DOCUMENTARY FILMS SYNOPSES ALGO SE ENCIENDE Dir. Luciana Gentinetta (Argentina, 62 min., 2021, Spanish w/ English Subtitles, Documentary)
3/12 / 3:50 / S3 3/14 / 4:15 / S5 VIRTUALLY 3/18 Upon the disappearance of Anahí Benítez (16), her classmates start a protest and demand that she turns up alive. This is a story about the resilience of youth, how school sometimes feels like a second home, and the trials a generation must face to become adults. ¡Documania! Showcase. APENAS EL SOL Dir. Arami Ullón (Paraguay / Argentina / Switzerland, 2020, 75 min., Ayoreo, Spanish w/ English Subtitles, Documentary)
3/12 / 11:30AM / S8 3/16 / 9:20 / S7 Facing the consequences of a violent uprooting, and in an attempt to preserve fragments of a disappearing culture, Mateo walks across communities in the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco region, and registers on cassettes the experiences of other Ayoreo who, like him, were born in the vast forest, free and nomadic, without any contact with civilization, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs and their home. Nuestras Raíces Showcase. BOROM TAXI Dir. Andrés Guerberoff (Argentina, 2021, 61 min., Wolof, Spanish, w/ English Subtitles, Documentary)
3/14 / 6:55 / S6 3/16 / 9:30 / S8 VIRTUALLY 3/18 Mountakha is a Senegalese migrant and a newcomer in Buenos Aires. In Dakar he used to work as a truck driver and he tries to get that job in this new city as well. While working as a street vendor in the meantime, he wonders if his destiny might be related to acting. Some of his new friends have a special bond with cinema. ¡Documania! Showcase. CANTOS QUE INUNDAN EL RÍO Dir. Germán Arango Rendón (Colombia, 72 min., 2021, Spanish w/ English Subtitles, Documentary)
3/13 / 3:20 / S7 3/18 / 4:45 / S7 VIRTUALLY 3/10 Oneida was still a child when she learned the Afro-Colombian tradition of singing “alabados” to accompany the dead on their journey to purgatory. With one leg devoured by a snake, and a war
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without truce, she became the composer of new songs and made her wounds a source of inspiration. Today, Oneida’s compositions unite the voice of millions in the reconciliation process of a country with one of the longest wars in history. Nuestras Raíces Showcase. DESDE LA ESQUINA Dirs. Mario Genel, Omar Millán (Mexico, 94 min., 2022, Spanish w/ English Subtitles, Sports Documentary)
3/19 / 5:30 / S5 3/20 / 11:15 AM/ S6 VIRTUALLY 3/17 Though his childhood was filled with abandonment and misery, the boxing trainer Romulo Quirarte produced entire generations of world champions and elite fighters towards the end of the twentieth century, making Tijuana the epicenter of Boxing in Mexico. Featuring appearances by Julio Cesar Chavez, Erik Morales, Frontera Filmmakers Showcase. FLY SO FAR Dir. Celina Escher (El Salvador / Sweden, 89 min., 2021, Spanish w/ English Subtitles, Documentary)
3/20 / 6:10 / S5 VIRTUALLY 3/13 Set in El Salvador, a country with some of the most restrictive laws in the world, including the criminalization of those who experience miscarriages, this documentary tells the story of Teodora Vásquez, who was accused of murder when she suffered a stillbirth and was sentenced to thirty years in prison for aggravated homicide. At Ilopango Women’s Prison, she becomes the spokesperson for The Seventeen, a group of working-class women who were all incarcerated after having miscarriages., many of whom became pregnant after being sexually assaulted. Vozes Showcase. LOS GUARDIANES DEL MAÍZ Dir. Gustavo Vazquez (Mexico / USA, 60 min., 2020, Zapotec, Chinantec, Spanish w/ English Subtitles, Documentary)
3/19 / 3:30 / S5 VIRTUALLY 3/15 Los Guardianes del Maíz presents the story of native corn told by the indigenous farmers, artisans and cooks in Mexico whose ancestors shepherded the ever-evolving seeds from the dawn of agriculture into the 21st Century – a story of collective labor spanning more than 350 generations. Their voices are joined by community leaders, scientists, chefs, and others whose knowledge and activism stand not only in defense of food sovereignty and the genetic integrity, diversity, and community ownership of native seeds, but in defense of a durable cultural legacy and a way of life. Nuestras Raíces Showcase.
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