New Latin American Cinema

10/11/03 to 10/25/03

  • Japón, October 11, 12

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Past Films

  • 25 Watts

    • Saturday, October 25 5:00 pm

    A slacker comedy from Uruguay, where aimless youth have as many obstacles to ambition as anywhere-"wine, cigarettes, rock'n'roll (on LPs!), and the odd comic adventure."-SFIFF 2002

  • The Birthday

    • Saturday, October 25 7:00

    On the banks of Argentina's Paran River, a birthday party turns into a reunion of mismatched personalities who gamble on their differences, to intense and sometimes humorous effect.

  • 25 Watts

    • Saturday, October 25 8:40 pm

    A slacker comedy from Uruguay, where aimless youth have as many obstacles to ambition as anywhere-"wine, cigarettes, rock'n'roll (on LPs!), and the odd comic adventure."-SFIFF 2002

  • Bolivia

    • Saturday, October 18

    Bolivia has been garnering much-deserved critical acclaim for its affecting, verité-style portrayal of a Bolivian immigrant worker in Buenos Aires. "A quietly devastating film."-London Film Festival

  • Maids

    • Saturday, October 18 7:00

    "The maids of São Paulo, Brazil, are the subject of this spirited...comedy about the gulf between privilege and poverty, dreams and reality."-Edward Guthmann, S.F. Chronicle

  • Japón

    • Sunday, October 12 5:30

    Shot in the unforgiving landscape of central Mexico, Carlos Reygadas's assured first feature is a visual journey that touches, mysteriously but not delicately, on issues of life and death. "The most beautiful film of the new century."-Le Monde

  • Crane World

    • Saturday, October 11

    By one of Argentina's rebellious young filmmakers looking at those left in the dust of a boom-bust economy, Crane World is an engaging neo-neorealist tale of a construction worker with a fear of heights and a memory of better days.

  • Japón

    • Saturday, October 11 7:00

    Shot in the unforgiving landscape of central Mexico, Carlos Reygadas's assured first feature is a visual journey that touches, mysteriously but not delicately, on issues of life and death. "The most beautiful film of the new century."-Le Monde