Immerse yourself in 11 award-winning films from Latin America and Spain, including a feature film made in North Carolina. Browse films by day by clicking on the dates below.
APRIL 4 / APRIL 5 / APRIL 6 / APRIL 7 / APRIL 11 / APRIL 12 / APRIL 13 / APRIL 14
THURSDAY, APRIL 4
6 p.m. – Opening Night Reception
7:30 p.m. – Empieza el baile (Let the Dance Begin) 🇦🇷 – SOLD OUT
Spanish with English subtitles
30 years ago, Carlos and Margarita were the most famous tango couple in the world. Carlos now lives in Madrid, enjoying the second opportunity that life has given him, and Margarita lives in Buenos Aires immersed in solitude and oblivion. A sudden event will force the couple to reunite and to start a journey on the roads of Argentina, together with their longtime friend Pichuquito. A road-trip which will make them face their memories, their fears, but above all their true desires.
FRIDAY, APRIL 5
7 p.m. – Allá (Over There) 🇲🇽 – SOLD OUT
Spanish with English subtitles
Oscar returns to Mexico for the first time and finds himself as the only man among the handful of women who live in this small place that has never had a telephone or internet. As he tries to return to the United States, he takes charge of the mail and learns the stories and desires of the inhabitants, among them a little boy who asks for his father letters. Moved, Oscar writes him the longed letters signing as the father and begins to bond with him and Martha, the child mother. When Oscar is finally able to leave, he no longer wants to do so and will have to decide between returning or staying and rebuilding his life.
SATURDAY, APRIL 6
5 p.m. – La memoria infinita (The Eternal Memory) 🇨🇱
Spanish with English subtitles
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
SATURDAY, APRIL 6
7:15 p.m. – El caso Monroy (The Monroy Affaire) 🇵🇪
Spanish with English subtitles
Ronnie Monroy has had an unmeaningful life as a public employee. About to turn 65 and face retirement he discovers the Women’s Prison, where he finds a new purpose. He helps inmates recover their freedom and start life anew. But what seems driven by generosity and affection, is really guided by a perverse need to exert power. Ronnie becomes an abuser within the corrupt national judiciary system.
SUNDAY, APRIL 7
3:30 p.m. – La sombra del sol (The Shadow of the Sun) 🇻🇪– SOLD OUT
Spanish with English subtitles
When a deaf young man asks his estranged older brother to join him in a musical contest, this salt-of-the-earth blue collar worker must dust off his musical chops in order to be his little brother’s voice.
SUNDAY, APRIL 7
5:30 p.m. – Pride Reception
6:30 p.m. – Te estoy amando locamente (Love and Revolution) 🇪🇸
Spanish with English subtitles
Seville, 1977. Reme, 50 and a widow, has a son, Miguel, who is going to become the first member of the family to go to college. Miguel suddenly confesses that he wants to enter a contest for young singers. At a time when homosexuality is a crime, Reme will end up getting involved in the LGBTI+ movement that in Andalusia, paradoxically, was created within the Church.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11
7 p.m. – Hecho Aquí: Bulls and Saints (Toros y santos) 🇺🇸
⭐ with director Rodrigo Dorfman in attendance
Spanish with English subtitles
After 20 years of living in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home. Little do they know it will be the most difficult journey of their lives. Set between the backdrop of the rodeo rings of North Carolina and the spellbinding Mexican hometown they long for, Bulls and Saints is a love story of reverse migration, rebellion, and redemption.
FRIDAY, APRIL 12
7 p.m. – La extorsión (The Extortion) 🇦🇷
Spanish with English subtitles
A veteran commercial airplane pilot is blackmailed by his own country’s intelligence service, which requires him to hide contraband in his planes under the threat of revealing compromising information that could put him out of a job. Thus begins a dizzying descent into a world of intrigue from which he will find it impossible to escape. A high-flying, excellently crafted Argentinian thriller.
SATURDAY, APRIL 13
4:30 p.m. – La Suprema 🇨🇴
Spanish with English subtitles
In a remote Colombian village without electricity, a strong-willed teenager convinces her whole town to find a way of watching her estranged uncle compete in a world championship boxing match.
SATURDAY, APRIL 13
6:30 p.m. – Érase una vez en el Caribe 🇵🇷 ⭐ with actor Modesto Lacén in attendance
Spanish with English subtitles
9:45 p.m. – Closing Night Party with Bravo Pueblo at Divine Barrel Brewing
When his beloved wife disappears, a peasant with a violent past takes his machete and his daughter in his arms, and sets out on a path of revenge.
SUNDAY, APRIL 14
11 a.m. – Cafecito con Modesto Lacén at Salud Cerveceria
Join Cine Casual for an intimate and thought-provoking conversation with actor Modesto Lacén.
SUNDAY, APRIL 14
3:30 p.m. – Eduardo e Mônica (Eduardo and Monica) 🇧🇷
Portuguese with English subtitles
On an unusual day, a series of coincidences lead Eduardo to meet Monica at a party. Curiosity is aroused between the two and, despite not being alike, they fall madly in love. This love needs to mature and learn to overcome differences.