La Huella del Doctor Ernesto Guevara (The Traces of Dr. Ernesto Guevara)
Between 1952 and 1953, the young doctor Ernesto Guevara de la Serna traveled through Latin America. This film is based on his personal journals, his correspondence with family and friends, and the testimony of people who knew him best. This documentary retraces his itinerary and the highs and lows of his voyage up to his history-making meeting with Fidel Castro in Mexico. This paints the definitive portrait of Guevara’s transformation into the most important revolutionary figure in the Americas, when he becomes Che Guevara.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 16, 2014 - Wednesday = 5:30 PM
July 19, 2014 - Saturday = 11:30 AM
July 20, 2014 - Sunday = 3:30 PM
Música Ocular
In a southern Mexico village, young deaf students are taking on an unusual challenge: to make a movie out of their dreams. While Eric and his friends watch films and discuss ideas, their dreams begin to work their way into the documentary itself. Both a study of the students lives and the basic visual language of film.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 16, 2014 - Wednesday = 3:30 PM
July 17, 2014 - Thursday = 5:30 PM
July 18, 2014 - Friday = 3:30 PM
July 20, 2014 - Sunday = 1:30 PM
El Ingeniero
A portrait of the personal journey of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Solorzano for his third presidential campaign. It is a moment in contemporary history told from the experiences of a political group that was defeated. A key piece of the history of Mexico that usually does not reach the public because it is not written by the victors. Take a peek at this amazing perspective of one of the most notorious presidential campaigns in Mexico’s history.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 15, 2014 - Tuesday = 5:30 PM
July 17, 2014 - Thursday = 3:30 PM
July 19, 2014 - Saturday = 1:30 PM
Cuates de Australia (Drought)
This documentary by Everardo Gonz focuses on the residents from the ejido (communal land) Los Cuates de Australia in Northeast Mexico, who perform every year a massive exodus to look for water during drought. In this exile, men, women, elders, and children wait for the first drops of water to return to their lands, metaphor of a small town that hides from death.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 15, 2014 - Tuesday = 3:30 PM
July 18, 2014 - Friday = 5:30 PM
July 20, 2014 - Sunday = 11:30 AM
Invictus
This biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood tells the story of how Nelson Mandela has united South Africa with the help of the sport Rugby. Based on the John Carlin book "Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation" the story centers on the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was hosted in that country following the dismantling of apartheid. Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon play, respectively, South African President Nelson Mandela and François Pienaar, the captain of the South Africa rugby union team, the Springboks.
SCREENING SKEDS:
July 18, 2014 - Friday = 1:30 PM
July 19, 2014 - Saturday = 3:30 PM
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