence require official recognition by a state-sponsored art institution. Working independently means having scant income and limited rights, and, as filmmaker Miguel […]