CineFest Latino Boston LLC is an annual film festival conducted in Boston, highlighting stories by and about Latinos. The festival is committed to using the power of film to break stereotypes, bring cultures and communities together and reveal the complex issues affecting the Latinx community in the United States, as well as communities in Latin America and Spain.
Info
Venue
Emerson Paramount Center Bright Family Screening Room
559 Washington St, Boston, MA, United States, Massachusetts
Dates
Sep 26, 2024 - Sep 29, 2024
Details
$15 | $12 for Students & Seniors
Films
FRIDA
Directed by Carla Gutierrez
87 mins | USA | All Ages | English & Spanish with English subtitles FREE SCREENING*
An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo, FRIDA is told through her own words for the very first time, drawn from her famed illustrated diary, revealing letters, essays, and candid print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork. The feature film directorial debut of acclaimed editor Carla Gutiérrez (RBG, La Corona), FRIDA posits a striking context as to why the artist – and her art — remains as powerful as ever.
* Tickets for this screening are FREE and do not guarantee entry. Guests will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the event. Please plan to arrive early to guarantee your seat.
A woman has a chance to free herself from an oppressive past when she meets a man with whom she re-discovers her passion for tango. But before she can move on she has to accept some uncomfortable truths.
During the colonial era, Nyanga was kidnapped off the coast of Africa, brought to Mexico and enslaved. Based on historical fact, and using shadow theater and handmade cinema, ‘Nyanga’ is an homage to resistance against colonial chains.
2. WE WERE KIDS BACK THEN
Directed by Rafael Alvarado
16 mins | USA | All Ages
Emilio, a young Peruvian living in NYC, is caught off guard when Mary, a Peruvian childhood acquaintance (now his cleaning woman), arrives with her baby to his apartment. The situation tests Emilio’s loyalties as he tries to satisfy his demanding partner, Andrew, and support a compatriot in need.
3. I WENT OUT WALKING
Directed by Sylvia Bofill
19 mins | Puerto Rico | All Ages | Spanish with English subtitles
On a hot sunny afternoon following the funeral of his wife, Marcos struggles between confronting his own despair and taking care of his estranged daughters who are now distraught by the sudden and mysterious death of their mother. Will Marcos be able to grapple with his new reality?
4. REMEMBER US
Directed by Pablo Leon
14 mins | USA | All Ages
A journalist documents the experiences of three different people who lived through the tragic 12-year-long Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, exploring themes of childhood loss, violence against women and the indigenous population, and regaining a sense of hope for the future that spans over three generations.
5. MARA HAS THREE JOBS IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
Directed by Anna Verde
11 mins | Puerto Rico | All Ages | English & Spanish with English subtitles
After the death of her father, a young woman takes on a third job to make ends meet in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Mixing a hundred years of found footage – tourism, agricultural and propaganda films – with contemporary portraits of artists and activists this film is a journey through the complex layers of the United States’ occupation of Puerto Rico. Using an experimental and ethnographic approach the film reveals how carefully crafted American fictions of “democracy” and “debt” obscure a capitalist and military domination.
In the remote Mexican village of El Eco, life is rich in privation, work and children. Here, granddaughters movingly take care of grandmothers until they die.
Leo (Carlos Manuel Gonzalez) is a blue collar worker with a musical past living in the remote city of Acarigua, nestled in the Venezuelan inland empire. Haunted by financial debt and problems at home, he does anything to stay afloat. One day, his younger brother Alex (Anyelo Lopez) who has been deaf since birth, offers him a solution: to participate in a musical contest in the capital, Caracas, performing a song that he has written himself because the first prize may solve all his economic problems. Forced by circumstance, Leo must take a leap of faith, unearth his dormant musical talent and do the impossible to change his and his brother’s future by joining their voices in an unforgettable journey.
Directed by Fabian Martin 22 mins | USA | All Ages | English & Spanish with English subtitles
A grieving woman communicates with her dead husband through her car radio.
2. CHICA
Directed by Juan Yactayo Sono 20 mins | Peru | All Ages | Spanish with English subtitles
After being attacked by the police, Katya, a trans sex worker, is offered the opportunity to denounce the violence she suffers on a TV report. She decides not to, despite her desire to bring about a change, to keep her mother from finding out about her real occupation. However, the sudden death of her best friend at the hands of the same police officers changes her decision and she denounces the attacks, completely changing her relationship with her mother.
3. 52 MINUTOS
Directed by Jean Chapiro
10 mins | Mexico | All Ages | Spanish with English subtitles
Ana, a young woman with anorexia, is caught up in the struggle between sanity and restriction. Her reality, dreams, and nightmares become one as she’s deceptively seduced by whom she later finds out is death.
4. MY QUEERCEAÑERA
Directed by Marcos Nieves 17 mins | USA | All Ages | Spanish with English subtitles
Upon turning fifty years old, Karyna, a transgender immigrant, is determined to fulfill her lifelong dream of celebrating her Quinceañera in Phoenix, Arizona.
5. MY NAME IS ANNABEL
Directed by Ida Jogler 20 mins | USA | All Ages | in English
Annabel Hernandez, a charismatic performer with Down syndrome, tells her own story.
Filmmaker and artist Mabel Valdiviezo reunites with her family in Peru after 16 years of silence, confronting haunting childhood memories and a troubled past as an undocumented immigrant in the United States.
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3. I WENT OUT WALKING
4. REMEMBER US
5. MARA HAS THREE JOBS IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
2. CHICA
5. MY NAME IS ANNABEL
