Events
 
XII Annual Latin American Film Festival April 12-21 SPOTLIGHT ON CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA Festival Organizers: Jacobo Sefamí, Alberto Landaveri, Raquel Román, & Roberto Ayala FREE and open to the public  Tuesday, April 12 Screening 5:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1030 “Los pecados de mi padre” (Sins of My Father) Directed by Nicolás Entel 2009 Argentina-Colombia 90 minutes (In Spanish w/English subtitles) Presented by Roberto Ayala A son overwhelmed by the crimes of his father reconstructs the life of one of the biggest drug dealers of the world: Pablo Escobar Gaviria. In “Los pecados de mi padre”, Escobar’s son talks to victims’ sons to find forgiveness and healing. The film provides a new perspective of an unofficial war, fueled by the greed of some and the unquenchable hunger for new forms of recreation and evasion of many. Wednesday, April 13 Screening 5:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1030 “El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret of their Eyes) Directed by Juan José Campanella 2009 Argentina ● 129 minutes (In Spanish w/English subtitles) Presented by Raquel Román Once retired, Benjamín Espósito, a dull bureaucrat, writes about an unresolved homicide case. However, the more he inquires his memory, he finds a wounded self, an unreachable woman, and the truth about his past actions. Thursday, April 14 Screening 5:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1030 “Martí: El ojo del canario” (Martí: The Eye of the Canary) Directed by Fernando Pérez 2010
 Cuba • 120 minutes (In Spanish w/English subtitles) Presented by Dr. Raúl Fernández The formative years of Cuban national hero José Julián Martí Pérez are explored in this historical epic, set during the 1860s in colonial Havana. The film traces Martí from age 9 to 17 as he experiences firsthand the brutal inequalities of Spanish colonial rule and feels the fire of injustice rise within him. Tuesday, April 19 Screening 5:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1030 “El honor de las injurias” (The Honour of the Wronged) Directed by Carlos García-Alix 2007 Spain ● 88 minutes (In Spanish w/English subtitles) Presented by Dr. Santiago Morales-Rivera El honor de las injurias is a documentary obsessed with tracking Felipe Sandoval’s life – better known by the press as “Doctor Muñiz, public enemy #1” – a man who is marked by the faith in a redeeming dream: social revolution. He will first become a robber and a man of action and then, during the Spanish Civil War, into a ruthless murderer. Wednesday, April 20 Screening 5:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1030 “El abrazo partido” (The Lost Embrace) Directed by Daniel Burman 2004 Cuba ● 97 minutes (In Spanish w/English subtitles) Presented by Dr. Emily Colbert-Cairns Ariel and his mother run a lingerie shop in downtown Buenos Aires. It’s a comfortable, cloistered world, but many young people there still search ofor their immigrant roots. Ariel, however, wants more than that; he yearns to understand why his father left his family shortly after his birth to fight a war in Israel...and why he never returned. 
 Thursday, April 21 Screening 5:00 PM Humanities Gateway 1030 “La teta asustada” (The Milk of Sorrow) Directed by Claudia Llosa 2009 Peru ● 95 minutes (In Spanish w/English subtitles) Presented by Dr. Horacio Legrás Fausta, a young peruvian woman stricken with a pathological fear she contracted from her mother’s breast milk, must go to great lengths to protect her sexuality and safety after her mother dies. La testa asustada-a condition suffered by women that were raped after Peru’s civil wars- haunts Fausta while she embarks on a frightening journey that may lead her towards freedom and wholeness.